Non quis, sed quid.

How many of you have taken a few seconds to reflect on the one thing you all apparently hate happening – developers leaving your precious Scene? That’s right. A mere few seconds – possibly even one second – of thought would have brought you to the realisation that your actions do in fact impact what Developers do or not do. So, consider the following and then see if you can tell me why any of us need to sit here taking crap from the “Scene” and still have to release things to keep you happy:

You are a PSP developer.
And by PSP developer I do not mean that YOU think you are one but that you have proven yourself as a PSP developer through releases, contributions to the PSP SDK or something of similar nature. That means you are not the equivalent of test30, becus25 (or whatever the hell he goes by now – Dark_Moon [someone idolizes someone too much]), noob2psp or whatever (other) bullshit developer wannabe that respectable developers like jas0nuk, MaTiAz and FreePlay have flagged as being posers. Still, at least test30 and bec…Dark_Moon actually do *some* work unlike retards like Project EE and Team AoP.

You’ve just released some really big project.
Be it a custom firmware, a great discovery or…whatever. You get a lot of praise for your hard work…and then you get the usual trolls that seem to purely exist to put down your work – which, sadly, you are used to. But what you don’t expect is the lamers that decide to hex-edit and remove your credit before posting it on their site, hex-edit your work and re-release it under their own name or take your work and other Developer’s work, throw it all together and claim it as their own.

How do you feel now?
How would YOU feel if you had a team like AoP claiming to be better than you when all they are doing is stealing your work? How would YOU feel if a website removed your name from the things you’ve worked SO HARD on and then released it? How would YOU feel if I were to take your program’s source, change a few things, recompile it and call it my own?

How do you think Dark_AleX, Mathieulh, jas0nuk, FreePlay, Wildcard and the rest of us feel? I’ll tell you how some of us feel. We’ve had enough of this crap and we’re thinking of leaving.

Face it people. The PSP Scene sucks. It might have taken some of the Developers a while to realise – or maybe we were just in denial the whole time, but we’re slowly getting there. Having people piss on our hard work by releasing our work modified and under their name or having groups pop up that don’t know their left from their right yet insist on belittling the better Developers by stating they’ll “show [insert good Developer (group) here] how it is done” is really the last straw. If any of you truly care for the thing you call “our Scene” then you’ll stop supporting these phony startups and show them that they are not wanted here.

This rant is of a very serious nature. Choose to ignore it at risk of losing the best Developers in the Scene because some of them feel the same way. And some of them, like myself, have contemplated leaving the Scene because they – or we – are really tired of having to deal with the crap that people give us and the appalling lack of support or thanks.

So before you decide to throw out a “you suck!”, “[developer] is better than you”, etc. take a few seconds to think things over. Who knows, maybe the developer or group or team you are targeting has had enough and that one small comment sends them over the edge? Or, even worse, maybe they were working on something much more advanced and unheard of…and your seemingly small comment is the last they want to hear, forcing them to give up and leave the Scene? Don’t believe this is possible? Well, all I will tell you is that it has happened. Yes, there are a lot of things you have not seen released by many very skilled Developers because of the immaturity and lack of respect the Scene has.

If you truly want for the aspiring Developers out there who are near Dark_AleX’s level to stay, then the Scene seriously needs to wake up, grow up and show some respect for everyone else. When a new developer (group) shows up, don’t attack them…give them the benefit of the doubt until a respected individual or a known, proven, Developer shows that they’re fakes. And PLEASE, when that happens, don’t go flaming the known and respected Developers and don’t even think of stating they’re “just jealous” – instead, help them in ridding the Scene of the filth and trash that has caused a few of your most favourite developers to leave.

Lest you lose more than your precious Dark_AleX.