Here's basically what I got from the topic on gamingworld.
Basically, Despain was saying that the presentation was poor, and it made him believe the game wasn't worth downloading.
Frankly, I agreed with him. After playing your Maia 2k7 game, I can see the presentation was lacking. A real message system to show face graphics would have been very nice. You seem to have used <> to explain every movement and such. I didn't see any cutscenes in Maia 2k7 either. Everything between the characters was done with text boxes. Clearly, you focused on quantity instead of quality, something a lot of RPG makers here are guilty of.
Try not to take comments like this too harshly, use them to improve.