Author Topic: Alternatives to Steam (Read 4694 times)

august · « **on:** Saturday, February 07, 2015, 09:02:32 AM »

Since Steam is not going to be possible, how about trying some of those alternatives:

http://itch.io/
http://www.greenmangaming.com/
http://www.desura.com/

Even if you don't own the rights to AA2, I am sure there would be a way to list AA25 on there

NoBigDeal · « **Reply #1 on:** Saturday, February 07, 2015, 10:43:59 AM »

Already suggested this, but ...
http://www.moddb.com/
... it's a better option.

ArmyAntiCheat · « **Reply #2 on:** Saturday, February 07, 2015, 12:19:37 PM »

Would definitely improve player base.

bollie · « **Reply #3 on:** Saturday, February 07, 2015, 17:56:02 PM »

Im a lousy nerd... all new to me...

Koden · « **Reply #4 on:** Saturday, February 07, 2015, 19:12:17 PM »

Desura is pretty good (as it started as an indipendent platform linked to Moddb), Moddb has been the place where most people used to upload mods and such (nowadays with, e.g. Nexus it's a different story), Greenmangaming sells games (with different drm's) and it has a sort platform of its own but surely not a community such as Desura's.

Alex · « **Reply #5 on:** Saturday, February 07, 2015, 21:51:34 PM »

We don't own the AA2 game. Most of these sites are not going to let us upload software to download a game we don't own.

NoBigDeal · « **Reply #6 on:** Sunday, February 08, 2015, 00:29:59 AM »

@KiLLaMaN : It's for Assist, not the game itself ... Make Assist public, provide download link to the original game and all necessary modified files. To make it work, Assist code needs to be changed, because from now the game must be installed (not sure, maybe there is another way ...) from original installer, then modified files ...

Spanky · Quote from: ELiZ on Monday, February 16, 2015, 09:57:26 AM

Quote from: NoBigDeal on Sunday, February 08, 2015, 00:29:59 AM

the game must be installed from original installer, then modified files ...

That's optional. Assist can download all the files for you from SourceForge. The 'original installer' option was more widely used before the AA devs shut down authorization, there was quite a big community playing 2.5 an Assist was an add-on game manager so it had to find your current installation of 2.5 and copy it over. These days, I'd imagine most people just let Assist download all the files automatically.

august · « **Reply #8 on:** Sunday, February 08, 2015, 00:59:09 AM »

That would maybe work. Have Assist available for download on some of those sites.

NoBigDeal · « **Reply #9 on:** Sunday, February 08, 2015, 09:27:39 AM »

Quote from: Spanky on Sunday, February 08, 2015, 00:47:03 AM

That's optional. Assist can download all the files for you from SourceForge. The 'original installer' option was more widely used before the AA devs shut down authorization, there was quite a big community playing 2.5 an Assist was an add-on game manager so it had to find your current installation of 2.5 and copy it over. These days, I'd imagine most people just let Assist download all the files automatically.

Yeah, I know ... But most probably once published, Assist will needs to go back with the game installation procedure to keep the proper aspect of copyrights / license. Downloading the game itself and its installation should stay optional - only modified stuff can be downloaded automatically. Better advertising - as I stated in RM ... - will push this project forward.

... not sure if I'm clear enough ...

august · « **Reply #10 on:** Sunday, February 08, 2015, 15:39:30 PM »

It does make sense to me. It just needs to get done somehow. Basically one of those sites would provide Assist exe file for download. The rest is optional and up to the player

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