I Had to

[Kaiser]

Clay is actually the owner of PSPU. I brought up the story about that guy making being payed by PSPU to destroy PSP3D's rep directly to Clay. Its not true both the owners hate the guy as he is just making up $#@! to ruin both sites reputations. However there is still crap being flinged around sites so some stories are true while some have been exaggerated. Its hard to know what is true and what is not these days

[Fanjita]

Sigh.

Here are the facts.

- (as already pointed out by Kaiser) RichardBru has nothing to do with PSPUpdates. It seems he just likes to generate negative publicity for himself and others. See various fake downgraders in the past as further evidence.

- Ditlew posted the beta menu originally within the forums at PSPUpdates, intending to keep the audience small because it was just an experiment. When there was zero feedback, it was (unwisely, in retrospect) posted to the front page of PSPU, temporarily, to get a bit more attention for it. That front page post was fairly quickly withdrawn.

- No money changed hands for this. It was a beta, pure and simple, and the idea was just to restrict the support burden.


Personally I wouldn't have bothered making a request to keep the audience limited, because I know how little the community respects that kind of thing (as this thread evidences).

There's no scheme or scam here. There's no all-consuming conspiracy to somehow deprive non-PSPU members of ... *gasp* a beta menu with a simple text UI. Just an honest attempt to get feedback on a tentative idea from a small audience.

So sue us.

All this stirring and suspicion and general bitching (all over the PSP's little corner of the web) is just so damned depressing. If only human beings could be rational, reasonable, trusting adults some of the time, we'd all be a lot happier.


EDIT: Replying to a few specific points:

If they wanted good and helpful feedback they should have posted at ps2dev

Developer feedback is all well and good, but it's much more important for that particular beta to get feedback from end-users. As any seasoned software developer knows, users think in totally different ways.

I do know that his staff is payed cash "so they can do their jobs better".

PSPU is run on the basis of employing professional (in the sense of paid) staff. The intent is that dedicated, professional staff will do a better job. You're welcome to draw your own conclusions about how well that works, but it's always been the clearly stated position (AFAIK).

The reason Ditlew only posted it there was because it was a very early beta,
and incase you didnt notice, ditlew is an admin of pspu, so it wouldnt be "paid off".

Ditlew is actually a moderator of just the eLoader forums at PSPU. I have slightly more privileges as a global moderator across all forums.

Neither of us has admin permissions beyond what is needed for day-to-day post moderation. Oh, and neither of us has any financial stake in QJ.net, nor payment from them, beyond a couple of previous payments for some exclusive releases.

[robotdevil]

You guys ever get to wondering if Sony will attempt some $#@! like this? I mean think about it, they want to destry homebrew stuff on their console and what bettery way to do that than implode the community. Seriously, if all the noobs start flinging poo at eachother what will be left? A handfull of developers and coders who share amongst themselves. I think that would be a terrible thing to happen. I'm no coder, and I don't try everything as soon as it's out, but I do appreciate the community and all the hard work of countless people. I'm now attempting to start a project (see Port Ideas forum), and flying poo like this could very easily kill it.

So basically, what I'm saying is hold off judgement until the entire story breaks. And for the noobs out there, put down the poo and at least skim every post before you start your replies.

Again, thanks to all the coders/developers for all their hard work that makes homebrew not only possible, but worthwhile too. And for you noobs that keep asking for stuff, do a google search and see if it can be done first, these people give up enough of their time for us allready, lets try to lighten their load by not taking up their time with stupidass questions. Less time they spend saying "No we can't do that cause of IP/No source available" the sooner we'll get a full eLoader for 2.00+ (as in no more GTA). Well, maybe not, but I'm sure there's tons of other stuff they gotta do.