Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Wrong. With the new firmware, debs show up with the debian-icon in the file manager. One single tap on the deb-file (as normal user, of course, not root) will open the application manager and install the file.

10x easier than it was with red pill mode. And they removed red pill mode because they said users shouldn't easily be able to install applications that aren't in a proper repository.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

maybe i just think to easy but why not keep repo's keep everything, users can just apt get everything but then the software is just in shareware or demo mode? and only if you pay through ovi, ovi wil inject a serial number in the software based on imei?

the payed software just have to implement some interface so that ovi store knows what todo when its getting payed.

ofcourse this is crackable but what isnt in the end.?
for most normal users this will mean they cant just copy.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Ah, I wasn't aware of this change and judging by the comments on this thread, many others don't either.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

tuminoid: As Benny said, it is easy to install debs now - which is a good thing, although I completely agree with you. The best thing would be a personal repository with only the applications you have paid for available.

I believe most users would pay just for the convenience of not having to hassle with anything more advanced than the app manager, and to get on-the-fly updates of their apps. With stand-alone debs the latter is a huge issue in terms of security updates (although I don't believe that games like Angry Birds exposes the biggest security holes - except for the one where all the pigs hacked my phone after I finished level 16, but thats another story :D )

I hope they are working on a repository solution. That would be awesome!

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

DRM doesn't work. DRM has never worked. DRM can never work. DRM will never work.

When did people start assuming that everything has to have DRM, and that having it helps at all? It's perfectly possible to sell software with no DRM and do well with it - you're still going to get copyright infringement, but, given the speed with which DRM always gets cracked, not necessarily any more than you would otherwise. Meanwhile you avoid pissing off a large chunk of your would-be customers with pointless arbitrary restrictions, and quite possibly selling more stuff in the first place.

On another note; has anyone tried installing a non-repository hosted .deb from OVI, backing up their device, reflashing it, and restoring? AIUI the backup system reinstalls apps by re-installing them from the repositiories - does something delivered this way survive the process?

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

It survives as a deb package on your eMMC, you need to manually reinstall it again.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Well, it's already spread on wares sites...I guess Rovio won't be too happy about that :(

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

The Angry Birds for iPhone is out for ages... (warez)

So..... Why would they suddenly be "mad" at the N900 users?

There are still many people who will buy it. Including me.

I really like this game! :)

oh btw, Arif.. aren't you the one that promotes warez?..
:D
http://mg.pov.lt/maemo-irclog/%23mae...02-27T00:45:13

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

But isn't the angry birds iphone app much more popular than the n900 one?

it is going to be be hard to even find the level pack for n900 on warez sites because probably no one will bother uploading it. :)

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Haha, yeah that's me. :p

But no I don't promote warez :) And especially not something cheap as this :p

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

what kind of sucks though is that I really want to buy this level pack and cant. i wish I could just donate the money to rovio and they send me the deb or whatever... :(

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Really... first everyone complains about DRM and now that we get a mobile store not using DRM, everybody complains about that as well.
Since when has a copy protection scheme done anything else than alienating the paying customers?

That said, the payment in the ovi store needs to be sorted out fast.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

great!! .... but where is the pay by phone bill option??? not everyone has a freaking credit card you know! Maybe the americans do! they pay everthing with plastic! but here in holland its good old cash!

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

almost done with level pack 1.. when second pack is coming ?

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store
 

yes, exactly.

e: I have to take my words back: at least the payment worked :D

varaus = reservation

varattu = reserved

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

All those discussions about DRM and piracy and bla bla, and there are still no pirated copies of the level pack on the internet :)

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

I just checked my credit card online and I have the correct value of 2,99€ on my bill.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Or Tulips. :p

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

(A) This has gone really off-topic
(B) Also is now infringing on the Rule

Discussion of the definition of "piracy" and such moved to this thread:

Please take further discussion of the topic there.

Or cell phones, apparently... :rolleyes: That's...enlightened. :D

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

There are some wallpapers now available in the ovi store that you can purchase... why not the level pack?

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

I got the pack just in time before they pulled it off again...

But had some weird things going on after it was installed.

Some pretty weird lag on different levels making it almost unplayable so my guess is a memory leak or something like that, don´t have a log to confirm it though.
Also the game crashed on me more then one time after the pack were installed.

Also check this screenshot, I cleared the whole game and after the latest crash the game in some strange way "reset" itself resulting in locked levels even though I cleared them already...

http://media.share.ovi.com/m1/s/1815...86601277c6.jpg

So maybe the levelpack wasn´t as optimized as they thought and therefore withdrew it?

Well, lets just hope it will be back and they give us the extra worlds other phones got as well.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Have you been playing custom levels before or after buying the level pack? That would explain the game flow getting broken.

The level pack shouldn't be able to create any lag or any other regression to the quality of game play because it's just a bunch of levels. It doesn't change the actual game at all.

Could you send me on email the files so I could see why this happens:
/var/opt/rovio/angrybirds/highscores.lua
/var/opt/rovio/angrybirds/settings.lua

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Sorry to say you're wrong! :rolleyes:

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Nope, no custom levels and no extras-dev stuff, just the original install and the level pack.
I will try get the time to dig out the lua files, kind of busy at work ;)

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

I did see also some lag on some random levels. I would guess that it was a swap issue or some widget did it's update procedure same time I was playing the game. There was no high processor usage when I went to desktop to check cpu applet and when I come back to game everything was fine again. I didn't do any further checks as I managed to get *** on all levels.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Screens or it never happened ;D

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Of course my friend :D

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Just wanted to big myself up.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Awesome! Damn I got to work on my scores...

Where is that damn assistant to take away some workload?

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

I have still reservations in my credit card. Contacted twice to nokia and now contacted to my credit card company.

I will be preferring paypal in the future and probably will skip angry birds level packs because of this as a collateral... ...unless level packs can be bought outside ovi store...

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

I will check if i still have these reservations.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

where's the rest of the levels for angry birds? there's over 100 on the iphone version!

is it possible to transfer over the .lua level files?

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Yes! Finally got 3 stars on all levels across the base and extra levels!

Some of them were quite a challenge.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

how do you reserve it?

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

If Sygic managed to sell its Maps app, how can Rovio not find a way of properly selling the Angry Birds levelpacks? What's the difference?

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

last night i re-flashed my device and i forgot that i cant re-get the level pack add-on from ovi store so now i'm without something i purchased b/c Nokia and b/c of nokia i was overcharged for it to begin with lol

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

I am in a similar position. Had my phone replaced due to usb socket issue and now I have lost my level packs :( Will email Rovio to see what they suggest. Lost hoops too :(

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

I gave up waiting for this and its silly high price so i got it on my work iphone for £0.59

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

Moderator: Will hopefully read the rule before his one week ban is over.

Re: Angry Birds Levelpack back in OVI-Store (Edit: and now not, again...)
 

I'm in the very same situation - how did Rovio respond to your mail?