Nikkei report: Bad things happening at Konami

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Nikkei report: Bad things happening at Konami Aug 10, 2015 22:11:01 GMT -6 gunlord500 likes this

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Gamesindistry.biz just posted an article how Konami's workplace policies are considered normal for Japan. It's lengthy, but it's a good read and goes along with the subject of cultural business practices.

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Nikkei report: Bad things happening at Konami Aug 11, 2015 0:12:45 GMT -6 via mobile Dragon_of_Dojima likes this

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Post by Astaroth on Aug 11, 2015 0:12:45 GMT -6

Lets just go old school, Block Game: pachinko edition

Or D-D-D-DDP, Dance Dance Pachinkolution, now with 4x the levers to pull, designed to take your yen 12x faster so you can leave a sad, broken shell of a sad, broken shell of a salaryman even faster, now with new and improved suction funnel to stop those annoying jams when you dump your bucket in, coming soon to a parlor near you! ;_;

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Nikkei report: Bad things happening at Konami Aug 11, 2015 0:14:23 GMT -6

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Aug 11, 2015 0:12:45 GMT -6 Astaroth said:

Lets just go old school, Block Game: pachinko edition

Or D-D-D-DDP, Dance Dance Pachinkolution, now with 4x the levers to pull, designed to take your yen 12x faster so you can leave a sad, broken shell of a sad, broken shell of a salaryman even faster, now with new and improved suction funnel to stop those annoying jams when you dump your bucket in, coming soon to a parlor near you! ;_;

Dance Dance Pachinkolution could be a pachinko machine you control with your feet.

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Nikkei report: Bad things happening at Konami Aug 11, 2015 2:34:48 GMT -6 Goobsausage likes this

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Post by gunlord500 on Aug 11, 2015 2:34:48 GMT -6

Aug 10, 2015 22:11:01 GMT -6 Goobsausage said:

Gamesindistry.biz just posted an article how Konami's workplace policies are considered normal for Japan. It's lengthy, but it's a good read and goes along with the subject of cultural business practices.

That's a very thoughtful article, Goob. Thanks for it!

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Nikkei report: Bad things happening at Konami Sept 28, 2015 4:18:28 GMT -6

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Post by Ixbran on Sept 28, 2015 4:18:28 GMT -6

Horror Manga Artist Junji Ito Was Collaborating With Silent Hills

While Konami cancelled the development of Silent Hills a few months ago, there are still some new details surrounding the game’s development that has recently surfaced, with the latest being horror manga artist Junji It’s involvement with the project. [Thanks, Game Jouhou.]

It started with some words from Guillermo del Toro who tweeted “JUNJI ITO, undisputed master of horror in Japan (along with Hino and Tsubaki) and our collaborator in SILENT HILL (S)”

Junji Ito followed up with his own tweets, saying that he was indeed part of the project the year before last, alongside Hideo Kojima. Ito then explains that he’s been to a staff meeting with Kojima, Kojima Productions, and Guillermo del Toro, but since he’s never been great with such meetings it ended without him being able to say much.

“I’m not well-versed when it comes to video games, and I wasn’t very confident on whether I’d be able to contribute much for such a big title as Silent Hill, but Hideo Kojima and del Toro have nothing but my gratitude for having called me [for this project],” tweeted Ito.

Unfortunately, since Silent Hills was cancelled, we won’t know what could’ve been with the like of Junji Ito working alongside the developers, but you can definitely see some inspiration of his work in the concept movie for P.T. and Silent Hills that was shorn at Tokyo Game Show 2014.

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Nikkei report: Bad things happening at Konami Sept 28, 2015 22:11:06 GMT -6

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Post by ghaleon on Sept 28, 2015 22:11:06 GMT -6

Aug 10, 2015 22:11:01 GMT -6 Goobsausage said:

Gamesindistry.biz just posted an article how Konami's workplace policies are considered normal for Japan. It's lengthy, but it's a good read and goes along with the subject of cultural business practices.

I know this is a super late reply but this thread got bumped and I just noticed this.

First, I already heard that Japanese businesses can be 'cruel' to their employees. I've heard this before, but can't really attest if true or not via my own personal experience. None of them went QUITE to the same extent as konami, but whatever.

However I'm having a hard time believing this gamesindistry.biz article as that being completely ho-hum normal.. why?

well why the flying %#@%#@ would a JAPANESE newspaper deem it a headline to write about Konami's scary business practices, and a western article then be like 'we already knew this'... I mean I can understand the other way around, if westerners were going omaigosh, and a japanese article say 'actually, this is normal'.. but the other way around? Makes no sense, and stinks of propaganda IMO.

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Post by Goobsausage on Aug 10, 2015 22:11:01 GMT -6

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Post by Ixbran on Sept 28, 2015 4:18:28 GMT -6

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Post by ghaleon on Sept 28, 2015 22:11:06 GMT -6

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