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Konami Hates Gamers

Konami is at it yet again with their convoluted nonsense. It seems as though that they want to drive all gamers away from their business in favor of Pachinko Machines.

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xDealtwithIt2691d ago

Konami is going where the japanese gaming market is making the most money. Mobile and pachinko.

rocketpanda2690d ago

Absolutely. Most J-mobiles games use the gacha-gacha system to earn random characters or loot in which you need premium currency at having a chance at getting a rare item or character with a 0.1% chance of getting an S-Rare. Fans will gladly pay to try to get the characters or items.

Some Japanese friends of mine will spend the equivalent of $100 or more on premium currency monthly of f2p game at having a chance of getting super rare items or characters. Especially the super MOE characters.

This is where the money is in Japan, not console gaming anymore. Most ads on TV and billboards in Japan are also mobile games, the exception recently was FF15, but those have all gone now.

bouzebbal2690d ago

i really do not understand why people are so insisting on talking s*** about Konami.
They have possibility to get more money somewhere else and they are trying to take the chance. Game development is more and more costly so they are trying to save.
What we hear is that they treat their employees like crap but we have no certainty. There are organisations that defend employees, and especially in Japan and the first loser will be the company itself if this is true.

rocketpanda2690d ago (Edited 2690d ago )

@bouzebbal
Are you selective to information to defend the skidmark of a company that is Konami? Nothing wrong with being a business that wants to thrive and make money like most developers out there. Konami on the other hand decides to bar one of the most iconic developers from receiving an award then lies to say he is on holiday. Same said developer worked segregated from other developers for the last few months before releasing MGS5. What a great company to work for right!

Konami lost most of its iconic talents that made castlevania, suikoden, silent hill and metal gear first class IPs. Blah blah, costs money to make games, if Konami hadn't farmed their IPs to cheap 3rd party developers to make a quick buck then they wouldn't be in the situation they're in now. Quick money for no effort. Basically they have metal gear and pro evo left . As bad as EA and Ubisoft can be at times they have never reached such lows as Konami. They can make all the money they want from pachinko crap and just leave gaming to developers that know what the hell they're doing. Keep defending a company with thst tiny violin. They even lost their own source code for silent hill then tried to sell a hd remake of silent that played and looked worse than the original versions. Konami is garbage and deserves all negative press they get.

zodiac9092690d ago

But people who play on mobile aren't real gamers anyway...So Konami really hates gamers when you think about it. ;)

UltraNova2690d ago

I hope no pokemon go fans read your comment...

S-Word2691d ago

Another garbage blog site trying to be relevant. Uses thumbnails of trannys to try and get people to watch their video. Sad.

xer02690d ago

Yep... dirty tactics! :(

BrianOBlivion2690d ago

How the hell would pics of trannys ENTICE someone to watch the video?

Bobafett4ever2691d ago

Konami Hates Gamers...CLEARLY

Ben122690d ago

Konami has not made a game that interests me in years. Last good game in my opinion was super contra

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Microsoft Seemingly Closes Bethesda France

As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people

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Hereandthere1h ago

Microsoft should have left them stay 3rd party

PassNextquestion1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much

Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region

Profchaos1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.

I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games

Tacoboto41m ago

It's France too, there's a high likelihood only 1-2 people on the team even had an Xbox.

Profchaos18m ago

Possibly guven all the leaks we know the Xbox brand is really struggling in the region.

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I’m Glad Atlus & SE Changed Dates To Avoid Competing With Shadow Of The Erdtree

Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."

H919h ago

More intelligent than guerilla games

raWfodog1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.

HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.

It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.

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Sony Could Increase Your Game's Difficulty If It Sees You Complain About It

Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.

jznrpg2h ago

This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.

Profchaos1h ago

Souls games will be like that players struggling make it harder

PassNextquestion58m ago(Edited 56m ago)

I think if used correctly it could work well