I feel this topic is starting to be disrespectful towards Hercules project and that it's getting unreasonable bashing along with non constructive criticism as rAthena board rules say. However, I'll overlook that and respect the same rAthena's board rules which discourage backseat moderation.
Pneuma, blackberie: I'd like to ask you to please tell Hercules devs via its bug tracker if you actually found out any bug throughout the emulator. To the moment your activity on Hercules bug tracker has been nonexistent. Please keep in mind that, for obvious reasons, Hercules can't fix any bugs their developers aren't aware of. It's a basic application of the Principle of Causality. This, or you're simply bashing Hercules project without any kind of reason.
Let's now talk about the converter: I proudly made rAthena to Hercules database converter and am happy to maintain it with community help. I also made a 3CeAM to Hercules converter around a year ago but decided not to commit since there wasn't popular demand, and refused to make an (even paid) eAmod to Hercules converter because I didn't want to have anything to do with that modification. Making a converter is a fast and easy process, even further if using basic software such as PhpMyAdmin. I didn't spend more than an hour on each iteration of any of them and trust me, I'm more a novice than an expert on MySQL but it's way too easy on PMA.
Contrary to what it's stated here as an opinion, it leads a rAthena database to a fully functional Hercules database (we haven't had any complaints to date). It's not Hercules responsibility to make a converter back, much like rAthena doesn't provide a converter back to eAthena. It's in fact rAthena responsability (if its devs want) to make and maintain it since it's rAthena's interest. For example: Have you seen Invision Power staff providing converters of his boards to phpBB? Isn't that just plain silly? It is that silly to ask Hercules staff to make a converter to other software.
Hercules doesn't directly or indirectly force anybody to keep their users. It is, much like rAthena, an open source, free (as in freedom) software community. You are of course free to leave it anytime you want, but you have to ask for an adaptation on the place where you go. And even on rAthena they're free not to help you if they don't want to. I'm pretty much sure that free support staff would ask to get paid otherwise because that's the essence of economy: getting paid for investing efforts in something you're not interested in or don't want to.
Please note that, as I've already told to some Staff here, I decided myself to quit having presence on this forum not because I joined Hercules' Staff, but for other personal reasons. I still give free, inconditional support in Spanish section for rAthena here (and also seems in Spanish section of Hercules Forums) and would prefer to keep like that. I've not come here for any kind of grudge.
Thanks Shio Devs for trying to calm down things here.
P.S.: Kido, I appreciate your intent not to offend either of staff emulators, but I honestly think that the opinion of "Hercules trapping members" is unfair, demagogic and nonetheless offensive because of reasons stated above.