Re: Hardcore Grappling (sex wrestling game) [on pay what you want]
here's how things went down, freeko commissioned a game with my basic terms explained (i retain all rights to my game and can sell it), shortly after production began however, freeko divorced himself of any involvement with the development of my game by interesting himself only with the art (and then decided he was making his own version on vx ace), i shrugged at the time but it bothered me a bit. our original agreement included half of the paypal sales, but when he realised this he tried to bar me from selling on dlsite for six months or cut him in on that, despite having agreed to my terms already.
In general he was a nightmare to work with, we had agreed on the number of cg and the poses contained within before any money changed hands yet he constantly trolled me by requesting additional artworks to be added (pretty much every day), which was incredibly stressful and not at all welcome considering the discount from £800 (my standard rpgmaker price) to £600 i had already given him.
after his behaviour in anon42's thread i decided i'd had enough of him and terminated our agreement. I did this by putting the game on pay what you want, because i was okay not making any money on the game as long as it meant freeko didn't profit from my hard work after being such a git.
(i told him to fuck off on skype, then blocked him)
after blocking him freeko tried to fraudulently chargeback on paypal £400 in total, but failed due to lying and saying it was an ebay purchase.
then he filed a dmca against my blog, then had it pulled from dlsite despite having no proof of ownership of the game i produced 100% on my own (freeko's contribution was the names orla and karina, the designs and all artwork and all the writing are my own)
let me see, since i haven't paid him any of the profit yet (since it was going towards the tentacle sumo, which i haven't cancelled working on yet)
the number of sales is... 34/50 paypal sales towards tentacle sumo
Total amount:
£4.60 GBP
Fee amount:
-£0.38 GBP
Net amount:
£4.22 GBP
so if i don't do tentacle sumo i owe him at most £71.74 +(pay what you want/2) £10.50
while i blocked him on skype, he was still perfectly capable of emailing me to deal directly, instead he's chosen to harrass me and claim ownership of my game, sending petty threats with our shared contacts.
anything else people want to know? I don't have a date for finishing tentacle sumo yet cause i've been busy with commissions and izuki, but it will be done at some point. i already have most of orlas pics done.
EDIT- the sad thing is this could've all been avoided if i'd made him sign a contract