The way i see it Nightwolve... ...I'd prefer both sides of an argument... I read the Xseed stuff but more info would be appreciated (PM Me...)... Don't forget... it was YOU that started this on the Deuce sales thread... I'm just containing it...
The XSEED side is excuses, red herring arguments, denialism, "my PayPal icon" etc. They did it quickly, secretly, I was the last to know anything - I found out about it 2 weeks later from a disgruntled XSEED translation contractor emailing me, John Sears, asking me how much XSEED paid DeuceBag and myself, and notice that he
naturally assumed BOTH of us had been contacted and paid, but he was wrong and I didn't know what he was talking about...
John wanted to know what XSEED paid us because he felt they lowballed him to translate "Legend of Heroes VI: First Chapter," which has one of the largest scripts in videogame history. He felt they were "cheaping" him, they were cheapskates (which I agree), and wanted inside payment info, of course, companies use NDAs to block workers form revealing/sharing salaries/payments, so I wouldn't have been able to tell him anything anyways. Only DeuceBag knows what he pocketed for the 4 scripts in question, Ys I, Ys II, Felghana and Ys Origin, and he went into silence with me for 3 years, playing stupid ever since as mentioned...
OK, why did they cheat me ? What's the simple answer ? Public relations - Tom Lipschultz, who hated me, presented me as an embarrassment to the company, his coworkers, etc. Tom was part of a double-cross with DeuceBag before he was hired by the company as well, and he told his company about that too. He told them about the drama 3 years back when my Felghana patch was leaked, that I made mean troll posts, used all that against me, and he sent them to my website where, at the time, the last post had
a photo of my middle finger, Joe Redifer style...
Tom generalized me as an embarrassment, a PR problem of association, and told them how DeuceBag was willing to export Ys Origin to Tom's programmer in secret after starting the project with me, breaking our partnership, and that he could export the previous Ys translations we had produced together much in the same way for the company, and that's what they did... I was rendered "persona non grata," you get the idea...
Now what Tom reported for me, is just as important as what he omitted for DeuceBag... He didn't send his company links to DeuceBag's cock-shots at the NeoGeo forums which was his main homebase... He just presented him as the "good guy" and me the "bad guy" and got me "blacklisted" essentially. His grudge became the company's grudge.
Ultimately, XSEED preferred to only have to pay 1 person, instead of 2, there's that too, and Tom provided all the possible excuses in the world, defining me by any negative posts, generalizing me as unprofessional, etc. They thought they could cheat me "fair'n'square" by disingenuous "typing games" whereby he who typed the English text "wins" (DeuceBag), and he who was just a text delivery boy "loses" (me). So, Jeff typed all the English text, give him 100% credit/profit, NightWolve just delivered Japanese text that already existed, so right there is an easy excuse/red herring for them to hide behind should I ever protest. Don't judge it by "work hours" they arbitrarily say, no no no, just judge it by a "typing game" and ignore Tom's bias and grudge for me...
It's also worth noting, something else I learned over the years, Tom has indeed succeeded in using XSEED to carry out a personal "Friends v. Enemies" List... If you're Tom's friend, he can get you credited for the smallest of things.
1) Psycho Kirsten "omgfloofy" Miller, one of the most relentless trolls I ever ran into, he got her credited, no amount of embarrassing cyber-bullying behavior on her part matters, because he excluded that in his presentation. 2) Michael Cunningham was credited just for letting Tom borrow a Lunar SegaCD. 3) Keith "GameMusicFreak" was credited just for letting Tom download material from the Chinese Celceta DVD PC game... Keith is a nice guy, never had a problem with him, just reporting how Tom has operated with other people versus the "special treatment" that I got...
So, for the smallest of things, if you know him from Ys forums, and can do something for him, he'll get you credited, me, a person he hated, for thousands of my work hours, my translation software, commissioning the production of those translations, starting the projects, recruiting the cock-flasher to translate...for me, ZERO CREDIT, and just excuses ever since...
This is Tom Lipschultz' "WyrdWad" account and what he posted when somebody erased me from the Credits I added to one of the games in question:
The guy was feuding with me publicly and privately at least 2 years before he got the job at XSEED and this is the background on how it all happened. Pulled the same shit with his company, so yes, DeuceBag isn't the only criminal culprit, it was a duo of deucebags at work and you had a conspiracy at work given their conniving nature!
Well, I hope this gives you more of an idea, but you seem to be unable to decide how interested you are in this story to justify reading article-length posts you deem "too long..." This IS a lengthy story, if you care to learn more, but yeah...
