Jason Thor Hall / PirateSoftware / Maldavius Figtree / DarkSphere Creations / Maldavius / Thorwich / Witness X / @PotatoSec - Incompetent Furry Programmer, Blizzard Nepo Baby, Lies about almost every thing in his life, Industry Shill, Carried by his father, Hate boner against Ross Scott of Accursed Farms, False Flagger

[potato sack]

Note how he underscored the word "banned". He really gets off on the tiniest bit of "power". Impotent retard.

ill say what i said before, his job was to ban people. his measure of success, metrics for his work came from banning people

its no wonder hes always going to put a massive spotlight inhis achievements in stopping people from playing his games, even though hes a game developer now whos supposed to do, measure and show the opposite

any normal developer would put focus on how many sales he has on heartbound or the actuall stuff people are building on his minecraft server

its a goddamn fucking miracle he still has an audience. its like an undertale knock off chris roberts; his followers are a cult

 

[el gordo]

he really does not see it either, 3 day bans for people using default items, 3 day bans for using mounts, 10 day bans for people using bots
30 max players on the server
if the community is so small, why not just ask the players not to do that, the players who are play testing your game

already crowd funded 8 years late haertbound delayed because he needs to optimize a game that at any given moment 15 people are playing

 

[Horny Jeff the Fuck Rat]

a game that at any given moment 15 people are playing

How many of these "players" are just the game being permanently open on every computer available to Jason and his pooner? I'm guessing between 10 and 15.

 

[SlyVMan]

Continuation of him making the "I'm not malding" video, along with him mentioning something extra I guess.

 

[Forklift Certified]

You don't understand he needs to work on minecraft for all 70 people who are happy with it as is.

Hey give some credit to mald that minecrafts server with that supposed 70 player has +875% more players compared to his magnum opus 24 hour peak... just lil more and surely microsoft going to offer him a 2,5 billion dollars for his game studio just as did with mojang...

 

[Shmelvin Sneed]

A lot of people were leaving godot and cutting fundingcause they were getting super political spergy and rainbow pronouns.

I'm surprised that there isn't a thread on godot, there are tons of issues with the ownership team sperging out and fucking over the engine because merging pull requests that fix their dogshit code makes them feel like piss poor developers. It's gotten bad enough that I have to deal with basic features barely working, and I'm using it to make a shitty 2d rpg (which is supposed to be what godot is best at)

 

[Ducks Sorted in a Row]

I'm surprised that there isn't a thread on godot, there are tons of issues with the ownership team sperging out and fucking over the engine because merging pull requests that fix their dogshit code makes them feel like piss poor developers. It's gotten bad enough that I have to deal with basic features barely working, and I'm using it to make a shitty 2d rpg (which is supposed to be what godot is best at)

Honestly between Unity's 300MB hello world builds, Godot sucking ass, and Unreal being un-usable, learning a bit of C and using raylib is an unironic recommendation for 2D games in 2025 (sub-1MiB web builds btw). Return to simplicity, white man.

 

[Shmelvin Sneed]

Honestly between Unity's 300MB hello world builds, Godot sucking ass, and Unreal being un-usable, learning a bit of C and using raylib is an unironic recommendation for 2D games in 2025 (sub-1MiB web builds btw). Return to simplicity, white man.

true, but unlike my contemporaries I plan on finishing my game

 

[Ducks Sorted in a Row]

true, but unlike my contemporaries I plan on finishing my game

Well dev teams of like 4 people managed it in fucking assembly in the 1990s. The idea that you need all these big huge complicated tools to make a 2D RPG is absurd.

 

[Fae Supremacist]

Jason, if you're reading this right now,
FINISH YOUR GAME

Any "creator" whose product stops being a game they want to release, and turns into "content ABOUT them making a game" never releases anything of value, it's suboptimal, as any fan of WEGs can tell you.

The meta is stalling as long as possible to prolong the milking period, while focusing on making completely disconnected side content for the "community" so they feel invested and connected and keep funding your Patreon.
All while trying to build up your personal brand so you can continue as an eceleb independent of the game you're supposedly working on after it crashes and burns.

 

[Homostand]

I truly and honestly believe we'll achieve cold fusion before this guy releases another chapter, let alone finishes the game.

 

[R E T A R D E D]

I finally got some time back in my life, and by time back in my life I'm too tired to play Starsector and have a fucked sleeping pattern.

One thing I'm always fascinated about is the money side of Streamers, to me its incredible the change from making fuck all to making ham over fist. I decided to go through Malds twitch stats over the last 12 months using this as my source -https://web.archive.org/web/20250217133414/https://twitchtracker.com/piratesoftware/subscribers - I cracked out the basic Excel and came up with this.

Month	Total	Prime	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3	Undefined	Gifted
Feb-25​	3,466​	845​	2,259​	15​	25​	322​	1,248​
Jan-25​	24,315​	4,611​	19,331​	158​	172​	43​	6,298​
Dec-24​	47,006​	6,268​	39,465​	195​	496​	582​	25,596​
Nov-24​	30,723​	6,223​	23,422​	141​	297​	640​	9,935​
Oct-24​	23,173​	3,857​	18,475​	134​	174​	533​	4,171​
Sep-24​	62,849​	8,982​	53,033​	211​	441​	182​	37,405​
Aug-24​	32,679​	7,745​	24,231​	155​	208​	340​	10,666​
Jul-24​	37,255​	7,276​	28,842​	168​	439​	530​	15,768​
Jun-24​	19,675​	3,472​	15,905​	136​	208​	0​	4,673​
May-24​	23,629​	5,360​	17,961​	139​	218​	0​	4,588​
Apr-24​	78,475​	7,932​	68,518​	371​	1,479​	175​	55,387​
Mar-24​	19,077​	4,873​	14,015​	87​	167​	0​	5,476​
		67,444​	325,457​	1910​	4324​	3347​	181,211​
	Gross Inc	$336,545.56​	$1,624,030.43​	$19,080.90​	$108,056.76​	$16,701.53​
	W/Split	$168,272.78​	$1,136,821.30​	$13,356.63​	$75,639.73​	$11,691.07​
					TOTAL	$1,405,781.51​

With the above, everything is calculated at a 70:30 split EXCEPT Prime. I'm a bit confused to what this actually calculates as, but I just did 50:50 to make my life easier. If you find actual information on what it should, feel free to tell me or do it yourself.

Now obviously this is 1 revenue stream & to all Malds credit, his everywhere.

1. Youtube Streaming, Vods & Regular Videos
2. Tiktok Garbage
3. In person appearances (Not many, but there is at least 1 or 2)
4. Twitch Ad Revenue
5. Ferret Rescue Channel
6. Sponsorships
7. ??? Unknowns
8. Being a Game Dev LMAO.

I'll be quite real, gross before anyone touches anything. I wouldn't be surprised if his raking in over $3 Million USD, Youtube Revenue is stupidly annoying to calculate due to CPM and how much it fluctuates, however I'd imagine given the flavour of his channel its probably lower than the norm. If you take Social Blades estimate of $185k - $3Mill I would imagine he would come under $1 Million USD.

I imagine as well that Twitch AD revenue is a big plus to the revenue stream. Everything else are complete unknowns. In terms of expenses we know he has the following

1. A Number of paid mods. (IMAGINE PAYING JANNIES)
2. Cut from Sidequest Media
3. Running Ferret Dachau
4. Federal Tax's & State Tax's (Believe state is somewhat minimal for Washington)

I'm not even going to guess what the absloute fuck his expenses his. I'd need a crystal ball and a handful of meth to even start. Now the big question, why did I do this? Well, originally I wanted to get a bit of a baseline for Mald and what his revenue looks like now & what the financial impact of this drama actually might be. Now, its still to early to tell in all respect but there is some warning signs. The biggest being his average twitch viewership is somewhat dropping and stagnating. I would ignore today, but his somewhat been pegged at the 7-8k mark. I imagine this is what you call his core fanbase.

I would really like to come back to this in a month's time to see the sub number for Feb in total, so far they've looked abymssal but I think it might be because a number of his subs come in at the end of the month. Regardless out of all this, I'm sure he'll survive and if you read this & you give money to a millionaire, I would recommend lighting it on fire next time.

 

[Kopasea]

I found out a mutual of mine is a small indie dev in discussion tonight. Apparently he and a few others are aware of pirate software on some level and all hate his fucking guts too because of various reasons of shoveled bullshit.

There are a number of indie devs who have started and released a full game in between how long it takes Jason to put out an update to his game. It seems to me the more the indie dev puts out videos and livestreams, the less actual work they're going to get done on their game. Once they become a streamer/youtuber, the game will likely never be released unless they're under some sort of publishing contract agreement.

To put into perspective just how much of a piss baby Mald is, let's compare him to a much more obscure game creator faced with this exact issue:

See, now I know for sure he worked at Blizzard. AAA devs have the mentality that if you're not playing it the way they intended, you deserve to be banned. In multiplayer games, the player will choose the best/most efficient route every time. It's up to the dev to make that fun.

 

[ChromaQuack]

A thought occurs: if Jason wants to (at least somewhat) convince people that ShartBound is not a scam, and, as a bonus show everyone how amazing of a game designer he is, all he has to do is publish the design document (with all the routes mapped out and everything). Surely, he must have one. Now, he might claim that this is super-speshul eldritch lore or some shit, but it really isn't, and neither is his code.

He's going to quote Emil Pagliarulo and his disdain for design documents as to how a *real* 20 years industry veteran does it, after all starfield was such a coherent, success while not using one. Not the only thing he would share with Emil either.

Sneed using the BrownNote library

Sometimes I don't know if these things actually are real or you people are just fucking with everyone in the thread with these names.

Then I remember the Sonic Hedgehog protein exists and it's inhibited by Robotnikinin.

 

[my penis is on fire]

He's going to quote Emil Pagliarulo and his disdain for design documents as to how a *real* 20 years industry veteran does it, after all starfield was such a coherent, success while not using one. Not the only thing he would share with Emil either.

One of the rules of his game jam 🄰 is that you need to include a design doc in your submission.

Local archive of example design doc attached below.

 

[ChromaQuack]

One of the rules of his game jam 🄰 is that you need to include a design doc in your submission.
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Local archive of example design doc attached below.

Yeah but you don't understand, their submissions need a game design document because they didn't work 20 years at Blizzard. Genius superhackers just wing that shit.

 

[HansKlokBier]

Maldy is malding...

Patiently waiting for the video he is going to drop, fighting the troles!

Guys, did u know that RoachSoftware worked 7 years for blizzard.

He is still coping and seething and taking the bait like the true lolcow he is.

Behold the biggest fraud on Twitch: Talking about ur accomplishments.

 

[GhaeicSD]

I finally got some time back in my life, and by time back in my life I'm too tired to play Starsector and have a fucked sleeping pattern.

Proceeds to calculate how many millions Mr. Every-Man-Indie-Dev makes a year.

2025 join dates; take notes. This is how you too can become one of the most based posters on the site.

I've always wondered why people donate to huge streamers. Smaller streamers, sure, you get that sort of parasocial kick out of doing that since they'll actually notice you, as dumb as it is to pay for attention. But with streamers as large and egotistical like Malding Faggotree, you go from "nobody" to "nobody in yellow". I don't know which part is worse, these streamers crying "woe is me" for donations, or the fact that it works so well.

 

[Johnny Silverhand]

Maldy is malding...

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Patiently waiting for the video he is going to drop, fighting the troles!

I love how he IMMEDIATELY pivoted from not working on his game to sympathy grabbing lol. We have receipts of how much you stream on average vs how much you actually work on your game. Math doesn't lie bud.

 

[potato sack]

Guys, did u know that RoachSoftware worked 7 years for blizzard.


He is still coping and seething and taking the bait like the true lolcow he is.

"oh they baiting me to talk about how i worked 7 years at blizzard"

the irony is so ironic it alloyed into steely