[AutomatikStudio]

Closing shop....

This is an announcement I was hoping I wouldn't have to make. I pushed for weeks to not have to say this, hoping there was some way out. But unfortunately there is not.

I, personally, will no longer be doing any official development of vB3 Pets. I have 25 hours of school a week in addition to maintaining almost 20 websites and doing countless small graphic/multimedia projects for different clients. I have way to much on my plate...I really probably need 4 or 5 plates to hold all the stuff I've gotten myself into.

So what is the status of version 2 of this hack?
Well, good question. The bits and pieces of information I've been giving about the status of the coding have been the random bits and pieces of info I occassionally get from the guy who's coding. I honestly can't tell you exactly how much is done. I can only go by what he has told me, which lately hasn't exactly been much. It just goes to show that you can't put much trust in other people. Obviously people have priorities, but communication is the number one key to accomplishing a goal and communication on a certain coder's part has been practicaly non-existent. I have been under the impression that the coding was almost done for almost 3 weeks now but it seems that I'm being avoided lately, so I can't really tell you for sure where things are.

So who's hack is it now?
It's yours. It's now the property of anybody that would like to contribute to it. The only thing I ask is that it not be used for commercial purposes. It must remain free. I'm not positive what the current coder plans to do with his code that he has thus far. I'd say I would ask him but he hasn't returned my e-mails or IM's in many days now. If he wishes to release his code, so be it. To my knowledge, all of the things listed in the first post about what would be in version 2 have been coded minus the battling and stores, which are supposedly somewhat finished.

In closing...
In addition to the fact that I have no time to develop this anymore, motivation was quickly lost to continue working when someone stole all of mine and your ideas. I advise other coders to be careful of what information you release about your upcoming hack. People steal ideas and make them their own REAL quick. They even try to sell them at first. Heck...they even post in the guys thread they stole the ideas from telling people to buy their hack. But that's just people I guess.

Again, I'm very sorry for all of the people that have been waiting patiently for this hack. I to have been waiting, hoping things could work out. Feel free to PM or post if you have questions.

Thanks for listening.
Josh/AutomakStudio