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?
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
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