James wasn't that bad, up to 2005 or so he ran old espsoftworks.
It was a nice game, company mostly with tabletop games, monkey business,
pinball classic, and dynaman were origionally his as well as shellshock
and a few others.
Then he decided to branch out and make his own style of gaming someone
adventurous.
He had several games planned max shrapnal, montisumers, raceway, and
genisus project some which had trailers etc.
But it never happened, life as it is caught up with him and chucked him
a nice golf ball in the nuts and he couldn't do much for a bit.
Unfortunately so confident was he that he started a preorder for a lot
of his games that were coming out.
People had payed for these games, and the release dates came up and nothing.
We had had games delayed for weeks and months so at first no one
actually bothered about it.
In fact no one bothered about it for a while except to ask randomly
about it on forum.
A year went past and people were optimistic.
Then another year went buy, people were concerned.
Where is this mr north.
Finally at the 3 year mark someone wrote to him and got no responce.
After that someone asked one of the mods of one of the lists, not sure
if audiogames.net was about yet but no one got a responce.
4 years after, people started bailing out of the entire thing.
At the end of 5 years, everyone had had enough.
In the middle there was a lot of pushing and shoving I remember staying
out of it for the most part but since I had never ordered anything, it
wasn't my issue.
At some point phill of pcs was able to get a message through and tell us
he was having issues and would come back when he could.
I do remember the community actually calmed down for a little but with
no official responce, they started up again.
Finally I decided to simply ask him what was going on explaining that no
one had heard him for a while.
He simply told me to go fork myself and blocked me basically flipped.
What a retard I thought.
It was only later we found out a few people had decided to wage their
own private war with him over email, they had kept it mostly off our
radar, people these days put the war in the open but at this current
time they didn't.
Neither did he come out about this, we would I am sure have done
something about those that were attacking him.
Then again rumor was that it didn't come from inside our current
community which was smaller than it is now.
Thats the entire history about it.
No one knows what went on, why james stopped notifying us, or how he
could have forgotten those that he got cash from.
My theory has always been that something happened so dire that he simply
couldn't come back.
The rumor mill is that he was a total ass hole that wanted to take our
cash and run but I don't believe that, still don't.
The fact he was attacked was probably due to the stuff not being
released from those that had payed for the stuff, the rest is unknown.
It could have been a bug and life, life, a bug, or anything.
No one knows what happened origionally, we did in the end bann a few
trouble makers about 3 from insid e the community, but most of it was
outside.
Those in his inner circle said he was hounded by people, ofcause they
were ours.
Some of them were banned to.
In the end it was left a mystory.
If james comes back, and well follows things and is sure of himself this
time then we can give him another chance.
The first thing he is going to have to do is pay those back their cash
for all the games he promissed.
Rumors were that some of that was done I can not confirm it.
On 31/12/2017 7:43 a.m., Justin Jones wrote:
Okay, reality check: if a developer cannot handle the heat, he
shouldn't be a developer, or, at the very least, have someone else
handle his public relations.
I don't know anything about this James person you guys are on about,
but based on what I have heard, he sounded like a thin-skinned
narsicist that needed to get over himself. What, did he actually think
that the main stream gaming public would treat him better? Hate to
break the news, but main stream gamers are just as, if not more so,
toxic; just as demanding; just as unforgiving. If you want to develop
games, you had better be prepared to handle that reality and not cry
about it when the Internet takes a swing at you.
On 12/30/17, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes I agree also. And now everybody I checked my bank and I am good to go!
So guess what? I am off to buy a hero’s call and start playing, yay!
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: Ian McNamara
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 12:54
To: blind-gamers@groups.io
Subject: Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question
Hi all,
I completely agree, it’s good to give feedback to developers but not be
nasty or slag them off. If your not satisfied with what your getting then
why not learn the skills and make a game you want?
Kind regards.
Ian McNamara
On 30 Dec 2017, at 17:42, Jordan Gallacher <jordanandseptem...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Yep so true. It is also not right to talk about another product on a
list
that is specificly for one product, which is what one person did, and he
caused a lot of headaches for a lot of people.
Jordan
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of
michael barnes
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 10:47 AM
To: blind-gamers@groups.io
Subject: Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question
It is very sad when people are nasty with developers of games for the
blind.
We have lost so many developers do to this reason.
It is cool to give ideas or suggestions, but not to be nasty with them.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Groups.io Links:
You receive all messages sent to this group.
View/Reply Online (#118287): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118287
View All Messages In Topic (17): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/7726376
Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/7726376/21656
New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post
Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656
Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers
Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io
Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos
Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
