SailorAlea said:
It has nothing to do with narrowmindedness. Most mods don't make release--it's a fact. Why do most mods collapse? Lack of skillful coders, and lack of ambition.
I'm sorry but you probably have no idea who our coder is.
SailorAlea said:
Several mods in the past have used "legal issues" as an excuse to shut down their mod--they didn't want to just come out and say why they were shutting down the mod, it seems. BFP is highly suspected (if not 'known') of doing this.
So you want to say you dont believe ZEQ2 got shutted down by Funi?
If you dont, excuse me, thats nerrowmindedness, doesnt have anything to do with a fact or opinion.
SailorAlea said:
The fact that you guys are claiming that Funimation sent a cease and desist order is in itself suspicious--because, as people have said, ESF has been much more successful than ZEQ2 was, and has yet to receive any cease and desist orders. On the contrary, ESF has received special permission from people to use their intellectual property, like the main menu's use of one of Bruce Falconer's songs, the SSJ3 Accension Theme.
Currection, we didnt get any C&D yet, we just got a notice to take the project down.
Although, it could have gotten into a C&D.
I think that has very much to do with ESF working on Half-life (Valve) and Steam and has some sort of protection.
Not to mention ESF is already up on the net for a few years, sending a C&D now would be completly useless and obviously too late.
Maybe Funi were too late for that, who knows...
But it is indeed very strange, I've been wondering about that myself...
SailorAlea said:
Naturally, people think you guys got lazy and quit. Why? Your site was down for endless months at a time (how hard is it to keep even a front page with a notice running?), seldom updates, etc--if that is hard-work by a dedicated team actively working towards completion, you certainly fooled me.
Everytime the site was down, we had a notice that we will comeback with a running site and full progress.
I guess I cant blame you since you had no idea what went on underground.
Last year, the site went down a couple of times, yes.
It was a simple issue, we decided to go underground for a while so we can work quietly and then raise back up with full material, and so we have, not sure if you've been in that time.
Why we havent released anything yet? not because we're freaking lazy...
Because we wanted to achive more then we already had, we felt we could improve ourselfs over and over again, this year, we reached our max, and I think you could see that in our media shown in our site.
SailorAlea said:
Please don't think I am criticizing you--I never had anything invested in ZEQ2, and I knew out of experience when you guys started that the likelihood of a release was next to zero.
Thats too bad, it's your call though.
How ever, if Funi wouldnt have stepped in you would have seen something from us.
But again...we didnt/dont have to prove anything to anyone, so I guess I'll let that go...
SailorAlea said:
The point is--don't act so surprised people are doubtful you were shut down, as people have pulled that before, you were previously totally inactive for months at a time, had almost no updates, etc--people understand mods don't always work out and won't hold it against you. Although (if true) you guys have already taken the plunge, so the embarassment might prevent that.
No. I am suprised, people are still having the wrong ideas and dont have faith in anything anymore.
Guess I cant blame them though, I know exactly what you mean, I havent seen a decent mod myself who made a release recently.
But faith cant hurt anyone, especialy when it was about ZEQ2...too late now I guess...it's not in our hands anymore.
frsrblch said:
I still cannot believe that this has happened. If you guys hadn't have gotten your website back up...
I know...I'm still trying to hold it off myself...
frsrblch said:
I was really looking forward to seeing this project moved to completion. What bits you had shown the community were amazing, to say the least. I can't imagine what else you had that wasn't shown, or what you had planned.
Thanks man...=[ I really wish you could see what we had going...