Old news but still pretty un-cool of Konami: https://www.gamezone.com/news/konami-locked-hideo-kojima-in-a-separate-room-away-from-dev-team-for-last-six-months-of-metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-development-3446023/
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why would they do this
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Konami sucks. I don’t like Kojima, but I still root for him when it comes to Konami. That company is cartoonishly stupid.
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Afaik the new CEO was a thundercunt and told everyone to cut corners. Kojima told him to fuck off and continued implementing stuff into MGS, which in turn delayed the games launch. (If you are new to this Universe, making a good game takes time and love. This is something travellers from the Multiverse, CEOs and chimps with the Down syndrome don’t understand).
*bad CEOs
Example of a good CEO: Satoru Iwata
Bingo, we’d have better games if more bosses of game studios could act that way(s).
No more games only Pachinko.
I was with you until the ableism. besides that it’s a good take.
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Mofo keeps adding shit that isn’t in the budget probably.
At some point the people funding the project have to deliver a product, and if Kojima keeps the title in development hell there won’t be a product.
Then how do you explain this:
“Keighley went on to detail how shocked he was when he found out that Konami didn’t allow Kojima to attend last year’s Game Awards.” (a quote from the article)
Idk I don’t work there. Imagine there’s a lot of bad blood from trying to rein in Kojima, which eventually pushed him into starting his own studio.
I’m pretty sure he started his own studio because they fired him. Though I suppose that’s just order of operations.
The weird part was they denied to the public that he would no longer be working for Konami. Kojima was verbal for months that he was no longer working for Konami, they just pretended he still did.
Then how do you explain Kojima’s success with Death Stranding where he was basically free to do whatever he want with no one stopping him?
that’s probably why i spent most of my time with it cringing
You’d have made a good point if everything he touched didn’t turn to gold. Something something goose that lays the golden eggs.
You talking about the same kojima that delivered endless hits to the company over three decades?
Endless? Pretty sure you can count them. They have numbers on the name.
Quit fanboying for a second and realize there are real time and money constraints, you cannot endlessly shovel features into software at a whim.
MGSV going open world was dangerous enough.
Yeah. Shits fucked.
I mean… I guess you could say they tried to Hideo him away, but he still Kojima’d anyways?
