That seems like the most obvious conclusion, so yeah, I think that's what it is. He doesn't care about promotions or money or anything cause he's richer than shit and could just walk up to take a vice president spot or something if he wanted to. He's just having fun and is enjoying his life...
What do you mean scummy? They're the official English version, they're allowed to charge money for it and they don't need to give two squirts of rancid goat piss about what the pirate scanlation groups have done already.
It's not that we don't appreciate it it's just that
1. it's against the rules
2. it's illegal
3. it will get the site shut down
Edit:
User appears to have been nuked from orbit over this, sadly.
What happened? Which group was translating this? Did they break rule 5 or something?
Edit: Asmodeus Scans
And yes, they're illegally selling translations on their website, so Rule 5.
Fun manga.
Oh hey, it has a novelupdates link.
A few dozen chapters, great.
Yup, it's a group illegally selling fan translations
Novelupdates needs to implement rule 5.