Posting here because I tried to say this on their forum and got banned.
I find it funny every time they talk about how shut down free downloading because too many guests are leeching. In their opinion, leeching is downloading without participating in the forum somehow.
There is a bigger definition to Mugen leeching and they all are the biggest example of it in how they go to other places for all the files they can to upload there. Are they not leeching off of those places when they do that? Of course they are.
To make it even worse, they made a choice to add adfly revenue off of those files. So not only are they leeching off of other places (while attacking people that do not participate there with that namecalling), they are making money off of other people's work. That is despicable. Creators do all the work to make the characters, use it wherever for their own community, and Mugen Archive leeches off that so as it can be added to their files to try and make money off of.
They do not even care if the files are multiples of each other. All they care about is another file to give an adfly referral to so they can make money off of it. Yes, they'll say it is all for their server costs. But how do we know that? Take their word for it? Take the word of people who are trying to make money off of other people's work? The same people that upload as many files as possible, even hacking into full games so as can leak characters from it. All for the purpose of more attempts to get adfly referrals. Pardon me if I do not trust the people at their word about making money off of other people when they do things like that to where it gets the creators to stop creating because of these hacks.
They used to provide a service in actually helping people find things that were offline. In the sticky topic, "The reason why I created the Mugen Archive" that was said to be the reasoning for the place. That evolved into something ugly where they upload anything and everything they possibly can all for the sake of getting more adfly referrals to make money off of other people's work. Leeching off of other places, while calling the people that download from there leechers because they do not participate in their own forum. Hypocrite much? Want more proof. They have limits on what people can download, but do not put limits on uploading. Guests can upload things. But they try and prevent guests from downloading. All so as they can get more files to add more adfly referrals.
If they can't cover their own server costs, perhaps they need to find a more legit way to do it or double check theirselves on their whole process. A process that used to be fine when it was all about things that were really offline and hard to find. As opposed to right now where they want as many files as possible so as they can get more money off of other people's works. Because as of right now Mugen Archive people are seriously shady.
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