When it comes to the players' evaluation of the major game manufacturers, the first place in everyone's heart is naturally very different, there are those who like Ubisoft, there are those who like Capcom or ATLUS, but the last in the hearts of players is Konami (Konami). Although everyone shouts Fxxk konami every day, in recent years, the company still relies on game consoles such as Pa Qingge, as well as various channels online and offline of the "Game King" IP, and the annual financial report is still rising steadily, which makes players even more annoyed, how can there be no feng shui rotation?
Conflict with producers
Anyone who has played the game for a few years should be well aware of the fact that Hideo Kojima, the producer of Metal Gear Solid (aka Hidden Dragon Spy), fell out with Konami. As a talented producer, Hideo Kojima's freedom within konami is extremely high, but from the moment he hoped to reboot Silent Hill, the relationship between the two has changed. It is said that Kojima did not want to do Metal Gear Solid 5 Phantom Pain at that time, but the upper echelons still hoped that he could continue to develop. Kojima then embezzled part of the budget to develop Silent Hill, and most of Konami's employees said they were unaware of it.
Then there was a large number of incidents, the prohibition of Hideo Kojima from participating in foreign events, and the removal of Kojima Studio from Metal Gear Solid 5. At that time, for konami, Hideo Kojima could only make money by doing Metal Gear Solid, and for Hideo Kojima, who was 50 years old at the time, he hoped that his game life would not be limited to Metal Gear Solid. If it is just that the direction of thinking is different, it can also end in a peaceful breakup. But a series of small shoes behavior, or let konami's evaluation continue to decline, and Kojima, even after leaving, still thank konami for the opportunity, although the inner probability is in FxxK, but the good villain did not show it, didn't it?
But in fact, the people who have clashed with Konami are not only Hideo Kojima, but also go back to the "Contra" series when it comes to Konami's first expulsion of talents. Although most of the domestic players liked the game in the years of release, there were not many genuine players in China at that time, and the sales of Contra in Japan were only second-tier. In that era, game companies were all casting wide nets, and it was not unusual to release a dozen or even dozens of games at the same time, konami was also under considerable staff cost pressure at that time, since your "Contra" failed to rush to the front line, it could only cut you. So the entire Contra production team disappeared in konami, and the members then formed NATTSUME and produced Shadow Warrior.
Then came the famous Castlevania series. Decades ago, the original "Castlevania" won 1.23 million sales as soon as it was released, and the million-selling game of that year was no less than the small fresh meat of the current film and television circle, so konami attached great importance to the series, and being valued also meant that the producers of the series were about to fall out with konami. At this time, it was Takashi Igarashi who took over the formalities and developed it, although he was later carried away by konami, but the successful development of a sequel also made him a well-known producer.
From Castlevania: Reincarnation of Blood to Castlevania: Nocturnal Thoughts, Takashi Igarashi's 2D map production and the Castlevania series can be said to be a perfect fit, and every game from the FC to the GBA console era is a hit masterpiece. But the development of the times, 3D gradually occupied the screen has become the mainstream of the game, this time konami came to another trick "there is no bell, nothing summer to welcome spring", specializing in 2D Takashi Igarashi was beaten into the cold palace, and then asked Takashi Igarashi to do mobile games. Although mobile games and console games are based on the ultimate purpose of profit, people who understand it know that mobile games are made of a set of harvest wallet processes, and the host is still oriented to gameplay and plot.
In the end, Takashi Igarashi left konami to form Artplay, which received $5.5 million through crowdfunding, and successfully developed the spiritual sequel Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which is also the highest crowdfunding amount recorded in the history of kickstarter game projects. There are many people who have shared the same experience, including Yoshiki Okamoto and Tokuro Fujiwara among the three giants of Capcom, Akiri Uchida, producer of "Love Goes Along", Akira Yamaoka and Keiichiro Hiroyama in "Silent Hill". Anyone who comes up with a name is the big predator of the game world, but they are all swept out of the door by konami without exception.
Games are nothing more than a by-industry
If only kicking the producers out of the door didn't affect the development of subsequent games, there wouldn't be so many players who had an opinion on konami. But konami is to like to go popular, completely in accordance with the original path of the series to go down, but the existing famous game IP forced combination of the most popular mode, the first-hand bomb all dismantled into a single sheet, which is the most unacceptable place for players.
First of all, "Metal Gear Solid" did not have Hideo Kojima's sequel "Metal Gear Solid: Survived", survival, exploration, zombies, collection, construction, tower defense, cooperation were all integrated into this game, coupled with the advantages of fox engine, the quality of the game itself is not too much of a problem, the problem is that it added the name "Metal Gear Solid", but completely lost its due connotation, but it is more sad. The same encounters include "Heartbeat Memories", "Contra" and so on.
But konami actually doesn't matter, as long as the ending is profitable, if you want to ask why, the answer is naturally that this thing is not the main business of others at all. Konami Company has one? The "Digital Entertainment Division" includes games, music, movies, cards, etc., and a few producers are just workers in the division. In addition, konami's health care business in Japan is also very extensive, including gyms, sports drinks, and sports equipment. Of course, the most reliable sources are casinos overseas and Pachinko stores in Japan, which have a number of D-bo franchise companies under their names, have their own machine production lines, and all of which are wholly owned by Konami.
So even if the game industry suffers from different degrees of disgust and bad reviews, Konami is deaf to it, after all, making bad games and firing employee squid is not illegal, as long as the company is profitable, everything does not matter.
Having said all this, in fact, players still hope that game makers with creative talents can meet good big brothers and work hard to create games that people can enjoy, but konami really does not pay attention to talents. And konami's behavior is not wrong from the company's point of view, after all, profit is the first element to consider, no matter how angry the player is, what does it have to do with my Pa Qing brother and the gym?