Couldn’t be happier with this implementation. I’m pretty shocked by those that aren’t for this change. Perhaps these same people don’t know what it’s like to have everything stolen.
Let me tell you all a story about our situation.
iSe was one of the best combat niche servers around. We were truly unique. We had a de-rendered world, and everything on the server was custom. Then one day in early August, a few individuals used a cache decryption method to steal all of our streamables.
Suddenly everyone had our content and many of them were selling it. Some included viruses and token loggers in before selling, and claiming we did it, which hurt our brand. Many new servers opened that were almost duplicates which fractured the community of this niche.
How are we doing today? Our entire FiveM side is pretty much nonexistent. We’ve begun shutting down servers as there’s no population. Before everything got leaked, we had 30-40 person queues nightly, now we wonder if we’re going to cover the bills to continue supporting our FiveM side.
So yes, some of you lost your ability to customize the content you’ve bought, and that sucks. Unfortunately, a decent amount of individuals don’t just want to customize their content, they want to customize it, call it theirs, and sell it. That is the world we live in sadly.
Now that my rant is over.
Thank you FiveM for bringing support and protection to developers. I can’t wait to get back to developing, and working with devs that left months ago due to their content being stolen.