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A Gaming Tools Pro subscription gives complete access to EQPlayNice, WinEQ 2 and Inner Space, the premiere online gaming utilities -- and other emerging tools. Only $10 for 90 days or $36 for 1 full year! Or, try the "Lite" versions for free (unavailable for Inner Space). Just sign up for your free Lavish Software account and download away!
Additionally, a Gaming Tools Pro subscription gives priority access to our license server, the backbone of our service. Gaming Tools Lite users will experience slower access times when launching our software.
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[2008.06.27 12:16]
Coming soon from Lavish Software
- Lax
It's been a while since our last exciting news, so here's an update on what's going on behind the scenes at Lavish.
The Inner Space 2 Engine
For the last few months, we have been hard at work developing our next generation of the Inner Space engine. The Inner Space 2 Engine will be available for middleware licensing later this year, enabling independent software vendors (ISVs) to build products upon the next generation of our tried and true technology, without requiring their end users to run Inner Space, let alone have a Lavish Software account. Engine licensees will enjoy ease of development with our new API and a level of control that is unrivaled by current Inner Space products.
Cerberus
Our next generation of WinEQ 2, code-named Cerberus (final name subject to change), is being built with the Inner Space 2 Engine. Cerberus will bring a host of new features and ease of use to the WinEQ series, including the commonly requested ability to relay keystrokes to other sessions.
Cerberus Beta is planned to be available for paying Lavish Software subscribers later this summer. More information about Cerberus will be made available in the coming weeks, stay tuned!
Inner Space 2
Inner Space 2 is also on its way, being built with the Inner Space 2 Engine -- Surprise! Inner Space 2 is planned to support Inner Space 1 applications (scripts, etc) through a compatibility layer, though technologies like (e.g.) LavishScript and LavishGUI will otherwise be excluded from Inner Space 2 in favor of more agnostic or standard technologies. .NET application developers will enjoy finer-grained synchronization, meaning that applications should run faster than their Inner Space 1 counterparts in many cases.
For the average user, Inner Space 2 is planned to make your life easier than with Inner Space 1. A new front-end will allow you to quickly search for applications to download, as well as keep them updated. Configuration will be done through a much cleaner and easier to use interface. We are working diligently to crush any learning curves for the average user, and ensure the best possible experience for our customers.
Inner Space 2 Beta is planned to be available for paying Lavish Software subscribers later this summer. Information on Inner Space 2 can be found here.
Fury
Our Fury product line initially had a false start, and is not currently supported officially. We apologize for the inconvenience to those affected.
Fury was our next generation of EQWatcher, an EverQuest log parser that I distributed as freeware to lots of EverQuest players, and is still available at www.eqwatcher.com. Fury will be re-evaluated later this year, and we may yet produce a brand new generation of it!
Website improvements
Our website is due for a complete overhaul! Much of the back-end work for our new site is already completed, and the look and feel is in development. Navigation of the site will be much improved over the current site, and will offer many new features.
One such new feature we are looking forward to is the ability to add virtual sub-accounts to any Lavish Software account. This will allow customers to legitimately share their Lavish Software account with others in a way that cannot compromise the account.
We are also implementing a new referral and affiliate system that will allow referrers to earn cash, rather than just more subscription time!
Investor info
Lavish Software, LLC is fully owned, controlled and operated by me, Joe Thaler (aka Lax), carries no debt, and is my full time job. We are working hard to advance our technology and talent, and expand our team.
[2008.05.22 11:27]
Account policies
- Lax
I would like to remind all of our customers that we enjoy providing our services to you, and that we appreciate the honesty most of you display in not sharing your account or using personal accounts for commercial purposes.
Unfortunately, some freedoms most of our customers have enjoyed for years are at risk due to the dishonest few.
We recently reduced the 10 PC limit on personal accounts to 5. The number of personal accounts that actually use 5 or more PCs for personal purposes can be counted on one hand. In the coming months, this policy will be more strictly enforced, but we will also be allowing personal accounts to increase the number of PCs that may be used by their account. Further details will be available before the change is made.
On the commercial licensing front, our pricing for smaller operations is immediately being reduced, and commercial accounts will be able to purchase subscriptions and upgrades via the web site sometime in the coming months.
Also, any commercial customers that are currently abusing personal Lavish Software accounts should be aware that they are at risk of being permanently barred from using our services, and that we will not be so lenient in enforcing this policy in the near future. If you come clean on your own, this will be easier on you.
[2008.05.17 10:17]
PayPal payment processing problems
- Lax
PayPal recently (May 15th) did some maintenance or an upgrade to some of their merchant systems. Unfortunately the change they made introduced a bug that is causing PayPal to incorrectly report that some payments are invalid. Lavish Software is just one of many merchants affected by this bug.
Luckily this bug is not too dramatic for us, and has not been affecting TOO many payments. However, it is affecting several payments daily, and will continue to affect some payments until PayPal engineers solve the problem. If your payment does not go through immediately, please be patient as we must manually verify and enter the payment information. I get notified by e-mail and by cell phone text message when this bug affects your payment, so unless I am asleep or otherwise incapacitated, I try to take care of it within a few minutes. If you are worried, please feel free to e-mail me as is suggested by the subscribe page, and I will email you back when the payment has been applied.
They claim that fixing this problem is a top priority. For anyone interested in following the debacle, here is a link to the official PayPal blog post regarding the bug:
http://www.paypaldeveloper.com/pdn/blog/article?blog.id=mts_updates&message.id=201#M201
And here is a link to a thread on the PayPal developer network forums with complaints from other merchants who are losing reputation because of this newly introduced PayPal bug that harms systems that have been in use and working as instructed by PayPal for years:
http://www.pdncommunity.com/pdn/board/message?board.id=ipn&thread.id=10795&view=by_date_ascending&page=1
Again, this is not TOO problematic for us and we have it under control, but please be aware that there is a PayPal bug that has been affecting subscription purchases for a few days, and will probably continue for a few days.
[2008.02.10 09:57]
PayPal slowness for some customers
- Lax
We're having an issue with PayPal where a few payments are not having confirmation sent to our server in a timely fashion, while the vast majority are sent and handled instantly. This happened one day about a week ago as well.
If you are affected by this problem, you will notice within 5-10 minutes that your Gaming Tools Pro subscription has not yet been applied. If that is the case, feel free to email lax@lavishsoft.com with your PayPal transaction ID, and I can advance you some subscription time while we wait for the confirmation from PayPal to be sent to our server. Your payment will be automatically handled and subscription time automatically applied as soon as that happens!
Note: Last week the problem resolved itself within 24 hours. We can only assume we will see similar results this time.
[2007.12.21 08:41]
Scheduled web site maintenance December 22-23, 2007
- Lax
We have a scheduled outage for the web site for maintenance -- this will also include downtime for other sites hosted on our main server, including macroquest2.com and ismods.com -- at 10pm EST (3am GMT Dec 23, 2007), for approximately 8-10 hours. The authentication process for our software will not be affected (you will be able to continue using the software as always), but you will not be able to access our web site during this planned maintenance period.
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