marvelous designer vs marvelous designer for steam
polycounter lvl 5
Hello Polycounters!
I have decided to buy a license of marvelous designer, but then i found that steam had marvelous designer at 3/5ths of the price, with the added "for steam" at the end.
anyone know what this may entail?
or does anyone have any noteworthy experiences with buying from a 3rd party retailers?
thank you
I have decided to buy a license of marvelous designer, but then i found that steam had marvelous designer at 3/5ths of the price, with the added "for steam" at the end.
anyone know what this may entail?
or does anyone have any noteworthy experiences with buying from a 3rd party retailers?
thank you
Replies
1) "I'm a freelancer working on my own. Can I use MD commercially? Yes."
2) "I freelance part-time, but work for somebody else during the week? Can I use MD commercially? No. You need a full, non-Steam license."
3) "I just started a company. Can we use MD commercially? No. You need a full, non-Steam license."
4) "My company wants to buy the cheaper Steam version instead. Can they use MD commercially? No t hey cannot. They need to buy a full, non-Steam license."
the Steam version has the same features.
Its cheaper because you won´t be able to upgrade to a newer version with a promotional discount.
the Steam version seems to have an always-on DRM/persistent online authentication.
Which is if politely spoken troublesome since it opens a big can of worms.
Just as an example; Steam servers might have small outages during the day or worse
you have due to using a wireless connection no constant stable internet..
Marvelous Designer will break in such occasions.
Be wary of that Always online DRM and save often.
you are allowed to use it for commercial purposes and they recently updated the licence;
http://steamcommunity.com/games/528100/announcements/detail/654544639712032330
The "persistent online authentication" is a major dealbreaker for me ><, regular license it is.