0.3b Development bar gone
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Originally Posted by Wicko
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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.
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.

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Originally Posted by TheInnocentOne
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144 * 10 = 1440 Euros.
Quite a lot of money from the hosted tab list alone.
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.
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0.3b Development bar gone - by WackoX - 07.07.2010, 08:25
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by [TDM]Relax - 07.07.2010, 08:52
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Tails - 07.07.2010, 09:46
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by RyDeR` - 07.07.2010, 09:53
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Hiddos - 07.07.2010, 09:59
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Rainmaker - 07.07.2010, 10:02
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Tails - 07.07.2010, 10:06
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by ymtisd - 07.07.2010, 10:06
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Tails - 07.07.2010, 10:08
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by ymtisd - 07.07.2010, 10:33
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Tails - 07.07.2010, 10:34
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Calgon - 07.07.2010, 10:35
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Sergei - 07.07.2010, 10:37
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Adil - 07.07.2010, 10:49
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Aleron - 07.07.2010, 12:19
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Sayaron - 07.07.2010, 12:52
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Finn - 07.07.2010, 12:57
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by zallomallo - 07.07.2010, 13:56
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Sergei - 07.07.2010, 14:48
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by DiDok - 07.07.2010, 15:14
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Calgon - 07.07.2010, 15:21
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Shadowww - 08.07.2010, 16:34
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Tails - 08.07.2010, 17:10
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by RayW - 08.07.2010, 17:14
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by joemomma53 - 08.07.2010, 22:26
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by SiJ - 09.07.2010, 06:43
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by iZN - 09.07.2010, 07:30
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Sergei - 10.07.2010, 14:32
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Misiek - 11.07.2010, 13:03
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Kyosaur - 12.07.2010, 02:27
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by TheInnocentOne - 12.07.2010, 02:33
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Kalcor - 12.07.2010, 05:30
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by SiJ - 12.07.2010, 06:26
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Kyosaur - 12.07.2010, 07:52
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Kyle - 12.07.2010, 08:01
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by SiJ - 12.07.2010, 12:55
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Sergei - 12.07.2010, 13:11
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Misiek - 12.07.2010, 23:01
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Kevin_Joshen - 12.07.2010, 23:50
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Nimnix - 15.07.2010, 12:04
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by dacads - 15.07.2010, 12:28
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Domenko - 15.07.2010, 16:11
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by RoBo - 15.07.2010, 17:04
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Nimnix - 15.07.2010, 17:53
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Kyle - 15.07.2010, 22:26
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Kalcor - 16.07.2010, 13:36
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by BloodyEric - 16.07.2010, 15:02
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Silent314 - 22.07.2010, 15:20
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Smithy - 22.07.2010, 15:40
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Domenko - 23.07.2010, 15:14
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Pghpunkid - 23.07.2010, 20:28
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by WackoX - 25.07.2010, 16:24
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by BloodyEric - 25.07.2010, 17:42
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Mike Garber - 25.07.2010, 17:53
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Calgon - 25.07.2010, 17:57
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by BloodyEric - 25.07.2010, 18:49
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by WackoX - 25.07.2010, 20:17
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Arsham7 - 25.07.2010, 23:13
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Finn - 26.07.2010, 12:58
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Nimnix - 26.07.2010, 15:18
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Infinity - 26.07.2010, 22:02
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by SlashPT - 27.07.2010, 10:57
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by ViruZZzZ_ChiLLL - 27.07.2010, 11:14
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Dreftas - 27.07.2010, 21:24
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by RayW - 27.07.2010, 22:01
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Mr187 - 27.07.2010, 22:30
Re: 0.3b Development bar gone - by Hudgens - 27.07.2010, 22:35
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