''Creative side'' of playing games and reading comics instead of doing his job, apparently.He then said that I had impressed him over the past months, and that he would like to formally offer me a job with Dangen. He claimed they couldn't afford to hire me full time, so I would continue working as I mostly already was, for the sum of 50,000 yen (roughly $500 USD) per month. By this point, completely unpaid by Dangen and working only for revshare from my development teams, I was fielding all third party offers and negotiating all developer requests for three separate projects. I also assisted with translation, interpretation, communications with musicians and collaborators, coordinating interviews with press, marketing campaign strategy, and copy editing.
I knew Nayan's salary must be around 300,000 yen (roughly $3000 USD) per month in order to meet the requirements for Japanese residency status. I was being offered one sixth of what Nayan was paid in order to do a majority of Nayan's job for him.
This would free Nayan up to pursue his more "creative" side, which Ben felt Nayan excelled at more than the "detail-oriented" paperwork he'd been tasked with thus far.
So... we've got a huge medium article that just dropped, going over everything. It's a doozy.
Hey everyone.
I loathe writing messages like this, because it means that something is on fire. I really wish I was writing a post about how awesome I thought X-men #2 was, or how much I'm enjoying Jedi Fallen Order...
is this a personal or a professional response?
because it feels very unprofessional wasting company money on suggesting to write thoughts about personal life.
I started reading the medium article, then realized how long it is, holy shit.
I've read enough so far though to safely say that this Judd asshole can go fuck himself.
This along side thetrin's account makes it sound like Dangen Entertainment should have blocked ResetEra on their office PCs, lmao.So... we've got a huge medium article that just dropped, going over everything. It's a doozy.
I feel bad for them, but huge cringe.
- Ben Judd hit on the author multiple times.
- Ben Judd tried to hire the author with an egregious contract that would have potentially locked down any work she had done, and by proxy the work she had done with Devil Engine/Fight Knight devs, with Dangen.
- Ben Judd tried to hire the author so that their future company fuck-ups would only be be discussable in-house.
- Ben Judd wanted to punish the Fight Knight devs because he got Big Mad that the Devil Engine devs were rightfully talking mad shit about Dangen's fuck ups.
- Dangen failed to initially include the biggest goddamn region from the Devil Engine's devs sales from the royalty payouts that were initially quoted to them(the fuck?)
- Dangen fucked up tax withholdings and delayed DE devs payment, with Ben Judd's response being "our accountants are lazy lulz"
- Dangen fucked up tax withholdings and never gave proof of this so the DE devs(and the author) could never get a tax refund on their missing royalties.
- Because of the above, they also had to incrementally eek out their money from japanese banks to not trigger overseas transfer restrictions
- Dangen strong-armed Devil Engine's western composers to either sign additional contracts with them or only receive a portion of their payment
- Author had to pay "DE's most famous musician collaborator"(Hyakutaro Tsukumo of Thunder Force?) out of pocket because they were pulling that shit with them too
These are the heavy hitters, but there's so much more in that article. Easy to see why thetrin was running defense on this given how much of a clown he comes out looking in this.
Can't say I feel the same cringe considering the way they were treated by those idiots at Dangen and then being told by that creep Ben Judd to only speak in a yes or no manner in the company's Slack. Fuck that noise, the dev response was appropriate.
Maybe requesting a account closure.thetrin has been online multiple times since the Medium post dropped. They're a lot less gung ho to reply this time (for obvious reasons).
They have no money with which to initiate legal action, because they haven't been paid.
Thinking you're smooth but you fucking clown your own damn self.I was a little confused why he had assumed I was asking to sleep in the Dangen staff hotel room, but by this time I was used to Ben saying odd things like this.
FK dev wanted to terminate his agreement with Dangen in May, but considering Ben Judd's threats towards the DE team, FK dev decided to wait until DE had received at least some of their royalties. When I confirmed the DE team had received some payment, FK dev notified Dangen that he had terminated his agreement with them on July 24th, 2019.
Part of me wonders why the industry has gone to shit with so many asshats working it. The other part of me then realises these asshats were always there, we're just finally talking about it.
So thanks to everyone for coming out to illuminate these asshats.
They pointed out the stream views because they were doing the streams instead of supporting the devs.
I think it's clear you're one of those 100 or so views.The implication here is they should be spending all their time doing work for the devs and not trying to build their brand. Them having scheduled streams has absolutely nothing to do with the communications (or lack thereof) with the development staff. Highlighting the views and all that is just a petty thing to do to diminish their efforts to get their name out there and make them look bad.
So businesses operate by ghosting developers, failing to *ever* pay some of them, utilizing their work without consent, attempting to contract somebody into handing over all rights to their past and future works, consistently lying about timelines, and prioritizing their own little celebrity bubble over actually doing their fucking job as a publisher? Nah.The fuck is this? No I'm not. The only thing I watch streaming or YouTube is Easy Allies. I'm just someone who knows one of the people involved and someone who has some idea of how business operates. Get out of here with this dismissive crap