Hi Haxus,
First of all, we are very glad to be hearing from you again. I hope life has been treating you well!
Now, I would like to begin by saying that I respect you immensely and I have absolutely no desire to steal or profit off of your hard work. I have been playing the long game on asking for Shores of Hazeron to be open sourced:
I do not know who this Andar Aevaneur character really is, but I believe him to be a grifter armed with the flowery words of ChatGPT. All of his accounts that we have seen were created within the last few weeks. His profiles and all of his initial communications were blatantly AI-generated. He told us his previous Shores of Hazeron avatar name in voice chat some days ago, but we combed through the Wayback Machine archives of your Avatars page and determined that we were given non-existent names.
That is to say, he is a total unknown to the community. When he joined the Discord server moderated by DeanTwo, which I know you are not fond of but does still exist and holds ~400 members of the Hazeron community, the response he got was resoundingly negative. He stopped engaging after the first couple days due to the overwhelming opposition to him, but in that brief time he got caught telling more lies and half-truths than I can count.
I understand that before this you were in contact with Celarious and Edin (known to us as Oninnaise) about possibly open sourcing Hazeron. Oninnaise was openly working with the community and sharing his progress on a sisyphean task, creating a reverse-engineered server for Shores of Hazeron. It seems to me that Andar has been trying to manipulate both you and the community to stop a real open source release from happening, and to get his own little Hazeron fiefdom going. We were aware that you were in contact with people about opening up the source of Shores of Hazeron, and the general hope of the community has been that it would end up free and open source. None of us want to profit off of your work. In fact, a license that allows modification + redistribution but prevents charging for or otherwise profiting off of your work would be an ideal solution.
I obviously cannot speak for everyone here. That, and the Hazeron community is notorious for never agreeing on anything! If the code is made fully open source, however, the existing community is more than capable of organizing continued development and server hosting. We have many members of the community who are both technically competent and itching to contribute to a revival.
Barring full open-sourcing of the code, I would just ask that you appoint someone(s) who is a well-known and well-respected member of the community, such as DeanTwo, in place of Andar Aevaneur.
First of all, we are very glad to be hearing from you again. I hope life has been treating you well!
Now, I would like to begin by saying that I respect you immensely and I have absolutely no desire to steal or profit off of your hard work. I have been playing the long game on asking for Shores of Hazeron to be open sourced:
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Expert700 ECIPLB, Chat, Close range, Fri Aug 14 19:10:59 2020 GMT,
Hi Haxus.
Haxus Q, Chat, Galaxy range, Fri Aug 14 19:11:07 2020 GMT,
Hello
Expert700 ECIPLB, Chat, Close range, Fri Aug 14 19:11:19 2020 GMT,
Sorry to be so forward, but if you shut down Hazeron again will you release the source code this time around?
Haxus Q, Chat, Galaxy range, Fri Aug 14 19:11:21 2020 GMT,
256.00 Gold
Haxus Q, Chat, Galaxy range, Fri Aug 14 19:11:37 2020 GMT,
No I won't do that.
Expert700 ECIPLB, Chat, Close range, Fri Aug 14 19:11:53 2020 GMT,
Why not?
Haxus Q, Chat, Galaxy range, Fri Aug 14 19:12:24 2020 GMT,
Because it is my property. It took a long time to build it. I don't feel like giving it away.
Expert700 ECIPLB, Chat, Close range, Fri Aug 14 19:13:06 2020 GMT,
It kind of sounded from what you were saying earlier that Hazeron might not be long for this world, and if you decide to stop development then open sourcing it would be the only way to provide a chance for it to live on, no?
Haxus Q, Chat, Galaxy range, Fri Aug 14 19:13:57 2020 GMT,
I can keep developing it here and playing with it by myself. Maybe I'll come up with an iPad client. All kinds of possibilities.I do not know who this Andar Aevaneur character really is, but I believe him to be a grifter armed with the flowery words of ChatGPT. All of his accounts that we have seen were created within the last few weeks. His profiles and all of his initial communications were blatantly AI-generated. He told us his previous Shores of Hazeron avatar name in voice chat some days ago, but we combed through the Wayback Machine archives of your Avatars page and determined that we were given non-existent names.
That is to say, he is a total unknown to the community. When he joined the Discord server moderated by DeanTwo, which I know you are not fond of but does still exist and holds ~400 members of the Hazeron community, the response he got was resoundingly negative. He stopped engaging after the first couple days due to the overwhelming opposition to him, but in that brief time he got caught telling more lies and half-truths than I can count.
I understand that before this you were in contact with Celarious and Edin (known to us as Oninnaise) about possibly open sourcing Hazeron. Oninnaise was openly working with the community and sharing his progress on a sisyphean task, creating a reverse-engineered server for Shores of Hazeron. It seems to me that Andar has been trying to manipulate both you and the community to stop a real open source release from happening, and to get his own little Hazeron fiefdom going. We were aware that you were in contact with people about opening up the source of Shores of Hazeron, and the general hope of the community has been that it would end up free and open source. None of us want to profit off of your work. In fact, a license that allows modification + redistribution but prevents charging for or otherwise profiting off of your work would be an ideal solution.
I obviously cannot speak for everyone here. That, and the Hazeron community is notorious for never agreeing on anything! If the code is made fully open source, however, the existing community is more than capable of organizing continued development and server hosting. We have many members of the community who are both technically competent and itching to contribute to a revival.
Barring full open-sourcing of the code, I would just ask that you appoint someone(s) who is a well-known and well-respected member of the community, such as DeanTwo, in place of Andar Aevaneur.