andrew boulton said:
Then stop flogging the corpse.
You don't get to tell me to stop "flogging" anything, Andrew - I've got my own issues with Hunter that are none of your business, particularly given that you're just another one of his pet apologists.
Furthermore, given the way he runs his business, and the way he is treating and has treated his customers in the past, there are many reasons to discourage people from buying any of QLI's products or supporting him.
Like I said, there's a guy (Evil Steve) complaining on the CotI website issues board about how he's been waiting for over a month for access to QLI products that he's paid for - funnily enough, his patience is running out. This isn't rocket science - Hunter needs to get off his arse and give the guy the product he paid him money for. All this poor sap's got so far is excuses, and naturally he's losing his goodwill towards Hunter and WLI. And yet this sort of thing keeps happening there. Is that a way to run a business? Is that any way to encourage people to spend their money there? If Hunter can't handle it, then why does he keep his proverbial doors open and continue to take peoples' money?
If he or any of his cronies wants this sort of reaction (not just from me) to stop, then it's really simple. Hunter has to live up to his responsibilities as a business owner and pay off everyone who is owed money or product, and has to keep doing that in order to generate goodwill again (because god knows he's lost it from absolutely everybody outside of CotI, through his own actions). If he can't do that, then he needs to face facts and admit his business is dead and close it down - because if he can't pay or support his authors (you're one of the lucky ones who got paid, but I'm guessing you weren't paid a lot), then nobody's going to work for him again. He lost Martin because of that, and he lost Colin because of his abandonment of 2320AD. You'll also notice that all the people who are actually looking to Traveller's future (the ones who don't have their heads stuck up their arses telling people what Traveller is or isn't, or who are all hot air and no product) aren't involved with QLI anymore.
Paying you for your work on the TA is a start, but if he's got money to pay you then he's has no excuse to not pay Martin, and certainly no excuse to shut him out the way he's done. Either way, He's got a hell of a long way to go to before he gets even a neutral reputation with everyone.