Steve M
Cadet
Are they legal games to distribute like that?
Are they legal games to distribute like that?
He didn't answer so I wanted to get an answer before leaving that link.That was my question, as well.
Are they legal games to distribute like that?
So true unless they are one off`s but i had a vb site with most of the ibpdownloads.com games on it minus the Adult and had no hasssle from orignal artist of the softwareYou will be very hard pushed to find any IPB compatible games that have legal consent to be decoded and used in forum arcades.
That is still the plan. I personally prefer getting games from Mochi than trying to grab IPB/v3A games but most site admins end up grabbing IPB v32 games so those need to work as flawlessly as possible first.It was mentioned early that Mochi Games would be supported. Is that still planned? I'm very excited for this.
Yep.Unfortunately the damage has been done, and it's now come to the point where staying legal results in an almost bare arcade.
You've got my support! Let me know what I can do (we can take it to PC if you prefer).If I could offer such a service for the masses, I'd expect compliance with these removal requests and would hopefully receive support from Kevin and Steve that, in the event they were ignored, the offending admin was banned and/or had game downloading rights suspended.
Why do you prefer Mochi?That is still the plan. I personally prefer getting games from Mochi than trying to grab IPB/v3A games but most site admins end up grabbing IPB v32 games so those need to work as flawlessly as possible first.
Primarily because the vetting process is upon Mochi, not me, to weed out games that aren't supposed to be shared. There is still a chance that games might be offered by Mochi that really shouldn't be but when push comes to shove if I get an email asking where did I get that game from I can point the email sender in the direction of Mochi's site rather than trying get around saying that the game came from a downloads site. It does not hold me harmless but it alleviates the issue a little bit.Why do you prefer Mochi?
So it's not necessarily because they're better quality?Primarily because the vetting process is upon Mochi, not me, to weed out games that aren't supposed to be shared. There is still a chance that games might be offered by Mochi that really shouldn't be but when push comes to shove if I get an email asking where did I get that game from I can point the email sender in the direction of Mochi's site rather than trying get around saying that the game came from a downloads site. It does not hold me harmless but it alleviates the issue a little bit.
Correct. When we introduced Mochi with v3 Arcade & testing it, I ended up going through a ton of games that were, to be blunt, junk. For example, only "Leaderboard" enabled Mochi games support posting the scores back to the client that the scores can be locally tracked by the host app (eg: v3A) but yet there didn't seem to be any check in place for games actually adhering to the Mochi coding. What that ended up meaning is that there are Mochi games that are flagged as being Leaderboard enabled but don't actually work with the Mochi published code to capture the scores. There was also the problem of tons of games being nothing more than jigsaw puzzle games that had no scoring, no options, and were nothing more than one picture that you had to reassemble the pieces for. Totally worthless to offer on an arcade site.So it's not necessarily because they're better quality?
Good point. By using Mochi the game developers get a percentage of the ad revenue so they have incentive to create popular games; they more sites that use their games, the more money they get. That is completely different from the game download sites where the ad mechanisms are often ripped out.IN addition, Mochi brings money to the devs where other games do not. I think that's a huge plus.