I still don't understand people who compare the tibia map with a custom map.
Have you guys ever thought about that Tibia exists since 1997, I'd be surprised to see 200 custom map servers with a size of the Tibia map.
It requires months up to years of mapping, scripting and testing stuff, until it's quality is acceptable, so how can you expect people to build projects out of nowhere in a short ammount of time.
You have to keep in mind that not all people in this community are little spoiled kids who sit 24/7 infront of their pc and have the time ammount (which is required) to pull something big of in a short ammount of time.
Money destroyed the entire community, why you ask? almost all Developers I've met the past (8 or 9 years) from Tibiafans / Otfans / TibiaUG or whichever homepage it was.
Pretty much said, that they do not want to support a community which just cares for the money, then complains 24/7 for no bugfixes but doesn't even bother to learn or help on something.
They all dedicated their time into this community, keeping it alive and trying their best to maintain the actual distros or tools.
The feedback which they received back then from people using their software was by far different then it is today, people where happy for the smallest ammount of changes, even when sometimes they didn't 100% work.
Then people started making money of their ots, seeing that it is a good source of income.
However once money flows in such a community, greed and competition will come with it, as you want to have the most up to date or unique server to make the most money out if it.
That way, people started complaining 24/7 to developers that stuff does not work or the server crashes and they shall fix it.
Yet, the funny thing is the people who actualy done the work havn't had anything for it in return, just the opposite even more greedy people who where to dumb to setup a server and cried then afterwards in the forum that it's bugged and does not work.
The least you want to hear as a Developer is that your product is bugged, when it's clear that the fault is on the side of the complainer.
Ofcourse it's tiring to see rl map servers, but that stone has been rolling now for so long, that you cannot stop it just by your single hand, it requires several.