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KManX89 on 11 May 2018
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Bristow9091 said:

I still think it's funny that the only reason some people call Konami evil is due to the fallout with Kojima (Which we still don't, and probably won't, know all the details of)... but either way both parties seem happy now, Kojima has his own studio and is working with Norman Reedus and Guillermo del Toro on a game, sure it isn't P.T or Silent Hills or whatever, but it's something, and he's got a safe space with Sony... and Konami, well, despite what people think of them, it doesn't seem to have stopped them making a lot of money as this proves, lol.

Pfft! Yeah, aside from:

 

  • Overworking, abusing and slave-laboring their devs.
  • Demoting their devs to cleaning toilets and gyms.
  • Killing every single franchise they own and whoring them out to glorified gambling machines.
  • Selling a last gen port of PES 2016 on Steam and not only lying about it, but hiding the user reviews in order to squeeze more money out of a complete con job.
  • Charging players for insurance against having their unlocks nicked in MGSV, and for a limited time only. Oh, how EA (or worse) of you!
  • Keeping Kojima from attending and receiving his own award at the VGAs.
  • Sabotaging Kojima's work on TPP, cutting content, scrubbing his name from the box art and holding back the promised third chapter for its (still) broken, laggy online mode.
  • Cancelling the highly-anticipated Silent Hills fresh off the P.T. demo taking the internet by storm.
  • Taking their biggest franchise and doing the most generic, lazy, bog standard "idea" possible with it: Metal Gear Zombies.
  • Downplaying or outright ignoring the success of former creators who made them famous (Iragashi, Yamiyoka, Kojima, etc.).
  • Killing off Hudson and Team Silent, leaving future Silent Hill games in the hands of inexperienced Western developers.
  • Releasing a $40 demo that can be beat in 2 hours max and as little as 10 minutes (Ground Zeroes).
  • Repeatedly showing disdain for their own fanbase, i.e: pulling MGSV fan art from Twitter.
  • Charging $10 for fucking SAVE SLOTS in MGS (!), setting an awful precedent for other companies. What next? Charging to load the menu screen? Entry fees for online matches? SMH.
  • Refusing to pay voice actors royalties.
  • Holding Skullgirls hostage by removing it from the PSN and XBL, agreeing ONLY to a relisting in exchange for a gag order from the devs (Lab Zero Games).
  • Leaving a new IP, Blades of Time for dead, not announcing until three days after launch and understocking it to boot.
  • Releasing a poorly-remastered collection of 2 iconic SH games (Silent Hill HD Collection) without the original VAs to boot.
  • (This might take the cake) Sacking most of their devs and blacklisting them from finding new jobs and receiving health insurance. Literally.

 

In the iconic words of Jim Sterling, Konami is Konami and Konami is the worst. Yes, they're truly evil and deserve no sympathy. #FucKonami.