Dear users of CodeDeception, and all the community dev lurkers.
As made apparent by the recent update by Suspense in his thread on the legal battles with Bossland, chances are that Bossland most likely recieved a default judgement in the court case. If you aren't updated on this lawsuit, please refer to this post by suspense:
While a lot of the points in this case were completely untrue then, and still remains completely untrue now, such as CDpatcher being a paid product(its free), we are most uncertain what this "default judgement" could allow Bossland to do against us. We strongly believe we have a very good relationship with our partners and that they will be able to see through the lies that might come from Bossland, however we also feel it is time to look at changing how some of the stuff work around here.
As of a few days ago, donations have been disabled - they will remain so for an undecided amount of time, but will of course return for those that do want to support us. CD have always been non-profit, it will continue to be non-profit, disabling donations brings me to my next point.
VIP auth is history. When the new HB version is "approved" for public use, the current VIP auth will be converted to a secondary public auth server. Everyone will have access to both servers.
No VIP auth means everyone will have access to newest versions of every single supported bot by cdpatcher, provided the game client did NOT patch.
On top of the changes to VIP auth and the current donation system, we will also be preparing to cut costs as a result of cutting donations by working toward making CDpatcher less dependant on us, this includes ways of making CDpatcher work seamnlessly client-side with no server-side requirements, this will allow us to bring on more contributers and allow CDPatcher to be shared in many more places without having any negative side effects on our site or other backend systems like we have experiences with the rampant sharing in china and the asian region in general.
It was never our intention to restrict access to CDPatcher, we do not believe access to CDPatcher was ever restricted, but apparently it seems some people misunderstood this, hopefully this will make it perfectly clear to everyone....
We are free
We will always be free