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Old 03-27-2007, 02:41 AM
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I've often wondered that myself...
I mean, so much of Graal rests on the hope that nothing bad ever happens. For years and years, if I vanished Graal woulda been in trouble...then we got all these PWs, now it's just like if Beorn vanishes, Kingdoms freezes and decays...but Stefan could get it going again, so it's not a problem. If any given Classic coder vanished, their assistants could get things going again (after the requisite two years of rewriting the system NPC to "make sense")...
but if Stefan dies, who else knows how to code Graal?
Did he really comment it all properly?
Would anyone be able to figure out what's causing such and such a bug and fix it, and release a fixed version?

Unixmad's place is a bit less specific but just as exclusive: say he has a heart attack allofasudden, I'm guessing he's willed it to his wife. What if she deigns to sell it off? What if it gets bought up by RagOnline or MaplStory and they decide to scrap it just to eliminate potential competition, put a redirector in its place? Not to open the "IT WOULD BE AWESOME IF NINTENDO BOUGHT GRAWL BC UNIX RUNS IT BAD AND BANNED ME 4 HAXING LOLZ!" debate again, but where's Graal gonna Really find a producer/webhost/etc. willing to take the kind of losses Unixmad has weathered, absorb the debt Graal's accrued, and still keep the bloody thing going?

It's somewhat apocolyptic. I hope that, in the event martians abduct France as a whole, they've made plans to take care of us.
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