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

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AbbathTheGrim on 20 October 2015

spemanig said:

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If this Konami&Kojima situation would be a movie, this shit would be the plot twist moment right here.

I laughed way more than I should have at this.

Laughing is good for your health so why? Laugh it up. :P

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I can't decide which is worse - Kojima speculations threads or NX speculations threads.

Kojima is a very very boring subject. NX on the other hand. Think I'll start like 3 or 4 NX threads right now.

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Kojima's sitting there on Facebook rocking a "Single" relationship status, while Konami refuses to change it from "It's Complicated".

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Porcupine_I on 20 October 2015

Young Forrest Gump: Mama. What's vacation?
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Its juyst a spin. Kojima has a no compete clause untill December. Technically he still is an employee; hes being paid and on vacation; he cant make any games with other firms till December.

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AbbathTheGrim on 20 October 2015

Konami say Kojima has not left the company, he is just on Permanent Unpaid Vacation
— Ex-CEO Kaz Hirai (@KazHiraiCEO) October 20, 2015

In a statement Konami says that "Kojima said he was just going to the store to buy a pack of cigarettes and he'll be back later"
— Ex-CEO Kaz Hirai (@KazHiraiCEO) October 20, 2015

Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

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drkohler on 20 October 2015

Xxain said:
Its juyst a spin. Kojima has a no compete clause untill December. Technically he still is an employee; hes being paid and on vacation; he cant make any games with other firms till December.

No that would be illegal. Such a clause cannot be "wholesale", it can only restrict you to specific company work. For example, if Konami/Kojiima were working on making paperclips, then Kojima cannot work/start making paperclips (since it is assumed that he would use insights gained before leaving).

What is very dubious is the supposed duration of the clause. Usually such clauses last 1..3 years, not just a few weeks. It does strangely sound more like paid (forced) holidays for a few weeks. I don't think Konami would risk issueing such a ridiculous statement if they had fired him wholesale (firing someone in Japan is a diffcult thing anyways).