Hosts file entry required
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This project got nixed. I used to work in the gambling/gaming industry. All games are 3rd party and use something that resembles OAuth to authenticate.
General flow for launching a game is:
- User clicks on game
- Website auths user
- check user account balance
- Generated 3rd party creds to connect based on player
- Launch game if 4 is okay
Large company made system that had a would have players put in a hosts file entry for step 4.
It failed after £3 million was spent.
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Any more thought on how they were going to make their customers do that? sudo vi perhaps?
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You mean, they gave people instructions to edit their
hosts
file in order to use the product?
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I'm in mainland China for Chinese new year now. Just found I cannot login through my Yahoo account here.
Need to use a SIM card from China Mobile that does not block Yahoo to login once in order to login here...