>fires Kojima, a man who has never produced an unprofitable game at Konami
>even MGS2 Xbox or Metal Gear Solid Ghost Babel were
>guts their video game division except for PES
>could have been making hundreds of millions in bonus profits if they didn't fuck up
Dispelled the myth of "Kojima was bad with money", you're welcome Yea Forums
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Nice proof, fag. Death Stranding is going to suck and there's nothing you can do about it.
As much as I love MGS, a game being good, and a game selling well, are two entirely different things, as well as two different metrics, one for gamers, one for shareholders.
We're gamers, we care about games being good. Paradoxically, who cares how much money Konami made or lost?
They're literally doing better in terms of profits. Why Kojimbodrones are still seething over Kojima not making another Metal Gear game when he could be making new IP is beyond me.
No, it's just Yea Forums already decided DS was going to suck back when it was announced because MGSV wasn't an edgy movie about Big Boss killing kids and drinking their blood.
Kojima was profitable, just not as profitable as gambling. It's about opportunity cost.
They just hold all of the cool IPs hostage and when they decide to do something with them they fuck up them up as much as possible
You can only dump a finite amount into gambling and gacha though, its not like you can dump money into it blindly and get an equal amount of profit. Konami wasn't in a position where they had to choose.
Yes, but those increases are because of their Yu Gi Oh phone game.
Something that Yea Forumseddit will of course support, because they rather see Konami turn every single franchise, even MGS, into a gacha game if that means they get to "get back" at Kojima.
Then again, these are the same autismos who spent 3 years spamming "DUDE IM NUCLEAR XD" threads, so it's been a joy to see them have a 4 year long meltdown that is still not over.
MGSfags have always been the worst fanbase ever in Yea Forums
Killing kids? MGSV's story sucks because it makes no sense and doesn't have an ending. It just stops because Kojima wasted all the money hiring shitty celebs and composers (which made like 40 tracks which he used none of).
Who the fuck cares?
It's a videogame, the plot is irrelevant, and even more in MGS where the plot is absolute garbage, the less there is of it the better.
*blocks your path*
>Guts their video game division except for PES
????
>WOW DEATH STRANDING IS GOING TO BE A MOVIE THIS IS TRASH
>btw MGSV is terrible entirely because of the plot
Why do MGS drones larp as gamers?
And don't come at me with how MGSV was an empty open world game, the other MGS games had terrible gameplay, the worst you can find in the stealth genre, and you ate it up because there were more cutscenes than gameplay.
>MGSV's story sucks because it makes no sense and doesn't have an ending
What the fuck? The story is some of the most straightforward in videogames, ending is there too. You are full of shit. youtu.be
>flopped so hard that they went back to releasing stuff for TPP to bait the people who still play it into buying microtransactions
They cut him out for nearly the entire last year of production.
Do you really think they cut out Battle Gear because of "gameplay balance" and the final Eli/Sahelanthropus missions because they didn't fit? And that's just the obvious shit.
Yeah thats fair, I take back the last sentence of my post.
>ending coming out of nowhere = no ending
Nice.
>Kojima wasted all the money hiring shitty celebs
You mean celeb, the only one he got was Kiefer, and he's a has-been with a dead career.
>composers (which made like 40 tracks which he used none of).
Good thing he got a literally-who instead of Harry Gregson Williams, then.
Why doesn't Konami just have the skeleton crew that made survive just finish up unfinished MGSV content, make some random fan service crap like bosses from previous games, and release it for $40 to $50? If they're feeling extra brave, they could even throw in the co-op they finished for Metal Gear Survive.
People would buy it.
Reminder that MGSV was originally going to be MGS Ground Zeroes, a sequel to Peace Walker that would come out on the PS3 and PS Vita.
The game was going to be structured similarly, set in a map, but with areas limited in missions.
The open world wasn't supposed to be a thing originally, since the Vita could not move it, and most of the story elements were relegated to tapes in order to save space, like PW did.
Kojima even made a few interviews about how he wanted to expand on transfarring back in 2011 and how Peace Walker was just the beginning, and how the Vita was supposed to get a "another game" after the MGS2 and 3 remasters that would use the transfarring.
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>2019 in the year of our Lord
>People still think that the Phantom Pain they got was the intended product
>People still are unaware that Kojima was placed in a box away from his team for the final stretch of game development
>People still believe that Kojima was at fault despite 80% of his team leaving to follow him after what Konami did. Something virtually unheard of for Japanese people because they believe in working at one place until they die.
Sad.
The ones that left were mostly the creative team.
The code monkeys and such stayed.
I think they just dont care, they were never wise with money and I have no idea how do they stay afloat. MGSV made triple its budget and pachinko sustains them I guess. They could also do a MG1 remake as a nice followup to MGSV
Why not just sell the IP at that point? They could even have a stipulation that they keep pachinko rights.
MGSV made far more than triple its budget.
It made more than twice of it on launch day alone, it's the best selling MGS of all.
Despite the fact that the game pretty much sold only on PS4 and PC.
>MGSfags have always been the worst fanbase ev-
This desu. The simple fact is MGSV was a boondoggle because of Konamis constant demands and friction between Kojima and the CEO.
Cant imagine Konami selling their biggest IP, it would also mean for them to admit they were in the wrong and they are incompetent. Which they are.
>boondoggle
Stop making up words, Americans.
They fired him because he stated making bad games after MGS3.
every fanbase is shit
only retards think otherwise
the logic members of all fanbases are so uncommon it doesn't even matter
No
>Kojima
>VICE PRESIDENT of Konami
>no one can fire him unless it's the actual CEO or other people who own the company and know fuckhole about videogames such as share shareholders
>start project 1 called Metal Gear Revengeance
>doesn't finish it instead wastes money and hands it over to Plantinum
>start prject 2 called P.T.
>create tech demo with some big name such as Junji Ito or Del Toro
>wastes money and doesn't finish it
>actually cancels it
>"Kojima-san you have been wasting our time and money, now please finish project"
>starts project 3 called Metal Gear Solid V
>waste money on celebs game still not finished
>"Kojima san you have been wasting our time and money, this time you
are fired"
>become a butthurt fag
Kojima was on top of the hierarchy on Konami, it's not like he was some subordinate doing small projects, he was the one calling the shots on most big projects in Konami. He didn't get fired because Konami is an evil company, he got fired because he is not good at making games. Simple as.
Yes, i'm sure the half blind 80 year olds in Konami's director board were discussing how much they hated the Patriot twist.
>VICE PRESIDENT of Konami
One of many. It's not as grand a position to hold as you might think.
>konami bad
>start project 1 called Metal Gear Revengeance
>doesn't finish it instead wastes money and hands it over to Plantinum
He didn't.
MGS Rising was a game he wanted Kojipro to make on their own.
That' was the entire point of it, letting new devs take MGS and work on it without him.
Of course, they fucked it up because they had no idea of what they were doing, so Kojima just handed it to Platinum.
And lets not mention that MGR was a sales success.
>start prject 2 called P.T.
>create tech demo with some big name such as Junji Ito or Del Toro
>wastes money and doesn't finish it
They never got to work with him, only one who did was specifically the one you didn't mention, Reedus, and they didn't do anything beyond scanning his body.
>starts project 3 called Metal Gear Solid V
>waste money on celebs game still not finished
Celeb, and not only was he cheaper than Hayter due to the VA union, but Kiefer Sutherland is a has been, couldn't have cost much.
And lets not mention that MGSV made more than twice its budget in less than 24 hours.
>become a butthurt fag
According to whom?
Got a source for your fanfiction? Because your post has more lies than truths.
konami cancelled those games, not kojima
and MGS5 made shitloads of profit
Yes.
Not only Konami is a game publisher, but they have killed every single franchise they had except a yearly soccer rehash and, somehow, they still fail at that since FIFA completely overshadows it.
Every single time someone attaches pic of their waifu to their post its the most uninformed dumbest fucking opinion in the thread, every single time
FUCK YOU
>konami good
come on son
Name 1 (one), I'm only asking for one that kojima finished since PW
>FIFA completely overshadows it.
PES has some exclusive contract with Juventus this year. stop talking out of your ass
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Oh wow, Juventus, truly amazing.
Let's ignore that FIFA has an exclusive contract with pretty much every single other team in Europe, including the biggest ones like Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, PSG and Manchester United.
And not mention that they have an exclusive contract on their stadiums too.
>One of many. It's not as grand a position to hold as you might think.
leave Kojimbo to me
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MGSV is a finished product like it or not, the level of polish is unreal. There are no bugs and it plays amazing. Things have been cut from every game ever made, does that make them unfinished?
Well, ever since PW he's only made MGSV, so that one.
The leaked script shows that the only things missing are a side op where you'd either kill or recruit Chico, Episode 51 which was supposed to be DLC, and Chapter 3, which was supposed to be a more structured version of the Paz subplot, hence the "Peace" name.
There's also Silent Hills, but he barely got to do anything beyond PT.
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>a man who has never produced an unprofitable game at Konami
before MG it was shit after shit. Literally one successful IP milked to death - regurgitation ratio is worse than hacks in nintendo, if that's even possible.
>You mean celeb, the only one he got was Kiefer, and he's a has-been with a dead career.
It's mostly just salty Hayterfags who complain about Kiefer. I would preferred Hayter myself for consistency's sakes (it was weird to have Kiefer quote some of Hayter's lines in GZ's Deja-Vu missions).
I'm guessing the contracts with the voice actors was expiring and they didn't want to renegotiate. Even though the cutscenes for Episode 51 were mostly done, they still needed a bit of additional work to be completed.
mgsv fags should be shot.
>2019
>still doesn't understand how companies work
you should stop
thats what Caramel used to say, god I miss him
One of the few things they're still working on and yet they also managed to piss off the musicians they were working with.
>The leaked script shows that the only things missing are a side op where you'd either kill or recruit Chico, Episode 51 which was supposed to be DLC, and Chapter 3, which was supposed to be a more structured version of the Paz subplot, hence the "Peace" name.
You were also originally allowed to choose your Avatar's gender too, so Venom could've been a transman if you wanted him to be.
MGS is a cultural phenomenon, it both sold well and is considered one of the most famous game series of all time.
by this logic every company on earth should stop doing what they are doing and create porn, as it has some of the lowest overhead and highest profits of any market.
this,
He was definitely calling shots that killed other IPs. I hate what Konami did to MGS but I'll never defend Kojima.
>konami bad. end of story
based retard
>He was definitely calling shots that killed other IPs.
The only time Kojima meddled on an IP that wasn't his own was when he convinced the higher-ups at Konami to greenlit Lords of Shadow over Igarashi's planned 3Dvania that was announced for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Other than that, he was only responsible for MGS and ZOE.
what a fuckup that was, not that Lords of Shadow was bad all the way, but its hardly a Castlevania game, its almost embarrassed to be one.
I mean it had a good style, good presentation, but the combat got old, the sequel was only okay, and clearly ended that entire offshoot and was the last real, full length Castlevania game, so it effectively killed the franchise.
I'm guessing he wanted to his revenge on Hitoshi Akamatsu for making Snake's Revenge.
Lords of Shadow shits all over Iga's shovelware 3D games. Kojima did everyone a huge favor favoring LoS over whatever abortion Igarashi would shit out for the dozenth time.
sure, but its not even close to good as even say, Aria of Sorrow, a 2d, Gamboy Advanced game.
sure, it looks better and has great presentation and voice acting, but the actual GAME is just boring, it never gets better than your first couple of fights.
Kojima was not responsible for ZOE, he was straight up more involved in Lords of Shadow than he was ZOE and even there he had a bit role.
kojima is a hack who needs somebody to reign him in and get him motivated properly or he'll drag his feet indefinitely
he's the guy who literally couldn't do anything until his boss verbally beat his ass into completing a game
he also lets his westaboo fetish for celebrities fuck with his own projects
konami did the right thing
>There are no bugs
That's false and you can easily just google this, why even say shit like this?
Iga's 2D games are good. But his 3D games are pure shovelware and Kojima did the right thing convincing Konami to go LoS route instead. I liked the game from start to finish.
Wasn't he the one who choose High Voltage Software to handle the Zone of the Enders HD Collection? That killed any chance for ZOE3 to be happening.
>Kojima was not involved with ZoE!
>Except everything that went wrong with ZoE!
Give up Konami chink shills.
Death Stranding's on track for release a mere 3 years since its first reveal, it's not delayed and it's likely the most awaited game of 2019. I don't see the problem.
>konami did the right thing
Yeah from a business perspective, nothing is more profitable than exploiting the mentally ill for gambling money.
>soccer
it's football, dumb american
Well then, sounds like it's past time to pull the trigger on making do with less, and remove shareholders from the equation entirely.
We live in a society
I can't believe there are Survive apologists out there.
didn't he commission like 30 songs that never made it into the game? That certainly can't be cheap
Kojima should have tried going back to point'n'click adventure games for a few projects.
Commision from who? i don't think songs being left out during development is an uncommon thing.