Stereogatari
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Konami went nuclear.
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Kojima was 'fired' by Konami, says Metal Gear Solid voice actress
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schaft0620
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I won't buy MGS5
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
Just like SEGA, Nintendo, Square and Capcom.
Hm interesting, still would think they would want to have some sort of foothold in video games.
And is that confirmed, that his team was fired? It's not even confirmed that he was. He could have quit under bad terms and his team followed. Nobody knows what's going on.
Give War A Chance
Member
This is going to make an extremely interesting exposé at some point. One I'd love to take in.
So you're going to make the however many months/years of Kojima's suffering worthless then? That's not the right thing to do. It's still his project. His game. Regardless of what the box says, we all know who made it. At least buy it used.
You positive about that.
One of my theories is when Konami made KojiPro a brand and offer it to him, while he was a VP, He was granted the rights to that brand.
Now he is no longer an employee, his contract stated he owns his brand. Probably some bad blood with the new power had them say "Take your brand, and we are scrubbing it from our IP"
hooijdonk17
Member
I suppose he can start making real movies now..
Kojima will be proclaimed the perfect troll if true. I'm all for this actually lol it could be fun to see the reactions.
I smell PR bullshit in all honesty.
Expect MGS VI,VII and VIII all through to 2020.
Konami will churn those out COD style.
Stereogatari
Banned
So he's been fired, but not until December.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Yeah, going from the staffs social media connections abound, a fortnightly promotion show, and more to "oops, can't talk about anything, bye". Its about ethics in business. I mean theres a point where playing devils advocate is more like thinking in a nonsense loop and speaking in tongues.
I'm sure plenty of people that don't like Kojima will be hoping beyond hope that its his fault or whatever. Disregard all the murmurs clearly indicating what went on and pledge allegiance to the one that has no purchase in reality because "donut like dat guy".
silver.tongue
Member
I keep expecting this to be a huge troll by Kojima... 
Yep, exactly what I said.
He is working on the game and is a contractor at Konami untill December.
Did people not realise this with the previous statements from Konami? It was pretty clear.
Frankly, in light of this particular fiasco and previous shenanigans, please allow me to amend your statement:
Konami went nucular.
Phat Michael
Banned
Yeah ill upvote this.
Newtype-001
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TheSlySoul
Member
"Fired" is not the same as "restructuring him out of a job" so the PR guy is right, but still scummy.
well, duh. we knew that.
Kojima probably doesn't want to end up like IGA when he was stuck in some basement doing nothing.
Chris Metal
Member
I'd watch for the lols.
Over the past decade, what has Konami done that would have given them the benefit of the doubt in this matter? They've been losing all of their top talent on a fairly consistent basis since Michiru Yamane's departure, and they've been content to let their various franchises die horrible deaths from mismanagement (Castlevania, Silent Hill) to virtually disavowing any knowledge of their existence (Suikoden, any Hudson Soft property). If they haven't done anything wrong here, then they've done an exceedingly poor job in conveying it.
SenatorBot
Member
Don't the japanese fire their employees by giving them useless jobs where they can't do anything in hopes they'll leave due to labor laws?
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Yep. Semantics at best. His job role changed to "You're obviously not allowed to leave until MGSV and maybe the first round of MGO3 DLC is out", but "contractor" is shorter. Dudes gonna be stir crazy by December just sitting on his thumbs waiting to re-launch a studio and get into new projects.
This is the wrong thing to do here.
It's still Kojima and Kojima Productions game which they've been working on for over 5 years now.
Of course Kojima wants his last Metal Gear game to be a huge success.
GreyOcelot
Member
i cannot wait for the day people stop floating this ridiculous idea.
no, it's all been silent. we don't even get food pics.
Palculator
Unconfirmed Member
Kinda irrational but a compromise would be to buy it used.
Exactly.
Losing Kojima and his team is a big loss to them, but surely Konami knew that, Can they really expect someone to replace Kojima and his team?
I'm pretty upset thinking about what this could mean for Silent HIlls. It must only be in the middle of development, right? It looked like we'd finally get another great Silent Hill after two mediocre ones. Dammit. They'll still push it out, I imagine; hopefully there's enough already in place to keep it as brilliant as PT promised no matter who takes over.
He job role.
"He" job role.
Hi job role.
Hideo job role.
I swear, even the Konami damage control department is utterly inept.
That guy works for Gamespot not Konami.
This is such a weak spin, I feel sorry for reading it.
Rob Crossley sounds like an english name, how is he not able to spell "his" ?
Hmm sounds realistic and reasonable. But they don't deny that he is no longer an employee though.
I believe they did indeed fire him and that PR is a half lie. They have fired him but let him continue the work on contract till the game is released.
AHA-Lambda
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MrCookiepants
Member
Wow, he was the only thing keeping the company relevant. What happens to Silent Hills now? That was by far my most anticipated game. Now it'll probably be another shitty entry to the series.
How is it spin?
Fired means the person is no longer there. Kojima and his team are still working on the game. He is a contractor untill december.
When you got friends at Konami and try to spin like a DJ but nothing happens
Same difference.
Since we're all just playing the guessing game, I'll just guess it's him wanting out of MGS and Konami saying naw. Kojima is like fine I'm done and Konami goes cool but we're gonna be twats about it and scrub yer name. Kojima pops both middle fingers as he backs out of the board room.