I don't see how that statement is 'downplaying' anything, what's alleged here sounds even worse than the bad shit Nicalis and its president were doing.Dangen is awful but maybe let's not downplay the horrible shit Nicalis did.
Anyway, hope developers make it out having to work with them okay.
I wouldn't be shocked if Nicalis is similarly incompetent but we simply haven't heard about it.
We knew it wouldn't be long before Dangen apologists showed up.
Them ghosting developers, especially for such long lengths of time as they did, very likely in itself caused large financial shenanigans. On top of that Tyrone was incredibly abusive towards employees. There's apparently even more stories that didn't get out there about how terrible Nicalis/Tyrone is.The stuff about Nicalis was largely terrible communication and ghosting, besides Tyrone's gross bigotry, but we haven't yet heard about financial shenanigans with them. As far as we know they pay their devs at least.
This pretty much, Such a weird take from that poster. But they did say they know someone involded personally so we shouldn't be surprised.Just so I'm clear on this:
Party A: Sexually harasses people they are in a position of power over. Fraudulently alters contracts and provides "oops, sorry" responses when caught. Commit tax fraud in their contractors' names. Attempt to defraud them out of large portions of income by "forgetting" to pay it. Take 40% without providing the agreed upon services. Make major costly decisions with contracted IP which they have no legal authority to make. Gave away musicians' work for free without notifying or reimbursing them. Pressured developers into unpaid work which was never even used. Made business agreements in writing on developers' behalves without even notifying them. Were caught outright lying about nonexistent business contacts and offers. Created a satanic "standard" contract which attempted to steal all work an individual had done, would do, work done by others not even involved in the contract, and have them do another person's full time job...for $500 a month. Claimed to be too busy to fulfill vital business obligations while streaming themselves drinking from a bar.
Party B: Says some swear words after months of abuse at the hands of what now amounts to a criminal conspiracy constructed around a consistent and constant pattern of manipulation and business fraud.
You: Why aren't you guys thinking about Party A's mental health? You're all monsters!
How do you have the life understanding of a deer.
New threadmark? Anyone find any tweets about this?
Oh but we did my friend, we did
Try a Google Search and you'd be surprised how much shit we know
It's pretty easy to still get the text, but the real receipts are in the pictures. All I've got saved is this one
All the text is cached on Google, but here's a pastebin https://pastebin.com/Y1em02dr
Edit: The Google cache was taken down minutes after I grabbed the text.
This is addressed in the article. They only localized those games for Japan (Asia?).I'm sure it'll blow up this week. It might just be having trouble gaining traction because this is a pub who's games tend to be very small, with their most notable success (crosscode, Iconoclasts) being games they are 1 of like 4 credited publishers (so I imagine they just published them in specific regions or something).
Did they really think getting the medium post pulled would prevent the info from spreading? First of all that's hilarious that they think they can censor something like this, but more importantly:
The fact that Ben Judd/Dangen had the article taken down just confirms that the emails are real.
Lol
I don't see how that statement is 'downplaying' anything, what's alleged here sounds even worse than the bad shit Nicalis and its president were doing.
The stuff about Nicalis was largely terrible communication and ghosting, besides Tyrone's gross bigotry, but we haven't yet heard about financial shenanigans with them. As far as we know they pay their devs at least.
That's terrible to hear if not surprising. It was pretty clear Nicalis (Tyrone) was scum but it sounds like there's so much more that hasn't come out yet, I'm sorry you had to go through all of it.Yeah, Well.
Personally I was not paid for months when I first started there and there were a number of late payments afterwards but I know many more instances. Mostly freelancers but devs too.
Also there was more than just ghosting, they purposely try to sabotage people and don't forget different types of physical abuse which were hinted at in the article; or giving people faulty info so they get lost and then try to abandon them in a foreign country or other convoluted crazy shit. Like he purposely tried to make me miss my flight home from Japan and he's done it to others.
A significant portion of the worst of what N*cal*s has done was not published to protect people (because of the vindictiveness but also because they are legally bound), not to mention all of the people who weren't even contacted for the Kotaku article or refused to speak out of fear. It doubly sucks as well that some of the people screwed by N*cal*s went to Dangen after they were fucked over.
Needless to say N*cal*s has not changed since the article went up and is still messing people around. Though hopefully no one new.
To be fair, actual quality journalism takes time. It needs to be researched, people need to be interviewed, facts need to be checked, etc. (and a lot of this stuff unfolded over the weekend). If you're hoping for one of those rare cases of actually worthwhile, critical games journalism, you should have at least a little bit of patience. If another week or so passes and there's still nothing, then I'd start being worried.It's fascinating to me that we are now also at the point of Dangen trying to silence evidence, and still not a single media outlet gives a shit about reporting it.
I shouldn't be surprised, gaming media is mostly toothless at the best of times, but I'm still disappointed.
Oof, yeah I wasn't aware of all that.Yeah, Well.
Personally I was not paid for months when I first started there and there were a number of late payments afterwards but I know many more instances. Mostly freelancers but devs too.
Also there was more than just ghosting, they purposely try to sabotage people and don't forget different types of physical abuse which were hinted at in the article; or giving people faulty info so they get lost and then try to abandon them in a foreign country or other convoluted crazy shit. Like he purposely tried to make me miss my flight home from Japan and he's done it to others.
A significant portion of the worst of what N*cal*s has done was not published to protect people (because of the vindictiveness but also because they are legally bound), not to mention all of the people who weren't even contacted for the Kotaku article or refused to speak out of fear. It doubly sucks as well that some of the people screwed by N*cal*s went to Dangen after they were fucked over.
Needless to say N*cal*s has not changed since the article went up and is still messing people around. Though hopefully no one new.
Fuck all these shitty people behind these publishers. Ugh, sorry you had to deal with that.Yeah, Well.
Personally I was not paid for months when I first started there and there were a number of late payments afterwards but I know many more instances. Mostly freelancers but devs too.
Also there was more than just ghosting, they purposely try to sabotage people and don't forget different types of physical abuse which were hinted at in the article; or giving people faulty info so they get lost and then try to abandon them in a foreign country or other convoluted crazy shit. Like he purposely tried to make me miss my flight home from Japan and he's done it to others.
A significant portion of the worst of what N*cal*s has done was not published to protect people (because of the vindictiveness but also because they are legally bound), not to mention all of the people who weren't even contacted for the Kotaku article or refused to speak out of fear. It doubly sucks as well that some of the people screwed by N*cal*s went to Dangen after they were fucked over.
Needless to say N*cal*s has not changed since the article went up and is still messing people around. Though hopefully no one new.
Some of the pictures are available in this translation of the article: