Take a look at this thread - 55 pages of non stop tech support. If I released the arcade hack to the public, I wouldn't have any time to sleep. I just don't have the time.

But if I exchange the hack for donations it means that I'll have more time for tech support, and I'll be able to get rid of this darn leased vB licence. I've spend the last 4 days solid working on this, it'd be nice to get something back. :(

I also need a new digi cam badly (for my work), so I'm trying to raise the funds for that as well.

So you are basically selling the hack? If I am not mistaken, that's a breach of the license agreement.

Either way, you don't HAVE to provide tech support. You can say that the hack is "as is" and you will not help anybbody if they have a problem.

There is nothing wrong with selling hacks for vB. The fact that it uses the vB engine has nothing to do with it, it's like any script you purchase, you are purching the time they have spent developing it.

Is the free tetris hack not good enough? (some people want everything)

Ok, I'm not selling it - I'm just giving it to friends and people who have supported me. (I don't believe it is in breach of anything, all of the code is my own.)

There seem to be enough people out there who want to stop me from releasing this at all, should I bother?!

I've just read the licence and it says the following:

"Registered users may modify the vBulletin code for their personal use (at their own risk), but any altered code must not be redistributed or resold in any form."

From this I'd like to point out that, as with the flash files that the arcade hack uses, john is not selling any modified code, he is insted selling a "seperate" file that uses the vB engine.

Regarding any files that need to be modified, all he is doing is providing the instructions on what needs to be changed, not any modified files.

That's right, the main part of the arcade hack is arcade.php, existing code modifications are purely optional.

It's not that they don't want you to release it, it's that they want you to give it away for free.

Some hack authors do this (as john did with the tetris hack) so why can't he do what he is doing with the arcade hack?

Anyway, in my opinion, the arcade hack is a very special add-on, something that can turn a dead forum into an active one - and beyond, matching services provided by HUGE players like MSN. - if everyone had it then it would not be special :D

@ Lanigironu, if John plans that way please accept this.
We know about the Arcade-Donation since the last 50 posts and we will donate for it.
Its a extreme work and i thank such peoples like John for sharing with us.
If he don?t opened this thread and gave us his tetris-leaderboard etc. we dont even know about such great additions.
Thanx John! ;)

Thanks everyone :)

Ok, fine, as I said, I wasn't sure about it.

But either way, this is a very nasty thing that you did, building up people's hopes up so you can smack them with a price.

Minifreunde: That's bull++++. Anybody could've done it, and if John didn't, somebody else would have eventually. It's not like he saved us from the appocalypse.