I have a question? Why do the current developers of TBM even bother anymore? Many of you have stated on several occasions that you dislike Badspot, and the last thing you would want to do is support him. I don't know if you realised this, but modding for a game is a huge support system. It keeps people playing the game, and keeps people interested in the retail version if they are sticking around in the community.
By making TBM, Gobbles and MCP are putting much more money in Badspot's pocket. Even if you guys go and try to make Blockland on another engine, it's just acknowledging that he "won" in your silly little ego match. I guess you're pissed off either way about it.
And Harold never justified the exploit. He said that his own work was ripped off on many occasions, but that didn't give him the right to hack those mods. People borrowing from you is inevitable, you should embrace that fact rather than despise it (it's a lot less crap to worry about that way too).
Luq, though Gobbles may have mapping skills, that doesn't change the type of person he was, and what he did. How often do we ask each other about the good things Riddler did? Obviously that's an exaggeration, but it's the same reasoning. Some people have strong feelings of dislike toward people like Gobbles, and when they see people saying nice things about the guy (even if it's unrelated to hacking and crashing), it's near impossible to separate.
Gobbles has skills at mapping, but that goes out the window when he's manipulative, immature, unkind, and actively tried to ruin the Blockland experience for hundreds of innocent users like astro who had nothing to do with his mod dying and him getting banned from the BL and RTB forums.
PhatStreet, I think you may need to look up the definition of slander. First of all, slander has to be spoken. The word you're looking for is probably "libel", but it still doesn't fit because everything I wrote is either fact, or my own opinion. I never made anything up to defame MCP or Gobbles. They've done plenty to implicate themselves without me needing to falsify evidence. And it doesn't matter if I've played the mod or not, because my opinion isn't based on the quality of the mod, it's based on the character and integrity of those who made it.
When you ask me why Rob and MCP would put that script into the mod to attack their own users, that's a question you have to ask them. I have no idea why they would stoop so low as to do that. I couldn't imagine any one of the RTB members doing something crazy like that. Before you tell me that it would only attack users of AOI, that's just not true because in order for the script to work people would need to have downloaded TBM. Last time I checked, people who downloaded TBM usually had the intent to use it, therefor making them "users" of TBM. Was it TBM's opinion that people should not be able to use more than one mod ever?
Why should the users have to be punished for the mistakes of the developer? It doesn't accomplish anything positive. And arguing against the punishment that Badspot gave them isn't going to make you guys look like anything has changed either. Saying stuff that's in direct conflict to the posts on the front of Blockland.us isn't going to gain you many points.
I don't know what TBM can do at this point to increase credibility, or get people to come back. I don't think there's much they can do at this point. Their reputation is going to be tarnished forever. The best thing they could do for themselves and the rest of the community (if they care for the community) would be to leave and work on their own unrelated game projects. Move on guys, you'll be much happier if you do.
