Armaholic is down...? (unfortunately it has been shutdown!)

[DIO]

Weird, I visited it this morning but now it either says "404 Page not found" or opens an Indonesian site for online betting...
How about you?

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R.I.P. Armaholic

[AT]

Originally posted by DIO:

Weird, I visited it this morning but now it either says "404 Page not found" or opens an Indonesian site for online betting...
How about you?

yes .. I can't do it either, like everyone else, I guess.

[BlueHD / Trevsaster / Rocky]

they apparently shutdown

[Warhog]

https://twitter.com/Armaholic_com/status/1397600044187066373

[DIO]

Originally posted by Warhog:

https://twitter.com/Armaholic_com/status/1397600044187066373

Thanks for the link man!
Oh God... very sad to hear this... now we need a way or a new place where to download mods.
And as IceBreakr mentioned in his tweet, apparently those "a$$holes" immediately bought the domain for their online betting...

R.I.P. Armaholic!

[GHOST]

Nooooo all Armed Assault, ArmA2, ArmA2 OA MODS lost forever... 😭😭😭

[GHOST]

I still can't believe it... so much information has been lost thousands of scripts, missions, mods, programs, tutorials, all the priceless information on the forum... 😭😢😔

[DIO]

Originally posted by GHOST:

I still can't believe it... so much information has been lost thousands of scripts, missions, mods, programs, tutorials, all the priceless information on the forum... 😭😢😔

Well, hmm, this is true but seems the coin has a reverse side - you know what Grahame (one of the Epoch A2&A3 devs commented on Epoch discord: "Putting mods on their site that explicitly said "not to" and ♥♥♥♥♥ download speeds for mods unless you gave them money..."
And I'm somewhat inclined to agree with him, pay attention to Armaholic tweet: "When anyone is interested to continue the website and wants to have the database please send inquiries and offers to [e-mail]", so it's turns out it's all about the money after all. Also pay attention on the fact that the domain has been immediately sold, without waiting, without any delay (apart of the fact they didn't inform/warn about the upcoming shutdown), so as IceBreakr (I believe everyone knows who he is) wrote: "Domain is gone so no point of getting the entire package now :/"... and he's right - they sold the domain and now offers only the database that does not even belong to them and it's not very useful without the well known name (almost a trademark like armaholic)...

[GHOST]

Yes it is true and I understand everything you say, but keep in mind that maintaining a website like armaholic and those terabytes of information, plus the high traffic, has a high cost of maintenance, I do not think Foxhound has made a lot of money with it website, because I can assure you from my own experience, maintaining a website with a lot of traffic and all that information to download can be really very expensive.

On the other hand, as you say, it is true, the sale of the domain is incredible, something instantaneous, and redirects to a virtual casino.

maybe they offered him good money for the domain and sold it...

[DIO]

I bear that in mind too, I can clearly imagine maintaining a site like Armaholic is not an easy task, so that I said that the coin has two sides. Moreover - ending up this way and later involving money to provide someone else's intellectual property is not very correct.
Imagine if same happens with Dropbox - they shut down and later announce that they accept offers for the database... there wouldn't be big difference...

[GHOST]

Yes, yes, I totally agree with what you say, I would not like someone to sell the mods that I publish there for everyone to use for free, those who make mods and publish them is so that everyone has totally free access to them.

But I would like to believe that what he wants to do is charge for the hardware on which those terabytes of information are stored. On the other hand if he wants to charge for the content as you say it is not correct / honest.

[ZigZack]

Welp, this just killed the game even faster...

Not going to lie, I had been preparing for this event the past year and saved up a lot of legacy mods. Was always paranoid this day was going to come.

Reminds me of this Bible quote XD
"For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night." 1 Thessalonians 5:2

[GHOST]

Yes, I also have many mods, etc, but not close to everything that was in armaholic.

https://i.imgur.com/691zebd.jpg

[SentencedMorning]

how I'll download JSRS now :/

[EASYJABBA]

Such a shame, just finished 17 maps for MSO and was looking for more maps to convert. Was a great website indeed.

I might create a Discord server to try and get more players, but for this version you require the ARMA DVD and content.

[ZigZack]

Originally posted by EASYJABBA:

Such a shame, just finished 17 maps for MSO and was looking for more maps to convert. Was a great website indeed.

I might create a Discord server to try and get more players, but for this version you require the ARMA DVD and content.

Send me the details. Im interested in joining