unknown405
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I posted this in the admin section of my website, so only a small number of those at NotAddicted will have already seen it. I'll go ahead and start by saying this is very long, obviously just an opinion (though based on facts) and yes I know that another MAJOR reason for the drop of MQ2 popularity is because of a drop in EQ population. I also posted a SOLUTION to both of these 2 major problems I am convinced is the reason for the drop of population and they will be public on my website soon enough.Reason MQ2 popularity has dropped....
I believe that the two SOLE reasons that the popularity of MQ2 websites, namely NotAddicted and MMOBugs (as they are the oldest), has dropped so much are lack of new cheats/new possibilities and lack of public source code as so much of MQ2's functionality is kept private now.
Lack of new cheats/new possibilities
Other than my sites new and never seen before cheats (which is what caused 95% of it's current active users by the way) when was the last time a new cheat was released that was actually useful? I mean there's new cheats that no one REALLY cares about such as that new MQ2 VIP cheat that shows time in seconds before you will have enough mana to cast a certain spell beside each gem, but nothing that really makes a difference.
"Possibilities have dropped so low in recent years because just about everything that can be done has been done." <---THAT IS NOT TRUE!!!
There is a TON of useful and even powerful cheats that have never been created before because people have just lost the passion to find new cheats, the majority of all sites that look for new powerful cheats are SOLELY looking for a new ND instead of spending their efforts looking for something else. Get this BS out of your head and start spending your time looking for new cheats instead of whining that it's all been done.
As a side note to all the developers out there that have made notable plugins in the last few years during MQ2's population decline don't take this personal. I am not saying that NO useful and appreciated plugins have been made, simply that the number of them has dropped SIGNIFICANTLY with how often they used to come out. I am also adding another side note that the number of notable or powerful plugins being released will never be as high as during MQ2's peak but it can certainly get MUCH higher than it is now.
Lack of public source code
This all started because MQ2 got broken for a month or two (I wasn't playing EQ at the time so I don't remember all the "chaos" that I've heard about.) As a result of this, MQ2 put in a few, easy to break for the most part, precautions against active cheats to prevent powerful cheats like ND from coming back and angering the SoE devs into breaking MQ2 once again and causing a ton of work for the MQ2 devs that they really didn't feel like doing.
The most notable precaution and hardest to fix would obviously be the removal of packet sending, which was the basis for all major active hacks of the age. Once all of these precautions were fixed and a new packet sending was developed by the more developed MQ2 websites, it was all kept 100% locked down and private so that no one but that websites developers could use this information. Meanwhile all of the lesser known and less developed sites that could not fix packet sending died away with the one exception of RedGuides which was on a VERY THIN LINE ready to die.
This was a HUGE impact, much bigger than the other one I mentioned, on the popularity of the MQ2 community. There are two reasons for this.....
First is that there were MANY very talented coders that regularly came out with new powerful hacks but just couldn't crack the new networking code and so they all stopped developing which slowed down MQ2's massive growth, removed many talented coders from the community and many active users because of the lack of new cheats, and crippled the MQ2 communities idea of OPEN SOURCE.
Second is that the opportunity for people to come out with new cheats, cool custom compiles and everything in between was completely torn apart. At this point there are only a choice few with all the compile fixes as well as an efficient and working packet sending/networking code. Regardless of how AMAZING and CREATIVE the developers with access to this code are, it is still nowhere near as efficient as having an entire community of some hundred thousand people with the opportunity to create their own cheats.
Every person, just like every developer, is unique in their own way and has their own specialties and specific talents / ideas. There is no doubt in my mind that if the entire MQ2 community had access to the updated MQ2 core then there would be a proficient amount of new plugins coming out, major upgrades in MQ2 functionality, huge improvements in all different aspects of the MQ2 source and a significant increase in active members.
Please answer the poll....
Please, for all those people out there that remember the old community and want it back, answer the poll and post a reply of whether you agree or what YOU think the reason is for the decline of the MQ2 community. I already have a solution to the two problems I posted and they will be available for all on my website as soon as I can get it ready.
I believe the solutions that I have come up with will effectively patch up these two issues I just discussed 100% while upsetting as few people as possible, though I obviously can't make everyone happy. By answering the thread and posting a reply with how you think the MQ2 community can be fixed you will give me an idea of what aspects of this issue I need to prioritize as well as getting the more important issues resolved first to hasten the recovery of this declining community.
Thanks for reading and leave your comments,
-UnKnoWn405 / Corruption
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