Kojima Was Locked in a Separate Room for Final Six Months of MGS5 Development

[DonFerrari]

badgenome said:

SuperNova said:

Yeah, what they are reported to have done to many of their employees is repulsing. And I do think they might have forced him away from his team and put him on a diffrent floor. It's the 'locked room' thing that I think might be a bit of an overdramatisation on Keighleys part.

Wouldn't that be all kinds of illegal, not to speak of the implications in case of a fire or something? I believe that konami are shitheads who would force their highly skilled an speciallized staff into toilet-cleaning positions when displeased with them, but committing actual crime by holding someone as high profile as Kojima literally hostage? I think their lawyers would step in or their own protection.

I don't know how literally Keighley meant "locked". But sequestered away from his team, that I can definitely believe. Clearly they didn't care about Kojima's actual involvement in the project and only needed his name on it to sell the game. There was even a weird point toward the end where Konami was denying that Kojima was leaving the company and claimed that he was only taking a well earned vacation.

From the threatment Konami was giving never putting a foot there for the rest of his live is a well earned vacation.