Lonewolff went out of his way to mention ONLY the cons of other extensions and put it right in his extension's description. He mentioned other people's work very directly and specifically and why you shouldn't use theirs and why you should use his. Big difference.
Why would anyone mention other assets in their own asset description?
(Unless they were their own other assets of course)
It's not his job to market your (or anyone elses) asset - that's your job.
If an author doesn't like people knowing that an asset uses DirectShow, or converts a video to images behind the scenes, then they shouldn't do those thing - it's going to be common knowledge in the end anyway when people buy / use them.
As you said yourself when you listed the pros and cons of the other assets, most don't do "fully featured" video playing - they convert to intermediary formats / images, don't pause or rewind etc.
When you listed those cons above I didn't think for a second you were "bashing" any of them, I took it as you were just giving a rundown of the assets, how they worked and what they did for the benefit of the user / community.
As a customer I would like to know if his does things differently, otherwise I might assume it does the same thing as all the others, not bother looking into it and assume that video playing is just poorly supported in GMS and all the assets don't give a complete package.
Him pointing out that his asset doesn't use certain technologies or techniques is marketing his own asset, not bashing the others that do - you have tried to turn it into it being that yourself.
Do you complain to the Advertising Standards Authority when McDonalds tell everyone they only use "UK Sourced Beef" when their competitors source it from abroad, or when BMW advertise a new braking technology that their competitors don't use?
Of course not - that's advertising, pointing out the features of your product to make people want to buy it over competitors.
As long as McDonalds / BMW don't directly mention competitors in a derogatory manner and only point out things related to their products there is no issue, so I don't see why there should be an issue here either.
I don't know the history of you and Lonewollf (if any) but I feel you are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill for some reason.
He didn't mention anyone or any other asset by name, and pointing out that his doesn't do things in the way some other assets do it is good for the customers and allows them to make an informed decision.
He mentions my extension's use of DirectShow as a "deprecated" API. I already explained in full that DirectShow is NOT a deprecated API so please don't make me repeat myself. I did report him, and I explained this very thing in my report's description.
No he doesn't.
He doesn't specifically mention "your" asset at all, he points out that his
doesn't use DirectShow, and his
doesn't convert to an intermediary format - sure the tenous link is there to those assets that
do use those, but he has done nothing wrong in pointing out that his doesn't use those things or doesn't convert the video to something else first.
It's not like he has said "...like those other assets: <asset name> and <asset name>", which I think would then be a problem.
Edit:
His description used to say "no NASTY file conversion utilities are required". He must of saw this thread and updated his description. I'm sorry but that is bashing, and so much so that he felt the need to cover it up.
I don't remember seeing it say "nasty" (and especially not capitalised), but I only looked at it quickly and then posted the link in this thread.
Even if it did - converting to video to a series of images, or some intermediary format
is a nasty way to play a video back in my opinion - and seemingly his too - and as a potential customer I'd like to know how an asset works before I decide to buy it where possible.
As a sidenote, I just quickly checked out the assets you listed above, and the first one I clicked (GMLVideo) has this in the description:
Compared to other Marketplace assets, that emulate cross-platform "video" by loading images as quickly as possible from the hard drive (virtually unusable on mobile devices and a big battery drainer) GMLVideo uses hard drive streaming, caching and on the fly decompression to deliver a fast and smooth video output.
Based off your logic so far, you better report him too for "bashing" the asset that converts video to images and calling it "unusable on mobile and a big battery drainer". As well as also directly mentioning "other Marketplace assets" - or does that one not bother because it doesn't
directly compete with yours / mention DirectShow?
Edit: Just seen your edit, that's what I was trying to explain above - mountain out of a molehill etc.