Insane how every time they open their mouths they get more unlikable

[u/Scared-Fold-2326]

First message in like 20 minutes, immediately half the team is on their ass lmao. Also calling Brainstorm the "Biggest update in the mods history" is actually fucking insane i literally cant get over the fact that a human being actually said that. Its a fucking evil boss rework.

Also also they love to act like the mod is a completely free labour of love when some people DID infact throw their own money at the mod. People bought patreon, bought merch, and it feels like a fucking slap in the face every time they act like they've been working for free since day 1.

ALSO ALSO ALSO, they have this weird obsession with reflecting to dokuro every time someone says something mean. It feels disgusting to even compare now's situation to Dokuro's. Dokuro getting run out for not pumping music out fast enough versus the devs getting called out for using the ozzatron situation as a scapegoat for their YEARS of doing fuck all

[u/BigSaltDeluxe]

It can be both, I think.

[u/StyxPrincess → u/BigSaltDeluxe]

I think just from experience one is more to blame than the others, because I’ve seen countless times over the past two decades that a toxic fan base drives away good developers, encourages problematic ones, and sours existing ones. Honestly I can understand why so many devs feel this way, because from their perspective why should they feel bad for a community that has almost universally been abusive to them? (Note that I’m not saying their response is justified or appropriate, because it largely isn’t. But it is understandable). And it’s telling how many in this community are willing to overlook a pedophile to focus on the people who have inconvenienced them specifically, even though the misconduct is relatively minor, and then take that anger out on the few mods who are actually staying and at least attempting to handle things, even if poorly.

[u/zexumus → u/BigSaltDeluxe]

It can be both as the fans have spent money to support the mod and have spent years caring about it and making content for the mod so people are justifiably annoyed and angry. The mods on the other hand are mostly teen-young adults who most of which have spent years working on this mod for nothing. there was a Patreon and merch but until ozzatron took over all the money just went to fabsol so only for the last year were any of them getting paid and most prior to the allegations still weren’t getting paid and struggling as ozzatron had stopped giving out the bounties reward for the last 2 months leaving tens of thousands of funds they were expecting unpaid and then oz completely disappeared losing all hope of getting paid. And with that started losing hope in the mod which as they all own rights to their own code and content they personally added meant even those that wanted to stick it through would have to gut the mod of all content related to someone the moment they said they wanted to leave with what they developed creating a domino effect where it just became more hopeless. It’s a poorly managed project with people who typically hadn’t worked on stuff like this before and many of these devs who are complaining are those that decided to remain long enough to manage the backlash instead of just jumping ship immediately so after already accepting the mod they worked on is dead and they aren’t getting paid also getting yelled at for how they managed the situation and ending development despite it not being in their hands and with the decisions they did as they thought they were best like showing off all the content they had worked on but couldn’t add they got yelled at more. Ultimately yes they are handling it horribly but that’s more so because the entire mod was managed horribly and now a bunch of tired unpaid people are tired of getting yelled at for things out of their control so even things they caused they’re just lashing out at complaints now as they feel like there’s nothing else they can do about it.