Well I have seen the download system work before, it's the one niels bauer
use with smugglers and shard workshop use with their games.
it's not an absolute guarantee, since someone could always pass around the
setup files to the full versions, but it does stop the demo version's
passwords being hacked.
My only personal issue with the system is that upgrading the full version is
a pest. right now, I have the original download of smugglers 5, installed on
both my machines, plus the patch for the latest 1.5 version. Since however
my main full version of the game still only installs version 1.0, I have to
hang on to the patch and indeed keep updating it.
thus, even though if I bought the game now I'd get 1.5, I can't download the
full setup for the new version because my download link has expired.
contrast this with Sarah, where I downloaded the setup for the latest
version and indeed when I had to install it on another machine, didn't need
to muck about with version patches at all.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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