Don't let Nightwolve scare you though. There's two sides to the xseed debate...and I have made a big risk just making this comment.
Who the f*ck is lukester and why should anyone be scared of little ole me ??
Necro still respects me and vice versa, even though he loves Ys too much to really not buy any product of theirs, so that doesn't make us auto-enemies, luke... They have a monopoly on US publishing Rights at present, they're the only game in town for officially localized Falcom games, so I knew FULL well I was "between a rock and a hard place" going into this when I finally got the guts to start a boycott...
Looking back on what happened, I really was quite an a$$hole. Regardless of how I feel about Nightwolve, I had absolutely no excuse to behave the way I did, flipping my shit and betraying his trust like that.
If I may, I'd like to take you through it again, just to try to see if it helps you understand my perspective further... You have to have been in my shoes, to see it from my perspective, you have to have dumped 5 years of your life into these projects, subsidizing them on your back, your savings, thousands of work hours... You don't ever forget something like that, and the passage of time doesn't ease the hurt all that much...
It took me ~3 years before starting my boycott, had to gain the guts, with ~2 years of mostly public silence, and one post pretending I approved to help figure out what was going on, who was the man inside XSEED that orchestrated these deals to give DeuceBag all the credit/money for translations he had produced because of my recruitment into our paperless partnership, with my translation system, with all the work hours to have started these projects, etc... Once I learned it was Tom Lipschultz, it was like a ton of bricks hit me... Oooooooooooooooooooooohhh, that's why DeuceBag is playing stupid, that's what happened, Tom happened... That's all I really needed to know why things went down the way that they did...
Gaining more guts over time, I called Ken Berry in summer 2012 to work it out diplomatically, I almost succeeded, he told me to give him a week after I just asked for proper crediting, to see how to get it done, then when he called back, his whole tone changed, he spat in my face overall, starting off with, "OK Nick, we really looked at this..." and
his first point was to ask me if I had an "evil" PayPal icon on my website...? DeuceBag used to have one on his old website, so how you gonna pull that shit with me, ya know ?? I was caught offguard, confused... HUH ??
A hypocritical, knucklehead, red herring argument like that was your opener to conserve cheating me 
Then he said twice, that DeuceBag was "adamant" my "work" wasn't used, it was spin, meaning, they wanted to restrict the definition of "work" arbitrarily/selectively to typing games, he who typed the English text wins (him), passes go, collects $200, he who was just a "text delivery boy" for Japanese text/images loses (me)... This is how I coined him Ken Berry Wrong, just found him not to be very bright... That he came from SquareSoft, another company I loved, was also like another sword through the back of my heart... :/ Ken said Tom questioned exactly when DeuceBag ceased contact with me, as I stated it was after the April, 2010 secret deals took place, so an attack on my credibility made it into this exchange...
Well, it ended with me pleading, give me a chance to make videos demonstrating my translation software, and I betted they never knew about it, which I was right, DeuceBag told them nothing and they were ill-prepared for it, but after trying 30 video recordings over the weekend, writing scripts for Ken, I just am not Joe Redifer, I wish I had his video cutting skills, then I got demoralized and told myself, dude, this guy made his final decision, he told me to go pound sand and that was it, only a lawyer option would ever work now... I dunno, better to have tried when I had the window, though, right ?? He told me, email it to comments@xseedgames.com and he'd look at it, but yeah, it just felt hopeless, he'd come up with another bullshit excuse...
Yep, that's how it ended with Ken.... Then next year, I got the guts a little more, started the boycott, and after 4 article-length posts, DeuceBag came out of his 3 years of hiding, of no direct messages to me, to cut me off at the knees, claiming he hired a lawyer, demanding for me to delete any and all references of him on my website... I chose not to "kowtow" to his demands because I wasn't gonna let him get rid of me that easily, and pressed on - they just wanted me to crawl away, live and die with their f*ck you prescribed outcome... I just think...you can't let people step on you like that, like you're dirt...
So, Arjak, just telling you my experience, and how I came about this path as best I can... I don't need nor want more enemies in principle, but I accept that's inevitable at times and it is what it is in this world... If I think I'm right, and have an educated opinion from knowledge and experience, I'll stick to my guns and defend my position; if I'm ignorant, I typically stay out of it unless I develop enough interest in a subject to learn more in the future. I'm 100% sure I'm right about XSEED, and it's NOT crying over spilled milk, they can fix it tomorrow and end this conflict, but they choose defiance daily, they want me to crawl away and "live with it" in a "too bad sucka" fashion... I'm just not gonna let them do that without a fight...
If you believe in solutions, you could've also emailed Tom, XSEED, etc. instead of trying to intimidate me into silence, into a only-positive-comments-for-XSEED-allowed, or neutrality, no more negative posts for you, Nick, you ran out the clock, too bad... Ya know ? Did Tom ever answer you back ? Probably not, they're just trying to ignore me away...till I get tired, and f*ck off as I was "supposed to do from day one" according to Tom and DeuceBag... :/
With that said, I am hoping to possibly return in some capacity, that is, if I'm still welcome. I will try to keep a more level head and not nuke any more bridges, and perhaps even be a little more proactive in contributing to the community, and not just be that guy who sits in the corner leeching off of everyone.
I hope you all can forgive me, but I also understand if you aren't ready, if ever. Regardless, I want to do my best to make it up to all of you. I hope I will be able to...
You're welcome to come and go as you please, nobody ever "banished" you... And I think there's a working ignore feature for those you don't care for.
I will be buying Ys VIII when it comes out next year. No reason to boycott.
See, the thing is, if they had cheated you, and you started the boycott, and I was just a regular Ys fan, would I bring myself to join your boycott ? I guess if I'm honest, I don't like you all that much, didn't like how you treated Black Falcon recently (
and I know you dislike me, the "no reason" conveys you have no respect for my case), so I'm betting I'd likely play it the way Necro does also... If you're intellectually honest about all the facts, I would be able to say they were dicks (
not gonna defend their "typing game" talking point for sure!), and I feel your pain, but there's only one Ys series and would hope that you'd understand that, etc. I'm cursed, as like nullity says, at being able to see things from all sides...
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