So I finally got banned at ASE forums

Post by **ShapeShifta** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:58 am

Love companies who milk money out of people and never give good support.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:50 pm

Lost lawsuit? What's that all about?

Post by **JuanSanchez** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:52 pm

I don't think the product is being killed out of spite. After all it's fairly mature so shouldn't require too much development to be kept up to date.

My impression is that if the programmer (Ecks) knew how to fix the Q4 issues, he would have done so by now. After all, he can't be enjoying the negative comments the product is receiving.

Unfortunately, the staff on the ASE forum are probably too low-level to provide a constructive response to your complaints. I suspect you'd get a better outcome by directing your comments to someone slightly higher up within Yahoo's management structure.

Obviously tracking down the a suitable manager in Yahoo and writing a note might take a bit of time but if you feel strongly about the product, you have nothing to lose.

Your feedback might also be helpful to Yahoo as:
a) having a better product should improve subscription revenues.
b) they can address issues which are causing their brand to be viewed negatively.

Post by **wviperw** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:44 pm

What exactly is the problem with ASE & Q4? I've noticed that absolutely no server show up in ASE for Q4, but I thought that was just me. Is this the problem?

Post by **Freakaloin** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:22 pm

I'm an idiot.

Post by **MidnightQ4** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:30 pm

Well I was going to have to figure out how to retrieve my old account info from 5 years ago, but it sould like that would be pointless now.

Post by **R00k** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:39 pm

That's just wonderful news.

How much did they pay to buy ASE to begin with?
(sorry, haven't had time to read any of the threads you linked yet)

Post by **jester!** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:54 pm

Go for it, slashdot is always good for bashing companies that arent open to the community at large. :icon32:

Post by **kretz** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:21 pm

ase works fine for me

Post by **Foo** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:25 pm

..what like 'user riddla banned from ASE forums - FBI to investigate'?

Post by **jester!** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:40 pm

Nono, if your going to go to slashdot you need something like.

"ASE forum banning, cracking down on freedom of speech.
Blah blah blah
blah blah blah
Microsoft may be involved in an attempt to crush the oss/fs community
blah blah blah"

Post by **R00k** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:42 pm

No it has to be something more sensational, like

"Yahoo competing with Micro$oft in taking over small companies and killing them"

or something to that effect.

Post by **jester!** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:43 pm

Sure, maybe throw in a Google reference as well. :icon26:

Hmm wouldnt that be nice if google built a server browser...

Post by **Oeloe** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:25 am

kretz wrote:ase works fine for me

Works fine here too. Always the same 7 servers (7 german and 1 swiss).

Post by **Canidae** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:33 am

Sad to see. I bought an ASE lifetime membership years ago and when I heard it got bought I knew it was bad news.
It's too bad the people that had faith in it (not the previous owners who took the cash and ran/became corporate stooges with wives/babies to feed and cloth) and by that I mean the lifetime membership ones, can't organize into an entity, contribute again, and take this unwanted asset back off of Yahoo's hands to end this bullshit.

Post by **AfterDeath** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:03 pm

I bought the lifetime ASE also. I recently just deleted it from my machine since it was doing some really odd stuff. Sometimes I would see ~50 servers for Q4, sometimes ~10, and sometimes none. Too bad really, maybe they will get things sorted out and I will grab it again. Xfire is doing alright for me and ... ... man I hate to say this... Gamespy Arcade (blah) is even better than ASE now.