I was torn between laughing my ass off at your post, and realizing that he really did screw you over; as part of the "team" that lifted your work for profit. He deserves every bit of keyboard warrioring. I would say though that if you have an oral or email contract you could take him to small claims court?
Perhaps I'm dredging up demons that have been locked in a cave for 1000 years. If so, and it will just be a point of contention, I can drop the topic.
No, that's exactly what they wanted (avoidance, silence on the subject, etc.); as long as I kept quiet, they (Tom Lipschultz included) mostly kept quiet, playing stupid ever since... I gave them silence for the first 2 years (
I DID try to forget it ever happened!) which was a stupid thing to do in retrospect.
See, I only thought he exported the Felghana translated results initially, but then I learned he -- on XSEED's behalf -- kept unloading whatever our fan parternship had produced, Ys I, Ys II, Ys Origin, and he ALMOST got to unload Ys VI, a project we shelved due to Konami's PS2 port, but that also left him with translated results given my script extraction ideas, and translation software, that is, all the step 1 work hours on my part to initiate the translation process which XSEED's Tom denigrates as that of a "text delivery boy..."
You can realize the underhanded implication here, if there were >20 Falcom projects (
they got away with it 4 times, and I thwarted the 5th with my phone calls to Ken Berry) between me and him, he would've unloaded everything produced, pocketing 100% corporate profit and credit in every case, and continuing direct silence towards me, making sure I was cheated even in crediting every step of the way, perpetually playing stupid forever more... That's how rotten, cruel -- just outright mean -- these monsters really are!!!!
The only reason he ceased his game of hide'n'seek after 3 years was because I started the public boycott on my website, and I got his first email demanding I delete all references to him on my website, and bluffing that he had hired a lawyer, claiming he had a valid libel lawsuit against me which would have a far greater chance of winning versus any grievances I had against him in conspiracy with XSEED Games!
The fact is, if these a$$holes couldn't do it right, they should've just worked with professional translation contractors or an internal staff, paid the full rates, just like any other business rather than set a horribly divisive precedent and expect me to just crawl away and live with it! No f*ck that, it took a while, but I decided I wasn't gonna take this bullshit lying down, that's 5 damn years of my life that were wasted on getting some petty, callous, cock-flashing, criminal cunt officially credited in the videogame industry without so much as a 'thank-you'!
Whatever happens, it's not gonna end with their prescribed outcome, I need to get going with a legal write-up document and do *something* rather than sit in anger while they try to ignore the problem away and hope I'll just give up!
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