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Alkaiion 3 May, 2018 @ 8:23pm
About the Event Today... @blitzfire911
Edit: For those of you skeptical about some claims in this post, friend me so that I can give you some resources.

Your patreon supporters give you like $447 a month though. Quit trying to guilt trip people just because you care little for those who spend their own money supporting you. I don't know about you but I wouldn't think that♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥in the faces of the 19 people who support you on Patreon is exactly the best way to make more money, which seems to be the reason why you plaster your twitch account over a bunch of your items when it could have been done simply by adding a sort of note that had the info to the workbench.

However, you just went ahead and did that, sparking outlash from the community who use this mod, banning anyone who criticized your methods of self-advertisement from your twitch account, and just continuously giving the half♥♥♥♥♥♥♥reply of "if you don't like the links then don't use the mod" which shows the community just how little you care about them. When your continuous regurgitation of the same statement doesn't work, you FINALLY add a fix to it, but rather than making the advertisement less obnoxious, you make it a config option so that server owners have to go in and fix your mistakes for you, while you just leave a note in the patch notes saying "for those of you who dont want to support the mod", even though you brought this on yourself.

In fact, I could even say that some of your patreon supporters might stop supporting you if they hear of all this, as you made their donations seem like nothing to you. Sure, you may have spent "2K hours" on this mod (which is shown because the mod is high quality itself), but I don't think that your twitch account will be making more money than what your patreon supporters are already providing you. By plastering your twitch link on several different crafting tables in the mod (in orange so people would notice it, i know how this works) you act as if you're absolutely desperate for money despite your actual situation.

I'd say that your decision to mass advertise will possibly tarnish the reputation of the mod for a long time to come (despite it being a good mod), which may even make it so you get less support than you used to have. Don't blame the community for your mistakes while spitting in the faces of those who showed their support by subscribing to your damn mod in the first place, as without those people, your mod wouldn't have gotten off the ground very easily. Perhaps if you don't guilt trip anymore and work towards restoring your reputation, people will trust you again.

-Serbia
Last edited by Alkaiion; 3 May, 2018 @ 8:34pm
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kortniechan 3 May, 2018 @ 9:35pm 
I agree, this is a discusting move on the devs part. this mod was a pretty good mod. I stream on twitch and make YT videos and i will be removing the mod now that he has done this. Its not that i dont want to support the mod author , but this is the WRONG way to get support. not to mention it is completely immersion breaking and ugly. I am actually shocked that someone would be so stupid as to do this to a pretty decent mod for any reason.
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JP (Banned) 3 May, 2018 @ 10:03pm 
Originally posted by kortniechan:
I agree, this is a discusting move on the devs part. this mod was a pretty good mod. I stream on twitch and make YT videos and i will be removing the mod now that he has done this. Its not that i dont want to support the mod author , but this is the WRONG way to get support. not to mention it is completely immersion breaking and ugly. I am actually shocked that someone would be so stupid as to do this to a pretty decent mod for any reason.
dont remove the mod yet. he just updated it with an ini settings change to remove the twitch from all benches except control console. at least he listend to us. the dev might not be that bad after all. and AA should be an ark sponsored mod anyways.
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Valykai Hyena 3 May, 2018 @ 10:09pm 
Originally posted by 123:
Originally posted by kortniechan:
I agree, this is a discusting move on the devs part. this mod was a pretty good mod. I stream on twitch and make YT videos and i will be removing the mod now that he has done this. Its not that i dont want to support the mod author , but this is the WRONG way to get support. not to mention it is completely immersion breaking and ugly. I am actually shocked that someone would be so stupid as to do this to a pretty decent mod for any reason.
dont remove the mod yet. he just updated it with an ini settings change to remove the twitch from all benches except control console. at least he listend to us. the dev might not be that bad after all. and AA should be an ark sponsored mod anyways.

The ini setting to remove the twitch link doesn't even work.
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JP (Banned) 3 May, 2018 @ 10:13pm 
Originally posted by V𐌰L𐍅𐍂𐍅M:
Originally posted by 123:
dont remove the mod yet. he just updated it with an ini settings change to remove the twitch from all benches except control console. at least he listend to us. the dev might not be that bad after all. and AA should be an ark sponsored mod anyways.

The ini setting to remove the twitch link doesn't even work.
yea you are right. i cant get it to work on my servers either. just finished testing. doesnt seem like the function was designed to work or hasn't been implemented yet. what a shame.
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Wreck-It-Ralf 4 May, 2018 @ 2:01am 
Blitz released a complete overhaul on the Mod, I for one appreciatre the twitch link as a server admin on a busy server, if someone had issue's last night they jumped on his stream and asked questions. What other developer of a mod is there to talk when they release an update?
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DrunkMunki 4 May, 2018 @ 2:32am 
@JamieW1989 - its good a developer commits such time to help out its subscribers, but has gone about it the wrong way of advertising his stream, for one its in game, ruins game play and immersion, and sets a dangerous precedent, where others doing the same thing floods the games with spam and makes everything an eyesore.
And as a server admin you sure wouldnt appreciate everyone spamming and advertising in game...
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Karl 4 May, 2018 @ 3:43am 
i honestly think you will loose subscribers over this and alienate your followers
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blitzfire911  [developer] 4 May, 2018 @ 5:40am 
Just an fwi I gained subscribers to the mod yesterday, a good increase and saw a 600% growth on the twitch channel. I had a lot of people stopping by the stream for mod support, so big plus side there of live tech support. Logos can be removed in an ini setting for those people who have linkophobia.
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KondimentKing 4 May, 2018 @ 5:52am 
Originally posted by blitzfire911:
Just an fwi I gained subscribers to the mod yesterday, a good increase and saw a 600% growth on the twitch channel. I had a lot of people stopping by the stream for mod support, so big plus side there of live tech support. Logos can be removed in an ini setting for those people who have linkophobia.
The workaround is not working....
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Vaalskaarr 4 May, 2018 @ 5:55am 
yo guys, tbf this is his work and his creation... i dont get you guys. he does this in his own time and still you guys are complaining bout a little advertising. people nowadays are so self centered. he makes this and if you dont like the changes he has made u can make a comment bout it. but keep it decent.... the fact that u are DEMANDING a change tells me more bout you guys than the dev. never ever has he stated that you need to pay for his work. you can just use it for free and yet you still complain bout a little advertising. why dont you make a mod like this and put it up for free without advertising then. stop critizising people bout their work when u enjoy the mod. u are always free to uninstall it and live without it if you feel like the little advertising is hurting you so much.
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NovaStrike 4 May, 2018 @ 6:54am 
You do realize you are breaking the Twitch advertisement rules which states:

9.iii. make unsolicited offers, advertisements, proposals, or send junk mail or spam to users of the Twitch Services, including, without limitation, unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or other solicitation material, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, chain mail, informational announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, or any of the preceding things related to promotional giveaways (such as raffles and contests), and other similar activities

The fact you put on links on ALL of the modded items and are VISIBLE and your INI code doesn't work shows how little you care about the people and more about your self-absorbed self. I will be reporting you to Twitch as that is basically forcing advertisement to people when they never asked for it to begin with. It's one thing to put it in your steam workshop description, but to spam it in game for everyone to see? Wow. Just. Wow.
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ScottHN 4 May, 2018 @ 7:06am 
Yawn, much ado about nothing.... can you say tempest in a teapot? Sheesh, it's a game people, relax.
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Alkaiion 4 May, 2018 @ 2:27pm 
Originally posted by 123:
yo guys, tbf this is his work and his creation... i dont get you guys. he does this in his own time and still you guys are complaining bout a little advertising. people nowadays are so self centered. he makes this and if you dont like the changes he has made u can make a comment bout it. but keep it decent.... the fact that u are DEMANDING a change tells me more bout you guys than the dev. never ever has he stated that you need to pay for his work. you can just use it for free and yet you still complain bout a little advertising. why dont you make a mod like this and put it up for free without advertising then. stop critizising people bout their work when u enjoy the mod. u are always free to uninstall it and live without it if you feel like the little advertising is hurting you so much.

Do I see a "don't criticize it if you can't do better" argument in what you said? Apply this logic to anything else and it's just plain retarded. For example: you don't have to be a chef to know that food tastes bad, and you certainly don't need to be a movie director to understand that a movie is badly made. Just like how people don't have to be mod developers to tell that advertising in certain forms can be quite obnoxious. In fact, it's not the advertising that I really mind, it's the guilt tripping when people complain that the manner in which he advertised was obnoxious. I'd say that there would have been very little problems if he had put the twitch link in the item's description rather than plastering it on every model. It wouldn't change the appearance of the model (yes, there are people that care about the model's appearance) and would thus seem much less intrusive.
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Sky 4 May, 2018 @ 6:33pm 
Originally posted by V𐌰L𐍅𐍂𐍅M:
Originally posted by 123:
dont remove the mod yet. he just updated it with an ini settings change to remove the twitch from all benches except control console. at least he listend to us. the dev might not be that bad after all. and AA should be an ark sponsored mod anyways.

The ini setting to remove the twitch link doesn't even work.
an easy fix -> uninstall the mod like many of us others have
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Alkaiion 4 May, 2018 @ 8:10pm 
Originally posted by Skyx:
Originally posted by V𐌰L𐍅𐍂𐍅M:

The ini setting to remove the twitch link doesn't even work.
an easy fix -> uninstall the mod like many of us others have
I agree, but this may be a problem for those who play on servers with this installed lol
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