[gameprogrammer] Re: Getting your game played

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:28:53 +0100, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
For other types of games I suggest having the game request a
"hidden" (no links to it) page on a web site every time they start up.
That way you get a simple count of the number of plays.


Be very careful of doing things like this, specially if you're not asking
the user if it's okay to do so first.  If games go accessing the internet
seemingly without any reason (and firewalls will be quick about alerting
people of this), people think of spyware.  It doesn't matter if it's just
a harmless usage counter.  It *is* collecting information, and if you do
this without asking, what other things might you do ?  Bottom line is the
game is probably uninstalled asap, whether it's harmless or not, and you
get a bad reputation.

~ Gerry

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