kosan

There is also the concern that the single person reviewing his code now has minimized the scope and impact of what was done - not once in the official statement was it outright stated that Anego considers distributing effectively malicious, hidden, obfuscated code as unacceptable, unprofessional, or otherwise a bad thing(tm) - instead it fully deflects the issue and weaves a story where the intent was to prevent cheating, and nobody else was affected (which is known to be false). The only thing I get from the statement is that the only problem here is that he was caught. So effectively, the fact that his code is reviewed before submission by someone who, as far as I can see, agrees with the sentiment that "the end justifies the means" is of no salvation to me. Further compounding my concerns about Maltiez in this situation is that, in my experience, modders that feel slighted by the community or other devs/modders have been known to escalate their retaliation, not reduce or reform. Especially when the person in question feels they were right, and did the right thing - regardless of what others think, which Maltiez has made clear a few times.