As far as I understand you, you would ask about the username and passwort from the A7 license.
Good Idea !
BUT
I, as an example, work together with sPIKe, I don´t own A7 - only lite-C free. I even use Shader, I can´t see them and have to programm them for testing out, but I even have Questions to them. So, I not allowed to ask - Must sPIKe ask than? He can´t programm, so it would be very dumb.
Rei
nop i don't know about how (IF) the conitec gonna implementation authorization with their customer db,with php and some modding on UBB engine,or easier with per e-mail basis authorization,lol that strict shader is merely general question,AFAIK shader implementation in every engine mostly look a like.
it's not like what you think there is a zombie mod patrol scanning every people features and deleting every unappropriated questions.
You could always hire a shader programmer
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I think our community is an attractive part of the A7 package, and so users shouldn't be restricted from posting here. Even users who haven't gotten their hands on it yet will want to be able to ask questions.
The licensed users are much less likely to browse the forums available to the unlicensed users, I think, and thus unlicensed users won't get as much out of the forums.
IMHO, we just need a way to encourage people asking questions to accompany their questions with their version number and edition, because as new features come out those details are relevant anyway.
Jibb
EDIT/PS: It's quite impressive that you write shaders without a shader-supporting edition!
thats where the mysterious comes in,what the purpose of unlicensed user seeing the licensed forum?it's like a kids who just need study primary school and looking at college books,pure useless.Of course the showcase,project or anyother appropriate forum can be opened to attract and show the user that we do have friendly community,and good product made by the user.
For example a commercial version bunnies 'owner' want to search about the some comm specific feature,then the check the forum suddenly the forum are not visible to him,because he is already sure the power of commercial,he choice to get the legit license to get the support.This is just basic corporate operation,after sales support,of course as this is a engine,the support line thats really counts not only the product quality.
You forget two important facts Cowabanga:
1. If a game is really as good as crysis or Far Cry it will bought.
2. Not everyone who load and crack a software would absolutly buy this software, if no crack are available. Some only test the software and would never buy it.
The thing is today its possible to load every game ever developed.
Games are very expensiv and become to be smaller, less extensive and have more and more bugs in it.
So I also load games sometimes. After I played a cracked game their follow one of two possible situation:
1. It is as good as CoD4 or GoW, you see the developers work and commitment, the story is good(and not only the graphic), the atmosphere and the game is just great, then I go to the next shop and buy the game to play it multiplayer (company of heroes) and support their work and maybe the next part of the game (GoW2, cod6).
2. I played the game for 10 minutes and recognized that the game isnt as good as I expected (like Prototype), it has no story, only a good graphic, a lot of bugs (gothic 3) or it is only beneath contempt.
I know that not everybody deals it that way. But remember fact 1.
for games i think it based on people preferences and system,last 1 year ago,who is gonna buy 3000$ rig just to be able to play crysis?(exclude some wall street trader+rich kids,etc)the upcoming dx11 and opengl 3,and the progress of new technology just greatly increasing every miliseconds starting to change people's trend for their gaming platform into console because of no-need to update their hardware to play new games,but hey who knows :),i mean if someone make statistic flash games vs crysis game played who is gonna have bigger number?but in general i like eye candy games,definetly gonna buy crysis and arma 2 :D(hey i never own the bunnies one of those :),just was once played on my friends pc)
