@Archimodes
Absolutely reasonable questions which I’m happy to anser. We designed the system with security and privacy in mind. When the user registers, they only need to provide a username, password, and email. Your password is salted and one-way-hashed using a blowfish ciper. Your password is unrecoverable, and cannot be gained by hackers, and even -we- don’t know it. Once you get to the payment stage, we don’t interact with ANY payment information. ALL payment is routed entirely through the third party gateway, using reputable sources. PayPal, Amazon, and Stripe for Credit cards (And the alternative payments those systems allow) and Bitpay for Bitcoin. If hackers somehow did gain access to your account, we don’t store any payment information, and they would be unable to access or even charge additional subscription time.
It’s also worth noting that your email is just for account management purposes. We do not currently have the setup, nor any plans to send news letters or other spammy messages. Even if we did eventually add this, it would be entirely optional and opt-in - because honestly, who likes that stuff anyway?
In the near future, we’ll likely be moving to the Xsolla platform for Payments, which is a service used by many corporations, including Twitch. This will correspond with a new launcher for the game which will download the game and updates off the Amazon Cloudfront CDN. The updates will also be much more streamlined and efficient. (Be advised, your game download will most liekly be slow until then. Distribution has been by far the largest hurdle to overcome (Valve confirmed that we couldn’t do what we wanted to do on Steam, which is why we’re doing it custom) - but we’re about to introduce a major upgrade to the system.
Good deal. Sounds like you’ve got a great setup.
So it sounds like you use AWS. I’m a huge geek and I’m curious about all these kinds of things. Are you presently using Gamelift by ? I’ve never used it and as such I’m curious how it is.
Do you already have Cloudfront setup and ready for your new launcher?
Not trying to pry, feel free to ignore me
Regards,
Nate
I like to see how people overcome the same hurdles we are in the process of dealing with.