Just FYI, I’m in the process of getting the new BattleBazaar.com website I promised a long time ago up and running.  I have OpenID working with the providers that I have tested, so I believe that it ought to be working OK.  The way I am working it is similar to FaceBook or other social networking sites.  I believe that all of this is going to work pretty well, but I need to test it some more before I “throw the switch.”  I believe that I will also be able to run Marcus’ comic site with the same setup.

I am working on passing the login information from the browser into the application; I will probably use a launch ticket application (like Kesmai and Asheron’s Call used to) that passes the necessary information to the launcher, versus other potential approaches.  That means to launch a game, you’ll go to a site (tentatively my.battlebazaar.com), where your games will be listed.  You’ll pick a game off the list, and click it to launch it. 

That also means all the login is done via a web browser.  :)

The user will probably receive an open, save, or cancel dialog box (just like if they are downloading a file) for now, but I’ll get rid of that entirely later in the process.