FAN FORUMS FOR WALL STREET RAIDER:
From time to time, various Wall Street Raider fans have set up forums or blogs
for players of W$R to swap stories, exchange ideas and game strategies, and check
for developments relating to W$R. (We also post information about new releases on
this RoninSoft.com web page.)
While Ronin Software is glad to see fans of the game create online forums, we
do not endorse or sponsor any of them and are not responsible for their content. One
such forum that we recently became aware of, which is called the "Wall Street Raider --
Official Forum," but with which we have no actual sponsorship or involvement, can be
visited at: WSR Fan Forum.
HTTPS://WWW.WALLSTREETRAIDER.COM SITE MAY STILL BE DOWN, DUE TO AN ENDLESS COMEDY OF CATCH-22'S.
My WallStreetRaider.com website has been down since about
April 4th, due to expiration of the SSL Certificate for the site, although I'd already paid Web.com ahead for
another year. In the past, it has just renewed automatically. Somehow, this time they did not validate the new
certificate, so they apparently sent me an email that I was required to respond to, to validate it, to a
non-existent admin@___ email address associated with the web site. Since I was unable to respond with a reply
email from the non-existent address, the new SSL certificate remains unvalidated. Thus, since April 8th I have
spent every week day on innumerable tech support phone calls to both Web.com (which created and hosts my
website) and their sister company, Network Solutions, which is the domain registrar for the site, whom I
have to go through to create and enable the necessary email account. Unfortunately, it is never possible to
speak to the same tech support person in India twice, regarding the problem.
After all that, and promises every day from one or both companies that the problems would be straightened out
in 24 to 48 hours, apparently, they can't figure out how to do so. Thus the admin@___ email account is still not
enabled (because the SSL Certificate isn't validated) and the SSL Certificate can't be validated until the email
account is established so I can receive the validation email there and make a reply to it. Sort of the perfect
Catch-22 or cluster-f***. Definitely the most insanely ineffective customer service I've ever encountered, anywhere.
At this point, I'm afraid they will never be able to make the website functional again, so I may have to get
rid of it entirely and start over from scratch with a different web company, since there is no point continuing
to pay for a website that customers cannot access. It can't be accessed at all, using the Edge browser, though
if you are using Chrome, you can click on "Advanced" when the warning pops up, and can proceed to the site
despite the warnings that it is "unsafe." Apparently, no one is doing so, since sales have been zero since the
SSL Certificate expired.
Fortunately, this klunky roninsoft.com website, which I maintain myself, still remains functional, since I
haven't ever bothered to get an SSL Certificate for it, as I never ask for any information other than your name
and your order number, if you are a customer with a problem or question about my software. Now that I see what
a nightmare it can be to simply renew an SSL Certificate, I don't think I'll ever buy one for roninsoft.com!
OTHER NEWS REGARDING WALL STREET RAIDER AND SPECULATOR.
At this point, as I approach age 80, I feel I have gone as far as
I am going to go with development of the two programs, at Version 9.75
of W$R and 4.10 of Speculator. However, a Version 10.0 of Wall Street
Raider is in the works, being done by someone who is modernizing and
improving the user interface and who will incorporate more realistic
charts than the kludgey charts I was able to build into the program.
Version 10.0 will look much more like a Bloomberg terminal for traders,
although the underlying features and logic will be the same as in 9.75.
We will probably jointly offer it for sale on Steam.com, and perhaps
not on my websites, where I will continue to sell 9.75, at least for
now, klunky-looking interface and all....
Any further development of W$R after 10.0 will probably be done
by the individual who is doing the re-design, whose skill set with
software is far greater than mine, if he comes up with further
improvements.
