NIS America Stops The Legend of Heroes: Kuro no Kiseki Fan Translator Group | SankakuComplex
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It's a localization company. They literally pay huge amounts of money to buy the license and then pay staff to make an official translated version for commercial release. Bear in mind this isn't an anime, it's a video game. They're considerably more expensive to localize.
Not really sure why people give NISA shit when it's a tiny company providing some competition in this space. If you want the whole industry to be dominated by a few woke giants who do whatever the fuck they want and you get 0 say in it, then okay.
Huh? what the fuck is there to negotiate. They paid for the license. The fansub group is infringing on the license and harming the commercial market by potentially releasing a competing product for free. It's like asking someone to negotiate with you about fucking your wife.
NISA has a DECADES-long record of the sort of incompetence that has literally put bugs in english versions of games that make them unplayable. For the love of god, don't take it easy on them. They absolutely do not deserve the benefit of a doubt.
So because you're mad that some past release had bugs in it, that means that a commercial company who has to pay its employee salaries and recoup its licensing costs is supposed to just roll over and allow other people to ruin the commercial market for their products?
Sounds pretty stupid to me.
This isn't simple bootlegging - they are two distinct works. Theoretically the commercial company with paid employees and funding to procure licenses should be able to produce a monumentally better product than some rando fansub group that is making no money. There isn't much danger to their bottom line... unless for some reason their product is not worth what they are asking.
So there are some problems with that logic.
The game's script is copyrighted and owned by the licensor, who wants money as a reward for their creative work. The licensee is paying and authorized. The fansubbers aren't. It's the same piracy issue as anything else.
I'm 100% in favor of piracy, I pirate a lot of shit, but at the same time I don't blame a company for sending cease and desists to groups like this.