I finally unloaded that sealed Dragon Slayer for $185 on NA. Anyone have a CIB (with the map) copy for sale?
Ah, so you finally got the big score you were looking for with that copy, huh ?
I read your facebook link. That's some messed up shit that happened to you. I do own some XSEED games but I will now think twice before I buy another one.
Yeah, just download their shit if you need an Ys fix, they don't deserve your money. Take the same position that Thomas Lipschultz had before he was hired by the company and was sharing Falcom ISOs to his friends to spread Ys love.
If pirating was good for him before being an XSEED Games employee, then it's STILL good for anyone and everyone else! Heh.
They actually did technically violate my automatic IP Rights on unique software as I would've been a fool to verbally or in writing consent to commercial use to Jeff Nussbaum (
the other fan translator I mainly worked with and co-conspirator) - the simple fact is he just silently did what he wanted, all the stuff I ever gave him was on his computer, and they all got away with it to date! It's fine to hate me, have personal bigoted grudges, animus, etc. but that doesn't mean you get to cheat people because of it!
Somebody actually said to me something along the lines of, hey, what about respecting their work hours ?? Which was amazing in that person's ignorance! That's the whole point of staging a boycott, I spent thousands of work hours over several years and at great personal and irresponsible costs to myself, and they don't give the slightest jack shit about it! Lipschultz' position is basically "
Too bad sucka, you were just a text delivery boy, you delivered text from point A to B. And as for your software, who cares, that's just like Microsoft Word, and we'd never have to pay let alone credit Microsoft for their shit getting used for commercial purposes!" I'm creatively paraphrasing what he said to me and to the public, but that's a damn accurate assessment of his positions!
But alas, copyright law is only as good as a lawyer to prosecute for you, so unless I try to do something, everything stands as is. And of course, I took the rogue approach for free in some things that I did as payback already, so that would work against me assuming I finally committed to trying!