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Yoichi Wada: Too cruel to Kojima, Konami trying to make the world as their enemy
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TheJollyCorner
Member
.......this.
For all the negative things I could throw at Wada, he always seemed (at least on the surface) to treat those 'legacy' designers/developers within his company with respect even in troubling times.
*dodges bottles from Hiroyuki Ito fans*
potatohead
Member
Screw you Wada go home.
You sunk my favourite videogame franchise almost.
You sunk my favourite videogame franchise almost.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Kojima doesn't deserve the way Konami treats him. He is no Kawazu!
Dark_castle
Junior Member
.......this.
For all the negative things I could throw at Wada, he always seemed (at least on the surface) to treat those 'legacy' designers/developers within his company with respect even in troubling times.
*dodges bottles from Hiroyuki Ito fans*
You are already dead.gif
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I had to read up a bit on Wada. He strikes me as a genuine fellow.
On Piracy said:
BronsonLee
Member
Konami's just preparing to make their own Outer Heaven
restraining order
Member
Isn't Wada partly responsible for what happened to Matsuno?
RamzaIsCool
The Amiga Brotherhood
So had Wada anything to do with the departures of Hironobu Sakaguchi and Yasumi Matsuno?
He did with Uematsu. He went to a fortune teller to get and advice and they told him to move the company which caused Uematsu to leave.
No one's ever seen him bleed or cry.
Are we comparing Wada to Konami here?
BreezyLimbo
Banned
That strikes me as something an adorably naive fool would do(I mean that in the most endearing way.)
It's actually quite adorable.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Yes.
Wish I could pull up the old anaron thread that went into very deep detail about how Wada almost single-handedly derailed Squaresoft.
No matter how many times I read this, I can't believe it happened.
Burgess_101
Member
Obviously we don't know what happened with the kojima situation. My feelings Konami should have let their MGSV be their swan song and bow out graciously. Now this huge kerfuffle means Konami will never be able to get back into AAA gaming ever again, should their business see an upturn.
TheJollyCorner
Member
Let's say when you were younger you opened a lemonade stand.
The lemonade was amazing and you formed a fanbase of children in your neighborhood. For years they would come around, thirsty for that lemonade. You spent money to enrich that product, but you made money back. You formed a reputation in your city. You also employed some talented kids from the neighborhood to help make and sell your product too. Things were swell.
You get older and cooler. You start wearing hammer pants and shades. Eventually the kids aren't enough- and you start another business. Let's say an escort service.
You try doing both- lemonade by day, attractive ladies-of-the-night by evening. You start making more money on the latter and begin losing interest in the former even though the kids still love you.
Over time you prefer the smell of crisp bills over the feel of dirty change. You start spending less time at the lemonade stand. You outsource your product to homeless people who (whether knowingly or not) begin adding pee to the lemonade. Eventually, all you want to do is spend time with your escorts and say "fuck off" to all the thirsty little children. On your way over to permanently closing the lemonade stand, you look your most talented worker that has been with you since Kool & the Gang was a hit on the radio square in the eyes, dick-punch him, and proceed to burn the lemonade stand down while a group of children watch in horror.
The end.
A terrible analogy in honor of Konami Computer Entertainment. :{
entremet
Member
Probably couldn't control budgets.
TheJollyCorner
Member
Bu......but... wasn't it a fortune teller that told Uematsu he was about to have something really amazing happen in his life just prior to being hired by Square in the mid-'80s?
What is going on with these Japanese fortune tellers?
Stone Ocean
Member
He was expensive
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Bu......but... wasn't it a fortune teller that told Uematsu he was about to have something really amazing happen in his life just prior to being hired by Square in the mid-'80s?
What is going on with these Japanese fortune tellers?
Japanese fortune tellers basically follow the ancient Greek tradition, modelling themselves after the seers who made Oedipus kill his dad by telling him he was going to kill his dad.
He punched a pachinko machine.
MrCunningham
Member
GhostTrick
Banned
Fate/Cipher
Member
He probably destroyed an anti-air radar, despite it not being one of the targets.
Well, yes. As I understand it, fortune tellers are something serious in Japan, more than in the west at least. The thing is that after Wada took control of S-E they had to move the central offices somewhere because the company was going to become huge (understandable), and so he went to a fortune teller to advise him on the best possible location. Mind you this is a somewhat common practice in Japan, at least that's what I think from what I've read.
So they chose a location which didn't suit Uematsu, he was Nobuo fucking Uematsu and he decided he was not gonna move, so he didn't and left the company. Keep in mind that the main motive for Uematsu to leave S-E was probably Wada taking over and fucking up everything the Gooch (a very, very, very good friend of Uematsu) stood for, so this was a good excuse as any.
ChaosZeroX
Banned
Well hopefully Kojima comes back stronger then ever after December when his employment is officially over.
FrontalMonk
Banned
It's endearing and adorable until you find out YOUR boss is also taking business advice from fortune tellers.
On giant sacks of pachislot money.
I still stick to my Theory that Konami executives accidentally got a giant drug delivery that was for Sonic Team. Which allowed those to get of there trip and make Colors and Generations while Konami slowly spiraled into hitting into madness.
On a serious note. Why would you ever fuck with any kind of audience. You don't know how many of those people are a shard audience between what ever else you want to be. Pissing off people is never a good business decision
On a serious note. Why would you ever fuck with any kind of audience. You don't know how many of those people are a shard audience between what ever else you want to be. Pissing off people is never a good business decision
Are you drunk?
Kawazu always deliver on time and doesn't even make costly projects.
His last project was a fucking mobile game and he's working on a Vita game after a generation of working on Wii&DS games!