No It isn't. Professionalism doesn't include just how many games you made it means working "professional". Being Professional means meeting deadlines, working your bone off until you satisfy your customers, being in touch with your Community etc. Criticizing someone "here" who bans regular supporters and (high tier) just because of asking some questions in their own Community is more than fair. If you say it makes you look "petty" or what else... I mean who the fuck cares in first place. Nobody feels like that. People who know how it works, who worked in real teams / projects and made something, do understand these kind of things better than anyone else.
You say "from the comments you guess nobody worked professional". Alright Sherlock Holmes, I guess you truly can find almighty people in a illegal fap community who just knows everything about everybody. Doctors, Psychologists or even freaking magicians you can find all of them here, telling you how the world really works. I'm impressed everyday.
I'm not sure you get how multiquote works. I was responding to 2 different comments, from 2 different people, with 2 different sets of responses. The comment on professionalism had nothing to do with the response to "he hasn't finished any games", where I pointed out that he had, in fact, finished at least 3 (depending on your definition of "finished" it could be as many as 6).
Now, about "Guys...from these comments I'm going to guess you've never done any professional work, or very little." - the 2 people I was replying to were ripping Lewdlab's comments on professionalism because MP is a mess, with tons of delays. The two things (acting like a professional, and doing a bad job developing his latest game) are 2 different things. Saying one follows from the other is a logical fallacy; specifically a non sequitur.
This game should still get the abandoned tag added to it as even with two more updates he will not finish what he promised when he started the game. There is no legal contract for him to complete the game but he made a verbal one that he does not plan to fulfill.
Dude...you are making my point for me. You, as a dev saying this should be marked abandoned (against site policies) lets me say that Lexi should be marked abandoned. Not following the rules, and doing what we feel like, leads to chaos.
(I don't think Lexi should be marked abandoned).
- Offering constructive criticism or calling out bad and actually UNPROFESSIONAL behavior of another Dev is not in itself unprofessional behavior by default. Now i haven't read EVERY single post made by another Dev here so i can't presume to speak for all of them but from the some i have read i have no idea why you would call them all "unprofessional" unless you are of the naive mindset that no dev should criticize another dev under any circumstance.
That's true...except you're putting words in my mouth. I didn't say devs shouldn't criticize other devs. I said "Devs shouldn't rip on other devs".
So no he isn't correct, inserting some weird and arbitrary limit on what is "professional" and what is not does not extend to others giving constructive criticism or calling out bad behavior of another dev. In fact i can understand the frustration of many of the other Devs since they have 10 times the worth ethic and responsibility that ICSTOR has shown in the past year or 2 but he has more than 10 times the patreons than 95% of the Devs on this site. It's a shame because more and more Devs are gonna figure out that they can get away with lots of crap on name recognition alone.
There are many discussions of professional behavior on the internet. Part of it boils down to respect, and treating other people well. Most codes of conduct can be broken down to "don't be a dick". I'm not talking about work ethic, I'm talking about not being a dick. Devs shouldn't be a dick to other devs, because you're giving someone else a license to be a dick to you. Being a dick is not the same as calling out someone who is fucking up. You can call out people without being a dick about it.
My Sweet Neighbors dev hasn't said a word since December of 2018 and he is still sitting at 2000 dollars a month, that's the power you have as a Dev once you build up enough of a recognition and fanbase, so yes i am all for other Dev's voicing their frustration with the ones who are actually being unprofessional.
The problem with your example here is Pandelo has turned off charges every month since he went silent. This has been verified repeatedly in the MSN thread by patrons. But I get your point - dickhead creators who suck in cash for doing nothing (I'm looking at you, Gumdrop) cast a stain on other devs, and is a giant source of frustration.
