[Intro]
This is a mini blog post that is part of "TX Haters!" where I basically say whatever I feel about TX.
I'm not going to release new posts only for updates, but anyways, here we go.
[I messed up]
In the last entry I made, some claims were made with little to no evidence other than "TX has done this in the past, no way they didn't this time!!!!" and for that I am sorry. I have updated the OP with accurate information. I will not let this happen again for any future posts.
[The Gateway theory]
So it's been rumored for months now that TX is Gateway. Since this entire series is for critiquing TX, why not dump all the info supporting this here?
This next part will be a copy and paste of something I put in the comments in the last blog post because I don't want to rewrite it, but modified HEAVILY.
Gateway is TX. It's been hinted at multiple times by credible sources, like Hexkyz and naehrwert.
The story goes like this:
The old TX sells all of their assets to an investor, who possibly is GaryOPA,(?) this is known because of this archive of the SX site (yes, the domain is sx.xecuter.com) that shows the MaxConsole admin hosting the site / having access. The guy who owns and administrates MaxConsole is GaryOPA. GaryOPA also seems to make every news post for SX updates, and he even did the same for Gateway, which is a reason to believe he did Gateway too.
The new TX owned by the investor starts doing SX which is heard to be commissioned work by credible developers (I personally believe TX has done this for every piece of original code used, but this is not certain) / a bunch of stolen code.
SX also contains a lot of callbacks to Gateway in it as well.
The brick code, the Gameboy rom (this same ROM was used in Gateway!), and the MIPS vm used for the obfuscation.
I believe they also may possibly be BigBlueBox (the warez distribution group), due to the fact that BBB did stuff in the Gateway era, and they also released tons of XCI files. Their main motivation being sales gained from Gateway / SX. This one I'm not entirely certain on.
Is this negative?
Not necessarily, it just depends on how you look at it.
[Final thoughts]
This was interesting to think about, and I just wanted to get it out there so there could be a compiled list of all of the evidence. This was really fun to make!
Rating: Conspiracy Theory / 10
Sources: All of them are linked right in there!
