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| Goodbye 09/01/2015 at 21:10 #67664 | |
onlydjw
456 posts |
Dear all, The time has come after much pain and deliberation, to formally leave the Simsig community, both as a tester and a user - although the former has been in a much reduced capacity for some time now as a result of the changes to Simsig over recent years, and the removal of any training offered by Simsig for me to develop my skills past the point it reached. Further, a number of developers who asked me to help them then changed their terms of agreement, some without telling me, and some whilst making money out of my time which I have never been paid for. Put together with the likelihood that work I have already carried out, and not publicly seen, will be subject to the same abuse, I am walking away before I get duped into carrying on again. In the last year, it has become clear that I am no longer wanted as a tester - probably because nobody can make any money out of me. I have worked for 8 developers over the past three and a half years, to a greater or lesser extent, and this week, it has come down to none of them. Through a combination of betrayal, lies, wrongly understood persuasion, ignorance and being cut out of several projects without any reasons being given, some of which resulted in no credit being given, some in the loss of connection with other Simsig testers and users, and some in just a general lack of communication, Simsig has left me feeling very ill at times. In one case, I was even told I was being too pedantic by a developer, who then refused to communicate with me. It all contributed to a major emotional breakdown during the latter part of 2014. Now, things have come straight back to where they were then. Despite trying to talk with people over the Christmas period, the things I was told have proved to be lies, and so it appears I was duped into carrying on with one project, I suspect, because I am the only one remaining working on it aside from the developer. I can no longer cope with the occasional communications, on and off work on only some things, despite being asked about other projects, which I was assured I hadn't been cut out of. This time, I have to stand strong, and say "enough". Therefore, I am leaving, and letting go of all of my Simsig commitments with immediate effect. I just hope Geoff can find some of his inner circle (and yes, there definitely is one - and it has become more obvious in recent times) to help finish the work I have spent hundreds of hours doing, which is not in the public domain at this stage. And, I hope the standard of the work will be higher than some of the buggy sims of recent times. I have never wanted to pay for something that I end up reporting bug after bug for, let alone pay to test sims. Why am I posting here? Simply to let you all know my decision, so that things won't get brushed under the carpet any more, and so everyone has the same story, and the truth. I've had so many things denied by the inner circle which I've later found out about, and even more ignorance to the issues which they don't want to resolve. I know perfectly well that some others share some of my opinions, yet nobody speaks out. Here's your chance. Say what you think about what's going on. For example, for some time, some of us testers have been struggling to develop our skills, because nobody higher up will share with us. Yet, higher up aren't interested in helping us. This means Simsig relies on the same group of people to develop and test their own sims, and means testers like me were just cut out, ans we can't do everything they can, yet there is no support for anyone on the outside. In my opinion, this means sims take longer to develop and test, because those developing are then testing each others work, rather than having their own testers do this. Anyone wanting to become a tester should note that being asked is one thing - getting any proper support is quite another. As for what has been my biggest project over the past three and a half years - South Humberside is still very much ongoing. I leave it in a more realistic position than when I was asked to join the project, but it will be some time before most of you see it. It may well now take longer still, but that's not my problem any more. I've tried, been in and out for a while, got cut out so much that things got to me, and now they've come back, it's time to move on to something else (I'm not sure what yet), before it gets to me again, and before I end up in an even worse place as a result. I suspect this post will either be deleted, or most of what I've said will just be denied - like things have been to me. I just hope Simsig develops the potential of people outside of it's inner circle, resulting in high quality sims for many years to come, and doesn't get trapped in time pressures and buggy releases. I have made my decision - I just cannot carry on being taken advantage of, abused and mistreated by a minority. I go in search of real friends, something which is very difficult in an autistic world. But in that world, Simsig is not a welcome place anymore. Goodbye. (Please don't send any PMs - they won't be read or answered). God bless, Daniel Wilson Log in to reply The following users said thank you: vontrapp, maxand, ozrail, CABOOSEMAN |
| Goodbye 11/01/2015 at 00:02 #67711 | |
GeoffM
6287 posts 
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I have kept all the replies, good and bad, but they are hidden away for the time being. Degenerating thread locked.
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