Xander Hunt
Minmatar
Dead Rats Tell No Tales
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Posted - 2011.07.07 22:53:00 -
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ccp zulu on third party application licensing
reported by CCP Guard | 2011.06.22 18:14:29 | Comments
Dear space friends,
To date, the EVE Online third party development community was only permitted to sell its products for ISK. After careful consideration of the growing requests for change, we set out to establish a program that will allow these third party developers to charge a fee for their services, if they so choose, but in such a way that also lets CCP protect its intellectual property and protects the EVE Online community from potentially harmful applications.
An overview of our tentative plans were presented last week in a dev blog by CCP Atlas.
RED:
Growing requests from whom and in what regard? To charge RW monies, or for ISK? Where's the balancing point for this change? Someone actually wake up and realize a new revenue possibility, but, then decided to screw it to not only the people who write their stuff for the good of the game for nothing but a possible ISK donation, but to everyone as well? Yeah, its time to allow the developers who want to earn RW money to play your game, but putting the screws to people financially who just want to support their corp with a web page and a database back end FOR NOTHING is a really low blow.
Green:
Glad the developers outside CCP were brought into this, or even had a hint to that this was going on. I sure as hell didn't realize that this particular talk was going on. Glad the head of the table was someone in finance, followed by a lawyer (Both who probably hardly know how to turn on a computer, let alone knew what PHP, CGI, Perl, Apache, IPv4 or TCP is), and not someone who wrote the code supporting the API, or, who actually plays the game.
Yellow:
Anyone who know their way around any kind of IDE knows how the internet works, and knows that it is impossible to protect anyone and everyone. Charging RW monies doesn't do anything to protect against idiots who'll pay the $99 fee and then turn around and manage $10,000 by scamming people with useless applications, installing keyloggers, or whatever. I worked in the business of cleaning peoples computers from viruses for several years, and I've even personally been nailed by one just by going to a web site. Even legitimate applications marked as "SPYWARE FREE" from download sites can be affected. You may be able to go after them for tainting your name (which is already in a questionable state considering the last month or two), but I sense you're not going to anything to recoup a players losses.
Final thoughts:
If you want to turn around a profit out of this, require that developers are to register their software with your site (Free/donation/for pay), and all RW payments are done via CCP. CCP takes a percentage home off registrations, the owner of the software can decide to cash in with taking payment from CCP either by transactions being put into a PayPal account, or in-game time. Any product that is found to be against the policies can have the payment account locked, and any funds acquired that haven't been "paid out" stay with CCP. Requests to the API server are done via a POST and SSL connection to validate the applications access.
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Xander Hunt
Minmatar
Dead Rats Tell No Tales
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Posted - 2011.08.21 09:10:00 -
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Thanks.
I hope this whole idea has been shelved. I've still not written one line of code since this crap was mentioned that has anything to do with EVE, however, I'm going to have to start soon as I need to keep tabs on some standings in my corp.
Either way, its really sad that the community could be charged for this kinda crap.
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