Brda left a trail of complains on the Internet from his customers and former employees, confirming the qualities stated on this thread.
For example:
http://goldtokenssucks.net/index.html"Have you purchased Gold Hunt or Fish Hunt and been told ridiculous things by the makers ?
The owners of SecondAds.Net and GoldTokens.Net have to be some of the worst business people I've ever encountered. When's the last time you bought a product and were told you can't use it near their competitors product?
Some of the things we and many others have run into with the GoldHunt and FishHunt products and their owners:
Telling you what other games you can have on your land
Telling you where your Landing Point has to be
Changing their TOS without informing the owners of their products
Banning for violating things not in the TOS
Banning for stating true facts about their business practices
Generally discouraging Free Speech, you can't even say Boo in their chat without a warning.
Spouting unsubstantiated copyright violations about their competition.
Refusing to give refunds after banning you.
Please consider the alternative products out there, any of them are better than GoldHunt or FishHunt. Its not worth spending the Lindens on their products only to be told when where and how you will use them, or be Banned!"
https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Games-in-Second-Life/Frustration-with-gold-hunt/td-p/1324003"the gold hunt is always screwed up. you put your time in and wait and then the coins don't pay. i put my time in as instructed, i should be paid!!!!!! it's a total rip off!!!!
and if you complain or even ask questions about it, they kick you out and ban you.
they keep starting up new games fish hunt, noob hunt, worm farm, but cant even get this one to work right, so i sure as heck wouldn't bother with any those....
i've been in SL for about a week now and this is really leaving a bad taste in my mouth...
i've had problems evry time and just now someone told me they are doing it on purpose to make more money and make sim owners happy - is that true? how can they get away with that?"
https://secondads.wordpress.com"(...) I’m not the only person being involved in SecondAds’ games and being harassed by company staff. They are arrogant enough to do that not only to players but to landowners as well. (...)"
"But regarding some official notes posted by experienced players I would guess the real number of the so called “Active Players” is somewhere around 9000 which is… Oh god! Around 17 000 difference from what was published!… Good try SecondAds. And some sources which make me doubt in SecondAds’ honesty: (...)"
"This is why this company looks rather unstable with unsecured future. They might earn now, but I don’t see Wili’s child face (real life picture officially posted at the developers page) to be really trustful to lead a “successful business”."
https://secondads.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/second-ads-sinks-2011-10-28-194729/#comment-8"(...) Another problem is that owners, mods, investors and sim owners play too and they’ve been known to put coins/gems down in a secret place for just their bestest buddies and then go to their place to receive the same. Brought to light in group chat weeks ago and supposedly frowned upon by management (though at least 3 of their own mods do it daily), yet the practice rages rampant today. (...)"
"(...) I suspect Wili likes it when the system is down, because people are still visiting sims and putting in the wait times, but owners aren’t using lindens because the clicks don’t pay when it errors, so it’s almost his way of saying to the owners, “heres a bonus for you”. Wili can turn off group chat, take a nap and let the hunters trash Linden Labs knowing he is doing a little special favor for his most important clients. Free traffic (...)"
"About 3 months ago, the entire Gold Hunt system crashed, Linden bashing started immediately and went on for several hours until it was revealed that it was their hosting company, Go Daddy that was to blame. During this time Wili, Amy and all mods were all unavailable (...)".
"A buggy system with lots of glitches. Just this morning, “server” problems (again, they started blaming Linden, then suddenly “it’s fixed” after reseting their server) caused an issue to required the coins to be individually reset by sim owners. In group they told hunters to contact the sim owner to reset the coins. My buddy logged in to 9 crude notes / IM’s from various people telling him to reset the coins. Most were very nastly about it and not one said Thank You. (...)".
"Communication is poor and often rude and completely unprofessional. When the system was down, God forbid someone ask about it. (...) Don’t ever complain about anything related to the game (...), of you’ll be booted and harassed. Don’t make an enemy out of a mod either as then they will spend the next several hours saying nasty things and references about you in chat. Yes, their mods with one notable exception (Warden), are truly the worst. (...)"
"Every hunter in the top 10 has an alt, most have several. Wili is often bragging about the number of group members, but take into account alternate AVIs and you’ll see the number is grossly inflated."
Another customer replied to this post:
"100% accurate observation, incredibly shows the real face of the company ADS and gameGold hunt. Sincere congratulations to author in the hope that this text “sober” and help people understand all pathetic, hypocrisy and incompetence of creator and owner Wili Clip."
Another comment:
"I do not aprove him [Wili Clip/Brda] deleting accounts w funds in them, keeping the funds to himself, and then sending a NC to the LGH chat with the list of his victims, and nobody did anything about it.
Well is his game, but was never his funds. Those he has to return back asap! What a thief!"
Another comment:
"People that bring the truth to light are always attacked by wili, his alts, his griefers and his cult members, it comes with the territory."
https://marixgroup.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/open-letter-to-wili-clip/On a comment, a previous employee wrote:
"I think that ads did a lot of things badly with lgh players, stuffs and land owners, now campany is very badly, and will continue in next years if their mind dont change."
One day, we will post also opinions of shareholders about Wili/Brda.