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Skill Profiles, Quest Profiles, Duty Profiles, and any other profile content we design in the future will be available for release as both a private, sold option and as free forum releases. It will be up to the developer if they wish to go through the stringent application process necessary to sell addons through our encrypted streaming system and storefront. There are no plans to restrict profiles of any type to only encrypted, private deployment. It is simply a monetary incentive for high quality developers to sell and maintain their work for direct profit rather than donations. We have too much backend work to do to create the amount of profile content requested by all of our customers, that's why we create flexible profile systems that allow users to build their own. We can't pay motivated content providers directly for their work since we have no way of knowing exactly how much it contributes to our sales, therefore allowing them to sell their work directly is an option that benefits everyone. We will continue to provide basic profile content and if we decide that private addon code or profile content is important enough that it should be available for free then we will work out a deal to purchase it from the private developer.