[Alex_Tushino]

Friends, what happened to TokenMaster ? Who wrote to him for 2 months and he answered you?

[Enabled]

I think he got tired of the abuse of thousands of emails and requests.

[Kuiyt2]

Real ironic that most likely because of him they trimmed files, and he offered a solution to repopulate the information and now is gone.

[Almaretto]

Real ironic that most likely because of him they trimmed files, and he offered a solution to repopulate the information and now is gone.

I do not see the connection.

[BMWdriva]

9/10 have problems with  tokenmaster. before he took money on his account and people could easly open dispute and refund money. now he is asking make donations to churches/hospitals/centers etc like for friend or family. 
Hundred people did not get any response from him around the world.

[Sanyi85]

9/10 have problems with  tokenmaster. before he took money on his account and people could easly open dispute and refund money. now he is asking make donations to churches/hospitals/centers etc like for friend or family. 
Hundred people did not get any response from him around the world.

I was bought Esys Pro activation code from BMWdriva!!
i recommend him to everyone !!

[Kuiyt2]

Real ironic that most likely because of him they trimmed files, and he offered a solution to repopulate the information and now is gone.

I do not see the connection.

This is probably before your time Almaretto. 

When it was originally released it was left private on a couple forums that had maybe couple hundred more exclusive advance members. A group buy happened with the original (slipped version) 3.18 version that was around 2K, people who wanted to make their money back resold it and another group buy at some point happened for a hundred dollars each.

Some forum members (from more public forums like BimmerFest) found their way to the group buy and took it back to these main forums with the advance knowledge of what seems simple to you now but I promise most if not all of you would not have been able to figure out (like making the ENET cable, transfer psdzdata to data folder, this is simple as breathing for you now but you would’ve never figured it out.) 3.18 eventually died as newer data did not work on it. Original people who patched 3.18 decided not to release newer version patch since it slipped out as it did.

TokenMaster popped up cracking every version and with the help of a couple others made it public to another level. You might argue “oh someone else would’ve done it” yes but TokenMaster purchased vendor accounts on the big public sites and advertised his patches.

VW/Audi coding has been public since the mid 1990s. It was never cracked and abused on this level. Bimmer had no idea what hit them. You had people changing settings in DSC/ABS/ICM/EPS modules and taking their vehicles to warranty causing buy backs and numerous other issues from just general coding. People who made mistakes coding would just simply take their vehicles into warranty.

Their first response was changing from a 4 to 6 digit minimum pin, after that was trimmed files and soon it will be internet based coding only (with either the token/key being online or like other manufactures who have all their files/coding online.)

I fully understand we all benefit from everyone else one way or another, and essentially even using anything we are all at fault but TokenMaster should open source his project as he claims he does not profit in anyway now. Just my 2 cents not to start an argument.

[shawnsheridan]

...TokenMaster popped up cracking every version and with the help of a couple others made it public to another level. You might argue “oh someone else would’ve done it” yes but TokenMaster purchased vendor accounts on the big public sites and advertised his patches...

I've been around a while.  My first E-Sys version was 3.10.1, well before the Group Buy of E-Sys 3.18.4 on bmwcoding.com (which incidentally I am very familiar with).  Most of what you write is correct; however, it was not TokenMaster that first started selling .EST Tokens and taking it mainstream, rather it was user "akiss" (aka "andy174").  He sold his "E-Sys Patch for one version of E-Sys with EST Token Valid for 1 Year from Issue Date for 50 Euro / $65 USD / $155 RMB" on all the Forums, and long before there was a TokenMaster, and he sold A LOT of them.  Only much later came TokenMaster who sold his own version.  Then user "AngryDad" posted a .EST token / patch DIY on bmwcoders.com for the whole free world to read and make their own.  Then after that, TokenMaster offered what he claimed was a more secure and improved "patchless" .EST Token solution, which used a Custom.jar file rather than patching 2 .DLL files.  Shortly after that, BMW Trimmed the PSdZData, and TokenMaster developed E-Sys Launcher, which incorporated his patchless .EST Token Solution into it, and Launcher PREMIUM he offered for Free, while his PRO Version he offered as "Donationware".

Bottom line is the tightening coding controls employed by BMW AG has many fathers.

[Almaretto]

Real ironic that most likely because of him they trimmed files, and he offered a solution to repopulate the information and now is gone.

I do not see the connection.

This is probably before your time Almaretto. 

VW/Audi coding has been public since the mid 1990s. It was never cracked and abused on this level. Bimmer had no idea what hit them. You had people changing settings in DSC/ABS/ICM/EPS modules and taking their vehicles to warranty causing buy backs and numerous other issues from just general coding. People who made mistakes coding would just simply take their vehicles into warranty.

Their first response was changing from a 4 to 6 digit minimum pin, after that was trimmed files and soon it will be internet based coding only (with either the token/key being online or like other manufactures who have all their files/coding online.)

I fully understand we all benefit from everyone else one way or another, and essentially even using anything we are all at fault but TokenMaster should open source his project as he claims he does not profit in anyway now. Just my 2 cents not to start an argument.

Some history, not all. I have only been coding since 2012. 

I just do not buy into the circular logic or alleged cause-and-effect relationship. Tough to put all on his shoulders.

I think it is more ironic if BMW trimmed files to prevent coding resulting in warranty claims; but, using legacy mapping data can result in more issues because coder could change incorrect value that moved. Either way, it is an unfortunate fact that some coding/programming results in thousands of warranty dollars per vehicle.

[rickynguyen]

I bought token master key from my friend. It works nice