The suggestion topic isn't even official. Kye stated (somewhere) that he relies on his BETA testers to come up with new features, he doesn't check those threads himself.

Counter-Strike 1.6 was released in 2001 and still alot of people play it.

Pacman was released in 1980 and many people still play it today.
Asteroids was released.. In the 70s, I believe?... And many people still play it.
And no, I'm not joking.

Seriously, you should not let age be the only deciding factor in whether or not you play a game. Many of the simpler, older games are often much more fun than their newer counterparts.

Do you not watch movies that were made earlier than 2005?

...Exactly my point.

and People still play Half Life 1 online, which was released in '98

I read somewhere that the only dev. of SA-MP is Kye.. There is no "SA-MP team" I guess.. So if some mods reads ideas topic that doesn't mean that Kye reads it..

Off: That was not fun that my post was deleted. This one will be deleted too? Maybe I deserve a warning also?

I was going to make a topic about this :P
Kye will continue with 0.3b development! I think it will take a year to make because maybe there are more functions then ever had in any SA-MP versions!

SA:MP developement is more secret than area 51, so you will hardly get any info.

The answer is simple, Kye should earn more money from SA-MP. I believe it would keep him pretty well motivated. The website could offer paid services for server owners. It could also contain advertisments. The server browser is a possible huge money source too.
I don't care, it may contain more advertisments than content if it kept SA-MP going.

If you think kye isnt making money off this, your blind lol.

144 * 10 = 1440 Euros.

Quite a lot of money from the hosted tab list alone.

That's not an issue. This mod was developed for 5 years without seeing a single cent. The SA-MP services (server list/official tab etc.) operated for free for 4 years. No money will ever be accepted for the SA-MP client software - since it would require an agreement with Rockstar Games. Donations won't be accepted. The services (server list/web site/forum) will only take in money if it makes sense to do so. And right now, people paying to be on the hosted list is a better system than giving servers official rank for free.

There have always been costs associated with maintaining SA-MP services and those costs never take in to account the time spent maintaining and protecting these services from attack.

Originally the SA-MP server lists were going to be provided by GameSpy - but it literally took months to get in contact with a manager there and, by that time, we'd already developed our own server list system.

Not all servers on the hosted list pay. We consider that some server owners are contributing to SA-MP by beta testing. It's also not possible to do transactions on the internet without some costs associated with it. SA-MP has an agreement with serverFFS to provide listings for the hosted list. Details of that agreement have never been given out and won't be unless someone provides a good reason to.

I don't know this for a fact, I don't consider it any of my business, but I'm pretty sure there are single SA-MP servers that take in more money (mostly through donations) than the SA-MP services do. They also started doing it long before the SA-MP hosted list existed.

Wow.. So large post and no details about development bar.. :\
I know.. this is gonna be deleted too..

lmao.


On Topic:

Using logic i think its safe to say that development will continue. Why would kye put lots of work into this new forum if he didnt plan on continuing development. Not only that but if i am correct, vBulletin costs around $200. Why would someone spend their hard earned money, and valuable time on a forum of a discontinued project? Its not logical at all :P.

Finally, We got an on topic answer

Maybe they use it illegally?
Need to contact vBulletin devs to check this!!

It's old version, which you can't even buy anymore, so someone just had one license and lent it for SA:MP forum probably.

Even though samp.exe does not have anything to do with modifying the game? It doesn't even have to contain the full name of San Andreas, and just SA-MP instead.
Even if it was required, wouldn't it be worth it to at least try to make the agreement?

Well, since Rockstar Games Does own the title "Grand Theft Auto San Andreas" it is their right to have that.
on the other hand, the city, San Andreas can be used by any means necessary. As it is a place, not an object.

So if you wanted, you could register and sell " SA-MP" as "San Andreas Multi-player"


But since the game is using Rockstar Gaming's work, you would have to give major credit to the corporation and talk with Rockstar Gaming about using their work.

As long as you don't sell SA-MP in a store, they should be ok with it. They are very nice people..... typically. =D



My dad works in the major corporation business... that's how i know these things. lol


Regards
-Kevin

I've been thinking about this too, I'd like to know if they're going to keep developing SA-MP and maybe get it to work for 1.01 of GTA:SA for the screen resolutions sakes.