- Posts
- 238
- Likes
- 292
This is my dire warning to anyone who wants to join the MBII team and contribute any of their creative energy or efforts. Simply, don't. Take the lesson from someone who has spent a year of free past time to give back to this game. They don't value you. They don't care about any new content. They don't frankly even care about what happens to their game, let's be honest.
IF you're interested in giving anything to this game, like FA dev. Don't. MaceMadunsus and Defiant's view is that they aren't devs and shouldn't get the respect thereof. Also any work you add they aren't at liberty to remove if you want it removed from the game.
Seriously, anything you make despite your time and effort invested in it, it is completely at their whim to control and even if you don't want the content in the game they remove your collaborator status on GitHub and aren't interested in removing anything you make when you want it taken down. The moment you want to take things down they remove your ability to add things as well. So my advice? Don't make anything for this game with the mindset anything you make is yours. Don't fall in my pit trap of spending a year+ learning and apprenticing to dev for this mod for tyrannical shitheads to be completely impassionate with their game, other creatives, and not value an ounce of your work.
I can't stress enough how fragile the inside of the development for this mod is. If there is to be a mod left soon, it won't be for very long. People think I'm taking advantage of infrastructure, but Defiant is simply proving me right. There is a reason I haven't publicly submitted the work for my gamemode, as people want me to. The behavior of team members like Defiant proves that anything you make for this team, the value of any of your efforts is pointless. Despite someone like him who doesn't even play the game, let alone interact or even message people, have the tools and ability to shut down anything and anyone's work just because they feel like it. They never invite you to the dev chats where these "serious talks" are happening to discuss what happens with your OWN work like you don't exist. This is extremely disasterous behavior for moviebattles as we know it, destroying the marketplace of free ideas, ignoring creatives, and denying creative implements.
I envy the trolls, casual players, and those who really don't have to go through this menacing headache. The dev bureaucracy hell behind the scenes is very unbecoming for a mod of this age. Too much infighting and misplaced value and worth of others. IF anything I can give as a moral of my personal story. Even if this may be your favorite game, don't fall in the pitfall of actually thinking you can pick up the tools and make fun experiences for other people, and the team follow common sense and actually implement it, because the MBII team actually hates fun they cannot control. They threaten to delist servers that make minor changes to make things fun. They are simply all about controlling your experience, and it is not a healthy outlook on the future of this mod. If you have any interest in picking up and learning these tools. Do it for yourself, no one else, and always think of third party solutions to include others in your work. The team is lead by a totally unemotional, narcissistic, obstinate, enigmatic, intentionally reserved, selectively speaking development lead that actually doesn't care about the future of your favorite game, or about the people that want to give back to it.
In referendum, I'm in complete awe and shock that you can spend a year on any effort and work, and they really don't care about any of it. I envy people like Tempest, despite the shit people give him. After seven years of investment I don't blame him for leaving too. My intentions with this post is a wakeup call. The playerbase is already not happy with the MBII team, they don't listen to feedback. They change anything they want, and they're slowly becoming more and more unreachable and impossible to work with as the months prolong. Me and my freelance team of devs have created the most ultimate, intricate Moviebattles gamemode that anyone could have ever seen or dreamed of. Devs like unguided, john, and others have tested it. Players play from a third party medium and enjoy it. Dozens of players connect to the servers and cannot access the game because of the lack of files. The MBII team is robbing the playerbase of a feature rich experience due to their ignorance. I'm running out on options, and I'm just proving that you can do it. You don't have to listen to, or depend upon the Moviebattles team, and it is actually quite very easy to subvert their sociopathic narcissistic tendencies with this game and do your own thing. Making something popular and fun and any amount of censorship, banning, or delistment can't do anything to you. This is the only thing you can do while they destroy the rest of their game, and I'm bringing the harsh reality to you as a player in this thread. I don't mean to start this thread as a cycle of drama or another "Open is dead" thread, but rather as a rude awakening and a stern warning to players.
A lot of people don't care about what happens behind the scenes, but players should really start to be doing so. There is a lot of injustice going on surrounding creative energy and freedoms in this mod, which is the opposite of what this mod should be doing, and what made it popular to contribute to in the past, in the first place. They have lost their way, and with Spag and Mace and others leaving the team, it has emboldened Defiant to be comfortable with the game in the state it's in, and despite other's intense passion and creativity: If they didn't make it, If they can't slap their license on it and call it theirs. They don't want it. Anyone is smart to apply Creative Commons to any of your textassets you make, because the MBII team will misuse your rights, or not even consider them, when it comes to the legality. Which I find ironic considering how much they worry about the iron hammer of Disney or others coming down upon them, when it just creates a crazed level of cognitive dissonance and an echo chamber which eliminates any sort of passion on the inside. They have all this copyrighted content, powerbattles, metal gear solid, dragonball, aliens universe, and more, and if anyone was to copyright strike them by now, they would have. They use this obsession with copyright to shut down perfectly valid ideas, other's completed works, or concepts they are too unbothered to want to incorporate in their vision, and instead blatantly challenge them with no basis to work with. They actually use their concerns with legal to break down and browbeat anything they personally didn't make, or sanction being made. I'm serious, they're doing this by viewing my work as a threat to the already dead Open, and the hypocrisy needs to stop.
If anything I want to achieve with this thread, is to speed up the process of the "Creative Contributions" pack which Defiant claims is started, but in fact with verification from the inside, has not been started at all. I have been begging, pleading, and working with the team for months to integrate this work and it has been nothing but insanity, and I personally believe it is because of the unwarranted inaction, and happy naivety of the leader, that makes this all impossible. You can tell people all you want that it is coming, but it is filibuster at this point. Telling people what they want to hear while delivering nothing at all. I frankly think he doesn't care if it exists, or if it does any players a service. This mod is on it's death throes, and if this thread spearheads the topic of the CC pack then so be it. There needs to be a hub where players can create content and it get added, updated frequently, and not have to go through this madness ever again. It is totally uncalled for to revoke collaborator status with someone so determined to make content for your game. It's heinous, brings to light a lot of hypocrisy with this team and especially Defiant, and if the CC pack cannot be created as a product of this thread, this is my farewell address to the community as well as the result of the absolute state of integration for Supremacy into Moviebattles assets. There needs to be ABSOLUTE reform surrounding the state of contributions with this mod, and how developers view their hard working contributors, and it starts now.
IF you're interested in giving anything to this game, like FA dev. Don't. MaceMadunsus and Defiant's view is that they aren't devs and shouldn't get the respect thereof. Also any work you add they aren't at liberty to remove if you want it removed from the game.




Seriously, anything you make despite your time and effort invested in it, it is completely at their whim to control and even if you don't want the content in the game they remove your collaborator status on GitHub and aren't interested in removing anything you make when you want it taken down. The moment you want to take things down they remove your ability to add things as well. So my advice? Don't make anything for this game with the mindset anything you make is yours. Don't fall in my pit trap of spending a year+ learning and apprenticing to dev for this mod for tyrannical shitheads to be completely impassionate with their game, other creatives, and not value an ounce of your work.

I can't stress enough how fragile the inside of the development for this mod is. If there is to be a mod left soon, it won't be for very long. People think I'm taking advantage of infrastructure, but Defiant is simply proving me right. There is a reason I haven't publicly submitted the work for my gamemode, as people want me to. The behavior of team members like Defiant proves that anything you make for this team, the value of any of your efforts is pointless. Despite someone like him who doesn't even play the game, let alone interact or even message people, have the tools and ability to shut down anything and anyone's work just because they feel like it. They never invite you to the dev chats where these "serious talks" are happening to discuss what happens with your OWN work like you don't exist. This is extremely disasterous behavior for moviebattles as we know it, destroying the marketplace of free ideas, ignoring creatives, and denying creative implements.
I envy the trolls, casual players, and those who really don't have to go through this menacing headache. The dev bureaucracy hell behind the scenes is very unbecoming for a mod of this age. Too much infighting and misplaced value and worth of others. IF anything I can give as a moral of my personal story. Even if this may be your favorite game, don't fall in the pitfall of actually thinking you can pick up the tools and make fun experiences for other people, and the team follow common sense and actually implement it, because the MBII team actually hates fun they cannot control. They threaten to delist servers that make minor changes to make things fun. They are simply all about controlling your experience, and it is not a healthy outlook on the future of this mod. If you have any interest in picking up and learning these tools. Do it for yourself, no one else, and always think of third party solutions to include others in your work. The team is lead by a totally unemotional, narcissistic, obstinate, enigmatic, intentionally reserved, selectively speaking development lead that actually doesn't care about the future of your favorite game, or about the people that want to give back to it.

In referendum, I'm in complete awe and shock that you can spend a year on any effort and work, and they really don't care about any of it. I envy people like Tempest, despite the shit people give him. After seven years of investment I don't blame him for leaving too. My intentions with this post is a wakeup call. The playerbase is already not happy with the MBII team, they don't listen to feedback. They change anything they want, and they're slowly becoming more and more unreachable and impossible to work with as the months prolong. Me and my freelance team of devs have created the most ultimate, intricate Moviebattles gamemode that anyone could have ever seen or dreamed of. Devs like unguided, john, and others have tested it. Players play from a third party medium and enjoy it. Dozens of players connect to the servers and cannot access the game because of the lack of files. The MBII team is robbing the playerbase of a feature rich experience due to their ignorance. I'm running out on options, and I'm just proving that you can do it. You don't have to listen to, or depend upon the Moviebattles team, and it is actually quite very easy to subvert their sociopathic narcissistic tendencies with this game and do your own thing. Making something popular and fun and any amount of censorship, banning, or delistment can't do anything to you. This is the only thing you can do while they destroy the rest of their game, and I'm bringing the harsh reality to you as a player in this thread. I don't mean to start this thread as a cycle of drama or another "Open is dead" thread, but rather as a rude awakening and a stern warning to players.
A lot of people don't care about what happens behind the scenes, but players should really start to be doing so. There is a lot of injustice going on surrounding creative energy and freedoms in this mod, which is the opposite of what this mod should be doing, and what made it popular to contribute to in the past, in the first place. They have lost their way, and with Spag and Mace and others leaving the team, it has emboldened Defiant to be comfortable with the game in the state it's in, and despite other's intense passion and creativity: If they didn't make it, If they can't slap their license on it and call it theirs. They don't want it. Anyone is smart to apply Creative Commons to any of your textassets you make, because the MBII team will misuse your rights, or not even consider them, when it comes to the legality. Which I find ironic considering how much they worry about the iron hammer of Disney or others coming down upon them, when it just creates a crazed level of cognitive dissonance and an echo chamber which eliminates any sort of passion on the inside. They have all this copyrighted content, powerbattles, metal gear solid, dragonball, aliens universe, and more, and if anyone was to copyright strike them by now, they would have. They use this obsession with copyright to shut down perfectly valid ideas, other's completed works, or concepts they are too unbothered to want to incorporate in their vision, and instead blatantly challenge them with no basis to work with. They actually use their concerns with legal to break down and browbeat anything they personally didn't make, or sanction being made. I'm serious, they're doing this by viewing my work as a threat to the already dead Open, and the hypocrisy needs to stop.
If anything I want to achieve with this thread, is to speed up the process of the "Creative Contributions" pack which Defiant claims is started, but in fact with verification from the inside, has not been started at all. I have been begging, pleading, and working with the team for months to integrate this work and it has been nothing but insanity, and I personally believe it is because of the unwarranted inaction, and happy naivety of the leader, that makes this all impossible. You can tell people all you want that it is coming, but it is filibuster at this point. Telling people what they want to hear while delivering nothing at all. I frankly think he doesn't care if it exists, or if it does any players a service. This mod is on it's death throes, and if this thread spearheads the topic of the CC pack then so be it. There needs to be a hub where players can create content and it get added, updated frequently, and not have to go through this madness ever again. It is totally uncalled for to revoke collaborator status with someone so determined to make content for your game. It's heinous, brings to light a lot of hypocrisy with this team and especially Defiant, and if the CC pack cannot be created as a product of this thread, this is my farewell address to the community as well as the result of the absolute state of integration for Supremacy into Moviebattles assets. There needs to be ABSOLUTE reform surrounding the state of contributions with this mod, and how developers view their hard working contributors, and it starts now.
Last edited: