In the meantime, be careful and make sure not to download the software from a different source than MSI’s own website. Let’s hope that the company is soon able to settle the problem and that Nikolaychuk will be able to continue working on MSI Afterburner. We are still keeping in touch with him and figuring out how to solve this,” said an MSI representative. Due to the war, our payment couldn’t transfer to the author’s bank account successfully. “Our product marketing & accounting team are dealing with this problem now. Jacob Roach / Digital TrendsĪll of this doesn’t sound optimistic at all, but Wccftech reached out to MSI and got a response that brings some hope: Sending international payments to Russia has gotten much harder since the start of the war, and seeing as that’s where Nikolaychuk is based, he hasn’t been paid for his work on MSI Afterburner since these sanctions started.ĭespite the fact that MSI hasn’t been able to fulfill its end of the agreement, the company continues to recommend Afterburner for all of its new graphics cards, including the freshly released Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti. The situation is a lot more complex than simply MSI neglecting to pay the developer, and it stems from the ongoing war in Ukraine and the resulting backlash experienced by Russia. We’re approaching the one-year mark since the day when MSI stopped performing their obligations under the Afterburner license agreement due to the ‘politic situation.’ I tried to continue performing my obligations and worked on the project on my own during the last 11 months, but it resulted in nothing but disappointment.” Nikolaychuk then went on to elaborate: “War and politics are the reasons. The developer revealed on Guru3D forums that the “MSI Afterburner project is probably dead.”
The information comes directly from the source, and by that, we don’t mean MSI, but the creator of the program - Alexey “Unwinder” Nikolaychuk.
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