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[Jimmyfenix]

Presidents/CEO's can totally keep their involvement in games!

Ru Weerasuriya is the CEO of Ready at Dawn and is the Director of the Order.

I am sure Ted Price has some involvement over Sunset Overdrive.

 

[Xpliskin]

Does that mean he won't be directing as much

 

[Sparrowhawk]

Is this really happening?

 

[Masquerader]

Oh, yesh.

 

[Dresden]

Chose the dark lord ending.

 

[Shaneus]

If this will get me my Otogi, then cool. Otherwise, whatever.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Victory Achieved.

 

[Arxisz]

Holy shit, Awwww yeah! who knew the kadokawa acquisition would lead to this!

 

[Aruhamel]

As president he will have new duties. He may not be able to heavily participate in future games, even if he wanted to.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

RIP Souls series. You had a good 2 game run.

*Three game

Spoiler

BEASTlieve!

 

[Red Liquorice]

First job: sack the B-team.

Spoiler

JUST KIDDING!

 

[Hot Coldman]

He just got Suda'd. Welp.

 

[Parakeetman]

Truthfully being the head means you have to buckle down more and cant do as much crazy shit as before due to literally being connected / responsible for everything that went down.

So its a double edged sword realistically.

 

[catashtrophe]

Great News,

Umbasa!!

 

[Wolff]

So now we have the new monarch. Let's see how it goes.

 

[Bruticuz]

Be aware of stress ahead !

 

[sublimit]

I really hope this doesn't affect his productivity and creativity. :/

 

[Drencrom]

It's not set in stone, but From's corporate culture seems to smile on leading from the trenches, while the strategic alignment behind KADOKAWA will likely take many management issues out of his hands compared to leading an independent developer. There's room for cautious optimism that it's mainly KADOKAWA signaling they want From to stay From.

Makes sense, hopefully this is the case

 

[FlyingSaucer]

From is in good hands.

 

[Castef]

Ok, now let's start with the #bringbackotogi hashtag.

 

[Mike Zhang]

But will he still direct games?

 

[TriangleMasher]

Based Kadokawa :^)

And people were worrying that the merger would be bad... I hope he still makes games doe.

 

[Lernaean]

Congratulations Mr. Miyazaki, well deserved.
I too hope he will remain active in the design process in the future.

 

[eXistor]

I hope he keeps directing games.

 

[CountAntonius]

Well deserved and a good sign for From and their acquisition.

 

[MormaPope]

YESSSS
YESSSS

NO LONGER WILL THIS TEAM TALK EXIST.

ALL SOULS GAMES CAN NOW BE CONSIDERED EQUAL BY ALL FROM NOW ON.

YOUR "A TEAM" SOULS ARE MINE.

 

[PairOfFilthySocks]

Lame. He seems born to be a game director.

 

[Wolves Evolve]

Lame. He seems born to be a game director.

How about... he wouldn't take the job if he didn't want it - and he's a good judge of what he's born to do?

 

[MormaPope]

Lame. He seems born to be a game director.

Its amazing how this news is almost being twisted into bitter or sad spirited news.

"Hey man, you're now the president of the company! Congratulations."

*Miyazaki frowns, holds back tears, is barely able to utter out:

"Thank you, I, I need to go to the bathroom."

*Miyazaki sprints into the bathroom and starts to sob in a bathroom stall

How about... he wouldn't take the job if he didn't want it - and he's a good judge of what he's born to do?

No, I think we're in the better position to tell him what to do.

Spoiler

Even saying that in jest is disgusting.

 

[Harpuea]

What exactly does a game director do anyway? I am certain they don't say "Lights, camera, ACTION!"

Although, I can totally see Kojima doing that.

 

[PairOfFilthySocks]

How about... he wouldn't take the job if he didn't want it - and he's a good judge of what he's born to do?

Well naturally the guy knows what he wants to do a tad better than I do, but the fact remains that being a game director is a considerably more personally creatively expressive job than being president of a company, and the guy seems to have a hell of a lot of talent in that area.

 

[Datschge]

Miyazaki Asks, do it now!

 

[Sami+]

Congratulations to him! I hope this doesn't affect his involvement in game development.

 

[MormaPope]

Well naturally the guy knows what he wants to do a tad better than I do, but the fact remains that being a game director is a considerably more personally creatively expressive job than being president of a company, and the guy seems to have a hell of a lot of talent in that area.

Well, he and other people feel he'll be a even better president.

 

[PairOfFilthySocks]

Well, he and other people feel he'll be a even better president.

Well...yes. They wouldn't have appointed him otherwise.

 

[Jathaine]

*Three game

Spoiler

BEASTlieve!

The implication was that Dark Souls 2 wasn't good, I suspect.

 

[EvilKatarn]

Wow, well deserved.

It'll be interesting to see what direction he'll shoot Armored Core into.

 

[Drencrom]

The implication was that Dark Souls 2 wasn't good, I suspect.

Yes and he implied Project Beast will be the third one

 

[popyea]

Congrats Miyazaki! Now I'm curious if his role in Beast is director or producer.

 

[MormaPope]

RIP Souls series. You had a good 2 game run.

At this point in Souls discussions I can't tell if this sarcasm or not.

 

[Drencrom]

Congrats Miyazaki! Now I'm curious if his role in Beast is director or producer.

Project Beast must've started out between the release of Dark Souls and the start of the production of Dark Souls II so he have already worked on the game for a good 2 years at least and I'm pretty sure he wants to see through the whole production of the game. We're not even entirely sure if this promotion will lessen his directing involvement in games in the first place, but seeing as Kadokawa owns the joint now the heavier duty management may have been relocated to them instead, as Mandoric said.

 

[Kane1345]

All praise Miyazaki

 

[double jump]

And thus ends his direct involvement in any and all dev projects.

Yeah this aspect kinda sucks. Hopefully he gets to finish any projects he was working on prior though.

 

[Ferr986]

Awesome news (provided he still direct games)

 

[NEO0MJ]

This isn't necessarily true - Jin has been deeply involved in several titles, including directing AC4.

But on the other hand we have Suda 51, who hasn't been directly involved in a game for a long time.

 

[sublimit]

It would be nice if he could make a statement to his thousands of fans about what his role will be from now on and (most importantly) if it will affect his duties as a director for current and future projects.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

YESSSS
YESSSS

NO LONGER WILL THIS TEAM TALK EXIST.

ALL SOULS GAMES CAN NOW BE CONSIDERED EQUAL BY ALL FROM NOW ON.

YOUR "A TEAM" SOULS ARE MINE.

Notsureifserious

There is an experienced team and one that was made up largely from devs who made AC games.

A-team doesn't mean just Miyazaki. It means the original designers and artists of the first two Souls games.

 

[MormaPope]

Notsureifserious

There is an experienced team and one that was made up largely from devs who made AC games.

A-team doesn't mean just Miyazaki. It means the original designers and artists of the first two Souls games.

Really?

Damn, they did a fantastic job, kudos to them.

What did the "experienced team" work on before Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1?

I put experienced in quotations due to the condescending tone given to the Armored Core dudes.

 

[Jaeger]

The flame has been rekindled. Lord Soul embraced.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

Really?

Damn, they did a fantastic job, kudos to them.

There was thread on this very matter -___-

And no. I and many people disagree. Dark Souls 2 was a disappointment.