[Dave]

This was the first official product for SoftEgg. Having worked on all aspects of this game when it was still being produced under the auspices of Adventions, SoftEgg took over the product when Adventions was disolved. Alas, the cascading bankruptcies of our licensors prevented the game from ever being officially released. The rights have now reverted to Gainax and NineLives, so please stop asking us for copies of the game!

Note: Princess Maker 2 is not, nor has it ever been, freeware, abandonware, or shareware. The rights to the game still belong to NineLives, Gainax, and their licensees. SoftEgg is no longer in a position to grant publication rights to anyone, but still retains the rights to its English language translation (without the source code and art). So please stop pirating the game! Thank you.

Last year, I met Princess Maker 2's creator, Takami Akai, at Fanime Con. It seems that all rights to the games outside Japan have been granted to some other company in asia, which seems odd, considering that our agreement hasn't run out yet, but I have no reason to push the issue, best of luck to them. I printed up a special copy of the english language version, complete with the full color manual, which I presented to Akai-san in a public ceremony at the convention. I said "I've been a bad father, the daughter has turned out poorly. I am returning her to you now." In the tradition of the game, I returned the child to the creator at the end.

The situation seems quite clear, am I wrong?