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Mirrored at the sole discretion of clymax for sake of transparency on Retro Achievements, which was one of the aims of Moderator BahamutVoid in leaving his farewell letter not long after Administrator televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.
[Editor’s note: Clovergate is not specifically named, so is the timing of his departure merely coincidental? It is up to the reader to decide.]
October 16, 2025
I hoped this site is going to be a good one. Welp… My patience is gone. This message would be deleted, I am sure. This site broke my hopes, took a lot of my nerves and my time. All is what I wish is burned, fired, destroyed. Thanks f***ing a lot. I want this site will be permanently deleted because RA is the one big UNWELCOME CONCEPT. Bye, guys! Wish a happy time to players who just play and don’t want to abuse.
By the way, do you remember the song “Sweet dreams”?
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused
That is what how I see the most ones of community which have more rights than the other usual players.
I am flying away… Don’t think somebody will miss me…
Prior Message via Jr Dev Channel on RA Discord
August 3, 2025
Firstly, I have been a Junior developer for about 1 year and 7 months now. What have I seen on the website during this time? 2 sets have been released, and the third one still can’t be released. And what happened to me in real life? I’ve changed several jobs, my place of residence, and my lifestyle. I am constantly looking for new ways of entertainment and new knowledge. Besides, my current job doesn’t even allow me to touch my laptop.
Secondly, any plan can very often change beyond recognition during execution. Initially, I planned to make sure that the player gets an achievement at each level. However, Mr. Suspect15 objected and said that “it is necessary to combine the achievements of the progression into groups.” I was very busy at the time, so I just changed everything in the plan the way he asked. Nevertheless, I was sure that no one would cling to this plan so much, because it was only an approximate one. How can you even come up with a plan from the beginning that you can follow without being able to fix or add anything? What if a new idea comes up? And if the idea already outlined in the plan cannot be implemented? Has anyone even thought about this?
Thirdly, the idea of being able to achieve achievements in creating games is great. I was passionate about this idea and joined the Junior Developer program. Creativity is what I joined the program for. However, on the first set, I was faced with so many limitations that I was ready to give up everything, but I continued anyway. By the way, this was the only time I really got a good experience in creating achievements. The second set lived in misery and was under my wing for 9 months due to the fact that the gentlemen of the Code Reviewers did not deign to spend time on my set for some reason. At the same time, there were comments of about the same nature as here. They clung to every little thing. And then I thought too: “Why would I do that?” Nevertheless, after spending a lot of time and nerves, I still managed to get the set released. So I took the third set with the hope that there would be no problems with it… I discussed a lot of things with Mr. wolfman2000. Yes, I admit, I could be a little rude in some places, but that’s because I was busy with work. We discussed various options for describing the conditions for obtaining achievements, and talked about logic. Fixed everything, sort of. I didn’t see any more questions… And then suddenly Mr. KiwiTaco (that is, you) comes along and makes so many demands on me, as if everything I had done with wolfman2000 had never existed. I’ve never seen such meticulous demands on a regular set of achievements. I would like to take this opportunity to say that even in various high-paying jobs there are no such strict requirements. Who do the people on this site want to see on the site as developers? Those who will unconditionally comply with the requirements that may change even every week?
This site has only brought me suffering, destroyed a lot of nerves. And the last message you wrote seems to say that I’m also to blame. It’s likely that I’m wrong about that thought, but that’s not what I’m talking about right now. I mean, I didn’t enjoy the whole process. Most of the time, I was just waiting for some Code Reviewer to respond to me. It’s funny that when I needed an answer, I waited for months. And now that all these rules have completely killed my desire to create achievements, they write to me every two weeks. What is it called, may I ask? And now about the set itself. I don’t intend to change anything else about it. That’s the only way. I’m not going to group achievements or change their logic. We have already talked about various technical aspects. Unless it would be possible to change the text descriptions.
And now a little bit about life. Would people really be willing to spend 1.5 years of their lives trying to achieve anything? I’ve achieved a lot more in my real life than on the RetroAchievements website. If you are a living being, then my advice is: touch the grass, drink an unknown drink, just walk 5 kilometers ahead of your house. There are so many things to do in life. And I don’t see any point in dwelling on what doesn’t work out.
Did you want my answer? Well, as I may have said, it’s going to be a long one. And even then, it so happened that I still have free time to write all of the above. It would be great if this set were released in the form it is in now (with corrected text descriptions). I put a lot of energy and nerves into it. There are interesting achievements there. But the constant digging into the little things just completely killed the desire to continue doing this. And the problem is not with me, but with the site and the rules. So you’re saying we should stick to the plan, right? At the same time, there is no strict set of rules for creating achievements on the RetroAchievements website. It is only from the code reviewers that I learn any additional conditions that were not spelled out in the original document. Great.
Am I missing something? Don’t see the whole picture? Maybe. Maybe I’m wrong in some aspects. But the point still doesn’t change. I told it the way it is.
I am extremely disappointed…
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