Community vote

[cole89103]

not to mention if they want to get PAID they need to go get jobs as a dev not take the money from an opensource project that could be used for many other things to better the emu

[cole89103]

think about it say you donated 100 or 200 bucks and instead of that money being used for say hosting or upkeep as is stated its for it was taken by a dev for personal use...

in essance thats stealing and wrong i dont care how you slice it.

Im not saying whether its true or not however if it is then it needs to get dealt with either by getting rid of donations all together or getting rid of the people doing the stealing, OR the community needs to just stop donating

[cole89103]

i vote that this topic be closed both sides have debated admirably but i dont want anyone to feel offended or for anger to grow any further from these posts

I want to reiterate that i say neither one way or the other on it being true or not only posting hypotheticals as to what should occur if it is true

[trevius]

Well, if you read the donator's page from the main website, you will find that all of the claims so far about devs "stealing" money from the project is completely pointless.

It clearly states:

Money Donations

This page is here to provide you with information about how to donate to the developers of this project if you would like to do so. All donations are made to individual developers, not to the project itself, with the understanding that they will spend them on whatever they see fit.

You can read the entire page here:

http://www.eqemulator.net/donate.php

That sounds about as clear as it can possibly be. Apparently the cost for hosting is handled from other means, or possibly still in part from donations. Either way, it is made very clear here that donations do NOT go towards bettering the project. Other than hosting, I don't see what else donations could go towards anyway. It isn't like they need to upgrade the server or anything...

It isn't like people are being tricked or mislead into donating on the website. If someone feels a certain dev deserves a little spending cash for their efforts, then they can send them money. I don't see why there should be any sort of problem or debate around this.

Originally Posted by Scorpious2k

I think the important thing is to learn whatever lessons are to be learned, pick things up, and move forward. Now that the Scorpious2k server is coming back as titanium, I will be able to test code on it again. This means I am also back, contributing code and trying to help those who need it.

It is not a time to make accusations of real or imagined wrongs. It's a time to regroup. Refocus. Unite as a team.

Let's work together. The emulator belongs to the community. Be proud of what we have done with it, and let's keep working hard to make it better.

I couldn't have said it better myself. /cheers S2k

[cole89103]

I agree scorp..

check your pms btw

[Scorpious2k]

Originally Posted by cole89103

check your pms btw

ummm... empty?

nevermind, got it.

[cole89103]

lmao sent it after i posted sorry lol