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Originally Posted by loramin
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Yeah, that's totally a reasonable request [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Hey Khaleesi, can you spend nearly a decade of your life working on a passion project in your free time, and also recruit a bunch of other volunteers to help, then after all that time can you just give me all of your work, both so I can start a competing project and so that I can use it to cheat on your project?
Don't get me wrong: I would love to see fifty different fan-run servers that all have the quality of P99 (both in terms of staff and in terms of the database/code). But I certainly wouldn't expect anyone else, let alone them and their team of volunteers, to all work for years and then give me the fruit of their labor, especially since by definition that would entail giving up all of the secrets of the game.
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Aside from your clearly useless and sardonic natured strawman - which could only sound more ridiculous if you replaced it with mention of curing cancer- hording benefits no one.
What fruit of their labor? There is nothing of intrinsic or physical value being obtained by the existing of Project 1999 and their reasons for running it are their own.
Secrets? Such as?
Cheat ? This isn't a highschool project.
The only expectation is for them to release the data. What people do with is up to them.
Provided Project 1999 had very few or minor 'issues' then we could tolerate it a while longer in the absence of any alternatives. Though eventually competition is the only thing that progresses a market place. And since Project 1999 has none(outside of different client based projects such as TAK and P2002), it's a monopoly and a bad one at that.
Stop with the excuses.