This blog received request to remove disparaging comments made by Truebones to his victims.
Who is Treubones?
Truebones is a business based in Michigan. There is no business permit.
What has Truuebones done?
Truebones has been banned off Sketchfab for putting 3rd party assets he did not make, several times, to his Sketchfab account.
Should I buy from Truebones?
People should look at complaints, and he is banned from Unity, Unreal, Realusion forums.
IF Truebones comments on this blog, or contact it's blog owners, or (former) multiple victims* it will be considered as "direct contact", and will get arrested for stalking.
This blog will not entertain further replies to this matter. Commenting on this topic/subject-matter is closed.
Via several emails correspondences from students of for-profit U.S. based schools
For-Profit schools are hiring scammers as teachers.
Have you been scammed? Please email this blog about your experience.
We are not naming the school nor school teachers as it has been shut down, and the students being taught wrong have won court-cases to get their money back. Several students got refunds from school that closed down.
Here's how to check your teacher:
1) Does your teacher have a thesis publicly available? All Masters and Doctorial degree graduates have their thesis publicly available. Why doesn't your teacher have one?
2) Does your teacher have a portfolio? It is disgusting that a concept art teacher doesn't have any. Yo can give your teacher some recognition, if your teacher is on credit list of published games.
3) Does your teacher know what he's teaching?, or droning away at the PowerPoint slide?
4) Does your school have a track record, or are they they overpromising?
5) If your school teaches a game development component, do check out your teachers. Are they really teaching you, or if you google their names, are they scammers who don't know this and that?
This blog will never apologize to the schools, nor to their teachers. For brevity, this blog did not name the three schools that closed down.
This blog took down posts about certain schools, and awaited for court decision for student refunds, and/or remedies, upon request from the students of those schools.
This blog did reply to several students and, to take the matters to lawyer where their school teacher or teachers did not teach them correctly, or were absent, or their deadlines came and went, without proper supervision.
For students of those schools, your best remedy is to take the school to court to recover your school fees, or live up to your (student debt).
For the scam teachers, you have time to mend your reputation.
Where's the damn concept art in your portfolio?
Where's the damned participation in game jam?
Where's the damn animations?
Don't you feel shame teaching something you don't know of, where you don't have any expertise in the field you teach?
This blog is pleased to report that, scams on the Unity3D community is on a mend, with, customers being less stupid.
Is it worth trading your career for years of regret?
Some advice for those looking to make games:
1) Look for the freelancer's business permit. This is an easy give-away. All of the scammers on this don't have any. Even after 5 years, still nothing.
2) Look for the freelancer's portfolio. Another easy give-away. All the scammers on this, don't have any. Some of them are banned of Art Station, Sketchfab for putting models on their portfolio, that they don't own.
3) Look for their track record and past history. Do they have problems, or are they constantly trolling the Unity forums looking for victims?
4) Stalking and harassment. What is the troll or scammer doing? Are they harassing their victims, telling them to shut-up, or constantly posting slander about them?
For some people, like (names redacted) some of them have been scamming from since 2011. Is it worth 10 years of their career progression to constantly scam and scam Unity3d?
Some of them are on a mend, they refunded their customers, their names were taken off this blog.
Some of them, became worse and worse, constantly harassing their customers, constantly finding new bait or suckers.
A. Obviously not. This blog is self-policing. It removed several developers and artists, who reformed and gave back money back to those who were wronged.
We have received your appeal regarding your blog http://unity3d-scammers.blogspot.com/.
Upon further review we have determined that your blog was mistakenly marked as [redacted], as such, we have
reinstated your blog.
For the individuals mentioned, they harass others to no end -
before this blog came out with evidences, (redacted)
The Truebones truth blog documents certain alts falsely clicking on report video, report blog for no reason, harassing others non-stop for nearly four years. Civil action, police action from multiple individuals were made.
This blog serves to call into attention not to entertain them:
the artists mentioned on this blog - they have no portfolio and tricking others of their money.
since these artists are unskilled, they cause great anguish to those who employ or solicit their services. They never refund, or their customers get trolled.
Compare that to commercial blogs which lists down frauds never get taken down (Example - Sinclair ZX Vega+ funding)
Q. Does this blog make harassment for others?
A. This blog is used by Autodesk, Adobe to go after certain artists who employ artists and developers and don't pay salaries and using computers loaded with unlicensed software, or resell parts of Autodesk, Adobe intellectual property (See Truebones). Thus, taking this blog down removes evidences for Adobe, Autodesk.
Various companies whose intellectual properties were infringed, can see their IP stolen, and who committed it. So yeah, this blog is cited by various lawsuits as evidences.
This blog is also cited by Disney, Pixar, Warner Brothers and many others (Blue Estate Games), Korean game companies in their lawsuits. So this blog is a source of evidence of misdeeds done by certain artists and developers.
Q. Does this blog libel others?
A. Ask the dozens of customers who contacted 'artists' got featured on this blog. The insults, slurs, harassment they received for years and years -- is a tiny fraction of this blog's contents.
You can't sue others for stating or publishing the truth. In certain cases, hyperlinks to the abusive texts stated by these tricksters and con-artists are shown.
So go ahead - sue. These scammers cannot sue if it's true -- and this blog is careful to show evidences.
This blog celebrates it's second year anniversary. It has done much work to combat fraud, and bring spotlights to certain no-portfolio artists who prey on unsuspecting customers.
Combat Fraud
People know about certain no-portfolio artists. Why don't you draw? Do you want to continue dishonesty?
Will I get my name on this blog if I've done something illegal?
You won't get your name on this blog, unless you are reported many times on the Unity forums.
How do I get my name off this blog?
See below - "shown remorse and have compensated their victims".
Name Removals
There is no longer any reason to post their names and links of their deeds, and hence, removed.
We have removed GM, CT, SPJ, JR, MS, BR, SL.
Also removed is TH, MY and two games. Those two games are dated 2012 and are covered in main-stream-media. There are hundreds of angry comments about those two games.
The above artists have shown remorse and have compensated their victims.
Michaelw352, has been going on rampage, harassing members of the Unreal forum. Then he fell from grace.
The UnrealEngine forums admins know it, that Michael has been making a game "Horizon" or Evil Horizon with Crusade Studio, formerly Prion-Games, Hidden-Blade, Eclision or whatever fake-game studio name he wants to call it (see this lengthy post).
Michaelw352 has been terrorizing other artists, asking them work for free (source), and if they don't, he would put them on the Unreal scam-list, until the Unreal moderators stepped in and remove his moderation status.
Many of his untrue, slander-posts were removed (formerly 1000+, to 800+, then 400+, then
300+, then 200+, then 100+, previously 67, previously 56, now 43). How
low will Michael's defamatory-posts-count go?
So Michaelw352, after so many years,
Where is your portfolio? Why are you asking artists to work for free, when you have no portfolio?
Why do you have fake LinkedIn profile where you worked 10 years, when you graduated from college 2 years ago? If you worked 10+ years, why are there no games, no apps to show for it?
Why contact employers of the artists you screwed over, warning them, when Michaelw352 has no portfolio. What right do you have to contact them?
This blog doesn't go around contacting employers of those artists - for the very reason that those employers, are hiring junior and interns, in physical locations, NOT, remote.
AND, this blog removes remorseful artists, those that have compensated their victims.
Michaelw352, do yourself a favor... STOP screwing artists over, learn to draw, model instead.
Asking for free concept art, free models and no longer an Unreal moderator... then threaten what?
This blog got tip-offs from several annoyed artists of harassment from Michael -
Please show them this page-link and let your employer know, that some no-portfolio artists is asking for work-for-free shit, and for some unfortunate artists, despite the fact that 4+ years have passed, contacting employers of those artists -- for incidents that happened in 2013 (now it is 2018) asking for them to be removed from their positions...
Michael, download Blender, LEARN it. get GIMP and if you have some money, like $20 a month, get Photoshop. If you can get $20 bux, use it to pay for your Photoshop subscription, and get yourself a Wacom tablet too.
What ****** this Micahel is, especially now 4+ years have passed since the original incidents happened in 2013, 2014 and the other artists have portfolios, things to show, while Michael has none.
A small update on how things are going with Livenda...
Althoug they claim on their website that "all updates are FREE and
regular", I have never once received any single update after the
original purchase.
Recently they advertised via e-mail "upgrade from V2.5 to V3 $60". Well I purchased that update.
And guess what I received... Absolutely nothing. Not download links,
nothing. And their customer support e-mail remains totally silent. At
least PayPal returned my money...
An update again -
Did anyone actually get a 3.0 upgrade link after purchase. Looking for some kind of hope.
This thread is meant to enlighten the folks who can fall prey to frauds on the asset store and a clear indication of why you must research as much as possible before you buy an asset.
Also a strong suggeston to not rely on assets with facebook support and no forum thread.
I give this advice to everyone I know already, but this time I failed to practice what I preach because I was too excited about the asset.
You could say I asked for it and I agree with you. The intention of this post is not to flame but to educate.
When I downloaded the project the first thing I immediately did was to open up the shader code because I felt a certain amount of familiarity with the inspector parameter names on the shader.
This scam market-place does not pay its developers. They take your money, pirate the source-codes and assets, claim to advertise to market for you, and give you nothing.
"We are small team, who are mostly working on projects that could help
for other developers to create their own projects. Before two months,
we've received a letter where marketplace owners(Game Gorillaz) said
that the payments will be delayed due to some kind of country problems.
We said it is alright and we will wait for a respond, but after two
months we still didn't got any answers from them. They said that all
payments will be credited to developers accounts until 15th of March,
but we haven't got any money. Now we think that they just appropriated
our orders and tried to delay all our requests. We think that we're not
alone and there is way more developers who didn't get they payments. So
we would like to share this message and let everybody know that not
every marketplace is good for developers who want to earn some extra
money. Still, we tried to contact owners, but we didn't get any
response. We have all orders with all customers who bought our projects.
So, we would like to know is there any institutions which could help us
to solve this problem, because were are thinking that there are tons of
developers who are waiting their payments and can't get any response
from owners."
