Justice: just having XSEED spend money on legal counsel would be worth it!
I'm inclined to mostly agree now, but on the flipside, for years I leaned on not wanting Lipschultz and his creepy pals to gain the satisfaction of me losing a case and then having that over my head in a "
Hah, you lost, case closed, too bad sucka, now get over it, and f-ck off!!!!" fashion. A loss served as a deterrent knowing XSEED always had a legal advantage in all of this, which they know... But yeah, better to have tried and lost than to let them get away with it with just negative PR posts and a boycott that they laugh at...
Well, you should have a Kickstarter (TM) campaign to find your lawsuit against XSEED (the problem is that ignorant fans of XSEED greatly outnumber the folks who understand what you went through).
It's a nice thought, but raising money from Falcom/Ys fans was always a losing proposition when the freeloading rate was 99% on all past software I produced. I guess I should've gotten in the bootlegging business years ago... Nice piece of pretty plastic actually gets people to open their wallets versus begging for donations after providing digital-downloads. Heh.
As William Blake wrote:
Ethics
Business
The two shall never meet
I have to agree. (a) They conveniently worked these shameful deals where they only had to pay 1 person instead of 2. (b) They paid whatever they wanted to pay since "we were just fans" versus professional translation companies who set their own rates in a take-it-or-leave-it fashion. (c) They let an employee use the company for revenge against someone he deemed "bad guy" and was feuding with before being hired... (d) They got away with it and while they could take corrective action tomorrow to meet my free demands which were just for proper crediting, they choose to ignore the issue and pretend they did nothing wrong... Denialism at its finest! DeuceBag now says, "
I did nothing wrong. I owe you nothing, suck it up, move on!"
(Quick Note: I never asked for money in the aftermath when I called Ken Berry in 2012, as I knew I was dealing with a cheapskate company and they would completely ignore me if both crediting and payment were apart of my demands. I just asked for crediting because I felt part of what Lipschultz wanted to accomplish was erasing me from Ys history. Money can be replaced/earned, but that was a very powerful Orwellian message to deny me anything and to make sure only my backstabbing criminal translator received 100% credit which many parties/trolls took pleasure from sad to say...)
@NightWolve: I'm sorry to hear your having troubles with XSEED Games. Did you do work for them, for which they don't want to pay you for as well?
It's not great, but with some help by someone else, I have a basic summary to provide a quick explanation as to how I was cheated, how the fan translation partnership was exploited/profited from to benefit only my backstabbing translation partner... This link:
https://www.facebook.com/boycottxseed/posts/496140430505456The best way to explain it is if you frame the translation process in 3 steps:
Step 1. The programmer performs IT/tech work hours to extract/prepare the Japanese text and images from the videogame for the translator.
Step 2. The translator receives the Japanese text/images and performs work hours to convert the Japanese to English.
Step 3. The translator is secretly contacted by a company called XSEED to port the translated results. He's paid 100%, he's credited 100%, then disappears for ~3 years pretending he longer knows the "step 1" programmer .
Question: Did the Step 2 translator "cheat" the Step 1 programmer ?
Only reason the Step 1 guy did free work hours is because it was about a fan patch and the Step 2 guy was not a proxy to a for-profit commercial entity/company... Right ? Originally Step 3 was the programmer gets back the translated results and puts them back in the videogame, but just imagine if that was the order of events for a moment.
Nobody would've been stupid enough to do free work hours for some weird c0ck-flasher that crawled out of the NeoGeo forums if he/she knew what his views were on what should happen with a once in a lifetime commercialization opportunity... He did free fan work hours for me cause I was a fan and not a company, and I did free fan work hours for him because he was a fan and not a company and it was all about the production of a fan patch without licensing... Commercialization should've triggered a contacting of all relevant parties... You'd think, but Lipschultz hating me was why things went different...
You know, I did an interesting social experiment a few years back. I found that if I got away from XSEED/Ys fanboys and explained the situation to anybody outside that group, even other gamers, nobody had a problem concluding the translator cheated/exploited the programmer... My neighbor instantly said of course, and that those work hours done in the past become billable in the present since DeuceBag got to commercially profit from them years later!
In contrast, if you go to XSEED/Ys fanboys and ask them, those that know me and developed a grudge, suddenly you start getting excuses, justifications, red herring arguments, all sorts of bullshit besides the most honest, "
Rawr, you got exactly what you deserved, NOTHING!!!!" So amazing basically how blind hate for one party and blind love for the other changes the responses versus neutral/unrelated parties...
Anyway, the link should explain more particulars enough. If you see room for improvement, or want more clarification to explain this, lemme know. I tend to be verbose, and the downside is if something's too long, whatever the subject, less readers will be willing to read it all the way unless it's interesting enough... :/
