Woot! I don't care who does it; I'm just happy it's gonna get a physical release.
I assume xseed lost it because they wouldn't commit to physical releases and/or a timeline Falcom liked. Whatever the reason, Nightwolve should be pleased. 
Haha! Yeah, I was just gonna comment on this after getting a chance to catch up on updated threads before you mentioned me...
I learned about this
"NIS America" company this year and that they somehow won the localization rights to Ys 8 AWAY from
XXXSEED Games... How they pulled it off, beats me, I dunno, as it seemed like the marriage with XXXSEED was solid and they were successful as far as what I hear... The only word from Tom-chan is they wanted to work on it but Falcom made a "business decision."
I have no evidence that Falcom knows about my boycott (either way), what XXXSEED did in their name, but I've been thinking I should write a summary about it some time, get it translated to Japanese, and send it to all of their emails in the hope it reaches a higher-up. In principle, Falcom deserves to know what was done in their name, that it caused a boycott, and that no fan should've been cheated just so XXXSEED could get a cheap sweetheart deal on pre-translated results and let Tom-chan Lipschultz use his company for personal revenge against somebody
he was publicly starting feuds with to shame/ostracize/humiliate...
I still find it hard to believe this all happened, it's surreal, but I don't have to surrender to this kind of bullshit until they apologize and correct it which they could do ANY DAY - they won't though due to a certain sense of arrogance, stubbornness, bigotry, pride, self-righteousness, etc. Tom-chan proudly told me in an email, "You will never be credited!" where I was characterized as just a "Japanese text delivery boy" who "delivered text from point A to B" which amounts to just a "service." My custom translation software (a fact DeuceBag hid from the company) was just a "Microsoft Word" he said after he learned about it 3 years from the first case I was cheated on, so they can just "pretend" I had no IP Rights on something original/unique that was used one last time for commercial purposes...
I've said it before, I've never seen anything quite like this company, although maybe my scope is very limited, but they really are clowns to me... From the final phone call with Ken Berry, using my Paypal icon as a reason to justify cheating me (when Jeff had one also on his website!), to how Tom-chan keeps getting away with everything, all the embarrassment that he's caused, his temp ban on the NeoGaf forums given his pedo-freak nature on underage anime depictions, general lobbying in support of animated child pornography "to protect real kids," his
recent NightWolve=Trump=Hitler unhinged rant on election day, etc. He just keeps getting away with it, zero accountability... Bragging how he extorts the company, threatening them with his resignation if they censor some sexual content so he can virtue signal to fanboys in forums what a great anti-censorship champion that he is (while he's all too happy to go Nazi mod and has deleted plenty of posts in his time)...
While on this subject, I should mention that I got blocked on Twitter because of it, heh-heh... I joyfully expressed my glee to their Twitter account, I got 3 PMs sent, but within minutes I was blocked!!! Tom-chan worked fast, son-of-a-gun! It must've been from his phone, which is from where I also quickly sent the messages. So here's what I managed to send before said perma-block:
I also caused some butthurt on NIS' Twitter after thanking them for winning the Rights away from XXXSEED. Their nasty fanboys are bitter and have been on the attack in Steam forums and elsewhere because of this loss and the opinion that NIS doesn't do a great translation job. I dunno about their script work, I don't really care, if they can do a basic competent enough job, that's fine by me.
https://twitter.com/NightWolve1975/status/843191579938578432
Anyway, this got longer than I thought, but the good news is I'll be able to purchase an officially localized Ys title, an act that hasn't occurred since Konami localized Ys VI for the PS2! I didn't think I'd live to see this day!!! Honestly, I thought those XXXSEED bastards had it locked up, and I'd keep having to avoid their work, so this came out of nowhere for me and many others it seems!
I don't have plans to ever buy a PS4, so I only care about the Windows PC version, which would be the best version anyway! I hope they do a good job building a port because Falcom only coded the PS4 copy. Thing is, the architecture is closer to a PC, so the porting should be easier than say previous PS consoles, so that's good, but we'll see. I hear their PC work is buggy, but there are sour grapes out there by fanboys throwing stones, so...
http://nisamerica.com/games/ysviii/http://nisamerica.com/games/ysviii/product.htmlSo yeah, I'm VERY happy about this, I don't care who does it, Mastiff Games, which localized Gurumin (
I quickly purchased this on Steam as soon as I learned of it), and seems to have done a fine job on it, or NIS, just as long as XXXSEED continues to lose out in the future!
For folks who don't understand my feelings, imagine if you spent ~5 years of your life (on & off) on Ys fan translation projects from 2002-2007, you stayed unemployed to sustain/complete these projects (
losing out $$$,$$$ in income, draining your savings), then this petty company comes along, sneaks around with the translator you recruited from his NeoGeo Forum cock-flashing stomping grounds, the translated results that were produced by our hard work, dedication, sacrifice get exported by him from my software, he pockets 100% credit/profit, disappears for 3 years, plays stupid, AND THEN you learn the guy who orchestrated these criminal deals was another former translator you worked with who hated and started a public feud with you... Years later I learned they had both organized another double-cross with the Ys Origin project also...
As a result of that significant chunk of my life spent on such projects and the drama that followed because of 99% freeloading (that's really what caused ALL of the drama at the end of the day), every time somebody says Falcom, Adol, or Ys, I am forced to remember EVERYTHING that happened with them, this petty company, all 4chan/GameFAQs trollbags like Psycho Kirsten Miller, John Schizomaniak of HG101, etc.! It's a permanent association, I couldn't forget it even if I willfully wanted to. So the act of buying an XXXSEED game, giving them money, having to read Tom-chan Lipshcultz' stupid edits and general writing, I simply can't do it... That's why, even if the NIS translator is worse, I couldn't care less, I am just thankful Falcom partnered with SOMEBODY ELSE and that I can legitimately support them!
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