nVidia 8800 GTS, Windows 7 Professional, It works perfectly!

I meant that Javascript and PHP files can still be profitable :) See for example Invision Power Board forums.. they have the same license key system, that every other software have today. And yes, crackers crack it via different ways. But IPB is doint more serious legal job here. When they see unlicensed IPB forums, they cease... yes, it is difficult, there is need for lawyers to track everything up. Same topic is with the licenses.

If you put commercial license and a free license, kids that don't know what license is but still know how to sell using their daddies's paypal accounts will most likely violate the free license with their indie games.

I mean that nothing technical can stop a human. You, other developers and your lawyers. They enforce the licenses. Ana every company needs them. And it never, never ever works as expected. Look for example Microsoft Windows... Here, in Bulgaria, almost all people use pirated Windows. The laws in Bulgaria are bad, they protect the home user's freedom more. If you are company, however, they will sue you if not licensed. And, ISPs won't assist you if you want to sue some unlicensed home user that used pirated construct then sold his game and gained more than Scirra... Eh, in most cases, these guys pay soon or later ;] But that are also the facts.

So when you allow commercial exporters, this is good. Only the exporter's author must think well how to handle these cases with pirates around and not to screw up when they come and tell him "hi" ;] Because they come. If a product is a success.

As a game designer, I try all these gamedev tools out today. Game Maker, Multimedia Fusion and Construct. Every one of these applications have its pros and cons, and every one is well-suited for some users. I like the idea of Construct, I find Construct better than game maker, but I find it also more hard to use than Game Maker for some things. Well, in fact, I don't like Game Maker at all! So you must focus in creating Construct AWESOME! Not like Yoyo Games. They want the money, like M1cro$0ft. Every major update of Game Maker is nothing! Nothing, except new DRM that gets cracked on the second day after the update. Construct must focus on usability and features to get cool! And it is, even in its beta, better than game maker. Of course, the best solution is C++, or writing own game engine (which I am doing now, by the way), but not everybody can write such a tool :)

Sorry for getting offtopic ;]

... You'll probably run in to problems trying to sell plugins in C2 though - they're just text files containing javascript, so preventing copying is basically impossible.

Sorry to tell, but today, even raw EXEs are not so difficult to edit. There are million of tools to edit executables, and NOTHING can stop crackers, pirates and everything others.

That is the reason for me not to care about them, anymore. I can still sell licenses to use my products, cease and desist unlicensed people and do everything about. Even if I sell compiled EXEs, soon or later, they will be cracked, modified, reverse-enginnered and so on.

And, im modern world, people prefer to play the games. Most of my open-sourced games with online scoring did not even got cheaters. Except a mario game written in C++ that cheaters abused.

So software protection is very good topic, and very large one, but source code is not the only way to edit an application :)

so, You'll probably run in to problems trying to sell plugins in C2 though - they're just text files containing javascript- you can also run in these problems, and most likely will. They cracked your competiton - Game Maker - on its release day. If Construct goes commercial AND gains enough market share, it will get beaten.

I am not telling this to discourage any of developers, I tell facts. Facts that Apple and Microsoft face every day, and facts that everybody faces soon or later, including me. That is the world. And don't forget. Even if iopensourced, like Construct Classic is, more of users even don't care. Many of users can't program in C/C++, so they will never ever think to check out these sources.

Just as in the HTML/PHP world. My clients CAN build their site with photoshop and joomla... but they just don't want, So they pay me to do the job. And I do the job, using GPLed software. And they don't even care about their sources.

HTML5 games share the same problem. Their source is visible (this do not mean it's open, though!). It's you that make the license. And minified code can be deminified with 2-3 clicks.