Hello everyone,
Over the last few years, I have seen an increased number of support requests regarding having issues with downloads or how to extract files, where to find the password(s) to extract files, etc. All of these issues stem from the same common problem; people refuse to do the bare minimum of reading posts or doing basic searches.
EliteMMO Network has been in operation for nearly 20 years at this point (under different names previously) and this was really never a major issue in the past. Those who grew up with the internet understood how to take the time to search for things and properly read instructions / posts regarding something they are attempting to interact with. Sadly, that seems to not be the case with the upcoming generations who seem incapable of reading or searching for themselves.
Going forward, I am going to be normalizing all downloads on the site (that are posted by me) to make use of the same password as well as the same file extension. This is to help reduce the influx of lazy support requests I get as answering the same question over and over is getting depressing seeing how incapable the newer generations are at resolving their own issues.
- The standard file format that will be used for anything that is compressed into an archive will be: .zip
- The standard file password for all files going forward will be: EliteMMONetwork
Why Are Files Passworded?Files are password protected due to needing to prevent anti-virus/anti-malware software and some browsers from automatically (and falsely) marking files as malicious and preventing them from being downloaded or extracted by default. Many protection programs today simply take a 'mark everything as evil' approach for anything that is a commonly abused file extension such as .exe, .dll, or similar. Additionally, because some of the files on this site are protected to prevent skids from stealing code or data, those means of protection on the file themselves get falsely flagged as malicious because a few bad actors elsewhere used the same kind of protection for actually harmful files.
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Wiccaan
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