I never start any threads but this news is pretty dissapointing.
http://ign.com/articles/2015/05/14/konami-focusing-on-mobile-games
http://ign.com/articles/2015/05/14/konami-focusing-on-mobile-games
RIP Konami
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Dark Drakan
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It was predicted some time ago that they might head in this direction (along with quite a few companies). Hopefully sales figures of Phantom Pain dwarf every mobile game they make in the future and make them realize they just wont come close. More and more companies will go down this road soon as its costs far less to develop mobile games and microtransactions etc are seen as the normal business practice on that platform.
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Dark Drakan
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After what they pulled with Kojima and PT and now this I think Konami might just have dug their own grave...
http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2015...y_end_up_being_a_mobile_franchise_says_konami
Enjoy MGS as F2P mobile franchise (AKA somebody stop this pls)
Enjoy MGS as F2P mobile franchise (AKA somebody stop this pls)
http://kotaku.com/konami-sends-out-..._source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow
Please. somebody kill it with fire :I
Please. somebody kill it with fire :I
Silent Hill 3 with Heather was the last Silent Hill I bought.
The Room was terrible.
To be honest I don't get the obsession with Mobile.
Most of us dont mind forking over 30 or 40 quid for a high end game like Metal Gear, Suikoden, Silent Hill etc but I myself am reluctant to spend a single pound on Mobile Games.
Maybe I'm out of touch?
May as well nostalgicly reminisce on happier times.....
I used to fill in the Cards that came with PS2 games and actually won the Prize Draw. Happy Memories!
Got to pick 2 Games. I chose Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner because it was SO damned hard to find a Copy in stock anywhere.
I can't seem to remember what my other pick was.
The Room was terrible.
To be honest I don't get the obsession with Mobile.
Most of us dont mind forking over 30 or 40 quid for a high end game like Metal Gear, Suikoden, Silent Hill etc but I myself am reluctant to spend a single pound on Mobile Games.
Maybe I'm out of touch?
May as well nostalgicly reminisce on happier times.....
I used to fill in the Cards that came with PS2 games and actually won the Prize Draw. Happy Memories!
Got to pick 2 Games. I chose Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner because it was SO damned hard to find a Copy in stock anywhere.
I can't seem to remember what my other pick was.
Dark Drakan
Well-known Member
The Summary
- Culture at the company shifted from traditional, hardcore games to cheaper, social titles in 2010 when Konami shipped a mobile game called Dragon Collection, which earned huge profit at a low budget.
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain‘s development budget has surpassed 10 billion yen ($80 million).
- Kojima Productions is now known as “Number 8 Production Department.” Its computers have no internet access and can only send messages between internal computers.
- Employees that leave the office during lunch beak are monitored with time cards. Those who return late have their names announced throughout the company.
- There are cameras in the office corridors to monitor the movements of Konami’s employees.
- Most Konami employees don’t have their own permanent company e-mail addresses. Staff who deal with people outside the company, such as public relations, do, however, everyone else’s e-mail is routinely randomized and changed every few months.
- Konami developers who aren’t seen as useful are reassigned duties such as security guards, cleaning staff at fitnes clubs, or roles at pachi-slot machine factories. This includes producers who worked on big titles. In 2013, Japanese newspaper Asahi News reported on a former Konami employee who allegedly went from development to working in a Konami pachi-slot factory, which led him into severe depression.
- After announcing on Facebook that he was leaving Konami for a new job, Konami monitored said former employee’s social media post and reshuffled those within the company that “Liked” it.
Honestly, their employees should mass quit their corporation. Let CEO make those pachinkos himself.
Konami are a pack of c***s I will leave ye figure out the missing letter , the whole company should resign and teach them a lesson.A company is only as valuable as it's employees and without em it is nothing.Those working conditions are atrocious, if you ask me kojima had a lucky escape getting out.
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