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Brando
| Registered: | 06:06:22 on 25-03-2014 (3895d 12h 54m 58s ago) |
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| Last activity: | 07:06:07 on 27-05-2014 (3832d 11h 55m 13s ago) |
| Country: |  Hong Kong |
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General Comments & Major Rumors
06:56:48 - 27-05
General Comments & Major Rumors
06:50:05 - 27-05
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
:-)
General Comments & Major Rumors
06:33:36 - 27-05
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?
General Comments & Major Rumors
06:32:01 - 27-05
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!
General Comments & Major Rumors
06:28:57 - 27-05
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/
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 :)