Hungry_Myst

To your credit the posts directed to me have been much more reasoned, if a little aggressive. I stand corrected. I realize that these things don't make money on donations unless the community is very generous/dedicated, but whatever helps. I did not realize, however, that you didn't accept donations at all and instead directed people to the mod anthers donation links. For this I apologize, as this fact nullifies most of my argument; I should have looked a little harder before making it. Allow me to quote myself: No, I do not know how to run a forum, certainly noting of this size. I'm also not a lawyer but that doesn't mean I can't identify unjust laws. Coming to this thread from google with the same question, and seeing this sort of response, is quite annoying. HOWEVER, a lot of my frustration here stems from a larger annoyance with the minecraft community in general, and considering what you said I'm starting to realize that in this case it's misplaced. I do still think that this thread could have done with a little less harassment from both sides. But your, completely selfless, donation policy and the complete lack of adfly links changes things a bit. By the way, I "get it" more then you give me credit for, and I'm sorry for venting my frustrations to a group who didn't deserve it.

My issue isn't the lack of an ETA, I really do appreciate how difficult it can be to be completely dependent on other developers before you can do anything. My issue is the response this question generates. Honestly, most of the first page of this thread contained perfectly reasonable and level-headed responses, but then it degenerated into screaming and harassment. This is true, and I really do appreciate it. It's far more convenient to direct my players to the Tekkit launcher then have to muck about with modded .jar files. But it's also a little frustrating to have some very annoying bugs in the capstone mods that, according to change logs, have been fixed in the newer versions. I'm not complaining, my point is just that there are perfectly valid reasons why someone might be looking forward to newer versions. Re: KakerMix Yelling at your users and telling them them to suck it up is certainly easer, and that is also your decision if it's the community image you're looking for. But keep in mind that it's not just the OP you're responding to. Just look at how many views this thread has generated compared to the others, it's clearly a question that many people have on their mind. And when your project runs on donations it might, possibly, be a good idea to tell all those people something less frustrating than "suck it up". Surely there's a middle ground between "everybody is a winner!" and "tough shit"? Like I said, the first couple replies on this thread were perfectly fine, was the harassment and bickering that followed really necessary? It certainly wasn't the "more intelligent, calm community" you said you desired.

Speaking as someone who is also dyslexic I can say that this really isn't an excuse for this degree of bad spelling. While I don't agree with the (frankly bullcrap argument) that "you can learn to spell if you just try hard enough", there are other things you can do. All of the modern browsers have built-in spell checks - just use it, it really couldn't be easier. Before this I would use a document editor with a spell check to check my posts. As for grammar, you really don't have an excuse for that. And to everyone else: sure, it's annoying to have people ask what the ETA is, but it's something that everyone wants to know. Asking for some sort of progress update isn't asking for much, and these rabid attacks are ridiculous. It's incredibly childish and extremely unprofessional that these attacks are not only allowed but appear to be encouraged by the moderators on this forum. I don't know why this strong "it will be done when it's done" mentality is so prevalent in the minecraft community, but there is a reason why it's not common in other games. Namely, it provides a shitty user experience for the people eagerly waiting to be able to use your mod (or, in this case, launcher). Is it really so bad that people like what you have provided so much that they would like to know when they can expect the newest version? What about the server owners who are facing the same questions and have nothing to tell their users? While this may not provide for particularly enlightened discussion, that's mostly due to the continued response of "STOP ASKING!!!111one!!" There's plenty of room for speculation or guessing based on past releases, and most people would be happy with this. Instead, what results is a lot of hatred and resentment that casts a very ugly light on the community, and people still don't get their concerns addressed. I must admit, the responses here - including the response of a forum admin which is supposed to be representative of the forum community - has left me very disenchanted with Tekkit in general.