on the IGN RPG Maker Piraters
http://boards.ign.com/board.asp?brd=6166
this should be entertaining.
http://boards.ign.com/board.asp?brd=6166
this should be entertaining.
for those who are not familiar with me, I am Valkysas, webmaster of the RPG Maker Pavilion, the Official US RPG Maker site, and an administrator at Agetec's own forum.
I finally came to the IGN forum, and I've been looking at past topics on here.
RPG Maker 95, RPG Maker 2000, RPG Maker 2003, and RPG Maker 2003, if you're using them in any language other than japanese, ARE ILLEGAL, and you are breaking a major copyright law, punishable by a $50,000 dollar fine.
Don Miguel NEVER got permission from enterbrain to translate and distribute RM2K. it is not freeware. Don Miguel was SUED by enterbrain, but they lost due to a legal loophole in don's native country of russia.
RPG Maker 2000/RM2K was too heavily pirated to ever justify a US release. no one would buy it, and they could easily download it for free.
The piracy of RM2K had a major effect on the US RPG Maker market: Enterbrain pulled the plug on RPG Maker (RPG Tsukuru 3)'s release for the PS at first due to the RM2K piracy. Agetec eventually showed them there was enough demand for the game here in the states, and it was released. however, due to the setbacks, it was no longer realistic for agetec to release RPG Tsukuru 4 for the PS1 over here, and thus it was skipped.
RPG 2003/RM2K3 was being localized by enterbrain before it's japanese release. Enterbrain even sent out announcements of this to the RM2K community, along with questionaires asking how much they'd be willing to pay. the answer came to them in the form of an even larger piracy effort for 2K3 when it was released in japan. thus, the localization was stopped, and its unknown just how far it got.
same thing with XP as 2K3. a US version was planned. Piracy stopped it dead in it's tracks.
Enterbrain even has a page on their website begging for the piracy to stop so that the RPG Maker series can pull a profit and live on. if the piracy doesnt end soon, the series will die. what the piraters fail to realize is that the pirated software is also downloaded by the japanese, which destroys japanese sales as well.
so from now on, I will be permanently watching this forum for people dedicated to downloading/using this software, and thus killing the community. I will be contacting IGN directly to find out pirater's ISPs and I will send your names, addresses, and anything else I find out DIRECTLY to enterbrain.
You have been warned, these are not hollow threats. I shut Don Miguel down, so don't think for a second that I'm not capable of doing the same to random people here who insist on stealing from Enterbrain and Agetec.
I finally came to the IGN forum, and I've been looking at past topics on here.
RPG Maker 95, RPG Maker 2000, RPG Maker 2003, and RPG Maker 2003, if you're using them in any language other than japanese, ARE ILLEGAL, and you are breaking a major copyright law, punishable by a $50,000 dollar fine.
Don Miguel NEVER got permission from enterbrain to translate and distribute RM2K. it is not freeware. Don Miguel was SUED by enterbrain, but they lost due to a legal loophole in don's native country of russia.
RPG Maker 2000/RM2K was too heavily pirated to ever justify a US release. no one would buy it, and they could easily download it for free.
The piracy of RM2K had a major effect on the US RPG Maker market: Enterbrain pulled the plug on RPG Maker (RPG Tsukuru 3)'s release for the PS at first due to the RM2K piracy. Agetec eventually showed them there was enough demand for the game here in the states, and it was released. however, due to the setbacks, it was no longer realistic for agetec to release RPG Tsukuru 4 for the PS1 over here, and thus it was skipped.
RPG 2003/RM2K3 was being localized by enterbrain before it's japanese release. Enterbrain even sent out announcements of this to the RM2K community, along with questionaires asking how much they'd be willing to pay. the answer came to them in the form of an even larger piracy effort for 2K3 when it was released in japan. thus, the localization was stopped, and its unknown just how far it got.
same thing with XP as 2K3. a US version was planned. Piracy stopped it dead in it's tracks.
Enterbrain even has a page on their website begging for the piracy to stop so that the RPG Maker series can pull a profit and live on. if the piracy doesnt end soon, the series will die. what the piraters fail to realize is that the pirated software is also downloaded by the japanese, which destroys japanese sales as well.
so from now on, I will be permanently watching this forum for people dedicated to downloading/using this software, and thus killing the community. I will be contacting IGN directly to find out pirater's ISPs and I will send your names, addresses, and anything else I find out DIRECTLY to enterbrain.
You have been warned, these are not hollow threats. I shut Don Miguel down, so don't think for a second that I'm not capable of doing the same to random people here who insist on stealing from Enterbrain and Agetec.
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