It wasn't in some grand scheme to make it for pay.
The MacroMonkey engine will always be free, it's actively developed and I will continue to improve it.
It's an alternative to AutoIt, AC Tool, etc., with IMHO some improvements.
Why have a required MM support donation:
1) It really does take a lot of time for me to update.
It's both getting the memory and code offsets that change.
Also client data some times changes, plus I do security checks for each update.
Unlike some games, Requiem gets updated almost every week.
And there are two versions to update: USA and Russian.
I work on average sixteen plus hours a day, seven days a week on various projects.
If I could get at least some kind of pay, then I will keep updating it, otherwise
I wouldn't update it that often, or just stop completely.
2) By having people have to donate/pay in the end it makes it better for anyone
trying to use it fairly.
The people that were abusing it obviously didn't respect it, and would rather ruin
it for everyone. They just don't care, these are griefers and such I don't want to
support.
Smaller numbers, means more safety for people that use it smartly.
Add to this the time it takes to moderate my forum. For the countless people don't
want to read the manual, and those that keep breaking the rules.
I'm sure as the moderators of elitepvpers can tell you, it gets annoying very fast.
Making it donation required means a lot of the bad and lazy people disappear.
And then if at least I get some compensation I don't mind dealing with demanding people
that somehow expected me to add extra features.
3) I put countless hours on both MM and ReqBot. Often sixteen hour days, for weeks if
not months at the time.
Plus I've been paying the hosting on the site for five years now.
So I'm already pretty far "in the red".
It would take a long time just to break even, let alone think of some profit.
I could declare it a a "non-profit" venture.
You will see a pattern with a lot of publicly released bots.
They show up then disappear for a lot the same reasons.
MM is/was to be my own twist on a bot/macro engine.
It's there for people that want to learn and make their own.
This was to be my contribution and thanks for other free tools you can find on the net.
ReqBot was meant to be a demo for MM.
As I figured people probably wouldn't pay much attention to MM with some working kind of bot to show it off, etc.
If I do add some sort of license, and, or authentication I don't doubt people will try to crack it, etc.
"ReqHacker" or someone else might be able to get the last version to work with the latest client but it will be broke since there was at least one important fix and the next time data offsets change it will be very broke.
And unless you get a constant leaked updated version, you will miss out on what ever new features are added and improved on, etc.