LlamaCasty/HANDOFF.md

HANDOFF — 2026-11-02 (Steam ownership check)

State

• main; local work unit, not pushed.
• Distribution plan: one paid Steam app ($79 announced launch price, then $99) plus its associated free Demo. Same code; no subscription, DLC purchase, or GitHub binary.
• IEntitlement.IsAppOwned feeds the app-wide MainViewModel.IsAppOwned flag. Debug uses a fake owned result; the fake is excluded from Release.
• Release ownership uses BIsSubscribedApp(paidAppId) and fails closed when the ID or Steam is unavailable. The paid app ID is not configured yet; the Steamworks application is pending.
• Steam's private-use clause is not, by itself, a proven blocker. EULA wording should expressly allow commercial/monetized streaming; OBS is the relevant Steam software precedent. See MyMistakes.md → Steam distribution.

Next action

Day 1: grey out higher tiers for non-owners and link to the paid Steam page; then the system-message strip. The queued Debug-only test-access rule also needs checking. Keep one integration test per change.

Landmines

• The Demo has its own App ID. Ownership must check the paid app ID, never the Demo ID or test ID 480.
• No fake ownership code or developer panel in Release.
• No Steam checkout in the app; Steam handles purchase and updates.
• The paid app ID is not available yet; Release stays fail-closed until it is configured.
• verify.sh clean app build passes; EntitlementTests passes 5/5. Full suite currently has 13–14 UI/content failures; connection to this change is unconfirmed, investigate separately.
• Bundled FFmpeg must stay outside the single-file exe (ExcludeFromSingleFile="true").
• Build with Windows dotnet.exe; run tests per class (the whole suite can hang in WASAPI teardown).