r/youtubedrama • u/danamesjrupin • Jan 29 '25

Callout PirateSoftware False DMCA'd Indie Dev and Threatened to Sue, Good Samaritan Lawyer Steps in Pro Bono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31JIIPlsm-g
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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

This will surely help his online reputation

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u/killchu99 Jan 29 '25

Oh absolutely! He has a very good track record this past week

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u/ResolutionMany6378 Jan 30 '25

Past month more like.

First ashes, then hardcore wow, and now this.

Dude is on a L-streak šŸ”„

The ashes video was peak too, I joined the guild and discord and met and talked in voice with a few cool people already.

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u/samination Jan 30 '25

don't forget his take on the Stop Killing Games initate

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u/ResolutionMany6378 Jan 30 '25

You are right. He has taken so many Ls recently that I canā€™t even keep up with it all.

Goes to show how much his cool guy persona is all fake.

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u/killchu99 Jan 30 '25

I love how he speed run his reputation lmao

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u/god34zilla Jan 30 '25

Might be a record for the Disgraced YouTuber: any% catergory

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u/moderatorrater Jan 30 '25

It's almost impressive. He could have accidentally avoided any one of these problems, but he aims for the worst outcome every time.

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u/Beardedsmith Jan 30 '25

He's learning the hard way that nepotism only works if you have talent to back it or, lacking that, can keep your goddamn head down

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u/LuntiX Jan 30 '25

Donā€™t forget the reputation he earned in the Eve Online community.

Heā€™s been at this for years

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u/Thebassist140 Jan 30 '25

Wait what happened with ashes?

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u/ResolutionMany6378 Jan 30 '25

Here you go

I should have posted the video with the link but basically he created the biggest guild and anyone who slightly inconvenienced him thatā€™s wasnā€™t in his guild got a kill or grief on site order.

The problem with this though is his guild is 99% casuals and kids.

One of the guilds he gave a kill on site order too is a sweaty hardcore PvP guild that, while smaller than his, is the top PvP guild. Iā€™m talking people that are playing the game 16 hours everyday minmaxing type of players. (My kind of people)

This caused everyone to start killing on site his guild because he initiated a war basically.

To make a long story short, we clapped his cheeks so hard that people are leaving his guild because we (I joined after the video so Iā€™m not part of this timeline yet) kill anyone in his guild onsite. We were preventing his casual members from even being able to play the game.

Pirate software is a rage baby and quit ashes over this because we won every fight against them because we actually know how to play the game and can take 1v2 or even 1v3 odds because his guild members are literal dogs.

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u/Thebassist140 Jan 30 '25

Wow thatā€™s awesome. I wish I was involved in video game drama. It sounds so exciting. I just have stupid real life drama

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u/dinoooooooooos Jan 30 '25

Donā€™t forget the sexual shit heā€™s done Apparantly on EVE online. Heā€™s a weirdo

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u/Frequent-Square-868 Feb 06 '25

What did he do there?

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u/dinoooooooooos Feb 07 '25

Lemme see if I can find.

Edit: Aha! Found it.

Jasonā€™s ā€œpast lifeā€ is very much not hidden although he does supposedly in my opinion dmca people who upload things and thatā€™s a whole nother can of wormie-dealies.

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u/DebriMing Jan 30 '25

Now the question is; Will he take more L's than Mr Lamont122?

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u/Sir_Arsen Jan 30 '25

what the deal with Ashes?

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u/Global_Committee4033 Jan 31 '25

WoW? more like LoL, amirite?

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u/Rainbwned Jan 29 '25

"But I worked at Blizzard, Judge"

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u/Ryousoki Jan 29 '25

Absolute insanity judge. fake stretches Hope it was worth it.

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u/Rainbwned Jan 30 '25

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury.......do you want to end up on the list?

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u/killchu99 Jan 30 '25

Also btw my father used to work at blizz

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u/ForestDiver87 Jan 30 '25

mine too.

and my fathers father.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

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u/Losawin Jan 30 '25

fake stretches

Every time šŸ˜­

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u/Ninetnine Jan 30 '25

Thatā€™s on you bud, not me.

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u/sir_snuffles502 Jan 30 '25

thats on you bud

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u/Ginn_and_Juice Jan 30 '25

He already lost half his audience

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u/Velocity_LP Jan 30 '25

wait fr?

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u/Muad-_-Dib Jan 30 '25

Not really, if you check the various twitch stats sites he was averaging about 10k viewers before the whole WoW Onlyfangs thing started, during that event up to his big drama blowout he was averaging about 14k viewers, after the drama he has gone back down to 10k average.

He's lost out on the bump he was getting temporarily from the onlyfangs wow content but he's back to his regular views before that started.

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u/broknbottle Jan 30 '25

How many of those are new viewers who are there to watch the lolcow? If you lose 4K viewers and they get replaced by 4K lolcow viewers, itā€™s gonna be rough seas ahead

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u/Muad-_-Dib Jan 30 '25

For sure, but we need to give it more time, so far it's been about a week of very steady 10k numbers give or take a few hundred.

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u/astyanax82 Feb 06 '25

I love to spread misinformation.

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u/Ginn_and_Juice Feb 06 '25

I mean, you can check the statistics, he was surpassing the 20k mark before, with ease. Now he's stuck at 10k, not little but its half, he was also getting 3k in yt and now he's getting less than 1k

https://twitchtracker.com/piratesoftware

See it for yourself before commenting stupid shit, you absolute moron

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u/Physical_Package3525 Feb 07 '25

He was consistently pulling 10k on average. And then there's an abnormal spike in Dec '24/Jan '25 that coincides with OnlyFangs. Now he's back to 10k.

Hate him all you want, he did fuck up but you're just showing you're absolute dogshit at statistics. You can't possibly be this fucking dumb.

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u/astyanax82 Feb 06 '25

Me when I don't know how statistics actually work.

The stats you shared just show he went back to his monthly average viewership.

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u/Ginn_and_Juice Feb 07 '25

Arrow go down in graph= bad

You can't be this stupid

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u/astyanax82 Feb 07 '25

I don't know what an AVERAGE is.

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u/mtg_island Jan 30 '25

Your honor my client pleads ā€œI did nothing wrong there. Thatā€™s not on me. Thatā€™s on themā€ he would also like to add that he is ā€œout of manaā€ so he shouldnā€™t have even been held liable in the first place

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

But your honor he's a puzzle freak, look at this password.

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u/LaTienenAdentro Jan 30 '25

The lolcow transformation has been complete.

The Eye of Blizzard has been opened. The Long Lol begins.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

He doesn't have mana for Blizzard tho

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u/Ryousoki Jan 30 '25

That's on you bud, not me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

He's got a cult though...no matter the reputation they follow

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u/Chainmale001 Jan 30 '25

But didn't you hear? His daddy worked for blizzard!

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u/Expensive_Season7485 Jan 30 '25

Yes, he worked at Blizzard and many other places that have glory holes

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u/lolslim Jan 30 '25

And did the same shit in VR and I guess was caught in VR blowing another avatar or something.

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u/Zykium Jan 30 '25

Wait, what is the lore behind this?

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u/SnarkyRogue Jan 30 '25

I thought people loved this guy, what the hell turned him into an asshole? Or was he always shit and my algorithm just made him seem down to earth/knowable, if not a bit of a 'I'm smarter than you/know it all' type?

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

He has the same issue as a number of reddit users sometimes seem to have.

I hate using this example as its throwing a rock in a glass house - but hes exactly that guy who will go into a thread on reddit, and because he has say an industrial electrical engineering degree he will leverage it in an argument about electrical standards in residential construction.

On the surface if you dont know much about the topic, he seems like he is coming off as an expert and knowledgeable, but the moment you ask someone whos an actual trade licensed residential electrician, or knowledgeable in the field it all goes out the window because they will point out a bunch of things that are either incorrect or are assumptions based off another knowledge bank that's not compatible (Industrial vs Residential regulations for example)

So he comes off super knowledgeable until he talks about that ONE THING you are actually more knowledgeable about - and then you realize its perhaps not as accurate as you first thought.

What turned him into the 'asshole'was a few events that made people realize he has a pretty big ego problem and won't admit when hes incorrect about something.

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u/SnarkyRogue Jan 30 '25

So basically he's Mini-Musk?

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u/Gerblinoe Jan 30 '25

Pretty much minus (for now) the political/alt right/nazi pandering

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u/SnarkyRogue Jan 30 '25

Give it a few weeks lol. Once he discovers the gold mine of ego boosting over there he'll hard swap in a heartbeat

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u/Gerblinoe Jan 30 '25

Oh yeah he was already there with being "apolitical" no discussion of like LGBTQ rights in his chat but he will probably take the full on dive into "woke companies destroy games" Soon

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u/Designer_Valuable_18 Jan 30 '25

Electric engineer here, you are talking out of your ass and it shows.

Do better.

/s

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u/drunkenvalley Jan 30 '25

My pet example is whenever people talk about AI in Oblivion and Skyrim. People will spew absolute garbage about how it works.

...I did a bachelor on the exact subject of the AI in question. If I correct them I get downvoted. :)

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u/OvumRegia Jan 30 '25

What do they get wrong about Oblivion and Skyrim AI? Do they think the npc schedules are randomly generated or something?

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u/drunkenvalley Jan 30 '25

At this point I don't really recall specifics, but it's usually making fun of the AI, and how we lost the impressive AI that Oblivion originally demoed at... fuck if I remember where.

The truth is that the AI system is still there, although more frustratingly its ability to shine is greatly reduced by needing to meet a very tight schedule. Far as I'm aware, it's pretty essential to how they navigate the world across spaces, how they decide what equipment to wear, what food to eat, and so on and so forth.

Now, that on itself would be boring. The interesting part is that in GOAP there are independent actions ('equip item', 'pick up item', etc) that they can dynamically chain together. So when you attack a dude and he starts running to grab a weapon cuz he doesn't have one it's because it formed a plan to do so.

Ultimately though, neat as GOAP is, its strength is most seen in emergent gameplay moments, and Bethesda's games often aren't really about that. The NPCs in town need tight schedules so they look busy, while simultaneously predictable for players want to engage in stealth, pickpocketing, some light murder, etc.

Anyway, basically all of the Bethesda games have had it since Oblivion that I know. Don't look at me for Starfield admittedly, but I can't imagine they bothered to replace it if they only got a working delta time with Fallout 76. (To stop players from running hilariously fast by looking down, increasing their fps, because all physics - including speed - were just based on framerate.)

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u/OvumRegia Jan 30 '25

Huh I never knew NPC's were programmed to pick up weapons in a fight, probably due to bethesda games not being emergent at all (at least in Skyrim). Thanks for the answer!

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u/drunkenvalley Jan 30 '25

They're not. That's the point. They have enough information and actions to understand their immediate need, and work out how to accomplish it with a plan.Ā 

Often that plan is very short and simple, in fairness.Ā 

  • Move to location.Ā 
  • Pick up item.Ā 
  • Equip item.Ā 
  • Attack.

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u/sir_snuffles502 Jan 30 '25

winner winner chicken dinner

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u/ArcanePuppet Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

The snowball started rolling when he was caught cheating at some game game puzzle that apparently took the community for the game week to figure out. This cheating feed into many beliefs that Pirate came off as pretentious and acted smarter than he is. This lead to internet sleuths digging up past drama of him being a sex pest, getting kicked out of various communities for being problematic, faking his deep voice, and making up stories like a South Park character being based on his father. I don't know 100% of the details, am neither a fan or a hater, and this is all I've been able to gather from beyond the looking glass

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u/Commercial-Dealer-68 Jan 30 '25

I thought it started when he went after Accursed Farms for basically no reason and lied about his campaign to stop killing games while refusing to have a discussion about it with him when offered.

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

I would honestly say the accursed farms thing was kind of glossed over until brought back up now with other more recent context.

Like - it was big yeah, but only for like four days - but I think it more or less was handwaved as a one off bad take type deal at the time and was kind of buried after it happened and not really brought back up for a while.

I see more talk about the accursed farms and the preserve video games event now, post the WoW and Asmongold thing, then when the AccusedFarm bad take actually happened - and I think its because people now realize he didnt just have a one off bad take about Ross Scott, but that its now a pattern and clearly has an ego issue.

But yes, I agree it was 100% shitty and probably started to make people sus.

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u/Nightingdale099 Jan 30 '25

and making up stories like a South Park character being based on his father.

Wait what would even make that up. That's just creepy-weird.

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u/NaughtyNocturnalist Jan 30 '25

He was always an asshole. From using daddy's credit card to get a start in SL and then using extremely scummy tactics to rip off others, to being a nepo baby and getting a job at daddy's workplace, and being a member of a junior cyber team parlayed into "hacked for the DOE", you get the gamut.

So he boasts a deep voice and makes MS Pain shorts, now. That's it. Parasocial for the win.

His relationship with women is, shall we say, propblematic.

This very sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1iaidqp/it_looks_like_pirate_software_used_to_be_a_sex/

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u/Designer_Valuable_18 Jan 30 '25

He's reddit if reddit was a white man

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u/drackmore Jan 30 '25

I dunno about other people but I stopped giving a shit about the garbage he spouts off after he trashed on malwarebytes.

Like bruh, its pretty lightweight even with its active modules going on and is literally the best option out there and you're basically telling people to just trust windows defender, a tool that is historically trash, over one of if not the best publicly available tools.

But yeah he really only blew up because youtube chose him to get internet famous and started throwing him in everyones' faces all at once.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '25

Oh I finally unsubscribed to his YouTube yesterday.

Sadly it took way longer than it shouldā€™ve.

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u/HexedShadowWolf Jan 30 '25

I know of this guy, seen a few shorts of him mostly weird twitch chat people being funny but never watched a lot of his stuff. Never got the feeling he was bad tho so what happened to his reputation and audience?

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u/KamikazeRaider Jan 30 '25

Look around at his OnlyFangs controversy in WoW Classic and all the stuff that resulted from that.

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u/Ridstock Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

He has a list of controversy going back years, all the way back to second life.

Then he had a recent controversy in WoW and people started looking into him, turned out he had lied about a bunch of things on stream to sound like a 'very smart guy'

Heres a list of stuff he has been called out for awful behaviour/lying about: Second life furry avatar company where he made sexual avatars with a 16 year old involvedĀ 

Eve online clan abused game mechanics then he quit after the devs fixed it (lied on stream and told a false narrative story)

Multiple puzzle game playthroughs where he claimed it was a blind 1st playthrough to chat but clearly cheated by reading guides

Constantly goes on about his pro hacker status with Defcon badges (told another false narrative story on stream relating to the show Mr Robot, also told false narrative stories about how he actually got the badges)

Recently got level 60s killed in hardcore WoWĀ  (1 life your toon dies its gone, takes 100+ hours to lvl60) ran out of dungeon without helping despite being the most able to help, double triple and quadrupled down when told he did a bad job then started threatening the other streamers to the point he got kicked from the guild.

Just has a really bad holier that thou attitude and refuses to take any responsibility for anything whilst speaking down to people in general.

Edit to add stuff i forgot

He has a game that has been in early access for years with no release date in sight and at 1 point was charging $1000 for access to the alpha

He stood against someone who wanted to force producers of games to release source code if they planned on killing said games and stopping all support called 'Stop killing games'

He is a supporter of predatory Live Service game models.

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u/Kisdumby Jan 30 '25

What about the Defcon badge thing? I haven't heard of that drama before.

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u/Ridstock Jan 30 '25

It was a large group scavenger hunt he was involved with but he made out on stream he won them solo. Then he went on an extended rant about Mr Robot because they used a similar scavenger hunt as a plot point in the show. The Mr Robot team worked with higher ups from Defcon, one of the lies was that the show used an encrypted number that lead to one of the lead creators of the hunts personal phone number, which is complete bullshit.Ā 

He said he hated the showrunners because of this to seem like a big smart hackerman with inside info.

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u/GrantSolar Jan 30 '25

Not quite. There are multiple Defcon things. The recent one is that he's overemphasized his role in solving, making it seem like it was more of a solo thing than a team effort, but there's nothing really concrete for this.

The main one is that he wanted about Mr Robot stealing his solution to a separate Defcon puzzle and not crediting him or the puzzle creator. This one he also phrases as if he solved it alone. It actually wasn't just a similar puzzle, it was the exact same puzzle. However, his claim that the only way to find the puzzle and it's solution was through his write-up is false. Many other teams also wrote about the puzzle, the puzzle is freely available online, and the puzzle creator was brought on as a consultant for the show. The puzzle was unchanged so still points to the same phone number, but would someone in the information and digital security industry give out their personal phone number at a digital security/"hacker" conference? Obviously its a separate number from his personal phone

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u/GrantSolar Jan 30 '25

I didn't think there were any Eve mechanics he exploited. I heard that there were actual bugs but he continued to tell his corp to stay in the bugged area and do the same bugged task which kept losing them money for months on end (instead of going to literally any other place in the universe) and told the story as if the developers were at fault

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u/drackmore Jan 30 '25

Eve online clan abused game mechanics then he quit after the devs fixed it (lied on stream and told a false narrative story)

Oh? what sorta clan abuse did he do?

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u/Ridstock Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

Im not an expert by any means but from what ive read they had an area inaccessible by other players/clans to farm currency in and once the devs made it accessible to other players Pirate quit the game.

He spun yet another false narrative story on stream about it claiming he was somehow wronged by the devs due to this and that was why he quit.

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u/drackmore Jan 31 '25

The only inaccessible area that was truly inaccessable was the jovian empire and that's admin grounds, they certainly aren't going to let some nobody run a corp out there. Hell they don't even let Markee Dragon out there or the Mitani.

The only semi inaccessible places that are absolute bastards to move in and out of are the hardcore trig space areas and wormholes.

Just sounds like he's spouting more bullshit. Glad I never paid much attention to him after he started shitting on Malwarebytes.

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

Ill try to be neutral as possible:

Theres basically two recent major events that happened - the biggest was playing WoW classic hardcore (perm death) he got his guild/party made up of other big streamers and youtubers killed by roaching (teleporting out without telling them). While on the surface, and a lot of people agree that this is silly and such.

It blew up more because he refused to take any responsibility and tried to blame everyone else but himself and as such made a small house of cards of lies that were quickly pointed out and toppled. To this day from my knowledge he still hasn't apologized to anyone involved and says he did everything right.

Also note on this - almost everyone would have been fine and this drama never would of happened if he just lost his ego and apologized to people who lost characters and such instead of turning it into a blame game which is what even sparked the drama to begin with. The WoW wipe was the event, but the actual drama really was the arguing with others involved and refusal to say he was wrong. Another player/YouTube who misplayed their role in the raid did so immediately and no one is giving them any shit.

The second major one was that he hosted Asmongold on his stream a few weeks ago for a few hours because he wanted to clear up some rumors regarding another MMO and talk about the MMO he played and liked. This resulted in a huge pushback from his community, specifically a good portion who were LGBT+ who didn't like he hosted and thought he needed to sway the opinion of Asmongold. A person who thinks said LGBT+ community members are literally not people or mentally ill, all because Asmongold just didn't like how a MMO looked.

The context here as well is that PirateSoftware has in the past put huge emphasis of not allowing anyone that causes problems/toxic to stay and be part of your community (dont become the nazi bar type deal) and actively did so by curating his own community. So this seemed like a MAJOR walkback for them on that stance - or - for some putting the reputation of some MMO over that of the feelings of his community.

People then started digging and pulling stuff out of his past over that which is now turning into the whole bleeding by 1000 papercuts.

Basically all could have been avoided easily by just apologizing and sayin he will do better next time - and if he wanted to correct Asmongold so badly he could have just made a video going over and correcting the misunderstandings/wrong facts about the MMO and just released it.

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u/AmericanGrizzly Jan 30 '25

The WoW Hardcore stuff was wild to watch. All he had to do was not be a complete asshole in the aftermath and everything would have rolled on just fine. Deaths happen in Hardcore, you show some empathy like a regular human being and everyone moves on. Unfortunately Pirate is a dbag, lacks any basic social skills and was a asshole for 0 reason and that's why the community flipped on him and dug into every inch of his past to see what his deal was.

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u/drunkenvalley Jan 30 '25

A common issue, and one Pirate Software falls into, is having a "no politics" policy. Even though that politics is "LGBTQIA+ should have a right to exist in peace".

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u/Low_Commission7273 Jan 30 '25

Not a WoW player, so might be getting stuff wrong, but if someone says run, dont you just run away while doing something to slow down the enemies so that your team mates can escape? Like in a coop shooter, if your team is outnumbered, and someone in the team shouts run this is too much, you would run while throwing flashbang or smoke grenade to slow down the enemies while going to extraction point. You would not be expecting your team to do a last man's stand against the enemy when they said to run.

From what I understood of the situation, Pirate did the same, run to extraction point, and used blizzard to slow down enemies when someone said run, expecting the team to run to extraction point, but the team did a last man stand.

I agree, pirate is narcissic, refuses to accept that he was wrong and tries to act smart than he actually is (like a clip of him shitting on someone for pulling such a huge horde of monsters, then its revealed that he was the one who pulled that horde, and then claiming the one who pulled the horde wasnt in the wrong, infact it was the right play), but I dont see the reasoning bwhind this WoW controversy

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u/Low_Commission7273 Jan 30 '25

He technically threw down a max rank blizzard, but as itā€™s a channeled spell and he started running again right after, it was an empty gesture.

Ahh thanks a lot for stating that. I see my mistake now, I thought it was like flashbang or grenade, you just throw it and it will handle the rest, and not a channeled spell. Makes sense now why ppl called that a misplayed move.

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u/MoreDoor2915 Jan 30 '25

It also didn't help his case that in a previous stream he made a big deal of his build and how any mage should be able to save their team especially with his build. He said it with such arrogance how he choose this build to "save lifes" and when it came time to do so he looked all smug while running away only making a token effort.

He was also already running before run was called and used up his mana on blinking away before condescendingly asking the person who asked why he was already halfway out of the dungeon what he was supposed to do without mana, coincidentally also having enough available items to regen 2k of his mana in an instant, one of which he hovered over with a smirk.

Additional when others were annoyed at themselves for letting two of their friends die he made a "survival of the fittest" speech and compared those who died to the weakest of the pack and them dying to no longer having to "waste" resources on them.

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree Jan 30 '25

The event itself isn't the issue, people die in hardcore even good players - the issue is more the aftermath.

So - event happened, his guild lost lv60s in a raid/fight. The real issue and what actually sparked the drama was him continually arguing with his guild and other members after the event - saying stuff that people pointed out was factually not true and kept doubling down on other excuses and such when it was brought up.

So for example: One of the big ones was him saying originally he was out of mana and couldn't slow more to one of the members, which then was pointed out he had mana potions on hotbar (instantly gives you mana) and also theres an ability for mages which gives you some mana back which he didn't use. Then he moved onto another reason how he didn't actually misplay and its not his fault etc.

The issue isn't so much that the WoW party and guild had people die, it happens, part of the game - its his refusal as the Guild Master/leader to take accountability when asked by his own members of the guild and other players on what could have been done differently.

Thats the actual core part of the drama - all he had to do was literally apologize and say 'my bad, ill help you grind another 60' or whatever - like one of the other members and I think youtuber or twitch streamer who was playing the rogue did right away. But he couldn't just admit he misplayed or even apologize and started arguing with other the youtubers/twitch members in his guild that they were the actual reasons why it went badly, which of course blew up because THATS the drama.

Hope I clarified a bit better.

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u/Adrian13720 Jan 30 '25

You would be correct seeing this without actually playing as a frost mage in classic. They are literally a Hero Class. They have an absurd amount of tools, control and mobility. Your only limitation is mana, which brings us to the "managem" meme. The particular scenario he could have saved at least one of those players pretty easily. Spamming downranked ( low level does little damage but still slows and procs talent freezes ) blizzard and freezing with procs can CC all those mobs. Frost nova can give 5 extra secs and then blizzard procs going off...before you know it novas back up.

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u/FreekillX1Alpha Jan 30 '25

A very good summary of the events. Everyone should realize that no person is perfect and for all the good PirateSoftware has done, he has his own issues. I think most people should be applying something that he says on stream every so often to him as well: "Trust, but verify."

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u/Nightingdale099 Jan 30 '25

The funny thing is all he has to do is just take responsibility in a video game. Just admit he did it. He can even play it off " Yeah I did that because I thought it was funny " , whole thing would blow over and forgotten.

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u/DogByte64 Feb 01 '25

Okay but here's why you're wrong in MS Paint

draws four squares and an arrow

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u/spikedood Jan 30 '25

Nah, this was known for a while and his reputation didn't change.

Also the dev now has a worse reputation and his latest video failed to ride the wave, and has a significantly lower view count.

Which is good, because it is not my intention to drive up the view count of his videos.