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Everyone knows where this section is for, keep it clean from flaming and only posts in english are allowed.
Everyone knows where this section is for, keep it clean from flaming and only posts in english are allowed.
Anonymous (08:44:21 - 27-05)
Redspeert at 12:21:40 on 26/05:
Atleast they can write what they feel here, without beeing hunted down like a witch in medieval europe...like lets say forums inside omerta.
And to your heart bleeding post. Its all well and dandy what you have done, what you are doing and what you will do...But I do not give a damn that you pay for someone going to the university, paying heart operation etc...All I care for, and the majority of your ever-shrinking playerbase is that you RUN and FIX the game.
And like Jordyrp said - "So what is it that *you* do? - & thanks for your interest." In general we are PAYING your salaries and apparently giving money to heart operations, giving people the chanse to study and teaching people to drive. All in all your whole Braveheart speech wouldn't be possible without your average omerta player so you should change your tone quickly mister, before you loose even more people and have to find a real job.
Brando at 04:58:50 on 26/05:
Anonymous peeple. So Brave. Strong. Much perception. Wow.
Anonymous at 12:53:29 on 25/05:
Lackeys working: 10,159
guess u wont see him here anymore for 4 weeks
Anonymous at 05:38:48 on 25/05:
Brando, stop fucking pretending you care about any of our opinions. Just gtfo and let the game die its slow death.
Brando, stop fucking pretending you care about any of our opinions. Just gtfo and let the game die its slow death.
guess u wont see him here anymore for 4 weeks
Anonymous peeple. So Brave. Strong. Much perception. Wow.
Atleast they can write what they feel here, without beeing hunted down like a witch in medieval europe...like lets say forums inside omerta.
And to your heart bleeding post. Its all well and dandy what you have done, what you are doing and what you will do...But I do not give a damn that you pay for someone going to the university, paying heart operation etc...All I care for, and the majority of your ever-shrinking playerbase is that you RUN and FIX the game.
And like Jordyrp said - "So what is it that *you* do? - & thanks for your interest." In general we are PAYING your salaries and apparently giving money to heart operations, giving people the chanse to study and teaching people to drive. All in all your whole Braveheart speech wouldn't be possible without your average omerta player so you should change your tone quickly mister, before you loose even more people and have to find a real job.
It is a fair point - I support freedom of speech. But our forums are horrid.
No wonder you don't see much of the longer serving crew in there - we like work on something we hope will be an improvement - launch it - and get a total unmitigated shitstorm from oldschool players - yet when I run votes to check if you lot even agree with each other
You don't.
So we become an easy target - surely if you hate us with one voice you will assume some kind of flimsy unity?
I dunno.
Just ordinary people working hard for the game and its community. I walked my dog down to town this morning and came back with tomato purée, because I will make soup for the kids when they come in. Are you sure I am the scheming asshole you make me out to be?
My dog seems to like me and my soup is pretty good too. Any applicants for my job: you know my address. Don't forget to list your credentials besides 'anonymous forum troll with tiny little doll-testicles'.
Oops. I just trolled. I need a vacation. Wasn't directed against you Redspeert.
Anyway. I kind of like it that I get to say what I want here, too. Fuck Kredu, for example. Not only is he a money-grabbing little shit, but he is shorter and hairier than a real live hobbit too.
I need a coffee :)
Nakketikker at 12:43:54 on 26/05:
Couldn't agree more mate, but as we have seen in the past years his priorities are somewhere else.. At least not in this game. :)
Redspeert at 12:21:40 on 26/05:
Atleast they can write what they feel here, without beeing hunted down like a witch in medieval europe...like lets say forums inside omerta.
And to your heart bleeding post. Its all well and dandy what you have done, what you are doing and what you will do...But I do not give a damn that you pay for someone going to the university, paying heart operation etc...All I care for, and the majority of your ever-shrinking playerbase is that you RUN and FIX the game.
And like Jordyrp said - "So what is it that *you* do? - & thanks for your interest." In general we are PAYING your salaries and apparently giving money to heart operations, giving people the chanse to study and teaching people to drive. All in all your whole Braveheart speech wouldn't be possible without your average omerta player so you should change your tone quickly mister, before you loose even more people and have to find a real job.
Brando at 04:58:50 on 26/05:
Anonymous peeple. So Brave. Strong. Much perception. Wow.
Anonymous at 12:53:29 on 25/05:
Lackeys working: 10,159
guess u wont see him here anymore for 4 weeks
Anonymous at 05:38:48 on 25/05:
Brando, stop fucking pretending you care about any of our opinions. Just gtfo and let the game die its slow death.
Brando, stop fucking pretending you care about any of our opinions. Just gtfo and let the game die its slow death.
guess u wont see him here anymore for 4 weeks
Anonymous peeple. So Brave. Strong. Much perception. Wow.
Atleast they can write what they feel here, without beeing hunted down like a witch in medieval europe...like lets say forums inside omerta.
And to your heart bleeding post. Its all well and dandy what you have done, what you are doing and what you will do...But I do not give a damn that you pay for someone going to the university, paying heart operation etc...All I care for, and the majority of your ever-shrinking playerbase is that you RUN and FIX the game.
And like Jordyrp said - "So what is it that *you* do? - & thanks for your interest." In general we are PAYING your salaries and apparently giving money to heart operations, giving people the chanse to study and teaching people to drive. All in all your whole Braveheart speech wouldn't be possible without your average omerta player so you should change your tone quickly mister, before you loose even more people and have to find a real job.
Couldn't agree more mate, but as we have seen in the past years his priorities are somewhere else.. At least not in this game. :)
Sorry. I am only human. We actually are just ordinary people who work very hard. In return we come in for a lot of criticism - some of it quite personal - often tiresome and frequently rude.
That's kind of exhausting.
I *wish* I could hand over this job to one of the more vitriolic critics here - armchair critics make lousy presidents.
Yeah yeah 'you do too' !next
:-)
MurderInc at 14:20:43 on 26/05:
it's legit. Confirmed crew members even have a special badge-thingy (yes, that's the official term.) on their OB profile.
Anonymous at 14:11:39 on 26/05:
Wait, is the account registered Brando on here actually Brando? I was pretty sure it was a parody acount, considering some (actually, most) of the posts it made. The recent reactions to Brando's posts, however, suggest otherwise.
Wait, is the account registered Brando on here actually Brando? I was pretty sure it was a parody acount, considering some (actually, most) of the posts it made. The recent reactions to Brando's posts, however, suggest otherwise.
It is a tragic day when I am taken as being 'a parody of myself'.
:'(
Surely by now you have all learned my slightly pompous writing style?
Plopmunker at 15:49:02 on 26/05:
Log on to irc .. Speaks for itself.. Someone better start caring :')
Log on to irc .. Speaks for itself.. Someone better start caring :')
There are three reasons I can't afford to do this.
1. I am in China and the contrast in time zones means that there's almost nobody online anyway.
2. Those who hang around on their own on IRC tend to want to talk a lot about a very little
3. See 1 & 2 - I am incredibly busy & see my earlier post - I don't really manage this shit anyway - it manages itself using some reporting and giving everyone a lot of freedom and responsibility.
I never get anything done if I log into IRC. Maybe if we get some new people in this can change. I hope so!
Anonymous at 15:22:43 on 26/05:
I really don't mind the money I donate goes to heart surgery and if you really did that then that's a noble thing to do but when I read those statistics I start getting my doubts. If you would've said there is a part time coder working on omerta I would've believed it.
We never get new features, no marketing, no bug fixing (even after reporting it needs to be posted here on OB and mass abused before a fix comes), no admins to actually listen to the community.
All I see is kcode, the incompetent (volunteers) in #help, the bramblerose who only comes online to give away the weekend voucher and some idiot volenteer admins banning everyone who criticises you of the omerta forum.
You can say you contract people but what do you guys even do? Are they contracted to sit and amuse you?
Brando at 04:56:20 on 26/05:
That fund came and went - a missed opportunity maybe - but we didn't expect to be offered that money and were not harmed by not getting it. We will still run a crowdfunding bid, but later in the year.
We are also recruiting new developers & talking to the bank, as to private investors.
I don't believe that I said I 'needed 300k' - but perhaps you didn't understand the first time (& may not understand this).
Actually I am proud to say that we always ran the business without making a loss and have grown it from a small personal loan which I took out against the value of my house - a £10k loan, if you are interested.
With this we have been able to provide over 50 salaried jobs in total, so far, fund over 300 work-experience and study placements, fund one hard-up student all the way through university, train four people to drive and pay for a life-saving heart operation. Frequently criticised for being 'greedy' etc, we pay staff salaries before directors salaries and invest almost all profit in personnel costs.
So what is it that *you* do? - & thanks for your interest.
klassikl at 15:03:51 on 25/05:
Lol @ Brando posting here.
Brando you need 300k again?
Lol @ Brando posting here.
Brando you need 300k again?
That fund came and went - a missed opportunity maybe - but we didn't expect to be offered that money and were not harmed by not getting it. We will still run a crowdfunding bid, but later in the year.
We are also recruiting new developers & talking to the bank, as to private investors.
I don't believe that I said I 'needed 300k' - but perhaps you didn't understand the first time (& may not understand this).
Actually I am proud to say that we always ran the business without making a loss and have grown it from a small personal loan which I took out against the value of my house - a £10k loan, if you are interested.
With this we have been able to provide over 50 salaried jobs in total, so far, fund over 300 work-experience and study placements, fund one hard-up student all the way through university, train four people to drive and pay for a life-saving heart operation. Frequently criticised for being 'greedy' etc, we pay staff salaries before directors salaries and invest almost all profit in personnel costs.
So what is it that *you* do? - & thanks for your interest.
I really don't mind the money I donate goes to heart surgery and if you really did that then that's a noble thing to do but when I read those statistics I start getting my doubts. If you would've said there is a part time coder working on omerta I would've believed it.
We never get new features, no marketing, no bug fixing (even after reporting it needs to be posted here on OB and mass abused before a fix comes), no admins to actually listen to the community.
All I see is kcode, the incompetent (volunteers) in #help, the bramblerose who only comes online to give away the weekend voucher and some idiot volenteer admins banning everyone who criticises you of the omerta forum.
You can say you contract people but what do you guys even do? Are they contracted to sit and amuse you?
We've done all sorts of good things with the income of Omerta - but mostly we just paid salaries to good, honest, hard working people.
We got rid of a dev a couple of weeks ago who was not functioning well. We hired a new one who is great - he is working on the new chat applet and he did some light fixes on stuff like casino spot numbers during the week.
We should bring in one or two more in the coming weeks. Kcode was busy for weeks moving the game to new servers - and he is a legend & has my total support.
We have also been working for over a year to finally fully replace the (ancient) source base of the game.
When you don't see *new shit going live* it means we are *fixing deeper stuff for the future*
Thanks 0/
Anonymous at 23:40:41 on 26/05:
Ah c'mon, he only has the best of interests at heart. Well his own best interests.
Without mocking Brando any further, but wasn't that heart surgery you are refering to, not you getting a pacemaker? At least I remember a rumour of you having received one a few years ago.
If it actually was for somebody else, kudos.
BUT you are not getting bashed here over the charity you do. You are getting flamed over your captaincy of the that cruise ship called omerta. You know that tiny boat you managed to hit the iceberg with... So stop telling people how awesome you are outside this community and actually do the job this people pay you money for: Straighten out your crew and fix your damn game.
And your study placements... You ought to mention how much you pay those poor souls, while they work for you. If I recall it correctly, your funding of study placements was free labour for omerta ltd.
Ah c'mon, he only has the best of interests at heart. Well his own best interests.
Without mocking Brando any further, but wasn't that heart surgery you are refering to, not you getting a pacemaker? At least I remember a rumour of you having received one a few years ago.
If it actually was for somebody else, kudos.
BUT you are not getting bashed here over the charity you do. You are getting flamed over your captaincy of the that cruise ship called omerta. You know that tiny boat you managed to hit the iceberg with... So stop telling people how awesome you are outside this community and actually do the job this people pay you money for: Straighten out your crew and fix your damn game.
And your study placements... You ought to mention how much you pay those poor souls, while they work for you. If I recall it correctly, your funding of study placements was free labour for omerta ltd.
1. Rumours of my ill-health are vastly overstated. Mrs Brando ran & I jogged 12 Km in the blistering heat the day before yesterday. I am creaky but not in need of artificial stimulation to any of my greater organs, yet.
2. It may be a misconception of 'all you well-organised Mafia types' but *I don't run Omerta* - well - or 'I don't run Omerta well' - in fact I probably don't do either. I am a non-manger and only exist to provide the facilities which my colleagues need. That is why I joke about 'making the coffee'. I will freely admit that we need a better general manager and that *I am not he* - we can't afford one yet (this is one of the reasons why I am looking for outside finance - we need a (proper) social media manager, a proper general manager and a couple more developers - (and you need me to hang up my cafitiére).
3. We paid Grad and Undergraduate students an advised (and negotiated) wage. Short term placements were mostly for local schools in Hull and to be honest 'slave labour' is inaccurate - it takes more time to 'train' a school kid to do simple stuff than they stay in the chair for - but the kids like it, their schools like it - usually they get to review games for www.thirteen1.com - and usually we publish these too - but we hardly rely on schoolkid reviewers.
NB. Our graduates and postgraduates have all gone on to do very well indeed and we have some great testimonies.
4. That iceberg? All I see is slushy, where it used to be. The little boat is strong.
To be honest though - you don't seem to like me very much (generalising) - nor our crew, even though they are all ex-players - people from your own ranks. You don't like our developers and some of you seem to not even like the game - to wish it ill, and so on.
I am mystified as to why the haters amongst you (generalising) are still here. I was at a concert once and a heckler was giving the artist some sh*t. The artist (Ivor Cutler) was an elderly Scottish gentleman (who had been a friend of the Beatles and co during the psychedelic era) said this:
"I don't see any chains holding you down, sonny".
If I can find someone better than me (maybe half a dead chicken?) to do my job I will quit - then you'll be rid of me.
Deal?
:-)
Anonymous at 03:33:19 on 27/05:
Yeah, so you want my irc nick then? What are you going to do? We've seen several attempts of people who registers and tries to talk with you, and the outcome is still the same. So I still say, gtfo and let the game die its slow death.
Brando at 04:58:50 on 26/05:
Anonymous peeple. So Brave. Strong. Much perception. Wow.
Anonymous at 12:53:29 on 25/05:
Lackeys working: 10,159
guess u wont see him here anymore for 4 weeks
Anonymous at 05:38:48 on 25/05:
Brando, stop fucking pretending you care about any of our opinions. Just gtfo and let the game die its slow death.
Brando, stop fucking pretending you care about any of our opinions. Just gtfo and let the game die its slow death.
guess u wont see him here anymore for 4 weeks
Anonymous peeple. So Brave. Strong. Much perception. Wow.
Yeah, so you want my irc nick then? What are you going to do? We've seen several attempts of people who registers and tries to talk with you, and the outcome is still the same. So I still say, gtfo and let the game die its slow death.
That may be what you want, not what I want. Why are you on an Omerta fan site if you want it to die?
Anonymous (03:33:19 - 27-05)
Brando at 04:58:50 on 26/05:
Anonymous peeple. So Brave. Strong. Much perception. Wow.
Anonymous at 12:53:29 on 25/05:
Lackeys working: 10,159
guess u wont see him here anymore for 4 weeks
Anonymous at 05:38:48 on 25/05:
Brando, stop fucking pretending you care about any of our opinions. Just gtfo and let the game die its slow death.
Brando, stop fucking pretending you care about any of our opinions. Just gtfo and let the game die its slow death.
guess u wont see him here anymore for 4 weeks
Anonymous peeple. So Brave. Strong. Much perception. Wow.
Yeah, so you want my irc nick then? What are you going to do? We've seen several attempts of people who registers and tries to talk with you, and the outcome is still the same. So I still say, gtfo and let the game die its slow death.
Anonymous (01:54:39 - 27-05)
Anonymous at 01:43:36 on 27/05:
Regarding the first hightlight: Noob
Regarding the second one: That explains everything
Regarding the third: i rlly cracked the fuck up !
Anonymous at 01:09:29 on 27/05:
forget what bud ? i playz this game some time arounds 1 year and didnt see some gravano. tell me more who are they ?
I played in Peakys my top alwayz say some big famlies have a secret way to get bigs money and always they shoot them big famlies 4 5 or 6 big famlies at 1 small family. this always happen ?
i only found this site soon and i see branda is a game manager ? why he let big famlies make bug money to the suffer of us Peakys?
i thanks any reply to my questions.
Anonymous at 00:31:06 on 27/05:
gravano, amazing how fast people forget
Anonymous at 00:27:50 on 27/05:
who is gayvano ? another bug fam ?
Anonymous at 23:39:07 on 26/05:
i heard gayvano is coming back
Anonymous at 22:42:38 on 26/05:
A New fam from NL to join the pact, plus the usual suspects with new ingames and new famnames due to embaresment/fear... so not much new at all :p
Anonymous at 08:51:04 on 26/05:
So new fams this version?
So new fams this version?
forget what bud ? i playz this game some time arounds 1 year and didnt see some gravano. tell me more who are they ?
I played in Peakys my top alwayz say some big famlies have a secret way to get bigs money and always they shoot them big famlies 4 5 or 6 big famlies at 1 small family. this always happen ?
i only found this site soon and i see branda is a game manager ? why he let big famlies make bug money to the suffer of us Peakys?
i thanks any reply to my questions.
Regarding the first hightlight: Noob
Regarding the second one: That explains everything
Regarding the third: i rlly cracked the fuck up !
haha you are allowed your opinion ofc. Ok i played this site a year this instantley makes me some noob in your humble opinion, thats ok i can sleep on that you get your chep thrillz calling me some noob. :-)... you was not the feedback i looked for, give detailed answer to my questions or shut up! you're no help! vjust giving yourself some egoz trip lol good for you. i won't attack yo i don't know you.
i saw a lot of negatives people around this game and you sir, are a good example! you are part of the rot keeping new players like me away.
moving on anyone who can answer my questions without calling me noob cause i only played some year ?
Anonymous (01:43:36 - 27-05)
Anonymous at 01:09:29 on 27/05:
forget what bud ? i playz this game some time arounds 1 year and didnt see some gravano. tell me more who are they ?
I played in Peakys my top alwayz say some big famlies have a secret way to get bigs money and always they shoot them big famlies 4 5 or 6 big famlies at 1 small family. this always happen ?
i only found this site soon and i see branda is a game manager ? why he let big famlies make bug money to the suffer of us Peakys?
i thanks any reply to my questions.
Anonymous at 00:31:06 on 27/05:
gravano, amazing how fast people forget
Anonymous at 00:27:50 on 27/05:
who is gayvano ? another bug fam ?
Anonymous at 23:39:07 on 26/05:
i heard gayvano is coming back
Anonymous at 22:42:38 on 26/05:
A New fam from NL to join the pact, plus the usual suspects with new ingames and new famnames due to embaresment/fear... so not much new at all :p
Anonymous at 08:51:04 on 26/05:
So new fams this version?
So new fams this version?
forget what bud ? i playz this game some time arounds 1 year and didnt see some gravano. tell me more who are they ?
I played in Peakys my top alwayz say some big famlies have a secret way to get bigs money and always they shoot them big famlies 4 5 or 6 big famlies at 1 small family. this always happen ?
i only found this site soon and i see branda is a game manager ? why he let big famlies make bug money to the suffer of us Peakys?
i thanks any reply to my questions.
Regarding the first hightlight: Noob
Regarding the second one: That explains everything
Regarding the third: i rlly cracked the fuck up !
Anonymous (01:09:29 - 27-05)
Anonymous at 00:31:06 on 27/05:
gravano, amazing how fast people forget
Anonymous at 00:27:50 on 27/05:
who is gayvano ? another bug fam ?
Anonymous at 23:39:07 on 26/05:
i heard gayvano is coming back
Anonymous at 22:42:38 on 26/05:
A New fam from NL to join the pact, plus the usual suspects with new ingames and new famnames due to embaresment/fear... so not much new at all :p
Anonymous at 08:51:04 on 26/05:
So new fams this version?
So new fams this version?
forget what bud ? i playz this game some time arounds 1 year and didnt see some gravano. tell me more who are they ?
I played in Peakys my top alwayz say some big famlies have a secret way to get bigs money and always they shoot them big famlies 4 5 or 6 big famlies at 1 small family. this always happen ?
i only found this site soon and i see branda is a game manager ? why he let big famlies make bug money to the suffer of us Peakys?
i thanks any reply to my questions.
Anonymous (00:31:06 - 27-05)
Anonymous at 00:27:50 on 27/05:
who is gayvano ? another bug fam ?
Anonymous at 23:39:07 on 26/05:
i heard gayvano is coming back
Anonymous at 22:42:38 on 26/05:
A New fam from NL to join the pact, plus the usual suspects with new ingames and new famnames due to embaresment/fear... so not much new at all :p
Anonymous at 08:51:04 on 26/05:
So new fams this version?
So new fams this version?
Anonymous (00:27:50 - 27-05)
Anonymous at 23:39:07 on 26/05:
i heard gayvano is coming back
Anonymous at 22:42:38 on 26/05:
A New fam from NL to join the pact, plus the usual suspects with new ingames and new famnames due to embaresment/fear... so not much new at all :p
Anonymous at 08:51:04 on 26/05:
So new fams this version?
So new fams this version?
Anonymous (23:40:41 - 26-05)
Ah c'mon, he only has the best of interests at heart. Well his own best interests.
Without mocking Brando any further, but wasn't that heart surgery you are refering to, not you getting a pacemaker? At least I remember a rumour of you having received one a few years ago.
If it actually was for somebody else, kudos.
BUT you are not getting bashed here over the charity you do. You are getting flamed over your captaincy of the that cruise ship called omerta. You know that tiny boat you managed to hit the iceberg with... So stop telling people how awesome you are outside this community and actually do the job this people pay you money for: Straighten out your crew and fix your damn game.
And your study placements... You ought to mention how much you pay those poor souls, while they work for you. If I recall it correctly, your funding of study placements was free labour for omerta ltd.
Without mocking Brando any further, but wasn't that heart surgery you are refering to, not you getting a pacemaker? At least I remember a rumour of you having received one a few years ago.
If it actually was for somebody else, kudos.
BUT you are not getting bashed here over the charity you do. You are getting flamed over your captaincy of the that cruise ship called omerta. You know that tiny boat you managed to hit the iceberg with... So stop telling people how awesome you are outside this community and actually do the job this people pay you money for: Straighten out your crew and fix your damn game.
And your study placements... You ought to mention how much you pay those poor souls, while they work for you. If I recall it correctly, your funding of study placements was free labour for omerta ltd.
Anonymous (23:39:07 - 26-05)
Anonymous at 22:42:38 on 26/05:
A New fam from NL to join the pact, plus the usual suspects with new ingames and new famnames due to embaresment/fear... so not much new at all :p
Anonymous at 08:51:04 on 26/05:
So new fams this version?
So new fams this version?
Anonymous (22:42:38 - 26-05)
Anonymous at 08:51:04 on 26/05:
So new fams this version?
So new fams this version?
Anonymous (21:10:06 - 26-05)
I wouldn't believe him if he told me grass was green.
Anonymous (15:22:43 - 26-05)
Brando at 04:56:20 on 26/05:
That fund came and went - a missed opportunity maybe - but we didn't expect to be offered that money and were not harmed by not getting it. We will still run a crowdfunding bid, but later in the year.
We are also recruiting new developers & talking to the bank, as to private investors.
I don't believe that I said I 'needed 300k' - but perhaps you didn't understand the first time (& may not understand this).
Actually I am proud to say that we always ran the business without making a loss and have grown it from a small personal loan which I took out against the value of my house - a £10k loan, if you are interested.
With this we have been able to provide over 50 salaried jobs in total, so far, fund over 300 work-experience and study placements, fund one hard-up student all the way through university, train four people to drive and pay for a life-saving heart operation. Frequently criticised for being 'greedy' etc, we pay staff salaries before directors salaries and invest almost all profit in personnel costs.
So what is it that *you* do? - & thanks for your interest.
klassikl at 15:03:51 on 25/05:
Lol @ Brando posting here.
Brando you need 300k again?
Lol @ Brando posting here.
Brando you need 300k again?
That fund came and went - a missed opportunity maybe - but we didn't expect to be offered that money and were not harmed by not getting it. We will still run a crowdfunding bid, but later in the year.
We are also recruiting new developers & talking to the bank, as to private investors.
I don't believe that I said I 'needed 300k' - but perhaps you didn't understand the first time (& may not understand this).
Actually I am proud to say that we always ran the business without making a loss and have grown it from a small personal loan which I took out against the value of my house - a £10k loan, if you are interested.
With this we have been able to provide over 50 salaried jobs in total, so far, fund over 300 work-experience and study placements, fund one hard-up student all the way through university, train four people to drive and pay for a life-saving heart operation. Frequently criticised for being 'greedy' etc, we pay staff salaries before directors salaries and invest almost all profit in personnel costs.
So what is it that *you* do? - & thanks for your interest.
I really don't mind the money I donate goes to heart surgery and if you really did that then that's a noble thing to do but when I read those statistics I start getting my doubts. If you would've said there is a part time coder working on omerta I would've believed it.
We never get new features, no marketing, no bug fixing (even after reporting it needs to be posted here on OB and mass abused before a fix comes), no admins to actually listen to the community.
All I see is kcode, the incompetent (volunteers) in #help, the bramblerose who only comes online to give away the weekend voucher and some idiot volenteer admins banning everyone who criticises you of the omerta forum.
You can say you contract people but what do you guys even do? Are they contracted to sit and amuse you?
Maybe because your crew overmoderated them and almost nobody posts there anymore. Your supportive measures in the past included your typical rants, account freezes and sometimes even bans.
Didn't some Austrian-German dictator from the 1930 also have a dog, which liked him?
I think it was a German shepherd....
So that's the qualification needed to run omerta! Can't say I am surprised.
Ahum, didn't your crew hunt and close down irc chans, in which your community (when it was bigger) tried to organize protests? I am all for cynism (obviously). But what you are doing here, is like one of those big US companies working down in Mexico fighting the creation of Unions (often times even by force) and then claiming their worker were obviously content without one.
You obviously can. That something like that wouldn't last long on the omerta forums is a giveaway, on why the forum has become so horrible over there. Hint: Overmoderated. Whether it is a smart thing to flame your customers, that is an entirely different story. But that's up to you. But you have always defiled common sense and shown it is really not that common altogether. So I am eagerly awaiting for you to tell the next customer over here to screw himself.