Official Reply!
 

X1Software assures that the add-on „Seawolves" contains no stolen software and no third-party rights were violated.

The use of every mod has been approved by the respective developer.

All modified sound files were made by the company http://www.incognito-soundworks.com and have been licensed properly!

To be frank, we are tired of getting denounced from anonymous persons here. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech, but rather with the intention of damaging our business. Interestingly enough, the people responsible do not appear with their correct names and addresses, surely because they are afraid of a civil lawsuit or criminal prosecution.

Please do not let yourself be influenced by those devious and cowardly persons. We are more than prepared to face any adversary in court.

X1Software

Steffen Trombke
http://www.x1software.com
steffen.trombke@x1software.com

This is really interesting.

On one hand you use the anonymity of the internet to secretly download content other people created. Then you modify it and sell it back to the same community that came up with all these ideas.

But when the anonymity of the internet strikes back by spreading the word about what you and your company did you start wining. This has nothing to do with denounciation. It is just the way the net works.

Hasn't this guy been banned a while ago for is questionable behavior on the board?

Trombke, are you mad? You'll get no sympathy here. Everyone on this forum owes the modders much appreciation for their efforts to improve a great game. There's plenty of people who will attest to their mods being taken by X1...read this forum and the Ubi forum. As to there being no contact details, well I can't speak for anyone else but I wouldn't go sticking my name and address on a public forum where every Tom Dick and Harry can read it.

X1 = :arrgh!:

I thought I read somewhere in the Boycott X1 thread that he had been banned. Be a shame if he was banned again too soon....he won't get to read all the nice thiings that I'm sure are about to be said about his company....

It could be that I´m blind, but as far as I know we haven´t seen any real proof yet that Seawolves does indeed contain improperly obtained materials. There are accusations from many sides, but where are the unshakable facts? If anybody knows that, please tell me...

I know! I have a retail copy of Seawolves.

And what have you found?

My mods! We are still investigating it to see if there's even more!

Looks like das boot is on the other foot! :yep:

Which mods exactly?

May I quote myself here?

As soon as we have more information about all details, I will post them here! You'll have to wait a little bit. In general I can tell you that I'm talking about the stuff that was included in their "World mod". Parts of it are still in there!

BTW, are you a judge or something? And how comes that a person that has posted pornographic content on this board can get away with it?

Ummm... Sorry, you said your have found your mods and I simply didn´t know what your mods are.

Why, because I ask questions??? :)

I think he was banned a while ago. But you are really asking the wrong person, I don´t know much about it.

The last question wasn't directed at you personally. Anyway, here is the story so far:

When Combatplanes released World mod they used some of my additional ports (most of them made it into Opd mod) with my permission, and the port escorts and mines. This stuff was still 1:1 in the leaked beta, even though I made it clear that this permission was for non-commercial use only. After the trouble here they have deleted parts of it in the retail versions. Other parts are still in there. How much stuff is still in there? I can't say for sure because I haven't seen all of it, because I don't have SH3 installed and can only use a text editor. I have to rely on others to help me out. This is being done at the moment.

But one thing is for sure: this is very old stuff! Totally outdated!

In fact, the whole addon is nothing but a slightly updated WM!

Thanks for the information. Let me know if you need more help, I also have a copy of Seawolves.