Originally Posted by ctprofiles

I'd like to start off by saying thank you to everyone that has helped us keep the site/servers up, bug tested, beta'd various features, or simply contributed to the community. We've spent the past 6 months fighting bug after bug after bug only to have even more bugs arise, without ever catching up.

It has finally got to the point where it's simply too much work to 'fix' things. With several offers of help, only a few minor things were ever completed, and leaving Cide as the only coder was just not enough to get out from the overwhelming load. We're not happy to see things not working, but it just isn't feasible to attempt to fix them.

We still feel there is a very viable use for a custom profiling site, even with the armory out. The armory can't help you compare your crafted set to tier4 or 5, nor your arena gear vs. misc. pieces. We've started a very early stage of development for a CTProfiles2.0 project, which is essentially a complete recode, however we won't be releasing it any time soon. Our focus is going to be shifted back to CTMod, and we'll be working on a new unannounced mod that's been in the works for a few weeks, CT_RaidAssist2.0, some fixes and updates to older mods, and we'll continue to go from there. As for development of the CTP2 site, I won't even set an estimate of when we'd be starting work on it again.

The CTProfiles database server will be going offline in a few days, and all other servers will follow suit. CTMod and CTScreens will both remain up unaffected. The forums will also likely be coming down, as they're setup through CTProfiles, and I don't know if it would be viable to salvage them.

If you are a very experienced coder with large amounts of time you would like to put towards the CTP2 site, or one of the other CT projects, feel free to drop us a line. The issue with projects like this is that we don't make money from them, yet they require a very large amount of time to develop and maintain. Spending 6-10 hours a day coding is not unusual, but when things get done, we're usually quite pleased with the results. Sadly these aren't part time projects, it's a full-time hobby.

The good news is that we'll be able to spend time working on mods again, as CTProfiles was pretty much prohibiting any spare time, so keep checking the CTMod site for more info and updates.

Again we'd just like to say thanks to the millions of users worldwide. Over 5 million profiles were created, from over 150 countries, resulting in an average of over a million unique visitors every month, and well over a hundred thousand hits every single day. So thank you for making us the most used profiling site for any game anywhere. We're sorry we couldn't keep up, but hopefully we'll be able to do better next time.

Originally Posted by sp00n

You don't need to use their Automatic Uploader, instead you can choose to use a simple WoW-Addon: http://i.rupture.com/downloads/Rupture.zip
Then you will have to manually update your profile each time tough.

Originally Posted by Slake

Hmm... if blizzard moves to putting character profiling abilities on the Armory, would there still be demand for an offline/standalone character profiler? If so (or if the Armory continues to not provide profiling), what kind of utilities would people want to see packaged with something like that?

Off the top of my head, there's
* Creating/saving character gearsets (duh)
* Talent calculator (having impacts on stats?)
* Calculating spells/abilities (Theorycraft/Dr. Damage type numbers)
* Item weightings/search ala Lootzor
* Download current gear sets from the Armory?

Originally Posted by Skiace

is there a way to use the game files as the item database? from WoWModelViewer i know at least the models and names can be extracted easily enough from the game files, would something similar be possible for stats?