Jimquisition: Konami

[Jimothy Sterling]

Konami

There's something very messed up going down at Konami. Nobody knows for sure what it is, but the results are there for all to see. You might not have realized quite how bad Konami's behavior has been over the past year, but when you see the evidence in one spot, it paints a damning picture.



Konami's an absolute mess, and somebody needs to tell them before they drive their entire business into the ground.



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[Volothos]

This makes me fear for the future of the Zone of the Enders HD Collection. I really do hope nothing goes wrong there.

 

[Griffolion]

Maybe the Konami headquarters have become a huge Silent Hill level, and everyone is trying to avoid getting molested by Pyramid Head instead of doing their job.

 

[General Vengeance]

Sadly Konami, lost it's identity and direction well over a year ago. Their efforts to get back on course have been lack luster to say the least. I think it's time for the soft playing of Taps and move on.

 

[Qitz]

Always weird to see a production company just up and decide they don't want to do it anymore and just let their games die instead of quitting.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

huh? The silent hill collection is actually out?

HUH? they removed the iconic fog?!

HUH?!?! Silen hill downpour is out this month?!?

HUUUUUH?!?! What?! I had no freakin idea about ANY OF THAT!

And they wanted to release all of that in one month?! Are they INSANE?!

 

[Spongebobdickpants]

I havent bought a konami game since metal gear solid so i cant really share jims rage. It just seems like a another horrible publisher who will soon go out of business.

Oh well maybe if they do another publisher will restore silent hill to its former glory.

 

[RaikuFA]

Oh come on. No ones taking this attitude towards Capcom, they're even worse with this stuff.

That and the stuff Jim said about Ubisoft, seriously, who DRMs a PSN store game, Capcom?

Or how bout Namco for screwing over Tales fans for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time?

 

[Scrustle]

A friend of mine was telling me yesterday how he thinks another video game industry crash is just around the corner with all the insane stuff publishers are doing now. This certainly makes that sound more likely. What the hell is actually wrong with publishers these days? It's like they've all gone bat shit insane. Like they never expected to be as successful as they are so never bothered to work out what to do once they got there.

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

Was...was that footage of Silent Hill Book of Memories I saw?

Was that a Silent Hill-based GAUNTLET CLONE?

What the -fuck-, Konami? THOSE TWO DO NOT MIX.

 

[Balkan]

The biggest shit of all is that sh downpour is pretty good and when they found a new formula for cur gen sh game it will never work out because KONAMI will bankrupt soon .

 

[paislyabmj]

Maybe the Konami headquarters have become a huge Silent Hill level, and everyone is trying to avoid getting molested by Pyramid Head instead of doing their job.

they could film that and use it to advertise the stupid amount of silent hill releases they are doing.
but back on topic I didn't know konami had fucked up that bad as far as marketing had gone. I didn't even know that there was any any silent hill games coming out other than downpour and I only knew that because i saw the front page of metacritic a last week looking up the scores for games with adverts.bad buisnes konami.very bad buissnes.

 

[Eric the Orange]

Ah, now the question is who does Jim hate more, Ubisoft or Konami.

 

[Sandytimeman]

wow I had no idea...damn he listed 4 games that I didn't even know had come out and I am a phone operator for a tire shop, I literally have an RSS feed of the escapist and Penny Arcade Report up 24/7...surely one of those sites would have mentioned something!

Konami...please go to rehab and get better! We love you!

 

[Zom-B]

After Jim's comment about bashing his head on a concrete floor I really expected to see a clip of Jason Russel doing his naked thing:

http://youtu.be/32PBZ870ymg

 

[Sylveria]

Oh come on. No ones taking this attitude towards Capcom, they're even worse with this stuff.

That and the stuff Jim said about Ubisoft, seriously, who DRMs a PSN store game, Capcom?

Or how bout Namco for screwing over Tales fans for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time?

Everyone takes this attitude toward Capcom. Every time someone brings up publishers ripping you off, Capcom is usually the second name on the list after EA.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Capcom and Konami must be drinking the same water, because both of those Japanese companies are making terrible and moronic business decisions.

EA is evil, but they know what they're doing.

Capcom and Konami see to have no idea what they're doing.