How was LemonPunch funded?

[DoubleD]

But yeah, to sum up:

Lemonpunch was funded by

• Gold membership which included tokens, zombie faction, and special forum access
• Goodie bags which contained smaller items and tokens
• Special requests for items (Gurrazor controlled the prices)

I don't think Gurrazor funded it with his own money though. It was primarily off of donations

I didn't even know that Gurrazor sold items for money until after LP shut down, so it didn't really have an effect on my experience. However, looking back on it, it was a really shady business practice and I'm glad we don't do that here.

 

[Blackquill]

Worth mentioning that LP was going to officially implement a microtransactions system, branded as 'other ways to help/pay' and I had the unfortunate task of writing up the HL2RP version of it way back when. I did actually write up half of it then got lazy and forgot about it. I didn't get in trouble for it because thanks to a certain someone ( @alex ) the idea never came to be

Good.

 

[dallahan]

Worth mentioning that LP was going to officially implement a microtransactions system, branded as 'other ways to help/pay' and I had the unfortunate task of writing up the HL2RP version of it way back when. I did actually write up half of it then got lazy and forgot about it. I didn't get in trouble for it because thanks to a certain someone ( @alex ) the idea never came to be

Good.

/claimtokens please

 

[Angel]

@Toasty got tasked with selling goodiebags on ww3rp
I think he got to keep some profit? Not sure.

 

[Dallas]

the raw will of god

 

[DoubleD]

Worth mentioning that LP was going to officially implement a microtransactions system, branded as 'other ways to help/pay' and I had the unfortunate task of writing up the HL2RP version of it way back when. I did actually write up half of it then got lazy and forgot about it. I didn't get in trouble for it because thanks to a certain someone ( @alex ) the idea never came to be

Good.

19.99 USD for 20000 tokens

imagine the inflation

 

[Zarail]

Didn't donating also get you some LP or was that on another server? I don't quite remember, really.

 

[Bronn]

He’s done the same shit for monolith too, I hopped on a few times

He’s so flooded with cash from donations he can actually afford to pay his devs on there

when i went on monolith for a few days the chat had a few people calling out staff for making exceptions for certain people who broke the rules and not banning them so i wouldn't be suprised if people paid him for PROTECTION muneh

 

[Blackquill]

@Toasty got tasked with selling goodiebags on ww3rp
I think he got to keep some profit? Not sure.

I think he only got paid a small amount for dev work via contractual obligation on gurra's part

as in for the contract to be binding, money had to be exchanged or something; don't know the details as I never did dev work nor signed any contracts

 

[Mute]

while we're on the topic of monolith went there once and holy shit was it a shit show, so much grinding needed, thankfully some rich cunt helped me out one day when i stumbled into his random ass base and he gave me a few things, quit a while after cause it was so damn boring

 

[Rabid]

I didn't even know that Gurrazor sold items for money until after LP shut down, so it didn't really have an effect on my experience. However, looking back on it, it was a really shady business practice and I'm glad we don't do that here.

He didn't really make it public because he knew he'd get major backlash tbh.

And fortunately the only people who donated and were known publicly would get laughed at and PK'd which just let Gurrazor take more money off them.

 

[Zarail]

Also unrelated but didn't Gurra sell other people's assets once LP died or was that just another shit rumour?
If it isn't then holy shit what a scumbag.

 

[Rabid]

Also unrelated but didn't Gurra sell other people's assets once LP died or was that just another shit rumour?
If it isn't then holy shit what a scumbag.

He sold WW3RP to AceOfSpades community that was made to out-compete Nebulous when we launched for about £900 - we all thought it was a meme but no, it sadly wasn't.

 

[Angel]

I also donated to lemonpunch once - when experiment came out and having props was pretty much mandatory to be any good, I asked gurrazor to borrow me some cash, then I used his cash to buy gold membership+the humble bundle and then 'forgot' to pay him back

ezpz scammed gurra

 

[Bronn]

He sold WW3RP to AceOfSpades community that was made to out-compete Nebulous when we launched for about £900 - we all thought it was a meme but no, it sadly wasn't.

why do the greedy ones always get away with it :(

 

[Zarail]

He sold WW3RP to AceOfSpades community that was made to out-compete Nebulous when we launched for about £900 - we all thought it was a meme but no, it sadly legitimately wasn't.

You mean the one that died in like a month?

 

[Blackquill]

Also unrelated but didn't Gurra sell other people's assets once LP died or was that just another shit rumour?
If it isn't then holy shit what a scumbag.

Legally speaking, The schemas (I.E all the code that was put into the gamemode and not the clockwork framework) belonged to Thriving ventures (The company that owned LP) due to contract. And so, he was free to do what he wanted with the work; the framework belonged soley to alex and was the main reason why LP went to shit, as alex departing meant that framework could no longer legally be used

So, all the work people like Zak, Zombine, etc put in could be legally sold without breaching intellectual propery rights. Hell @Zombine politely asked if he could have his work in an email to gurra and I believe gurra had the gall to say no. And some of the work in it was public anyway, @Gr4Ss always made his stuff public if it was a plugin

Feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken zombine, that's just how I remember it

 

[Rabid]

You mean the one that died in like a month?

Less, but yeah.

 

[Angel]

Legally speaking, The schemas (I.E all the code that was put into the gamemode and not the clockwork framework) belonged to Thriving ventures (The company that owned LP) due to contract. And so, he was free to do what he wanted with the work; the framework belonged soley to alex and was the main reason why LP went to shit, as alex departing meant that framework could no longer legally be used

So, all the work people like Zak, Zombine, etc put in could be legally sold without breaching intellectual propery rights. Hell @Zombine politely asked if he could have his work in an email to gurra and I believe gurra had the gall to say no. And some of the work in it was public anyway, @Gr4Ss always made his stuff public if it was a plugin

Feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken zombine, that's just how I remember it

Gurrazor sold stuff that included gr4ss' work which was public, which he can't do though.

 

[alex]

However, looking back on it, it was a really shady business practice and I'm glad we don't do that here.

Shady implies potentially illegal, it was unethical just as microtransactions and loot boxes are.

Worth mentioning that LP was going to officially implement a microtransactions system, branded as 'other ways to help/pay' and I had the unfortunate task of writing up the HL2RP version of it way back when. I did actually write up half of it then got lazy and forgot about it. I didn't get in trouble for it because thanks to a certain someone ( @alex ) the idea never came to be

Good.

Putting the brakes on microtransactions and delaying the announcement for 2 weeks and then killing the whole idea somehow worked really well and majority of people never had any idea there was a plan for microtransactions.
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Gurrazor sold stuff that included gr4ss' work which was public, which he can't do though.

Gr4ss was under a contract that work he did was owned by the company, him adding his own public plugins could easily be argued that because he submitted them to the code repository himself that it was under the contract and not the public license.