A Honest to Good Aggravated Criticism of Paid Modifications for vBulletin (Essay)

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by cheat-master30

Seems to work well enough for Jelsoft and Invision.

Do you know how much hiring an attorney costs. Do you think a coder should spend that much money just to release unencoded scripts to please you. Also dealing with attorneys will also take your valuable time. Thats why that is the worse option for a small company or a coder.

Originally Posted by lasto

the guy who started this thread does have some argument and i agree with him.
The prices for any hack is really expensive these days and people need to get a reality check and stop asking for hundreds of pounds for a small hack.
TBH vbulletin is nothing like it used to be in yrs gone by.Members would help one another and if u asked for something - someone would knock something up for u and post it but these days its all changed - the only reply u will get is `how much are u willing to pay`
Everyone is sitting on the side line with paypal accounts at the ready waiting for the next `Requests for paid hacks` thread to appear.

Yes , vB.org was better old days and released modifications had much more quality and feature. However the community was not that big then and people didnt use to make a lot of money from their sites. Thats why vb.org used to be a place where people can learn coding etc.. Supporting addons were not that bad as community used to support all released products. But look now , it is grown a lot and it is nearly impossible to support free products. It takes too much time and effort. Unfortunately we all have personal life , family etc.. and thats the reason no one does it anymore.