Can of Worms

Necromis · Post by **Necromis** » December 6th, 2007, 11:42 am

or maybe get a check in the mail to him of BW will give you an address. Say a PO Box someone could make a payment to.

YouTube · Post by **BasiliskWrangler** » December 6th, 2007, 1:29 pm

alpha: Thanks for your honesty and your offer of support.

When you go to the purchase page, one of the payment methods available is to use a check or money order. Once you fill out the information you'll get an mailing address for Plimus. Just drop a check in the mail and when they get it, your order will be completed.

Seriously, thank you very much.

alpha · Post by **alpha** » December 6th, 2007, 1:38 pm

My advice is better IMO, because having this method of payment available for ex-USSR residents will be a _Major_ benefit for The Basilisk.

realmzmaster · Post by **realmzmaster** » December 6th, 2007, 4:14 pm

You can register with PayPal for free and tie it to your bank account or transfer money from your account to your paypal account. Or as suggested buy a pre-paid Visa card. There are ways of paying for the game!

dryden · Post by **dryden** » December 6th, 2007, 4:40 pm

I had never heard of WebMoney:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebMoney

BW, the more ways that peoples around the world can buy Eschalon, the better IMO.

alpha · Post by **alpha** » December 6th, 2007, 5:17 pm

dryden wrote:I had never heard of WebMoney

This is typycal for Europe/USA. But here (Russia,Ukraine,exussr - you name it) it is big. Big enough to be sufficient for payng for ~80% of everyhing via web, from hosting costs to online games to ecommerce to cellphone bills.

BW, the more ways that peoples around the world can buy Eschalon, the better IMO.

My point exactly.

You can register with PayPal for free and tie it to your bank account

I don't have a bank account in $

VPeric · Post by **VPeric** » December 7th, 2007, 1:23 am

realmzmaster wrote:You can register with PayPal for free and tie it to your bank account or transfer money from your account to your paypal account.

Did you know that PayPal doesn't support Serbia?

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zer · Post by **zer** » December 7th, 2007, 5:33 am

VPeric wrote: Did you know that PayPal doesn't support Serbia?
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and Russia too. at least didn't work with my VISA adn MC. But direct paid works fine.

2 alpha
You can purchase prepaid (for WM) virtual VISA. here for example: Allchange.biz

alpha · Post by **alpha** » December 7th, 2007, 7:08 am

zer wrote:2 alpha
You can purchase prepaid (for WM) virtual VISA. here for example: Allchange.biz

Thanks! I'll look into it ASAP

Add:
Checked it. That site is down ATM. What a mess.

Zoggles · Post by **Zoggles** » December 26th, 2007, 10:03 pm

I was hugely thankful that PayPal was an option - had it not been I would have probably been scouring for a cracked version to download. (I don't have a credit card and am currently out in China with no access to my UK bank etc blah blah blah..). Everyone has different circumstances - (or 'excuses' as far as some people are concerned). However, when I noticed the 'PayPal' option, I used that as soon as I explored everything I could in the demo.

It's actually pretty tough being out in China (being English) and getting hold of English software. For almost all software the only option for an English version, is to use a pirated version - as a developer myself, it certainly makes me cringe sometimes, but my attempt at self justification is that almost all of the software I now use pirated versions of, I had actually bought back in the UK (and didn't bring with me) so those versions are now sitting around unused.

Some servers can't even be accessed from here to download a demo - either because of the Great Firewall of China or because the server is configured to block asian/eastern european connections.

As a developer, I consider piracy to only really be a problem if it is directly removing sales. What does it really matter if someone playing a pirated version would never have actually paid for it anyway - not so much. Perhaps they'll even talk about it here and there and encourage few sales in other places. The problem (again my opinion) is only when someone passes on a pirated version to someone who would have otherwise paid and who now won't bother: that is then a lost sale and lost income.

-Z-