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russ869
Joined: 22 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 8:46 am
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| WANNFH wrote: | | International law is on their side. |
Haha ha! No such thing as "international law." Duh!
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SWAnimefan
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 9:02 am
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This is the way of the world people. Just look at Hollywood, people, or businesses being blacklisted due to their religious or political affiliations. It's not against the law, but it's just plain unethical.
With Konami, this may have worked well for them before the Age of the Internet, but not anymore. They are effectively shooting themselves in the foot, especially given how they treated Hideo Kojima. He turned things around and making a company that's far more prosperous than Konami ever did. Even if they get hired overseas, these blacklisted individuals will recover. And I wouldn't be surprised to see the shoe ends up on the other foot. (Konami staff ending up being blacklisted, instead of those who were blacklisted).
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Dessa
Joined: 14 Jul 2004
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 9:31 am
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I'm guessing that what I read last night was a translation of part of the referenced article, but it said that they're not even allowed to put Konami on their resume, either.
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v1cious
Joined: 31 Dec 2002
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Location: Houston, TX
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 10:08 am
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FucKonami never learns.
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omegaproxy
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 10:33 am
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I'm not buying their games anymore that for sure.
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belvadeer
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:02 am
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What the hell is wrong with Konami? (You know, besides everything.) This is effectively
akin to controlling other people's lives. They need to be shut down and just disappear.
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Mr. Oshawott
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:12 am
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This is just a reminder of how terrible of a company Konami has become in recent years. Whether they'll ever be able to return to their glory days of year's past is anyone's guess.
Last edited by Mr. Oshawott on Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:17 pm; edited 1 time in total
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SilverTalon01
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:58 am
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| Engineering Nerd wrote: | | Which makes even more confused that Konami, after getting rid of Kojima and majority of its 3A-Gaming development team, end up enjoying a significant increase in profits and stock performance in last two quarters, yeah, I know they are huge in gambling machines and trading card games, but HOW?! Does transition of focusing on mobile gaming help that much?
Either way, Konami got some serious PR to take care of
#FuuuuuuuxKonami |
I didn't know that... Sad to hear they are somehow doing well after all the shitty stuff they've done (by which I mean more things like this article is about rather than wahhh they aren't making the game I want). They've basically quite AAA game development anyway so why are they cockblocking people who still want to do it...
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Re:SOUL
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:37 pm
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What a coincidence, I just threw out my Yu-Gi-Oh! cards today. What a spiteful company. It's a good things that they don't produce any games that I like.
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gravediggernalk
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Joined: 13 Oct 2013
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Location: Alabama
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 3:03 pm
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| SageModeKakarot wrote: | | can Konami just go bankrupt and collapse already, then a decent company might be able to get their IP's and actually do something with them |
I was actually anticipating Sony announcing the acquirement of Konami IPs at E3 this year. It would not have surprised me one bit if Sony had bought Silent Hill, Metal Gear, and Castlevania off of Konami . . . hell, or if they'd just bought Konami.
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Ambimunch
Joined: 30 Aug 2012
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 6:59 pm
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We have our employer of the year, people!
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KH91
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 8:10 pm
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Already read this a few days ago, but once again....Fock Konami. I cut them off once Kojima was freed. Hope Survive bombs.
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manapear
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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2017 6:43 pm
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I wouldn't put this kind of stuff past Konami, but isn't Nikkei pretty unreliable? I mean, if there are multiple sources on this or they admit, that's that.
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