Hayssam Keilany, better known as icelaglace, is taking a break from iCEnhancer.
A visual mod, iCEhancer is one of the most famous graphical enhancements. Used for GTA IV, iCEnhancer is known as an exceptional graphical enhancement to RockStar’s sandbox juggernaut.
Keilany temporarily retired due to problems with online vitriol. Citing issues with ENB groups, unsubstantiated claims of ‘media whoring’, and online abuse, Keilany says that “at every release it’s the same…people spitting on me, my work, everything I do just because people know or whatever.”
Keilany is also the Lead Technical Artist at OTOY, working on Brigade 3 and Octane Render.
Here is Keilany’s full statement:
“Thanks to the people who downloaded and appreciated 3.0, glad you like it.
Now to other people as they seriously are making me pissed, and yeah, even If I ignore as much as I can, some of them are really pissing me off with their total non-sense and bullshit about 3.0.
And i’m mostly talking about the GTA IV community, the modders, the ENB modders.
As people are reporting to me, I didn’t give credits to some ? Boris? what the hell? ENBSeries is written in big at the beginning. I used the same method to apply the depth as another ENB it seems and i’m called iceshit? That’s nice, guys. Way to contribute to the community. It’s like if the guy who created the godrays in shaders was like bitching at everyone because they all use the same method as him. Amazing
My ENB is famous and not yours because you think I’m whoring myself to media? Too bad, it’s not the case.
I uploaded a video on Youtube, put it public, posted the link on FB. Said Enjoy, and i was fucking done. but whatever.
To people who don’t really like 3.0 and think my previous versions are better. Go ahead and get the older versions or other ENBs, there are thousands, people are mostly doing their own tastes because no one has the same tastes anyway but 3.0 is my taste and I won’t change things just because one random guy is like : i want stars in my sky thx. when you can actually do it by yourself by just changing the INI or whatever you wanna do.
To people comparing this to V or Watch dogs.. seriously guys? 2008. Thanks. It’s like comparing GTA3 to GTA4.
So yep, that’s it. At every release it’s the same, since 1.2. People spitting on me, my work, everything I do just because people know me or whatever. that’s always nice -cough-.
I spent days, weeks, months doing 3.0, released it because I thought people would like it and stuff. If you don’t then i’m sorry, but it’s how I like my GTA.
I’m going to release the installer and downgrader then i’m done for a while.
Thanks to the people who supported me and stuff, you guys are cool. No thanks for the guys trying to bring me down constantly. You guys did it after 4 years, I give up on haters.
Have a nice day, and have fun on 3.0 if you like it.”
This is not the first time the internet has caused content creators to quit: Phil Fish famously canceled Fez II after a twitter argument.
You can find iCEnhancer 3.0, the final version, here.
Joe Yang
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