{"id":373,"date":"2009-11-11T20:59:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-11-12T01:06:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T16:06:34","slug":"rtsoft-goes-drm-free-and-now-accepts-paypal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"RTsoft goes DRM free and now accepts Paypal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>In a perfect world&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but these days when I buy a game online I want the following to be true:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Q\/P &gt; 10 GDU.\u00a0 (<em>where Q = quality, P = price, and GDU is Good Deal Units of course<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li> Can use Paypal and have my order instantly processed so I can download in seconds<\/li>\n<li>Can install it on all my computers without copy protection hassles<\/li>\n<li>Can come back after a hard drive crash and instantly get my games again without muss nor fuss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Entering the 21st century&#8230; harder, better, faster,\u00a0 stronger.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>After writing a metric butt ton of PHP code and recompiling miles of old code I&#8217;m proud to say&#8230; <strong>my own company now passes my own test!<\/strong> About damn time.<\/p>\n<p>RTsoft now <strong>automatically handles Paypal orders<\/strong>.\u00a0 I was really getting ripped off by my old payment provider (<em>cough, cough Regnow sucks<\/em>) and have been wanting to go Paypal forever. It&#8217;s now feasible sell things for a buck and still get to keep most of it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve released new versions of <strong>Dungeon Scroll<\/strong>, <strong>Teenage Lawnmower<\/strong>, and <strong>Toolfish<\/strong> that are completely DRM free.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> No annoying unlock codes to enter<\/li>\n<li>No online authentication<\/li>\n<li>You can backup the installer .exe file and know that it will always &#8216;just work&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What about existing customers?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Now, having bought boatloads of our software in the past you&#8217;re probably thinking &#8220;<em>Great!\u00a0 But I have an old version, how do I get the new one?!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No problem!\u00a0 Just enter your email address on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtsoft.com\/pages\/support.php\">Shiny New Support Page<\/a> and it will automatically locate what you&#8217;ve bought and send you links to download the latest versions.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The future and beyond<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The new kitt-like high-tech data-driven site lets me add new products easily and change prices at the drop of a hat.\u00a0 Like, I could do that Radiohead &#8220;pay what you want&#8221; thing for a week if I feel like it or charge $1000 on Fridays.\u00a0 I wonder how that would go over.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Dungeon Scroll for Windows goes on sale for $1.99<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For now, I&#8217;m going to test it out by offering the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtsoft.com\/pages\/dscroll.php\">PC version of Dungeon Scroll<\/a> for same price as the iPhone version for a limited time!\u00a0 Yep, $1.99. \u00a0 I mean, they have exactly the same features.\u00a0 Times are changing, kids.<\/p>\n<p>If you notice any glitches, bad links, or general weirdness in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtsoft.com\">new site<\/a> please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a perfect world&#8230; I don&#8217;t know about you, but these days when I buy a game online I want the following to be true: Q\/P &gt; 10 GDU.\u00a0 (where Q = quality, P = price, and GDU is Good Deal Units of course) Can use Paypal and have my order instantly processed so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}