Key Code Generator

[anonymous_user_277de8fa]

@Drixil;160427

The best way to do this is to A: have a verification server and you need to write a algorithm that generates the keys.
B: Search for someone who has experience in this and pay them to do it.
C: I am not certain but years ago when publishing games in Asia our CD printing company had that service if we wanted it. Not sure if anyone does that anymore.

Some good ways to do this are to give the machine the game is being installed on a unique ID that in turn is the actual key. Then when they apply for the actual activation key via a website or a remote tcp/ip socket it runs the before mentioned algorithm and spits out the activation key. You could even do the entire thing remotely to prevent crappy hackers from cracking it and splattering the crack with all kinds of RATS. In other words they send in the machine Id and the remote verification server does all the work and plants a dll (that was actually already there) and just sets active to 1… So if the game is installed on another machine that has not been recognized it is naturally set to 0 and the remote server knows that the key has already been used.

There are all kinds of way of doing this but the old CD key way just doesn’t work anymore. Everyone and their brother will be using the same key. It really isn’t that hard if you code… if you can’t code well… I think you maybe out of luck… It is sad though because about 95% of the malware out there is spread through cracks and it is the software developers fault because they got clever and made people have to execute software to crack stuff…

Oh wow, most replies I have ever gotten on a post. This was a question that was asked by my boss, what he is trying to do, because we also work for a magazine, we are trying to build a way to distribute games through our magazine’s website. which is why we assumed the code generator would be the best way to cover our back side. The asian company you used to go through, what was the name of the company. Just out of curiosity, unless the company is no longer active. We would also be flattered as well if someone was trying to torrent our game.