{"author_name":"bobbobowitz","cat":"October Challenge 2012","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"October 14, 2012 10:35 am","epoch":1350228900,"text":"We use the free version of a WordPress plugin named Cart66 – of course, everybody can share the download link nonetheless. With Cart66 you can limit the number of possible downloads – but if you have a problem with people having the possibility to copy your game you will have a hard time selling digital content, unless you add some DRM, which is evil. Just treat your customers with respect.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"October 14, 2012 11:00 am","epoch":1350230400,"text":"I’ve got to start doing more diligent research.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"MortalWombat","time":"October 14, 2012 12:14 pm","epoch":1350234840,"text":"PayPal has at least two different APIs for confirming a successful payment. You have to chew through a little PHP but I’m pretty sure there are step-by-step tutorials or even ready-made frameworks for that. After you confirmed a payment for a specific user, you can then allow them to download the game. Of course you’ve got to have a basic register\/login thing going on on you page.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"October 15, 2012 1:30 am","epoch":1350282600,"text":"Hi,","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1350225240,"likes":1,"metadata":{"p_key":"51237","p_author":"bobbobowitz","p_authorkey":"3200","p_urlkey":"86930","p_title":"How to sell games securely via PayPal?","p_cat":"October Challenge 2012","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1350225240","p_likes":"1","p_comments":"4","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3200","us_name":"bobbobowitz","us_username":"bobbobowitz","event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"text":"

I set up my website, got hosting and all that, have a PayPal account.<\/p>\n

How do you sell games with PayPal? Only way I can see would be to have people pay and then be linked to a download page hosted by the server. But then anybody can just go straight to that download page and get the game without paying.<\/p>\n

How do you solve this problem? I’m open to any other solutions, including non-paypal ones, as long as they aren’t very expensive.<\/p>","time":"October 14th, 2012 9:34 am","title":"How to sell games securely via PayPal?"}