blattersturm, dbub, and ntauthority are all the same people.
They were thrown aside almost immediately after selling FiveM, which they only went through with because with assurances they would be able to continue working on FiveM and that it would be an overall positive thing for the project and community.
Instead the people that manipulated nta into selling the project immediately followed up by kicking them to the curb. Disquse was just the next casualty since he did not support their vision, did not support their actions, and has been taking issue with the new developers who
- are not as familiar with the FiveM codebase
- do not properly test their code
- do not wait for review before merging new changes
- break FiveM and fxserver builds every other commit
The unstable client has been unplayable more in the last few months than canary was over 4 years; and apparently people were quite angry with nta on those incredibly rare occasions as well as when they would push through changes against âinternal proceduresâ (like the new developers do weekly).
Now of course there are two sides to every story, but that side has never been active parts of the community. They do not know how to communicate, and they refuse to address major concerns that have been repeated again and again over the past 6 months. Some of them havenât even made a public comment in 2-4 years. On the rare occasions these people have said anything it ends up being a lie, or no further progress is made.
There are private chats though, which I had the pleasure of having recently after the drama in the open letter.
Despite saying I didnât want to discuss the drama with nta, the topic drifted to them four times before some serious accusations were made - topics that have no place being discussed with strangers, claims of blackmail (there wasnât), and claims about ntaâs behaviour â which, while unacceptable, are personal issues between them and should have been resolved between them.
I already came to the conclusion 3 years ago that most of the people working on the project werenât doing their jobs, and the stuff thatâs come out this year has just solidified it. They all complain about ntaâs behaviour, but they were happy to get paid for hanging around or doing the bare minimum instead of quitting like most disgruntled employees would.
If youâre wondering how it got so bad, keep in mind that nta does have autism â they brought somebody else in to manage the project, and frequently gave up certain rights/permissions for the good of the project. A lot of people were happy to see them go, but they built all of this almost by themselves â but somehow they deserve to lose everything because they would make inappropriate remarks or physically lash out at people.
Anyway Iâm ranting so thatâll do for now.