Good lord, Nightwolve! Well I know the truth now and it is now obvious where my opinion lies. I hope and pray that truth and justice will prevail. That may be a naive statement but I truly hope you get your due credit.
Thanks everyone (and Punch, TRON, esteban, etc.)! I really do appreciate it! It helps to have somebody else hear you say that you probably have a point, etc. There are too much hacks that judge this based on personalities (I hate him, so yay, he deserved it, etc.!) as opposed to trying to be objective and fair about it!
This has been on my mind for years and I tried, at least for a whole year, to totally just forget about it, erase it, but that's exactly what they would prefer and the fact is, this isn't exactly something that you could ever forget! I tried to solve this privately with Ken Berry (XSEED's Director of Publishing) by calling him last summer (2012), and with the 2nd call, it looked like he was gonna rectify this, he just asked me to wait till the end of the week and that he would call me back, but when he did, his whole tone changed and he just fed me disingenuous bullshit and points (DeuceBag's lying too, "
Your work wasn't used!"). It was basically a bunch of bullshit, and with an inherent message of "Just go away, sorry, and too bad, etc." I should've produced a video of the translation process with Translation Station before ever calling him and had it ready. That was a big mistake in preparation for this interaction, I feel.
Well, I don't expect to get much sympathy for the situation. I feel Lipschultz and DeuceBag are looked upon by my haters as heroes and there was, in my mind, some pandering to that % of Ys fans that occurred here having conducted "business" this way... The real bad blood between Lipschultz and myself before he was hired by XSEED obviously factored in as well.
Holy shit. Shame that not many people will know about that ordeal, NightWolve. I'm sure that I won't buy XSEED anymore, even if they bring another Game Center CX game to the US.
Well, I have a few tricks left up my sleeve, I'm eventually gonna make sure as many people as possible know about it with my patches. I will finish and release the Ys VI patch, wrap up Felghana, and have a special surprise after that as well. If every patch, when executed, throws up a "Boycott XSEED" message, the word will get out!
Fun Fact: EVERY DAY, around the world, 5-15 installations occur of my Ys software on somebody's computer! Either Ys I, Ys II, Ys Felghana or the Ys Typing Tutor (4 programs only). A public real-time global monitor of these installations is here:
http://www.ysutopia.net/index.php?ind=statistic&op=mk_yspatchstatsSo that's something to harness, and with Google Adsense, I can monetize the patches with the ads on my site if I rebuild them in the future, so even though the 99% freeloading will continue on, I can possibly make up for my losses that way. That would be pretty amazing if it could work out!
Hopefully, these fiends will get some sort of karmic payback, but DAMN.
You know how it goes, just waiting around, hoping for karma to bring justice to someone that wronged you...
It doesn't really ever happen, does it ? I confess that I shared the story to Professor not too long ago; I asked him to put himself in my shoes as a producer/programmer, and having gotten cluster-f#cked over by an informal de-facto partner in translation projects in the face of a for-profit corporation coming into the picture down the road, etc. I wanted to know what techniques/strategies he would choose/pursue to bring someone to justice (Internet-style) if it had happened to him, etc. Sometimes it's "useful" to know certain things, have options on the table that you'd normally never consider, ya know ?
Nothing came of it really, but getting it off my chest certainly helps, at least, so...
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