[UPDATED] L2j Server Important Changes!

ThePhoenixBird — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:34:49 +0000

Hi there guys, today is a really important day here on L2j, we have been discussing for weeks about the future of L2j, where are we now?, what are we going to do? and where we want to be?

All of this was a joke – Todo fue una broma – все это была шутка – All dies war ein Scherz

Well, well, well… i hope you all had fun like we did we laughed our asses off really hard, this was our April Fools Joke, all the licences stuff is just a small “white lie” that we prepared minuciously to shock you all.

We were going to reveal the truth on 2nd but since the huge impact that it caused and the large amount of rage/funny/emo/suicide comments both on website and forums we held up the joke for a couple of extra days to see you all freaking out for the sake of pure evilness.

Just like someone already said, all the jokes have a bit of truth on them, think about it for a while and then forget it, dont get too serious, but think that all our work we do here is for FREE and it will be FREE FOREVER, and for ALL OF YOU, not for us, since many of the current developers working on the official L2j staff dont run a server, many of them do it just for “fun” and/or “learning” purposes like me.

The entire team thank you all for the comments!

Notes: Just for the curious ones ranting and claiming that selling a paid L2j version violates the GPL, please read. As long we distribute the source code with the compiled binaries, you dont violate the GPL, the issue is that the same GPL let you distribute, modify, and sell the copy that you just bought, so you can’t effectively sell a “license” under the GPL.

IF YOU RAGE YOU LOSE!

On the other side we also discussed about the amount of people that doesnt care a shit about our work, and they keep leeching, stealing, and flaming us, some have the guts to ask on forums how to remove the credits! others come to IRC and spam the ops with messages to get “priority support cuz i donated you $5!”, other ones more silent just come here, read, pick, download, and just stay silent leeching our hard work and yours too, they dont give nothing back to the community.
At the end we got tired to list bad stuff and then we started to brainstorm for solutions to this issue and the future of L2j.

The wonderful idea came when it was suggested to create a “paid” L2j version, with proper priority support and addons, also nBd aggred to share his private custom events for this new version.

Of couse, for the rest of the users they still can get the vanilla L2j version, but future OpenSource Development will be stoped starting on Rev.4100, there will be only security patches from now on for the”free” branch, no new development or features will be added to the vanilla version wich will stay opensource for the rest of you to keep using it or developing it.

From now on the current L2j DevTeam will focus on developing for the ”paid” version of L2j with the new features and addons (we have prepared some awesome ones), you then should consider to buy a L2j License:

Standard License
Price: USD$ 149,99/year

Limited to 1 server with 100 users capacity.
Priority Support via email/irc.
Priority Beta-Releases.
0-Day Bug Fixes.
Free Upgrades

Gold License
Price: USD$ 349,99/year

Limited to 2 servers with 300 users capacity per server.
Priority Support via email/irc.
Priority Beta-Releases.
0-Day Bug Fixes.
Free Upgrades
Builds with Custom MODs.
Priority Support for Custom MODs.

Extreme License
Price: USD$ 749,99/year

Limited to 3 servers with 1000 users capacity per server.
Priority Support via email/irc.
Priority Beta-Releases.
0-Day Bug Fixes.
Free Upgrades
Builds with Custom MODs.
Priority Support for Custom MODs.
nBd’s Premium Custom MODs.
DrHouse’s Admin/GameMaster Custom Panel MOD.
ThePhoenixBird’s Designed 125×125 Banner in L2jServer Homepage.

We consider that those prices are cheap in echange for the amount of work and development that its required to stay competitive on this business.

The money from the licences will be used completely for our new L2j Developer Motivation Program wich will ensure quality work from our group of L2j Developers and for future development of new features.

Regards
L2j Team

Damn! September spotted!

DrHouse — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:11:04 +0000

L2J team wishes you have a great end of the summer/winter (yeah, south hemispher exists too!) and a non traumatic returning to your work. Fortunatly, L2J developers never suffer from such post vacation traumas since we dont have vacation.

Mhh… Dont you trust me? Here you go..! Check this graphic evidence

L2J Developer enjoying summer

Have fun!

Oh sh*! L2J is doomed!

DrLecter — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:28:15 +0000

Yesterday, KenM and I were chatting about an article appeared at CodeSqueeze where we spotted details you’d find certainly hilarious, while unpleasantly similar to some of our always evolving teamwork culture .

On a serious thought, while this post’s title were more of a reading hook and I don’t honestly think we’re doomed or anything, there’s some design and team issues we’re always thinking on improve and get to the higher possible stands. Let’s keep foccussed on them, at any line we type. Carpe Diem.

Today’s SQL changes have been kinda troublesome…

DrLecter — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:05:03 +0000

And I still have plans for the SQL structure , but trust me I’ll manage to make it better. My sincere apologies to those who have experienced issues and thanks to those who tested and reported ’til things were working… gio, bigbro, zhyla et al.

Blessed are they who have made backups and set their servers to SQL strict mode, for they databases will be recovered or -even better- never accept data loss during an ALTER CHANGE.

And blessed are they who read the svn logs before pushing fresh stuff into their production servers, for their players not feeling too pissed after any random changeset.

And tomorrow: more wreckage!

(j/k) \-P

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