Thunderhawk, the chopper game from the 80's, had a Pepsi-badge as landing-zone. Were there any games prior to that which featured product placement/hidden marketing?
I think Peter H.S hit the problem spot on about the email delay. If you compare your sufing habits with this situation, I'd say that you will wait for 10-15 seconds for a new page to appear before breaking the connection and trying something else. After a minute you will probably have lost focus totally, and soon you will not be able to remember what you were up to. Waiting for "a couple of hours" won't improve that.
You should also look at sites where these registrations do work. Typical examples are Acrobat Reader and other "Industry Standard" software. For a unknown piece of software you should be happy that someone even want to try out your demo.
If you want to ensure that people don't crack your stuff, you will have to make a version with severly reduced functionality. (Remove code behind menu choices etc.)
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It might be a trick by the marketers to maximize press coverage this week. Why did not this happen in a small-town bookstore in GB you believe? ;)
Thunderhawk, the chopper game from the 80's, had a Pepsi-badge as landing-zone.
Were there any games prior to that which featured product placement/hidden marketing?
Good job. Please tell us how you did it:)
I think Peter H.S hit the problem spot on about the email delay. If you compare your sufing habits with this situation, I'd say that you will wait for 10-15 seconds for a new page to appear before breaking the connection and trying something else.
After a minute you will probably have lost focus totally, and soon you will not be able to remember what you were up to. Waiting for "a couple of hours" won't improve that.
You should also look at sites where these registrations do work. Typical examples are Acrobat Reader and other "Industry Standard" software. For a unknown piece of software you should be happy that someone even want to try out your demo.
If you want to ensure that people don't crack your stuff, you will have to make a version with severly reduced functionality. (Remove code behind menu choices etc.)
Good Luck.
Atlast someone that share my view!
As a steady Slackware user i cannot agree more.
Lookign forward to see 4.0
j.