Here are some REAL facts.
- Variant is a company of questionable repute (see: Mythri, and the other games on their site)
- Nintendo NOT approving them as an official developer speaks volumes
- The CEO's "detailed" explaination of what happened fails to mention that the extend of his communication with Pixel was over a bunch of emails and Pixel did not agree to give them any source code but didn't mind what they were doing under the assumption that it was going to be a freeware project. No money was offered or given because money was never discussed as an issue.
- If Alpha willingly allowed them to use his artwork under the assumption that Pixel has "given his full blessings" to this project, he was misled.
- At this point, if the english translation is used for this game, there WILL be a lawsuit.
So basically we have a company which has not had a single proper game ever released on a single system trying to take advantage of the availability and internet fad of a freeware Japanese game and basically trying to get the rights to publish a potentially profitable game for free. Until they decide to come clean about this I don't see why anyone should be supportive of this at all. :P
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