Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31959569-20180312080443

Before you read this, please note: ''This situation is entirely my fault, and I hold myself accountable of what happens here. I'm posting this here not to start controversy, but to instead to show people my mistakes so that they don't repeat what I have done. If you can, please read through this if you're a model maker or a scripter.''

tldr; Strife! [Edit']s staff are horrible content stealers who screwed me over by stealing my models, not giving me what I asked for them to do, and being overall horrible people. Learn from my mistakes and don't trust people who you don't know that have done something to make you question them. Always stick with trustworthy people and sources before you damage yourself.

Hi, just your average Strife! player here. I don't post on wikias that much, and I haven't played Strife! in a while, but I feel like this needs to be public information.

''For anyone who hasn't played it, Strife! [Edit] was an edit of Strife which reintroduced old class gameplay styles as well as make old styles public, while adding skins to classes and custom classes. It's a relatively harmless fan edit at a glance, similar to private servers for online multiplayer games.''

The cuteness ends here, however. Behind the scenes, there goes lies, manipulation, trust issues, and theft. Besides the obvious "they took Strife's source code and changed a bit", there's more to it than that. The owner "methaphone" is a very self-centered person who only has his best interest at heart. In fact, that's what one of the mods told me after I had gotten fed up with them. Let me start from the beginning.

A friend of mine told me about this "cool" Strife game that "let's you play as pre-nerf classes and styles", so I followed him to it. It was a decent time, nothing spectacular, but it served it's purpose; giving players the ability to play as the classic iterations of classes and styles, as well as new custom classes. I then looked into the skins menu and tried out each one. I then saw that one of my models had been stolen without my knowledge and consent. If any of you know the "Spear" skin, that was mine. That model was a model for a Strife class submission I had made in early 2016, and I was pretty shocked. (Please note that I had made it when I was still new to model making, where I didn't really know what I was doing. If you have an older form of it, you'll be able to see the blade's uneven, which was a huge pet peeve of mine.)

I wasn't really angry, I kinda figured it'd get stolen one way or the other, I mean it WAS free to take, but it's still pretty scummy when the Nether skin was credited, while I was not. I then went on a little tandent going about "damn, these guys just stole my model" and "it's pretty scummy of them to just take this without creditting me". What I did not realize was that there was an admin by the name of "Colbaltine (now Drm_sqnc)" is on the server. He had overheard my ramblings and then asked me about more details. He was pretty nice from the exchange and even was pretty offended when I had told him about how a model of mine was stolen. Originally suspecting another admin who apparently creates skins for the game, he told me he'd sort it out.

The most logical thing to happen next would be that my skin was removed or that I got credited, but that did not happen. I somehow got myself falling into a long spiral to hell, which after a lot of hindsight seems pretty avoidable. Instead of getting some debaucle sorted out, Colbaltine friended me and asked me to create a model of a weapon he shows me to prove I had indeed created that old spear. I (unfortunately) obligued, and created a giant 2000 part broadsword that struck him in awe. Not going to lie, It's pretty amazing I made it in a few hours, but you can tell it was rushed as hell. It also lagged hard in studio whenever you moved it.

I was then given his discord and also methaphone's discord, where met made me prove my worth again, this time with another sword which some of you might know as the Grand skin "Spiderhex Sword". After I had finished, methaphone wanted to bring me on board as the "official skins creator" and a moderator. After being tired working on models for hours, I fell for the deal, and from then on, I was screwed.

Things went by pretty good afterwards, I had a discord rank and I got to regularly talk to them for a week. Afterwards, things got out of hand. I was demoted and made a "regular" person, and then they started to reply less to me. Methaphone went from "hey, can I ask you something?" or "can you help me with this?" to "hey, make this for me, okay bye." Being limited to their demands really dampered me, so I decided to go all out; seven Grand skins, each one being different from the others and can be recognized from the game or anime they came from. I worked on this relentlessly, and I pulled three all nighters for them (not in succession, of course), and the final result was a huge accomplishment for me, seven decent-to-good models for weapons I loved and can say that they were a good quality.

When I sent methaphone the skins, he replied with "send them to [admin name here], who goes through all skins and makes skins." I was pretty pissed, as he had requested that I make models for him, and now I can't even get my own creations into the game? I then (tiredly) vented to my friends to cool off so that I can rationally talk to Colbaltine and methaphone about how they're being (for the lack of a better term) assholes. I then confronted them with it, and a full day later (I kid you not, they were online when I sent the message too), Colbaltine then responded to me saying about how "I was overreacting" and then that "I was too weak if I couldn't handle 'just a little wait'", which is bullshit.

Their excuse to their lack of transparency was "you changed your discord name and image, how would we know it was you?" to which I would've responded with "you can see old discord chats, so that's no excuse" if I had been smart. After that, it returned to them requesting a weapon, me obliging, and end of that. At this point, I was tired and absolutely unthralled. I was rushing out models without giving a damn, as I knew their standards for skins were low. I even re-used an old sword I had made ages ago and they took it, that's how lazy they are.

After a month or so passes, methaphone messages me saying he wants me to make a weapon for him, and gave me a rough idea of how it should look. Not how it looked as in what sword it was or how big it was, just "it needs to have this color". I took this time to experiment. I used this time to create a sword in a different vein then what I usually do. I sent him it, and he said "no, it has to be thinner" and "it's supposed to be a different shade". I just went to bed after I read that. The next day, I messaged him this:

"i won't be able to finish the sword due to irl issues, so you'll need somebody else to finish it or wait

sorry"

I had completely gotten burnt out on working for these people. I was not treated with respect, nor was I ever credited for my work. You may think that making Roblox models is easy, to which I have to tell you otherwise. Some of us express our creativity through a piece of work. Model making was that for me. If it was so easy and I had no passion for it, why would I spend days upon days on creating designs and working on these blocks if it was just to make a quick buck?

I never spoke with them again after this. If I was not treated with equal respect as any other person, why should I do the same? I already let inexcusable things slide, and now it's made my health worse. I was done with them.

Turns out I was finally credited, you know, a week BEFORE the game got taken down. My name wasn't even spelled right, it was "Xernies". Yes, methaphone was so lazy he couldn't even spellcheck to see if my name was right. Not like many people saw those credits either, because right after I saw that, the game got taken down.

That's my experience with the people behind Strife! [Edit]. I was taken advantage by people who did not care for me, and only cared for the end product I produced. This made me realize that I shouldn't trust anyone I didn't know already, or have yet to know. If I had been more cautious and clever, I wouldn't have spent a month in hell for a game that was taken down.

Should I have not kept quiet about this? Yes. I wasted hours of my life for those pieces of shit. Should I had started controversy? No. As I have said before, this was my fault for my incompetence. But because of that, I need to share this before someone else could fall in my situation. If you ever have something happen to this like you, please, don't make the same mistakes I did. I had suffered, and if you do the same, you'll suffer as well.

Some of you might be suspecting of me, and I understand your skepticism, some random nobody randomly comes out with this post with some bold statements. I do, however, have evidence of this taking place, which I will be happy to share with you all. This was a topic that when I think about makes my blood boil, so I'm fine with releasing this pubicly to not let it burn inside of me forever. I'm not the first person to get screwed over, nor will I be the last. The best I can do is tell my tale and hope it helps someone else.

Thanks for reading this, and don't follow my example. I tend to ramble, so hopefully this is tolerable. I don't look at wikia much so I might not reply, but I'll try to get back when I do. 