Now that there is a very bold statement. But it has it’s reasons.
So this is the story, all about how Zodttd turned upside down. And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, I’ll tell you how he became the ass of the Jailbroken iPhone…

ZodTTD is a very talented and hardworking software developer, he is best known for porting emulators to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Enjoyed by many, his projects are very successful with thousands of Jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch users using his software. However there is a fee for his two most popular products, SNES4iPhone and GpSPhone, but it wasn’t always like that…
About a year ago he offered all his ports free of charge out of consideration for the community, but allowed for donations for those who appreciated his work. He showed his appreciation of donations, by offering all the betas of his software to donaters before he released them to the public. His work was very generous, and so personally I felt he deserved the donations, so I of course donated what I could, he only allowed a few “set donations” so I made the “Generous donation”.

However his offer of unreleased betas soon died out, and everyone got the software at the same time. This isn’t such a bad thing as donaters still get software as its ready, it simply isn’t delayed for the public. However a few months later ZodTTD made a controversial move, he put a price on GpSPhone. He didn’t hold his word for donaters to get all his software first and now donaters don’t get it at all, without giving out more money. This made him lose some followers and lowered his reputation. But due to the negative reaction, he promised it will be the only commercial emulator. Which lessened the impact to his followers.
But once again, a few months later he broke his word. Now snes4iPhone also has a price on it. For us donaters, we felt as if we were scammed. We believed that our donations were going to the cause of continuing his great work in offering free software for the community, but that wasn’t the case.

He also put snes4iPhone on the controversial and much disliked RockApp. Which many of the community have disliked.
Throughout all these events he did not announce his intentions before hand, the community only found out about the new prices when it suddenly cost money to download the software. snes4iPhone has had a price for over a week now, and he has yet to post an update about it on his blog. This spontaneous price addition catches a lot of people off guard and it seems he purposefully hides his intentions from the community, he doesn’t announce any of these additions and he also REMOVES large discussions on the topic from his forums, so much so, that he has now removed his forums to stop people from making such discussions.
This constant deception has earned ZodTTD a bad reputation, and from me the tagline: The ass of the Jailbroken iPhone.

Ricardodude | Category: All Posts | No Comments » | November 27, 2009

I always seem to miss Game of the Week…
Oh well, here’s a game I just bought today; Hitman: Blood Money. I have played it many times before, but have never owned it. I have only borrowed and… :O Pirated it. The pirated version sucked though, no music. Anyway I’m a fan of the series, and I now own 2. Silent Assassin for PC, and Blood Money for 360.
Anyway here’s a trailer:

<blockquote>HITMAN BLOOD MONEY </blockquote>

Ricardodude | Category: All Posts, Game of Whenever | No Comments » | December 23, 2008