LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
He's not charging for it or anything. It's a donation button. Plenty of websites have them. You don't have to donate to get the patch and if you want to throw a few bucks to someone who worked on the fan translation then why not? No one is forcing them to. And if SE really wanted to get money from the Type-0 game they had years to release it on last gen consoles or as a download only thing for Vita (or hell, crossbuy PS3/Vita and 360). They've had a translation done in house and VO work done on it (not sure if 100% or not) for years. They've had plenty of oppurtunity to release it in some fashion in the west to get profit out of it and not make fans resort to doing th ejob themselves.
Yeah, it's hella questionable including actual code in the patch (something that by all means SE should go after) but that stuff is useless unless you have the dumped iso of disk 1 or 2 to patch it on to.
I also think it's mainly assumed here on GAF that people would legally purchase a copy in order to play this. So SE would basically imply piracy is hurting the sales of a 3 year old project when I would also say that we wouldn't even be talking about FFT0 like this if it wasn't for the translation teams work. I get that there are many who pirate but there are also a fair amount who also support the games if something like this came up in the case of FFT0.
There is some grey area here since we don't know about all the happening behind the scenes.