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3 pointsby nethuntersover 1 year ago

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JoeAltmaierover 1 year ago
Used to have a game on a portable device that wasn&#x27;t networked. Had to have a code to authenticate software downloaded from your desktop machine.<p>Folks failed to put in the right code, routinely. Biggest trouble ticket frequency, Code doesn&#x27;t work!<p>So we issued upper-case only code, capitalized whatever they put in. Removed all blanks. Tried multiple matches, swapping &#x27;1&#x27; and &#x27;l&#x27; and so on until something worked.<p>Trouble ticket dropped to nearly zero.<p>The code didn&#x27;t really matter to us. Just something the platform needed to work. So we were happy to be generous.