Loui - LUI Suite wat be happening.

Conspiracy · 10-31-10, 06:19 AM

Ok, anyone been using this and what are your thoughts of the wow interface comments thread closed (due to 'cant answer on two forums at same time issue) and then today the lui main site apparently does not exist anymore.

Has he buggered off due to the constant battering of wanting his new UI and has folded under pressure, or are we going to see the wow interface thread opened again with a post of needing money?

Place your thoughts

Haleth · 10-31-10, 06:54 AM

Well, the author had a habit of promising tons of things without being able to actually do them (a bit like Blizz did with dance studios/aerial combat

). Not malevolently of course, I can imagine that he wanted to do a load of cool stuff but just never got the time/money for them.

It took him ages to get LUI v2 finished after a couple of months of "it's next week". I bet this put a lot of pressure on him, and it's very possible that he's tired of the constant nagging for patch updates or LUI v3.

Edit: Damn this post is messy. But I'm sure you get the point.

Conspiracy · 10-31-10, 06:58 AM

im glad hes not dutch, cause LUI means Lazy...

loui is looking going you mofo's!!! heheh its all in good spirit to get him out the hiding and lets us know whats happening, do we move on to a more viable UI or hang in there.. you know?

potis · 10-31-10, 06:59 AM

Best guess would be..Got some money in paypal....Said a release date for lui 3.3..Added the Ads on his site as everyone saw..After insane refreshing and everything from ~200 people at a time for 48 hours..Site went down..

Not really weird..Got some nice money....Then again he posted that his friend found bugs with holy Power/Eclipse and soul shard system ..maybe he was telling the truth..we will see!

Conspiracy · 10-31-10, 07:12 AM

well yeah, thing is it looks shady by anybody's standards today on the net, you close a forum where its not costing him, and point everyone back to his main site, put an add up

..

And might I add I noticed as well as others im sure that this was done not too long after seeing everyone jumping up and down about how they badly need the UI and that they would donate to him etc to speed **** up lol... And people that had done voiced so in thread, so you know is that a "hang on this could be lucritive here" thought on his part or what?

Also I saw he had other thread mod's on the main site, whats wrong with them supporting him in wowinterface threads and replying on his behalf, would mean hes not having to jump between them then "takes too long - he said" if you got board support use it I say..

I understand that with work to do and other life matters breathing down your neck and board monitoring can be a royal pain in the ass

but at same time its a good choice for people to post where they wish, but being moved onto one site and with the add etc and then its all vanishing seems a bit meh..

just open up the wowinterface thread again and leave it at that, he does not HAVE to reply 'there' at all so whats the hardship..?

irodrigo · 10-31-10, 07:32 AM

I don't know what to say. I always liked his stuff and so did a bunch of other people. I didn't mind Loui either, I understood that maybe he had more ambition than manpower but I didn't see that as a shady guy...

But just like for the majority of people, the waiting is getting a bit old. I might just work around my UI and if he releases something I'll just backup my stuff and use his... If not, it's not the end of the world.

Simulo · 10-31-10, 07:40 AM

sigh, and here I was looking forward to updating the game's interface to reflect The Times

potis · 10-31-10, 07:45 AM

He wrote on his site..was at 5am "Lui 3.3 will be out in 2 hours"

At 7 he said 60-90 more minutes to finish the changelog..Its 15:44 now and the site went down ~1 hour and something ago...

Wait and see as i said..either he made some nice money because his site went down with the ad or something is really wrong.

tirral24 · 10-31-10, 07:49 AM

The last thing i seen was at about 10 my time. In NC and he said the new beta would be uploaded in about 2 hrs. 3hrs later there was nothing. I went to bed got up checked and now the site is not there anymore. My guess is he took the money and ran. One more thing that one site admin he had on Wow-lui.com would lock any thread that pointed to the fact he might be holding out for more money or that he was just leading us all on.Well imo its time for us to all find a new UI.

webwatcher · 10-31-10, 07:38 AM

The last thing loui wrote on his site is that he would take down the site when LUI 4.0 is about to release.

So IMHO we should wait a 2 or 3 days and see if loui puts his site back online with a big surprise.

Conspiracy · 10-31-10, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by webwatcher

The last thing loui wrote on his site is that he would take down the site when LUI 4.0 is about to release.

So IMHO we should wait a 2 or 3 days and see if loui puts his site back online with a big surprise.

Didnt see that last post, last one was about add and sorry if it bothers you etc.. good news then if this is whats happening, but taking down the site? all you need to do is change the hit page and put up a message. To me that info ur seeing when going to the site is saying "hey pay up ur subscription"...

lol, anyhow waiting like the rest of you.. Be big shame to see that go..

EDIT: he also said that 4.0 is not anytime soon, and it would be 3.3beta so the info about removing the site due to 4.0 release is pretty much mooot!

elerrina · 10-31-10, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by webwatcher

The last thing loui wrote on his site is that he would take down the site when LUI 4.0 is about to release.

So IMHO we should wait a 2 or 3 days and see if loui puts his site back online with a big surprise.

I think most of us have waited pleanty long enough, its getting tedious being given time to expect a release and then it not being met once again. If you cant keep to it dont say it in the first place.

He said friday or saturday night, here we are sunday afternoon and surprise surprise no addon update and no information about why the sites down and no ability to post on the addon comments now either.

cashdash · 10-31-10, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by elerrina

I think most of us have waited pleanty long enough, its getting tedious being given time to expect a release and then it not being met once again. If you cant keep to it dont say it in the first place.

He said friday or saturday night, here we are sunday afternoon and surprise surprise no addon update and no information about why the sites down and no ability to post on the addon comments now either.

The site is up again, and one of the Site Administration team has posted, that some idiots have tried to attack the site over and over again, thus he shut it down.

i had shut down the domain and the forum for some hours.
this is a result of massiv forum and server attack by two persons. i hope that they haven't any reason to do this again.
at this moment i am talking with loui and it sounders very very good for the upcoming release.

LUI is very near. but read:

Please do not open thousands of topics. he is working very very hard to bring up the next version. Please stay tuned.

if i have some new stuatus updates for you, i will post it. but let him finishing his work.

http://web3.india025.server4you.de/b...p=13942#p13942

Lemone · 10-31-10, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by cashdash

The site is up again, and one of the Site Administration team has posted, that some idiots have tried to attack the site over and over again, thus he shut it down.

http://web3.india025.server4you.de/b...p=13942#p13942

What a bunch of crap. I mean where does that guy get all those lame excuses from!!!???!???

Ariele · 10-31-10, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by Lemone

What a bunch of crap. I mean where does that guy get all those lame excuses from!!!???!???

Oh FFS then find another UI. Geez move on if you dont like him.
Its a freaking ui for a game not a thing you cant live without.

cashdash · 10-31-10, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by Lemone

What a bunch of crap. I mean where does that guy get all those lame excuses from!!!???!???

And you know it better?

Get a life its only a game and LUI is just a stupid addon for it.

If you can't play without it, i'm sorry for ya, because its sad that people like this can't play a game like it's intendet to.....

And at the guy Below me:

Give us a Break you Troll, ya know everything better, so shut the **** up and get your a** out of here.....

irodrigo · 10-31-10, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by webwatcher

The last thing loui wrote on his site is that he would take down the site when LUI 4.0 is about to release.

So IMHO we should wait a 2 or 3 days and see if loui puts his site back online with a big surprise.

The last time I checked his site was around 5AM EST and the support section for LUI V3 was taken down, so I thought that he was working on a changelog, I waited a bit more and nothing... Then the site goes down.

He also mentioned that his real ETA was this weekend, I think the site going down like that was just an error or some sort and not something he had planned on happening.

I always had huge expectations for Loui and his work but at the moment it's just looking like everything ended in a bitter mood.

messiahsoldier · 10-31-10, 02:28 PM

So I visited the LUI Website just a second ago and it's there, he said he was releasing the beta for lui 3.3 this weekend and guess what? its there too so stop freaking out specially if you are not even supporting the developers, lui is free and is awesome.

***Cairenn*** · 10-31-10, 02:30 PM

It's here, too, and approved.

Jonan · 10-31-10, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by messiahsoldier

So I visited the LUI Website just a second ago and it's there, he said he was releasing the beta for lui 3.3 this weekend and guess what? its there too so stop freaking out specially if you are not even supporting the developers, lui is free and is awesome.

lol What a perfect example of not reading the whole thread before posting...