Turanien
Hail!
To keep this brief, Warband and Mount & Blade recently went live on the Desura Network. Basically; it's a huge network for companies, developers and games to publish content at the ease of the consumer. We have shifted Vikingr onto the Desura network for testing purposes and, so far, it's pretty sweet.
There are positives and [a few] negatives to running this system.
Positives
With the client installed, you don't have to do anything to the mod bar press the 'Update' button. When we release an update, the mod is updated on the network and you download it without any effort whatsoever. The mod handles all extraction to your Warband folder.
Makes it piss-easy for us to distribute the mod.
A fine way for promotion and marketing.
Negatives
Some may be unwilling to install another piece of software just to manage things [like the whole Steam issue]
Folder name has to stay consistent for Desura to work. This will mean no more renaming of folders to Vikingr 0.101012 or Vikingr 0.717172 ... It does mean that people may inadvertantly connect to the server with the wrong version. However I am sure Davee can sort something out with this ala spam-the-screen-if-client-does-not-match-server.
Personally, I think this may be a great way to turn things over. We can run Vikingr through Desura and continue to publish patch files via the regular .zip method on the forum. Now, I leave this to the rest of you to discuss. Yay oder nay?
To keep this brief, Warband and Mount & Blade recently went live on the Desura Network. Basically; it's a huge network for companies, developers and games to publish content at the ease of the consumer. We have shifted Vikingr onto the Desura network for testing purposes and, so far, it's pretty sweet.
There are positives and [a few] negatives to running this system.
Positives
With the client installed, you don't have to do anything to the mod bar press the 'Update' button. When we release an update, the mod is updated on the network and you download it without any effort whatsoever. The mod handles all extraction to your Warband folder.
Makes it piss-easy for us to distribute the mod.
A fine way for promotion and marketing.
Negatives
Some may be unwilling to install another piece of software just to manage things [like the whole Steam issue]
Folder name has to stay consistent for Desura to work. This will mean no more renaming of folders to Vikingr 0.101012 or Vikingr 0.717172 ... It does mean that people may inadvertantly connect to the server with the wrong version. However I am sure Davee can sort something out with this ala spam-the-screen-if-client-does-not-match-server.
Personally, I think this may be a great way to turn things over. We can run Vikingr through Desura and continue to publish patch files via the regular .zip method on the forum. Now, I leave this to the rest of you to discuss. Yay oder nay?