Alright, we've beat on Theo enough. He's young and inexperienced in the world. A good schooling never hurt anyone. Theo, it's a silly idea because Sony's profit comes from those DBs.
They are an asset on a balance sheet. Corporations don't give those away; trust me. If 30% of your company's or division's claimed value is in that database or product, you don't give it away and forgive copyright violations, or allow open copying of it. This is Sony we're talking about. The Japanese have nothing on their puny island except fish and pearls and hardworking individuals. They can't start to give away their work or they go broke.
It's sad but true. These are the facts, and I know you're too young to know all of this for a fact. If we ask, we risk revealing ourselves to people whom I'd prefer wouldn't know we exist. It's a dangerous gamble with little or no reward possible.
These are the people who charge you $50 to move your character from server to server (sql extract record, sql merge record). This is DB work. If it's $50 to move, what do you think a master db costs?
EDIT: That list of respected people is missing about 50! :lol:
Try... Kathgar, Scorpious, Myra, tcsmyworld, neotokyo, quagmire, hogie, oh Windcatcher!!! and Kaiyodo, Trumpcard, LethalEncounter, that doofus-savant Eglin who won't just sign up for Dev status already, omper (yeah you belong up there too), Magick, Doodman, Zaphod, Lurker_005, and I forget many, many others who came before. Many of them belong way above me on the list.
I get scared when I thank people, because I know I left out about 50% of the people I was hoping to thank.
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