Quote (ValerieValens)
Yeah, it does piss them off. Though to be honest, I think it's unreasonable on their part to be so defensive about it, it is one of the things holding back the flow of information that is vital to the continued growth and existence of any community.
you are damn right, you know the history of mugen? this happened also with the first winmugen!
this is from history of winmugen: "As you probably know, Elecbyte asked for donations for their WinMUGEN project, to buy a software compiler. Then, on April 14 2004, they released MUGEN for Linux, abandoning DOS MUGEN.
Those who donated were e-mailed a secret link to a password-protected website that contained a downloadable private beta version of WinMUGEN.
WinMUGEN is the same as Linux MUGEN, except for the following.
1. A transparent box with the following message:
"M.U.G.E.N 2002.04.14 PRIVATE MU TEST.
DISTRIBUTION STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN THIS TEST."
2. Limited Features.
It accepted only 2 characters to be on the select screen at the same time. It also had limitations for the number of stages, and most play modes were disabled. There was no full motif support either.
The people who received the WinMUGEN beta had to agree never to talk about it.
But, as time passed, an unknown number of people had been giving out their user names, passwords and links for WinMUGEN.
Elecbyte noticed the increased number of logins or the increased bandwidth and removed the links. The links were replaced with a poem. This poem was about people doing something they should not be doing.
Some time later, the first public hack of the WinMUGEN version appeared on the Internet.[...]
The version of WinMUGEN was 2002.04.14, but it was modified and hacked. It had the blue box removed, and the version number changed to "M.U.G.E.N 2003 Beta V3.08.2 w2003.06.14b". "Elecbyte" in the main menu had been changed to "Elecbyte1".
What really made Elecbyte close their page in November 2003 after they announced they had encountered a "snag" in development is still unknown. The reason might be leaks and the WinMUGEN hack, but it is only speculation. Also, out of the thousands of people in MUGEN, only a handful really showed enough support to donate."
not wanting ppl to have a thing will make them get in other ways even if they don't really care about that thing.
that's why there shouldn't be "forbidden characters"
