2 years ago

The Plants Vs. Zombies Diversified Incident:
MaFaGaFiZaR's Situation Explained.


  1. Hello everybody! I hope everyone is well and healthy, because this discussion is going to be a very long one. Recently, I've been noticing some misinformation being spread about the Cunning Heart Studio team and the Diversified team, so I'd like to finally shed some light on what's going on. As you well know, MaFa or MaFaGaFiZaR was our concept artist and animator for the whole team. I say "was" because... We've had some pretty serious problems with him over the past few days. So please, I hope you understand that this is not some kind of "Rant" or "Exposed" against MaFa. We're just providing our version of the full story of what happened within the team.
    (MaFaGaFiZaR's Entry into the Team)
    When we started looking for new artists on the team, we had three people on the team: CeloCogumelo, MarshadowSlime and LazeredSam. However, we needed a little extra help at that time. And that's where we introduced MaFa to the team. MaFa joined the team, with a lot of emotion and excitement from the whole team. However, things started to change drastically in the game and in the team. The initial idea was to introduce the Plants Vs. Zombies for MaFa, and start working on the game, both art and programming simultaneously. However, after one of my lives was unsuccessful, MaFa suggested that I remove Celo, Marsh and Sam from the team. I initially didn't want to do that at all (as they are great friends and were helping the game progress a lot), but MaFa personally asked me in a call to remove them from the team, because according to him: "They are not helping the team. It feels like it's just you and me working on the whole game". However, this turned out to be a lie, as everyone was working on the team simultaneously and with a lot of respect for each other. (1/4)

  2. (MaFa's Constant Denial of Helping the Team)
    After the three left the team, we started to develop the concepts of Diversified and... This is where things start to get worse... We provide as much information as possible to MaFa, whether it's videos about the Plants Vs. Zombies, the team's servers, and even extra information about what we wanted to do for the game. However, as much as we understand that he doesn't know a lot of English, nothing could justify his constant absence from the team's conversations. After all, Google Translate exists for a reason, right? Yes, most conversations were in English, but that didn't mean he had the right to ignore the entire team. As he himself said: "I'm going to design the whole game before we start producing it". Therefore, this demonstrates that MaFa did not know that there were more team members and on top of that, he thought that there were only 3 team members, and there were 6 team members at that time. That is, we can conclude that, even though he was on the same servers as the team, he was constantly ignoring messages just because he "didn't know English", which will be shown to be at least questionable later on.
    (Game Progress and Constant Concepts)
    We needed a concept artist and an excellent animator to assist the entire team in making the game. However, after MaFa joined the team, most of the things introduced in the game were vaguely analyzed by MaFa and constantly in flux. That is, although the concept arts helped a lot in the visual identity of the game and were clearly appreciated by the whole team, they were just concept arts. That is, none of the code or music has been produced for the game to date due to the constant stream of changes. Of course, we've discussed these art on call, but not everything we've discussed for the game can be included or changed later. After all, changes in concepts can happen. (2/4)

  3. (Sad Saturday with MaFa)
    As said before, concept arts are made to give us an idea of ​​what we can and cannot include in the game. And the same can be applied for defined concepts as well. Changes may be required later. However, after I suggested changes to some defined concepts with me and MaFa, he completely denied all possibilities of changing these concepts. But by providing the same changes to personal friends, content creators and even team members, everyone agreed that the changes were indeed good. Of course, not every change can be good, but if most people agree to a change and MaFa denied them because "It's not what we agreed", unfortunately I couldn't listen to MaFa this time. A good change cannot be completely denied due to something that was not planned. After all, this change was initially provided to MaFa before everyone else, so we don't understand why there's so much heavy criticism about a change that hasn't even been implemented yet. After all these thoughts in my mind, I decided to put it all together and let Liledix4 (one of our main musicians) know what was going on with MaFa. Yes, there was misinformation on our part, and I already want to apologize for the misunderstanding, but all we were providing was just a fraction of what actually happened. After Liledix4 sent a message to the YouTube community, explaining how MaFa treated the team, disagreements began on both sides. According to MaFa himself: "Lying is a crime!". However, despite the misunderstanding that we later personally apologized to MaFa, he constantly called Liledix4 a "Muleque", wanting to put him in prison and even reporting the channel His youtube. We provided as much respect and apology as possible to try to calm him down about the whole situation, but he wouldn't listen to us at all. (3/4)

  4. These messages shown below are screenshots taken from his conversation with me before it all got worse later. This demonstrates that MaFa, even translating the messages from English to Portuguese, he did not want to read due to his constant anger against Liledix4. So we made one last decision. Considering that Liledix4 mentioned to me personally about his 3 jobs and his constant work stress, we decided to ask him if he would like to step away from the team, as the Plants Vs. Zombies might not be the most enjoyable for everyone. But, even with all the apologies, messages of appreciation and respect from him, he kept saying bad things about me (Julius) and Liledix4, being that we were just providing as much help as possible for him. We didn't want to have to remove him from the team, but the next day, we decided to do it for the good of the whole team. (Team conclusion) At the end of the whole story, Liledix4 and I ended up not knowing what to do with him. Liledix4 was feeling completely freaked out by the whole situation, and I ended up staying in bed for two days, not knowing what else to do about the whole situation. Currently, MaFa is out of the team indefinitely, due to his unexpected behavior towards other team members and his constant denial of any kind of help to the team. We are aware that he posted a video on Youtube about "The Revealed Truth about Plants Vs. Zombies Diverse" and despite there being misinformation on both sides, the fact that MaFa acted so aggressively towards the team will never be tolerated again by our team again. Again, we provide as much help as possible to help his situation, but... We believe his situation is irreversible. Thanks for his attention. See you later. (4/4)

  5. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-AJmRtiSOE
    Just a detail: Most proofs and images provided by MaFa are misleading and without any sense. It is just a simple matter of analysis and comparison.



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