In 2009, a twenty-something female joined Osaka-based game developer Capcom. The new employee was assigned to a couple of different games before becoming a member of the team developing Dragon's Dogma, Capcom's upcoming big budget title.
At first things were good. But by that December, things got awful—really awful. According to a recently released lawsuit, the new employee apparently felt so bullied at Capcom that she tried to take her own life.
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Crapcom is the worst, that's all there is to it. Honestly, I hope they go out of business, the only series I care about is Resident Evil but screw that too, as much as I loved the series they've turned it into an action game without ANY horror at all.
I will never buy a new game from them, ever.
Anyhu, I agree with you. Capcom seems to be going from bad to worse this gen.
I haven't bought a new Crapcom game since RE5 and I plan on keeping it that way.
It's amazing how one of the best Japanese developers in the industry can go from hero to zero. Thank God we have the likes of PG and Suda51.
That's all.
Dude/ dudette
Nope, the last NEW game, meaning not preowned.
I have bought Capcom games since then, such as: SSF4, Marvel vs Capcom, RE5:GE and Dead Rising 2, but they have been purchased as preowned.
I will do the same for DMC, RE6 and Asuras Wrath.
add EA too.
Infact screw ALL big name developers....
-_-
This is one jackass:
"Even if the database is a success, you are worthless to the team"... Yes this is going to motivate employee's. If her colleagues had any social skills they would have noticed she is going to be depressed after a comment like that is made.
"Between October 20 and November 4, two other superiors began attempting to get the young employee to quit, saying "she's problematic", "she abandons her work", "she skips meetings", and "her ideas stink".
This is a few weeks after the first quote and Capcom as a company isnt to blame but their employee's are. How the hell do you expect her to work after her boss (article doesnt say this persons status in the company so i assume) tells her shes useless when she tried so hard to put effort into the company!
If i am wrong and this is Capcom as a whole to blame then i hope they go out of business! I usually think that anyone who says things like that is immature but i dont think anyone wants a work environment like that.
Its a real shame when people who go out of their way to help a corporation are treated like this. I wish her luck in the future and hope these idiots dont make her lose confidence in herself.
I marked you down for being immature.
What you said is no different than saying anyone with a certain skin colour should be bullied or beaten because they are a waste of life or whatever else you would like to claim.
You are using your own beliefs as a means for violence, thus calming your sense of justice. But beliefs and justice vary from person to person. What you think is right makes you intentionally want to hurt another, but there are no rights and wrongs. Your beliefs is not the issue, but violence being the answer for you is.
I say if you want to beat up someone for buying a game then make sure you get yourself beat up first before passing on the pain to another. Hopefully then you could understand what your belief really causes; even witnessing the pain of another first hand is not on par with being the one who is actually receiving pain.
Because God forbid anyone have a different opinion than you. Also you dont want to see a company make any profit? Some innocent average honest people work there and Capcom is their lively hood. Why not just hope Capcom make better games? Your pretty immature man.
Also, senior level executives, managers or just people who have 'made it' and are secure in their positions treat everyone under them like garbage and do NOT listen to them for advice or input. That's why you see the same old names popping up in game design over there.. they don't make room for new talent, they don't innovate.
There are very few successful startups in the Japanese tech industry because of the stigma of 'failure' - in silicon valley, people fail and go under all the time, but they get right back up again and find funding. In Japan, you get one shot and if you fail, then nobody will lend you money or take you seriously.
Oh and also.. Japanese society is misogynistic to the extreme. Women are expected to be furniture, decoration, and playthings for the Man. You think its like that in the states but brother, you have no idea. AKB48 will tell you all you need to know about this bunch.
Goes a bit to explain why their country is in such bad shape.
the Devil May Cry HD remake will be the last capcom game i ever buy(my ps2 died on me so i can't play on it anymore)
That's fair, right? What does the employee have to gain, anyway, other loads of money?
This is not saying they are guilty I don't know...as I said it's just a feeling
We are the ones who pay their bills :P
They just choose not to.
I say that because there are people that just want attention. so they act like the baby, when in reality they are just being lazy or purposely messing up to get attention. You can't say you have never worked with this people if you've had a job..... That or she just simply didn't get along with the senior, perhaps she thought the job should have been hers.
On her side though there are those scumbags in the higher ups that do that to you. make you work your ass off, then call you worthless while they take credit for everything you've done. And being this is Capcom....odds are in this ballpark.
Although I understand that this is an assumption, I 100% agree with you. People tend to forget that it's a total different culture out there and while insurgence has it's place in our culture, in Japan it's not worthy the trouble.
Here one person can sue a company and live from the benefits the rest of its life. In Japan even if you decide to sue and win, there's usually no big pot on the table and it can hurt you trying to get a new job after.
They actually use the laws right. Some company or someone working for such a company did you wrong, you sue to try and make things right and lower the chances of it happening again. i.e. Sexual Harassment, if the company overlooked this they'll pay a price and the person who commited will be either arrested, fined, fired and/or face other consequences. If it's a case of exploiting the employee, the company will have to pay the equivalent to the employee work ours or other rights the Judge may see as fitting. If it's a contract being disrespected (like firing someone who's not working for being sick, refusing vacations pre agreed, exceeding work time, etc), the company may be forced to take the employee back if fired or to pay multiple contract breaking fines, as well as be forced to pay the salary while the employee get's a new job...
There no getting rich in between the lines, so you gonna need the next job, and the companies don't like employing sue happy people.
Apparently attempting suicide means you deserve to die for being weak and that pain only qualifies as genuine 'pain' if there's no one out there worse off than you - you gotta be living under a genocidal dictator in an impoverished third world country otherwise you're just a big baby who needs to 'man up'. It's that 'there's always someone else worse off than you' attitude which people spout off without a thought on how diminishing and callous those words can feel on the receiving end.
I'm a psychotherapist, so I know a thing or two about the day to day struggles of normal people, and one thing I tell my clients regularly is that just because people are worse off in the world doesn't mean you don't feel pain, and doesn't mean what you're going through is any easier.
Frankly, I had to stop reading the Kotaku comments before I lost faith in humanity.
If I had an employee slacking or not contributing to the team as much as everyone else I would want to help them improve in their abilities and find out what exactly is the problem, I wouldn't bash them and tell them to get lost.
That's just wrong.
Look at all the awesome things they done over the last few generations.. On the ps1 they pretty much invented the survival horror genre with the resident evil games and to a latter extent Dino Crisis. On the ps2 they created imho one of the most memorable gaming experiences of all time with the original Devil May Cry game. They also took chances by creating new quirky IPs like Ace Attorney and Okami. They also tried new things like with Resi 4.
The horrible DiscLockedContent fiasco aside, you can see they're a shadow of their former self much like SquareEnix focusing so hard on making games appealing to the west, that they've completely forgotten what made them awesome. Outsourcing games to shitty development companies relying heavily on their names to sell the games like Operation racoon city. Don't even get me started on Emo Dante.. I've never wanted a game to fail so hard.
if your going to call him emo dante then we could both agree you have no other agruements
Bullcom is more sickening by every passing minute.
the Japanese in general are very strict when it comes to work
not about what you feel about capcoms games. I think suicide is very unnecessary, but to harass someone to that extent is shameful
Sounds like most if not all of their senior staff needs to be fired.
And by the way, can you imagine the uproar if her boss was a man? Thank goodness, or feminist pussies would be all over this article.
on one side of the coin, if what she says is true, thats terrible.
at the same time though, she could have just legitimately sucked nuts at her job. maybe they went about it poorly and should have just let her go but truth be told, if she was good at her job she prob wouldnt have had anything like that happen to her
I find acts of harrasment and bullying a sick an disgusting behaviour and I make it a point to help stick up for people being bullied.
Now am sure this does not reflect capcom as a whole but the fact they never picked this up is just as bad.
So... what if she actually was a total slacker, and people disliked her because she was unreliable and emotionally unstable? You know... the kind of person who might be inclined to attempt suicide.
Harsh, yes, but its a rare story that is as one-sided as Kotaku is portraying. Their storytelling is so biased, I can't help but wonder if they're just fishin' for hits most of the time.
Was she the only employee treated this way? If so... why just her? I doubt she's the only female employee of Capcom, besides her superior, so is her sex/gender *really* the issue?...
If your bosses continue to call you s**t, you're going to feel like s**t. When you seek help to remove this s**tty feeling and the company that employed you does nothing(NOTHING), s**t feels worse.
Finally, s**t catches up to you and you feel worthless all because some b***h felt her position was threatened. The victim attempts to kill herself, lives and now wants payback.
Capcom, you are now the definition of the word "Screw Up". There should be a Capcomlogo.jpeg next to the word "Screw Up" on urbandictionary.com
Nice going guys. Hopefully she can find peace within herself. Psychological assaults can be the harshest of attacks.
But shame on them if this is true!