nervous wrote:cybaster wrote:I see where you're going with this. But we're lacking the missing link in the grand malevolent design: How the fuck is kidney going to make money off of this project with the entire team he works with breathing down his neck?
That's why I don't buy it. Everybody's watching everybody now.
You're severely overestimating your abilities to read someone online. It's hard enough in person, online you're fucked. WK is going to profit off of LH.
He won't profit immediately, but down the road when this is further back in your head. It'll be after LH has been crowned the champion savior of all private servers that can do no wrong by a forum filled with retarded sycophants. It'll be after old developers and moderators burn out from the workload and are replaced by new, largely unvetted ones.
Do you know how easy it is to forge a completely new online persona and insert it into what was once a close knit group of people? Just takes a voice changer with some slight tuning.
Accept corruption as an inevitability, because it is. That way when something smells fishy, you can call it out for what it is ~6-9ish months before it actually goes public and stop wasting your time.
Your conjecture is even weaker than mine. I won't bother to defend my impressions regarding something as nebulous as human character. They're just that, and you're welcome to dismiss them.
But your reply contains nothing more than personal beliefs regarding the non-existence of individuals who value running their hobby well over skimming truly unimpressive amounts off the top of said hobby. I don't think your attitude is any more rational than someone assuming corruption isn't the norm in our community, when it plainly is.
I was out of Elysium at the first whiff of smoke, and long before there was fire - a little over a month in, actually. Maybe I read the bones faster than you?