Konami: 'Kojima has not left the company, he's on vacation'

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binary solo said:

Wagram said:

The farewell party Konami doesn't acknowledge that happened.

Here is a photograph of Kojima's farewell party on October 9th at Konami, which Konami claims no knowledge of: pic.twitter.com/xgRUoYs5qt

— Simon Parkin (@SimonParkin) October 20, 2015

There's actually nothing in this photo to indicate that it is a farewell or even that it is a party for Kojima. All we have is a jounalists word that an source inside Konami has said this is Kojima's farewell party. It might just be the secretary's birthday morning tea.

It is the flimsiest of evidence on which to base an article saying Kojima is gone from Konami. But then game "journalim" has never been one to comprehensively fact check. Normally before releasing a megaton story in normal jouornalism you want at least 2 additional independant corroborating sources in order to be confident the story is factual and not speculative or even false.

Do we have any corroborating evidence of Kojima's departure or is this all there is?

I dunno, that touching good bye in the form of a final debriefing for MGSV? I mean, if Kojima says he isn't going to work on MGS anymore in the wake of termination rumors, then yeah. He's probably leaving, and that's probably a farewell party.