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Sorry it took awhile gepettoh but i was talking with the original devloper of XU and he said that they never gave away any lifetime accounts. altaholic i sent ya a message check it out
I agree that they never "gave away"any lifetime memberships. I
bought my lifetime membership.
Lets go over the facts again. Mythic released the Shrouded Isles expansion in November of 2002. I purchased my lifetime membership before S.I. was released. That means I had my account for about 8 years.
In 2008, I had trouble getting into the premium area of the website. This was after Xunleashed and Tault merged. I PMd both Wyvern and Tault_admin. I was asked "Do you have a lifetime membership?" Why would I be asked this if they supposedly do not exist? I answered "Yes" and I had my premium reinstated.
Why would my account stop working at this time? Is it because I bought a 6 year membership that just ran out? I am pretty sure Xunleashed offered only a few different levels of access and a 6 year was not one of them.
Lots of independent developers will offer you their unfinished product when they are in development for a lower price. They need money, and their product is not yet finished. You in turn get copy of what they are working on and they get money to survive while they work to complete their project.
An example of this would be the game Mount & Blade. I bought this game for $4.95 about 5 years ago. They finally finished it (I think) and now they are charging like $20 for a copy. The reason they let me have it for so cheap was it was still in development and they needed funds to complete their project.
This is the exact same case with Xunleashed.
Xunleashed was not affiliated with Tault at this time. It was just Wyvern doing all the coding and running the Xunleashed site. I am pretty sure when you guys merged a whole mess of accounts got screwed up. I remember how chaotic the forums were at that time.
Give me back my lifetime membership that I bought please.