why is iw4x.dev offline?
- first things first, the game will continue to work due to the decentralized node system, it may be a little slower but ive not completely shut down the game (i wouldnt even be able to, nor would i want to)
- i started playing modded mw2 towards the end of alteriwnet, ive grown up on fourdeltaone and later copy cat clients, i have more love for this game than any other game, project, hobby, what ever
- ive been doing pretty much everything in any way related to making the game actually playable for people after the xlabs cease and desist (i absolutely have to name future here, she also had some great ideas and did quite some work so we could have a backwards compatible server list by getting servers from the node network and basically having a master node to accelerate it for clients. this is the approach i used to the very end and as i basically knew nothing about how iw4x works at that time this was the most important part. i dont think iw4x would have gotten back up in the way it did without alterware)
- ive spent **countless* hours building the launcher, initially at alterware. to be fair this would have been a lot less work for someone more experienced, but no one did anything so i stuck around
- did a lot of support etc yadda yadda
- come one day i talk with louvenarde and she basically pressures me into us leaving alterware right now
- (i was very much on the side of leaving alterware, but i asked her for taking some time with this so we can plan it out AND TALK TO FUTURE ABOUT IT)
- anyways we go through with it right that moment because im a little bitch
- im now somehow stuck managing everything, the discord, the backend, the repos, the launcher, the cdn
- gotta negotiate with future on how to handle this, figure out a way people can continue playing without much hassle
- somehow manage to do everything, get everything in shape, over time optimize a lot of it to work better and more reliable
- basically get no interaction on questions and suggestions by anyone, be it staff or community members
- try to figure out ways we can handle testing of the client as untested releases were a big problem
- basically 0 interaction, still stuck doing everything myself
- build new website, improve google ranking by a lot
- build new documentation
- all the while most of the time i play the game i get insulted for being a tranny
- play with friends, friends get insulted
- meet gf, gets told to get raped when we play
- want to implement a simple global ban system that allows excluding players who actively harrass and insult others, doing harm
- somehow this is way too much and i should just accept my loved ones getting insulted on a game ive spent countless hours improving and hosting, not taking into consideration money ive spent on it
- this would be strongly against the decentralized approach of iw4x and thats way more important than dignity or respect (literally had friends dm me that they are crying about the way i was being treated when wanting to introduce it, feel free to read up in the development channel on the iw4x discord, its bonkers)
- they want it decentralized, they get it decentralized. i shut everything off, game stays playable so enjoy, but im out
iw4x discord https://discord.gg/pV2qJscTXf
bye, mxve c: