by tundramagi » Thu Mar 04, 2010 4:40 pm
Notice how Kendron kept saying that there will be NO release of code OR content back to the community.
None. This is almost the first thing he said. Not one shred.
Not even a texture pack or anything. Not a drop.
So he comes out immediatly disrespectful.
Then he talks about how he's not going to release ANY of his hard work of 2 months because he has bills to pay. (Not one drop)
But we have been doing EXACTLY THAT for way more than 2 months... kinda like four years atleast.
Then he talks about how he's going to add new things to the website, which we should be pumped and excited about. We had lots of things on the website, it was he and his crew that changed the website to a flash graphic. We should be exicted to regain what we allready had?
Then he talks about US being pumped about features they will add to Nexuiz (not gpl nexuiz, no, the REAL nexuiz, not OUR imposter gpl nexuiz). Features that we allready have in Prefix-Nexuiz. And this is supposed to smooth everything over, that they are adding features to Nexuiz (their game) (remember, gpl-nexuiz isn't _Nexuiz_ anymore)
Then when people still want something given back he has the thread locked and tells us basically (tells C.Brutilusss) "tough luck, you should love us anyway, ps we're making our own forums". Basically he wants us silent and gone, the Nexuiz community. With this reception ONE DAY into the "deal"... what's it going to be a year from now when they're releasing, we going to be sued to take down our forum, or any mention of GPL-Nexuiz? We going to be silenced and attempted to be destroyed?
He seems to be arrogant, elitist, and doesn't understand that he's dealing with people that do, with their own time, what he does. We make games. You make games. We add to this game and make it better.
It's funny, the whole "you're taking food from my mouth if I give back any scrap to your community" thing... when we've been giving away our work for YEARS, some of us have made a full time job of it. And he thinks his 12 hours a day for 2 months thing could hold ANY sway here? All of us who have even worked on a lowly map have worked longer hours than that... the the progammers like div0... absolutely immense amounts of time and effort put in that would tally into the tens of millions of dollars... an example: just this last month with div0's warpzones... that code is worth, in developer time, I think it was like a million or so, if you hired someone to do it (and most teams could NOT code what div0 has coded: they don't have the know-how or the knowledge). Then think of tzorks turrets and vehichles too. Morphed's models. The music and sounds... and this guy comes in and says he isn't releasing ANYTHING back because he has bills to pay and he's paying alot of money??? We've given away, figurativly, a fortune... and he can't even give just alittle of whatever he's making... when he's building it off of the work of those who coded and such for nexuiz. Doesn't make sence to me, doesnt' seem respectful, doesn't seem mutually benificial at all.
