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03/10/10 07:08 PM
Abdel - I'm hesitant to say much more on this topic. I don't want to leave the impression I'm bashing the company. The only reason I spoke up is I am concerned and disappointed. I was looking forward to version 10 and now I'm not sure.
To answer you question ... the current distribution plan whether you buy your game from the download store, or have a CD sent to you is for the installation to include an e-License control panel applet to be included in the installation. That applet will run resident as a Windows service. DMB will neither install, nor run without the service running.
Immediately after you install DMB, you will be asked to input a key code. The key code will activate the e-License service and it will look for an internet connection. The internet connection will go to the e-License server and confirm the key code and name you inputted is correct. You'll be able to install the program on X computers (X still to be determined). My suspicion is the number of installs will be liberal (probably as many as 10, provided the installation is occurring from the same IP address).
Naturally a resident service will consume Windows resources, though I suspect it won't be all that many. I have a friend running E-License with another game and I asked him to check the resource demand for me.
The purchased download will be good for as long as you have a copy of it. It's the ability to activate your installation that worries me. I am willing to accept the resource hit and the activation process provided I can save my finished replay data in version 9 format. That way I can always install version 9 and access my data. I'm willing to pay for a utility that allows me to convert version 10 data to version 9 data. I'm also willing to pay significantly more for updates that are e-License free. Without those options, I'm very hesitant to upgrade. Version 9 is good enough and hassle free. Very disappointing.
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03/10/10 07:57 PM
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03/10/10 08:04 PM
VeryCurious wrote:I am willing to accept the resource hit and the activation process provided I can save my finished replay data in version 9 format.
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03/10/10 08:07 PM
joecamel wrote: Maybe this time things really will be different.
03/10/10 08:19 PM
BigO wrote:Does anyone have a link to the e-license company that will carry the software?
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03/10/10 09:15 PM
kostnkost wrote:joecamel wrote: Maybe this time things really will be different.
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03/10/10 10:34 PM
03/10/10 10:45 PM
sposfan1 wrote:For the record: I just wanted to check something. I have Front Office Football 2007. I reinstalled it and saw the licctrl service started, which as far as I could tell was the only service or process related to elicense. I then closed the game and stopped the service. I restarted the game with the service OFF, and it started up no problem and seemed to run fine.
03/10/10 10:48 PM
kostnkost wrote:sposfan1 wrote:For the record: I just wanted to check something. I have Front Office Football 2007. I reinstalled it and saw the licctrl service started, which as far as I could tell was the only service or process related to elicense. I then closed the game and stopped the service. I restarted the game with the service OFF, and it started up no problem and seemed to run fine.Post Whore!
03/10/10 10:50 PM
03/10/10 11:05 PM
Elan - I'd be curious (actually very curious) if that works with DMB's version 10. It's possible the service only needs to be resident to install. I'd prefer that. That's easy to manage.
For those interested ... the E-License applet runs as a service called runservice.exe. The installation dumps it into your Windows folder and runs it from there. When running it consumes about 1.5 MB RAM. That's a pretty small hit. Most of the multitude of Window services that run resident use between 2-4 MB each. I've turned off all the unnecessary services on my system and have it running as bare bones as possible. A good site for judging what services are needed or not is blackviper.com. They have recommendations for 2000, XP, Vista and Win 7 (32 and 64 bit flavors).
Now if you can convince our good friends at DMB to offer a conversion utility to allow me to save my replay data in both version 10 and version 9 format, you may have won back a customer. Obviously they have a utility that forward converts. How difficult would be to backward convert? I'm even willing to pay for a utility like that. DMB can distribute and protect its investment. I can have peace of mind my data is safe. Everybody's happy ... well at least until we find something new to complain about
03/10/10 11:18 PM
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03/10/10 11:58 PM
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03/11/10 12:22 AM
vamac53 wrote: Elan, David and dmb, Seriously..... I may be simplifying things BUT, what is the effin NEED for all this elicense crap etc. What is so hard for dmb to receive an order, either by phone, OR email. Then send out the effin product, either by cd disk OR email. What is so hard about that. WHAT IS THE GAIN OF ALL THIS 3RD PARTY CRAPOLA???? It worked fine before, why the change seriously. WAY TO COMPLICATED......If in fact the version 10 was ready for distribution months ago, which I was led to believe that the only thing holding up version 10 was contracting with a 3rd party distribution company or so. That was well over 2 months ago. I JUST DONT GET THE BENEFIT TO ANYONE.Simple works for me... If it aint broke, dont fix it.
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03/11/10 07:44 AM
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03/12/10 08:38 AM
nemodomi wrote: BigO wrote: Does anyone have a link to the e-license company that will carry the software?eLicense - Helping your Business Grow [sic]
BigO wrote: Does anyone have a link to the e-license company that will carry the software?
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03/13/10 02:48 PM
03/13/10 04:24 PM
allie52 wrote:Just for clarification-If there is no back converter, does that mean that past seasons with Version Nine cannot be used with Version Ten ?Thanks
03/13/10 07:23 PM
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