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Forbid new purchases and downloads

A topic by RETREAM created 2 days ago Views: 76 Replies: 8
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A few months ago I released QUOD INIT EXIT IIo, a bigger and better version of QUOD INIT EXIT IIm. Some people confused the two games and some people considered the latter a sort of demo of the former, which is not because the former plays differently and brings everything to a whole new level. Therefore, to avoid confusion and that people discarded the new game due to a wrong impression derived from the old one, I disabled the puchase&download option of the old game. Unfortunately, this prevented also who had already bought the game to download it. Therefore, now I have re-enabled the purchase&download option and, at the same time, I made the payment mandatory and the price stupidly high ($9876.54) so that nobody buys and downloads the game, and the previous buyers can download the game again. However, this solution is all but elegant.

Therefore, my suggestion is adding an option for each file that forbids new purchases and downloads without affecting who already paid for it. I hope it's doable and doesn't require too much effort.

Thanks for the attention.

Moderator (1 edit)

When you set "Disable new downloads & purchases" to true, people who already own the game should still be able to download it. The popup next to the option says as much. Is it broken?

I can't find that option, neither in the main page, nor in the Distribute page. These are all the options I have:

Could you tell me where I should look, please?

Moderator

At the bottom, under "Visibility & access -> Public -> Configure settings..."

But that's a different thing: it would hide the page altogether. I just would like to be able to disable new puchases and downloads.

Moderator (1 edit) (+1)

...No, actually it wouldn't. It's a sub-setting of the Public state. Your page remains public, that's the whole point.

Oh, my bad! I had missed the sub-settings.

Thanks a lot for the support!
In this case, the sub-setting solves the issue, but maybe it's still a good idea to make the sub-setting selectable on a per-file basis?

Moderator

That's not really possible, because people can't buy individual files. They can only pay for the project as a whole.

I see. Thanks again!