The lack of respect shown by so many to us...
You know time and again I sit here and I have to ask myself why I even bother continuing with the RunUO project. There are times where I seriously just want to shut this place down and move on.
Truth be told it has nothing to do with loosing interest in Ulitma Online, it has to do with the ungreatful users, and why is it (yes this is a stereotype) that the majority of our problem users are Russian. Do Russian's have no morals?
I get tired of dealing with people who think they are better than me, or the other developers of RunUO and thinking that they deserve to decompile RunUO or end-around our software license.
RunUO is not illegal. It is 100% code that we have written over the past years and I am tired of people trying to tell me that it is illegal. If you write a program that emulates UO, or any other game server or application for that matter, it is not illegal, however using that program could be considered breaking the terms of service for said game/application.
As far as the decompiling of RunUO goes, I will not stand for it. I am to the point now where I dont even see a reason to continue with RunUO. We have just finished a 100% network overhaul that makes the core 500x as efficient. We have proven the core to hold over 2000 users online with no problem, yet while working on this I have come to the conclusion that it is no longer the minority of our users who are ungreatful, it is without doubt the majority.
RunUO is a free application, it is an application we considered releasing to the community under a form of open source license when we hit 1.0 however with the majority of our users being greedy and doing things like you have seen from Wyatt and others in the past, can someone give me one good reason why I should push this development team to get a release out to the public so that they can decompile it and give people what boil down to be nothing more than shitty blocks of code?
Come on people this is getting really old, now we have to deal with some asshole from Russia who wants to release a 'modified core' to the public so that they can use it... for what gain? The minute they do, they will no longer be able to come back to the stock RunUO distributions, trust me we would see to that, and I can promise you no other development team out there will ever provide you with a product the caliber we have. Sure someone can steal our work and re-publish it as their own to look cool, but that is all it boils down to, they didn't make thier version, they just pretend to be cool by modifying the core and putting something similar to this:
Give me a break, I am really getting tired of this... as for the users that have the audacity to say that we are getting angry it's not about getting angry its about having an overzealous userbase who are too used to being babied and hand held through releases every month and when we decide to re-work and optimize a chunk of our software they like to jump ship, well go ahead, it wont bother me at all.
In fact I encourage all of you that supported Wyatt for whatever reason to go with him, build a website and community and release your hacked exe's to everyone because in the end I dont give a shit. If Wyatt is sooooo good at what he does why would he have to use our code and our product? A reasonable and prudent person could easily conclude that if Wyatt were such a good programmer he could have easily created his own emulator in its entirety could he have not?
See, this is where this community is headed.... its headed in a direction that is litterally driving me to loose interest in providing them the service and product that we have provided over the last few years. That in and of itself says something, but what says even more is the lack of respect these users are showing to the entire community, not just the development team.
How would you all like it if we just decided to say screw it and move to a subscriber only model.....?
Yah, I didn't think so.
So the next time you decide to support some asshole like Wyatt, remember how much we do give you for free, yet you still demand from us rather than thanking us.
You know time and again I sit here and I have to ask myself why I even bother continuing with the RunUO project. There are times where I seriously just want to shut this place down and move on.
Truth be told it has nothing to do with loosing interest in Ulitma Online, it has to do with the ungreatful users, and why is it (yes this is a stereotype) that the majority of our problem users are Russian. Do Russian's have no morals?
I get tired of dealing with people who think they are better than me, or the other developers of RunUO and thinking that they deserve to decompile RunUO or end-around our software license.
RunUO is not illegal. It is 100% code that we have written over the past years and I am tired of people trying to tell me that it is illegal. If you write a program that emulates UO, or any other game server or application for that matter, it is not illegal, however using that program could be considered breaking the terms of service for said game/application.
As far as the decompiling of RunUO goes, I will not stand for it. I am to the point now where I dont even see a reason to continue with RunUO. We have just finished a 100% network overhaul that makes the core 500x as efficient. We have proven the core to hold over 2000 users online with no problem, yet while working on this I have come to the conclusion that it is no longer the minority of our users who are ungreatful, it is without doubt the majority.
RunUO is a free application, it is an application we considered releasing to the community under a form of open source license when we hit 1.0 however with the majority of our users being greedy and doing things like you have seen from Wyatt and others in the past, can someone give me one good reason why I should push this development team to get a release out to the public so that they can decompile it and give people what boil down to be nothing more than shitty blocks of code?
Come on people this is getting really old, now we have to deal with some asshole from Russia who wants to release a 'modified core' to the public so that they can use it... for what gain? The minute they do, they will no longer be able to come back to the stock RunUO distributions, trust me we would see to that, and I can promise you no other development team out there will ever provide you with a product the caliber we have. Sure someone can steal our work and re-publish it as their own to look cool, but that is all it boils down to, they didn't make thier version, they just pretend to be cool by modifying the core and putting something similar to this:
Code:
Console.WriteLine( "Core h4x3d by l33t Russian" );Give me a break, I am really getting tired of this... as for the users that have the audacity to say that we are getting angry it's not about getting angry its about having an overzealous userbase who are too used to being babied and hand held through releases every month and when we decide to re-work and optimize a chunk of our software they like to jump ship, well go ahead, it wont bother me at all.
In fact I encourage all of you that supported Wyatt for whatever reason to go with him, build a website and community and release your hacked exe's to everyone because in the end I dont give a shit. If Wyatt is sooooo good at what he does why would he have to use our code and our product? A reasonable and prudent person could easily conclude that if Wyatt were such a good programmer he could have easily created his own emulator in its entirety could he have not?
See, this is where this community is headed.... its headed in a direction that is litterally driving me to loose interest in providing them the service and product that we have provided over the last few years. That in and of itself says something, but what says even more is the lack of respect these users are showing to the entire community, not just the development team.
How would you all like it if we just decided to say screw it and move to a subscriber only model.....?
Yah, I didn't think so.
So the next time you decide to support some asshole like Wyatt, remember how much we do give you for free, yet you still demand from us rather than thanking us.
