So, I guess I will clear some things up. (Kallop can feel free to ban after, but let Dragula (Grobar) roam the forum I suppose)
Emo came to me for help, as he had been turned away from another developer. I stepped in and helped him out, re-bought my IPB license (renewal), bought the forum host to host it, and got him some DDOS software to help relieve some attacks. He was extremely grateful for everything I did for him, and when he first said the official date, I didn't realize it was a Thursday at all as I wasn't paying much attention (I am very busy IRL), and he began paying for FB advertising and me and some others said Facebook wouldn't be the greatest outlet, but he continued, he is a bit stubborn but not in a bad nature type way. Well, I found out he had paid for KO-Cuce, the "fake" one, when he just PM'd me and told me about it, I have been out of the advertising game for a while so I was unaware there was two different outlets, so shame on me for not knowing, and shame on him for just pulling the trigger on something he doesn't know much about. So fast forward, we have a date, during this entire period of getting to official, a week and half before, my boss (IRL) resigns from his position, and I am promoted to said position in under a week. My responsibilities legitimately tripled IRL and I got busy, and I expressed my concern I didn't think I would make the deadline (I told him in the beginning before hand I would need time as I am busy IRL), but he was also very persistent (as he can be, he paid for advertising and to pull it all back would have set him back financially) so he moved forward, (I should have been more stern and told him no, but to be honest I didn't wish to argue or debate over it). During beta, I got multiple reports, these reports I would work on... after working 12-14 hour shifts (I am on call 24/7) and would work on them well into the AM and then wake up in 3-4 hours and go to work all while maintaining my kid and such. I did this when I had the time, and it is limited and he knew about it. But again... it came down to financial issues being low, and before you all say: "You should of told him you were too busy and he could of got someone else." Yeah, with the budget he had, no one would have done anything, so.
Now let's get to my pay and everything else, I made about $279 from him on Facebook, and $67 on PayPal, grand total I made about - $346. I easily put in 30 hours in the time I worked on it, so put that to about $11 an hour? I can assure everyone, not many developers would have done what I did for him for this amount, I can promise you. The database isn't copy and pasted as some of you claim to think... this is my Surge Network DB, with my Apollo KO DB mixed together and some of the Web Developers DB mixed (he offered), and it came out to be quite the mess, not going to lie. I could fix it, but I needed time, something I didn't have. I even took my monthly cost down from 250 to 100 to allow him to better manage the server financially. It is very easy to judge a person on this forum for not completing tasks, but until you are behind actually doing the work for the price I was doing it and have my IRL time restrictions, you have no room to speak.
I have nothing against Emo, he is definitely a person who tries his best and he did bust his ass on doing drops and the more tedious tasks. It came down to financial trouble that influenced a lot of his decisions, and I don't fault him for it... we have all been in tight spots and make decisions based on it all. Whether or not they were the right decisions, well, that is for you to judge. I wish him nothing but the best of luck on whatever he does next and there are no hard feelings between me and him.
To the staff of Old-KO, Bjorn and Shazz, thank you for the kind words.
@Samson,
They make a new login screen? Sounds not working? Login screen was done by our GFXer, I didn't touch it. Sounds not working? Hmm, maybe Emo or I removed SND folder to reduce the size of the client, that legit takes two seconds. Bugs being reported take a bit more time.
@DaSinister,
Unsure how you are still on this forum, wishing cancer upon my child is something that makes me sick to my stomach, since we are on the topic of making people sick.
This is all I am going to reply too and it is all I have to say.
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