Author Topic: The asset store and tnet home give the impression of abandoned project.  (Read 3252 times)

sisso

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Hi there.

Accessing the asset store and tnet home page I had the impression for a long time that TNet was abandoned over UNet. After a angry rage against UNet I decide to enter in the foruns and found the post "Where I am taking TNet", that say that opposite. TNet is going to a new holy level.

You are losing sales dude!!

1) You should update your TNet home front asset link. If possible, add a custom message into asset store. That give a very bad impression.

2) This statement "TNet does not support iOS Basic and Android Basic due to Unity’s license" in home is limitation removed at a long time. That enforces the abandoned impression.

3) It should have a clear declaration on site or forum where is the proper way to buy it now. Or if possible, the expected release date for the new TNet license release. I can wait months to evaluating a library, but I have to know if will be still inside my deadlines.

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Re: The asset store and tnet home give the impression of abandoned project.
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2016, 08:37:53 AM »
I am losing sales, sure... but TNet was literally selling 2 copies a month prior to me making it deprecated. Hardly worth worrying about.

TNet major downside was always lack of solid documentation. It's currently a more powerful tool than NGUI even, but it will take quite a few brand-new tutorials to show off what it can do and how. I would have been able to do Windward without NGUI quite easily, but I would not have been able to do Windward without TNet at all. TNet handles not only networking in that game but also all serialization for saving / loading, player inventory, game configuration, modding support, etc. It's not something people expect in a networking package, which is why I decided to deprecate the old package until I have time to release a proper update. In its current state TNet is a powerful Unity Extension rather than a networking tool.

I'm still not yet ready to release it -- I just added 100% offline mode to TNet 3 last night for example (doesn't use sockets). This gives all the benefit of serialization / persistent state logic without having to host an actual server. Currently TNet Pro users have access to the github repository and can see and use all the changes, and regular Asset Store license holders can request preview updates by emailing me with their OR#. The PayPal link still works, although like the rest of it the info needs to be updated.
« Last Edit: January 04, 2016, 08:45:09 AM by ArenMook »

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Re: The asset store and tnet home give the impression of abandoned project.
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2016, 06:23:45 AM »
Yeah, the sad reality :/

I didn't notice the paypal button, yeah, I view it, but didn't see it, brain problems.

Don't have a good doc is not too far from unet. It appear to me more a sample network project framework that a network library. I only was able to advance after start to read the unet code.

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Re: The asset store and tnet home give the impression of abandoned project.
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2016, 07:06:31 PM »
I'm not so sure that making $$ with TNET is the purpose behind the package ;p  Poor documentation and sparse examples will not sell copies.  That being said (again), TNET is still the best networking package for the PC platform.  It's the stand-alone server!

I've been using TNET 3 for a couple days now -- the transition has had a few bumps, but Aren continues to provide AAA support.  Can't say how valuable the support is!  Thanks again!

TNET 3 Changelog:
http://www.tasharen.com/forum/index.php?topic=2650.msg61799#msg61799

Great that channels now have a DataNode!  Brilliant!

PS:  If you are debating on buying TNET and are worried about the documentation or lack of examples...  the forum support makes up for it 10 fold.  Aren answers all (worthy) questions within 2-3 days.  FAQ's are often answered by other members of the forum.

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Re: The asset store and tnet home give the impression of abandoned project.
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2016, 08:58:09 PM »
TNet 3 is now on RC1 as of yesterday, so if you're using it, be sure to ping me for an updated package.