Now just the official "Fuck Konami in general" thread #fuckonami

Strangelove

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i probably won't be buying their stuff anymore

because they don't seem to be making anything that interests me beyond tpp
 
X-SOLDIER

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X


Lewis & Hannah of the Yogscast playing through the Minecraft recreation of the P.T. Demo -- which is suitably impressive given what they game's capable of. (Hannah's the one who played the original demo, and Lewis hasn't ever seen it).



X :neo:
 
Strangelove

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hitoshura
i just tried mine out, and it seems to be working fine. i tried running p.t. first, then outlast, then the store to see if that checked drm.

i don't have any digital purchases to check, outlast was a psplus free game, and i got p.t. off the japanese store so maybe there's something different there.
 
Hisako

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Yeah seems to be locking up just the digital purchases
 
Super Mario

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Jesse McCree. I feel like a New Man
Dig an even deeper hole, Konami. I still won't fucking buy any of your shit, not even MGSV or any shit you had.
 
Blade

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I remember the days when Konami made awesome games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the Arcade game and Castlevania.

Whatever they plan on doing, they better make some smart decisions fast.
 
vaderSW1

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What a fucking shame. This whole situation is a complete clusterfuck. P.T. was genuinely one of the scariest gaming experiences I have ever had. It was actually one of the scariest things I have encountered ever (be it real life, movies, etc). It looked like Silent Hill was going to be a truly amazing experience.

I would like to see Kojima and Del Toro maybe take their idea to another company and have them develop it under a different name.
 
Tetsujin

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Gabriel said:
This SBH video is being taken down left and right by Konami but if the circumstances of the Konami v Kojima incident (and the fall out) are a bit foggy for you then it's a good watch it goes over a lot of things very well.
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So, the video is back up and apparently YouTube themselves did it because Konami didn't supply enough information as to why it's copyright infringement.

 
Splintered

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I like to laugh at dmca claims like... obviously this attempt at silencing criticism of videogames has never backfired before.

It literally just makes people want to show it to everyone ever.
 
Geostigma

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Splintered said:
I like to laugh at dmca claims like... obviously this attempt at silencing criticism of videogames has never backfired before.

It literally just makes people want to show it to everyone ever.
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Dat Streisand effect is just to good.


"We will pursue mobile games aggressively," says Konami's new CEO Hayakawa in an interview with Nikkei Trendy Net.
"Our main platform will be mobiles. Following the pay-as-you-play model of games like Power pro and Winning Eleven with additional content, our games must move from selling things like "items" to selling things like "features."
"We saw with these games that even people who buy physical games are motivated to buy extra content. The success of Power pro especially has motivated us to actively push more of our popular series onto mobile than ever before."
"Gaming has spread to a number of platforms, but at the end of the day, the platform that is always closest to us, is mobile. Mobile is where the future of gaming lies."
"We hope that our overseas games such as MGSV and Winning Eleven continue to do well, but we are always thinking about how to push our franchises onto mobile there too."
"With multiplatform games, there's really no point in dividing the market into categories anymore. Mobiles will take on the new role of linking the general public to the gaming world."


Disgusting really.
 
Ami

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I won't be surprised if Konami goes bankrupt by the end of the year the way they're going.
 
Geostigma

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Yeah unfortunately the only thing that wont be surprising about Konamis next few years will be the absolute bastardization of really amazing IP's.

They did it to silent hill with some really great talent around the studios. Just imagine how awful these mobile games are gonna be now that Konami blatantly gives no fucks in the public eye.
 
Blade

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Honestly speaking though, are "Mobile games" the so-called 'future of gaming'?

I know a lot of companies diving in to the trend, but is it really a thing? Or are they making a big mistake?
 
Geostigma

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It's the future of profits :monster:

Even games that aren't giant hits still rake in a fair amount of money. Combined with the exploitative nature of some of the games and extremely easy way to click away 1$ at a time to keep playing or what ever it's just to easy to make money.


I don't think it will ever take over console and pc gaming but there are A LOT of people playing mobile games. It's just to easy to access these games and it's to easy for companies to find ways to monetize them. I mean heck this years superbowl had something like 5 different mobile game commercials several with movie stars in them to boot.
 
Hisako

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Satsu, BRIAN BLESSED, MIGHTY AND WISE Junpei Iori: Ace Detective, Maccaffrickstonson von Lichtenstafford Frabenschnaben, Polite Krogan, Robert Baratheon
Blade said:
Honestly speaking though, are "Mobile games" the so-called 'future of gaming'?

I know a lot of companies diving in to the trend, but is it really a thing? Or are they making a big mistake?
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This is in the context of a Japanese company. Even the biggest-selling home console in that market has performed woefully compared to portable and mobile divisions, which continue to dominate as per the end of the previous generation of gaming. Big, AAA budget titles made for home consoles just don't seem to be worth the effort to be profitable in Japan.

It's a crying shame but from a business standpoint it makes perfect sense.
 
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