Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Issue: 141   Editor: MikaTheGoofball


A Look Into Altrozero FrickenFriedRice
Altrozero.co.uk is currently one of the most popular Bootleggers helpsites around, so the Buzz interviewed the creator, Altrozero, in order to find out how he feels about the success of his help site.

The Buzz began the interview by asking Altro what it was like owning this popular site. He said, "I don't know how popular it is to other websites, I would say probably 3rd or 4th on the list, with just over ten thousand hits on the Bootleggers section a day. It's hectic to run, but I love the site. Also, most of the tools were created for use by myself."

I don't like to think of other help sites as competition because in the end it is all about helping the players," Altro said. "I don't have anything adverts so don't make any money. I am not active enough on the forums to become a Help Desk Operator, so it is all just a little fun to help people, not battling people to become one. Every help site brings something special to Bootleggers, Boot-Guide.info brings a community and Illegitimi.net brings good tools. It's all about the fun of coding and helping people for me," Altro explained about his competition.

The Buzz then asked Altro what his goals for the site are. He said, "Find time to work on the website, that's always been a problem. Make it an open community (if I can), the blog was meant to be the major step and it has worked because it is one of the most visited parts of the site, and to finally code the login system."

When asked what his favourite feature of Altrozero.co.uk was, Altro said, "Something that is yet to be released, it is the bank parser, the coding is pretty sweet and works 100% so far in beta, unlike the one on BLHelp which works very fast, but also includes the time as money."

To finish off our interview, the Buzz asked Altro what his future plans for his site are. He said, "I am working on a thing called "Showcase," it is a place for graphic designers to show off their work and have it rated on with a comments section for feed back, but I am far from happy with it," Altro said, adding "I'm currently working on Bank Tools. I also want to make registration open and forums public to all, but a way needs to be found to keep the Bootleggers TOS safe (no cheats are posted) and to make sure nothing is taken away from Bootleggers (which I doubt it will be anyway). Plus, a hell of a lot more I don't want to disclose just yet. I currently have forty-one items on my to-do-list."

Altro has shown us that he doesn't care about competition, he does not even feel he has any. Altro believes that every help-site brings a special thing to Bootleggers and that they are all equal. What forty-one items are yet to be added to the site? The Buzz is looking forward to seeing them!