Square Enix Crack Down on Fan Made TYPE-0 Patch

[Ayen]

Do other Japanese game companies take three years after having fans wait eight years and counting for a spinoff game that turned into a main numbered entry because it's been eight years?

I'm not going to argue the legality of the issue, because there's nothing to argue there, but it'd be nice if publishers could show more tact.

If you ask so, yes, there are multiple games that came out after years have passed. And if Kingdom Hearts Final Mix would have been translated and released you can be sure Square Enix would have done the same thing to protect their 1.5 HD ReMIX. I am not even sure how legal streaming Final Fantasy on Twitch is because the manuals say you may not publicly, no matter through which medium, show the copryrighted product. Though Twitch might be an exception as it is such a big thing now and probably means more future buyers.

Main reason I ask is because the average Japanese game takes a year at most to come over, so three years seem a little long by comparison. That might be because publishers planned to localize it from the start, though. I can't remember how recently Square decided they were going to make an official English translation.

If the guy's post is any indication:

Unfortunately I’m forced to remove my posts and pages related to the popular Final Fantasy Type-0 fan translation project. That’s right, certain game company thinks that threats and false accusations are the way to treat its biggest fans

Sounds like more than just a warning.

"Threat" is the very definition of your standard C&D that gets given to anyone as a warning. False accussations is something we can't verify and is possibly a matter of opinion at present. Either way false accusations are unrelated to hard legal action such as being sued. I've yet to see if this is anything more than "Dude, take it off your site, no more." Hard to really judge without getting more information from Sky.

SE have sent a C&D to a lot of sites in the past and this really doesn't come across as anything shocking to me.

Ah. I have my definitions of "threats" mixed up, then. I still don't agree with a C&D being the first response in this case.

I wonder how other large Japanese developer-publishers handle stuff like this? And also how Western developers deal with translations in other countries.

I doubt many of them would be any better, to be honest. I know Kojima was pretty cool about a Metal Gear remake fans were working on a little while back.