They are?

As they should be. The hints and suggestions that the beta testers... ahem - PAID beta testers have had the arcade for weeks is nothing more than a not so subtle ploy to get money for the hack.

Don't get me wrong - if it came with a reasonable pricetag ($20 or less) I would pay for it. However, what they are doing here is just underhanded and devious.

I say - is you are going to go commercial with a product - do it. If it is a free hack - keep it free. Simple as that.

I think that the one-time fee as is is not unreasonable in the slightest. Very much worth it. It will be free to everyone (unless something happens in the future that has not been said). As for the private beta to those who have contributed, that is his right. He is showing his appreciation to those that have shown their support.

To say this is underhanded and devious is like saying the same for vBulletin. It is extra for having the branding-free option and he throws in extra support for those willing to pay for it. Me? I do not have it right now, else I would pay it.

Sharing on torrents "as they should be?" Sounds like supporting piracy to me.

My opinion.

You are correct in a few aspects, and I perhaps spoke to hastily in my state of irritation. I should clarify.

I don't support piracy, but I do believe in karma. I believe that the people who are premium members of his site probably post there, and not here, about their problems and joys. So what is the point, and how would the information come to be posted here, that this hack (that is so desperately wanted by so many people) is available to premium members?

I say it's a plot, and I believe it has not been releasedx to the community specifically so that the author could cash in on it. I'm all for capitalism, I don't work for free. But like I said in my last post: if you are going to go commercial with a product - do it. If it is a free hack - keep it free.

There should be no plots in a community that thrives on the opensource foundation that vbulletin.org does. It's share and share alike. Look at my posts, if you doubt me. I ask a lot of questions, I give encouragement where I can, and I help anytime I can.

If then it should be released, not being hinted about.

I pay a yearly fee for very little support from vbulletin, yet they insist on branding the living daylights out of my forum - do I think that's a little out of bounds? You bet! Is that the point? Not at all!

Oh, and I very much agree with you - a one time fee WOULD be worth it, without a doubt. We find ourselves in a slightly different situation than the one where that would apply, however.

Now let me ask you something - did you pay for premium access? Be carefull, this is a trick question. :D

Premium access? No such thing that I know of to pay for on v3. Branding free should be the question. No to that as well. If I did have the spare right now, I would, though. I have to hold back for the other modifications/add-ons that ARE commercial that I have come to rely on when it was a free product (GARS is one of a few). Cheap on that one in particular? Yes... but I have almost $200 in domain renewals coming up for my 19 domain names. I think I will put it there first. :cross-eyed:

branding free, that's what I meant. I haven't had time to try GARS yet but I am the proud owner of the new GALS.

Anyway, I'm not here to discuss anybody elses business practices, I just think it's a bit shady how this one is playing out. I'm done here.

And I feel your pain on the domains, I get hit with that one almost every month. I almost choked when netsol told me they wanted close to a grand a few months ago...

After I threatened to leave they decided to (almost) match namecheap's price. Yeehaw :D

Hi, didn't want to read every single post on this thread so I'm sorry if I'm repeating a question that has already been asked but is this arcade hack likely to slow down my forum in anyway? I have a basic amount of server space and don't fancy installing it if it's going to make my forum run at a snails pace.

Thanks :)

It didn't bother my website at all, even when I was running on a $3.95/month server package (with a wait_timeout of 20!!). If anything, the arcade increased my traffic quite a bit, but I never noticed any issues with it slowing anything down.

This is a great mod!

does this works for VB3.5 gold?

does this works for VB3.5 gold?

There are around 300 posts in this thread and not one person has said "Yes i love this, it works perfect on 3.5.0"

John can you answer me one question.

Are we allowed to modify the arcade in any way once it has been released??

Because one of your cocky little s*** testers who i wont name came on my site and sent me a pm telling me that if i modify the arcade it breaches copyright..

TBH John i dont particulary like how you are ironing this one out.. it seems a bit sus that the arcade was supposed to be released last week , yet it still isnt here..

Like many have said in the past, it would seem that your only in it for the money..

This version does not work with 3.5. But I believe there is one that is currently in beta testing that does. Go to his website for details.

I have nothing to do with v3arcade, except that I recently signed up there as a member (and paid the coder). I only have 3 posts on v3arcade, so I think that you may be in error if you think we got in an arguement there. We have never even posted in the same forum. :ermm:

I also have no powers to redirect anyone's account, but thank you for thinking that I can! I just answered someone's question here because no one else bothered to do so.

Woops sorry for the quote, I was talking about John :eek:

What, you were told that it's going to be closed source? (It isn't)

LOL - no problem.

Now I'm wondering why he would redirect your account... you must of been winning the arguement! :classic:

Loukrhtia was banned for personal attacks on myself, there was never an arguement. But the reason her post was removed from this thread was because this is supposed to be about the Arcade hack, not v3arcade.com.

LOL, dunno, it was funny though.
Funnier than a ban I sould admit :lol:
He has deleted the posts that we were arguing now, so no-one can see what actually happened :(

Personal attacks! OMG, how picky can someone be. I just had a complaint about those constant fault release dates and I got banned. LOL, that's funny.

John how old are you? I'm really curious. My 16 year old cousin handles arguments better than this.

How old am I? 24.

I didn't handle the argument, I refused to take part in it. The reason you were banned was because on a site where a lot of great people were being supportive and helpful (suggesting new features, finding bugs, etc.), you were crapping in every thread - calling me "dishonest" and "unprofessional" because I couldn't physically stay awake long enough to provide you with the Arcade. If it was the other way around perhaps you'd realise how disheartening it is when you put in that amount of time for people who have nothing good to say about you.

Crapping every thread????
In which thread I called you dishonest and unprofessional? I just said that that behavior SEEMED unprofessional. I wasn't complaining about the release date, I complained about the fault release dates. I would understand if you told that the release would be within a month but don't tell release dates that you can't stick to. It's bad for your paying customers too.
Please try to actually READ a post before getting mad and ban people like that (although your way of banning is funny - is this the usual banning method or I am the only one who got it? :p)

Also telling me to "get the hell out of here" is cosidered not taking part in the argument?

It was apt. I’m not going to quibble about semantics, you know what you said and the ban was fitting. You implied I was dishonest, and that was enough. I was never dishonest - every date I gave I had the full intention of meeting, there was just too much that needed to be done before I was happy with something that I’d release to the public. You were basically saying that I knew I was never going to meet the dates when I released them. You can’t see what’s wrong about making accusations like that?

I said that this crossed my mind, I didn't say that I was certain. Re-read my post please. I just wanted an answer and I got a ban. Very kind and gentle of you.

No, you didn't mention it crossing your mind. You hinted at it a few times, and then "Why isn't John honest????" or something along those lines.

I said in fact "I hope I'm mistaken but I think that..."
This implies that I wasn't certain of it and it just crossed my mind (or at least I meant that, english isn't my native language)

Perhaps we should take this to PM, this could go on for a long time.
In one post, you didn't say anything like that. The only content in the post was something like "why isn't John being honest". (I'm not talking about the "I hope I'm mistaken but I think that..." one)

Also I said in that thread:
Does this make you think I think you are dishonest on purpose???

The one I'm referring to was posted later on. Perhaps you didn't mean it the way you did, but the only want to interpret it was that you were saying I made up these dates and never intended to meet them.

You're right, we should have taken it to pm long ago.
Check your pms :)

Send one back. :)

(Let normal arcade conversations commence!)

Thank GOD! I just wasted 10 min, reading you two bicker like two married couples. :tired:

I really can't believe the attitudes of some people online nowadays. I consider each and every hack as a gift from somebody willing to put time and effort into things I probably couldn't (and certainly don't have time to) tackle myself. I see the same anywhere people are putting work into providing something for free, the trail of people criticising and moaning that it isn't good enough and it drives me nuts.

Some developers provide things free, some choose to charge others choose to release and abandon, some proivide free and charge for support... but in each and every case "you" have the choice to take this gift or not to.

You buy VBulletin you get a message board - end of. Thanks to the community you get to expand it into something so much more. Personally I thought the sites that were charging for games for the arcade were taking things a step further than I was willing to go. So it was simple - I didn't pay them and chose to keep snapping up the free releases that appeared every now and again.

With the new arcade that is coming I will take the free option to try it out then I'll decide if I think the extras that payed subs bring are worth paying for. It's quite straight forward - the choice is mine. If there was no free version it wouldn't change things a bit - the choice would still be mine to decide if I felt the added value of the arcade to my boards was worth the outlay.

Well done to John and everybody else involved for continuing to develop a good hack. I think you may have lost some ground during the time the site was down but reaction to date (ignoring the ingrates) seems to suggest it's going to be as popular as ever.

Good post.

Hi everyone,

I started installing what seems to be a wonderful hack, but ran into an error I am unable to work around. Was wondering if someone would be kind enough to lend some assistance. The error is as follows:

in the init.php file it says to replace:

'stylecache'
), $specialtemplates);

with

'stylecache',
'arcadesettings'
), $specialtemplates);

My init.php file looks like this:

// ## <ucs>
'stylecache',
'utt_store_act'
// ## </ucs>
), $specialtemplates);


Yes, I have the store hack installed, so I added this:

// ## <ucs>
'stylecache',
'utt_store_act'
// ## </ucs>
'arcadesettings'
), $specialtemplates);

But, I get a parsing error. Can anyone help ??
Please :)

Thanks in advance.

Got it fixed ... Thanks anyway.

Was missing a ","

Hear Hear - well done John - thanks for all the effort you put in. If people get demanding just ignore them , take ur time man , theres more to life than getting stressed about an arcade.

Hi
I changed this number to 50, as I prefer to see more games on one page, but I still see only 10 games on each page.
Any ideas?
:)

Also I see people have said that they have games in colums, and I've been searching this thread for an hour to find out how to do it, but it's either gone, or I can't find it. The link I found which looked like it went to a hack for this was dead.
Can anyone help please?
Thanks

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ewpost&t=71481

Thread is still alive and kicking :)

Your also better (if you use the columns) to change your total to 24 or 48 or another multiple of 4 ;)

Thanks so much. I hope you're still here, as now I'm stuck!

I don't understand what i'm supposed to do here. I've done the first bit, editing arcade.php and the main_games_bit template, but I'm really not sure what is meant by 'And edit "arcade_main" template around $gamebits
to change every newrest colspan="4" to your number of columns' or where to put that bit code.
Sorry. i'm kind of new to this :nervous: Everything I've done so far has worked though!