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As far asking about ETA's? Since I havent seen anyone paying any of the developers, who do it in their free time as a service to the users, I don't see how anyone has the right to continually hound them about it... If there wasnt a ban on doing it, 75% of the posts on these boards would be ETA PLZZZZ because of the frequent Verant patches.. Its the nature of the beast.. If you don't like it, you are more than free to develop your own emulator and put up a warez site to supply all your players with prepatch versions..
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I understand the frustration over this. But it is good policy to post ETAs for patches in general, even if the time is set weeks in advance. At least that way, the users that would ask would have a place to check, and the whole: "Ask and we'll ban" thing can be avoided in most instances. Even something like "a week" can quench most readers questions.
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The problem is that people blindly rush forward without getting some direction first, or come in at a bad time (they find out about it when it's currently broken with live patches) and are so juvenille, that they cant wait a couple of weeks for the patches to come out.
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This would be me. Except that I can wait. I just couldn't understand the policy. I'm anxious, no doubt, but I can wait. I don't think I could wait if a friend was in the same sticky situation as I. In fact, I'd most likely give him the files. Which is why it wasn't reassuring to see on the main page a tirade about banning users for trading EQ files.
If the readme file is going to be including info about when not to patch, that would be great. I indeed look forward to future versions of EQEmu.