It's official, h4x0r now worse than CH

[Joe Forster/STA]

totte1015, now you're making a point. (Although you still owe me actual virus scanner reports about h4x0r's supposedly infected or, at least, suspicious files.) I forwarded it into our internal forum although, let me remind you again, GCW doesn't filter uploads by principle so, if this policy changes at all, that's not gonna be easy.

And, yes, you're rgith, no filtering except for CheatHappens' promo trainers. They uploaded (probably real) trainers with h4x0r-abusing filenames as well as fake trainers, some in h4x0r's name. This is also something that couldn't have happened "on GCW several years ago" and they were banned subsequently. No, not right after the war - I cried several times for permanent ban at once (more about prejudice below) but Empire refused and continued to accept their promo trainers until he got fed up. This is not taking sides, this is a reaction to actual abuse of service. This has also been pointed out in one of our announcements but, apparently, you missed that, too.

Saying that traffic is the only indicator of the success of a site is bullshit.
- What ratio of the traffic do you think is trainers, taking into account their average size and the average interest in using them? A fraction of a percent? Or are cracks, the vast majority of traffic, "going down", too?
- It was part of the submission policy to refuse Steam cracks. Now, did the traffic increase or decrease because of this? None of us know - maybe, even Empire doesn't. The policy has changed recently. Will traffic increase or decrease? Does this have to do with Steam cracks raising the average quality of cracks or only with the simple fact that there's more stuff available, not trying to sway people's decisions with our own prejudice?
- When I became a moderator on this forum, I rewrote the rules with much clearer text, I checked posts thoroughly and punished offences against the rules consistently. Now most of the forum is dead, with the exception of CD/DVD conversions. I once thought I killed it but then the others explained that, no, it's just that people migrated to forums where warez talk, unlike here, is allowed. (So, yeah, I killed the forum but not the way I thought.) Now, are we preferring quality over quantity or vice versa on the forum?!

I told h4x0r several times, including public posts and PM's, that he should remove DRM from his trainers. We agreed with cocodrilo, his "colleague", and he promised me to try to persuade him. He, apparently, failed. Now I'm trying to explain to CD/DVD conversion authors that DRM doesn't lead anywhere. The only long-term solution for the "digital theft" problem is that if something is really free (i.e. open source) then the words "stealing" and "theft" lose their meaning. Do people listen to me? Only some do. Now, am I trying to persuade people into preferring quality over quantity or vice versa?

You're seeing this topic black and white when it's actually grey.

Finally, let me make everyone understand perfectly: I'm not sure if this thread aims at what it seems to aim at so if it proves to be just another propaganda campaign then people will get banned. This is a very sensitive topic with severe accusations, especially from people who are yet to prove their worthiness and reliability on this forum, so I'll remain suspicious.

[EMPiRE]

I totally agree that the trainers that h4x0r is currently producing contain too much DRM/Adware crap but it is up to you, as user, if you want to use them or not. We only give you a choice. Personally I do not use them because of this, that is my own personal choice!

If any of h4x0r’s (or anyone elses) trainers contain malware/trojans/whatever crap then they will not be posted. A warning is already posted next to the download that it contains DRM + Adware, that should be enough info. It is up to you to us it or not!

I still stand by that ALL available trainers will be published (even if they turn out to be useless), that also counts for CH promo's. We have given them the change to send them in again and that they will be posted but we've yet to see them arrive. The only thing we want is that they do not abuse anyone in any way, which should not be a big deal if you really want to change! It could be intentionally but in the end it is up to CH to change, we can't and won't do anything about that!

As for traffic going down, this was totally predicted (for years already). The main reason is the digital download era and that GCW is simply not needed that often anymore then a few years back. It is too bad that this is happening but then again we are doing this for fun and everything has an EOL, I am well aware if that...
Also if you check the other sites doing/copying what we are doing you will see exactly the same trend, so nothing new there!

[Joe Forster/STA]

Oh noes, this abso-fucking-lutely cannot be possible: few visitors -> few advertisement -> few revenue -> site enters a spin. Stall warning!

[Grumpy]

@bainbryanp

Originally Posted by EMPiRE

ALL available trainers will be published (even if they turn out to be useless), that also counts for CH promo's

[Joe Forster/STA]

@Grumpy: Don't bother, bainbryanp was (!) a spambot.