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I want to see what they are going to do once they fail to reproduce the success of Dragon collection



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A job without internet access? That's insane!



They already sound like a real mobile game developer: lazy scumbags.



Having cameras and monitoring the time their employees take during breaks isn't surprising nor something that extraordinary. The email thing is odd, because I'm quite sure that there must be lost of employees that no longer know their e-mail adress or the e-mail from other co-workers, so their job is harder than it could be, but if they are finewith their employees losing time whenever they want to send e-mails, that's up to them.

Now, publicy announcing which employees have taken a longer than usual break (which we don't know why) to shame them, or mobbing employees to make them resign (which I assume is cheaper that firing them), or the Facebook thing... I don't know which laws have Japan, but in a lot of countries that's not legal.

Well, at least we know how will Konami disappear: it will explode from the inside once their employees leave en masse.



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Does that 80 million figure includes marketing costs or just development? And how old is it? Any chance of it significantly increasing before release?



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No words...



Konami should just sell/auction off their IPs and development studios and be done with it.



JEMC said:

Having cameras and monitoring the time their employees take during breaks isn't surprising nor something that extraordinary. The email thing is odd, because I'm quite sure that there must be lost of employees that no longer know their e-mail adress or the e-mail from other co-workers, so their job is harder than it could be, but if they are finewith their employees losing time whenever they want to send e-mails, that's up to them.

Now, publicy announcing which employees have taken a longer than usual break (which we don't know why) to shame them, or mobbing employees to make them resign (which I assume is cheaper that firing them), or the Facebook thing... I don't know which laws have Japan, but in a lot of countries that's not legal.

Well, at least we know how will Konami disappear: it will explode from the inside once their employees leave en masse.


You forgot to add in, makeing them scrub toilets ect.

Because thats every programmers dream.... to find out they currently dont have anything for him to do, and to send him off to scrub toilets.

 

"Konami developers who aren’t seen as useful are reassigned duties such as security guards, cleaning staff at fitnes clubs, or roles at pachi-slot machine factories. This includes producers who worked on big titles. In 2013, Japanese newspaper Asahi News reported on a former Konami employee who allegedly went from development to working in a Konami pachi-slot factory, which led him into severe depression."

 

Im pretty sure I would quit my job, if I was hired as a programmer in a gameing studio, but made to scrub toilets instead.



Fuck Konami.



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