EDIT : Since no one knows how to read, let me TL;DR this
The MGS5/Konami controversy has opened the flood gates of insults and abuse that some known youtube influencers based their whole identity upon for their performative acts. But it was all fun and games because there was no one to pin it on, the company was faceless. It's always easy to throw abuse at someone you don''t know.
But now, we know.
The credits of Metal Gear Survive has revealed what we all know but refused to acknowledge. Not everyone left Konami to join KojiPro, far from it. The amount of veteran Metal Gear staff still working on Survive is nothing short of astounding, and their talent are still visible. They have put their best to put a good game. You may or may not like it, but they clearly aren't a newly hired staff just fumbling on the series, these are talented people who worked on the series for years, some for decades and are still putting hard work into a game.
Are we so much against Konami that we cannot recognize that ? Are we all going to tacitly imply that Kojima made everything ? This is not true. The staff made him. They made the realization of his vision possible. It's time we acknowledge this.
Konami is a company with documented evidence of horrible treatment of their employees, but what people has been doing is *not* attacking Konami, but the people who works there. The ones who made your favorite games are the ones who are made to suffer the most under the abuse they are receiving, while the suits are the ones who are racking in the money without even having a whiff of your complaints. You're not being in service of the plight of the people who works there if they are the one on the receiving end of your wrath.
I have recently tweeted that Masahiro Ito, a designer and one of the faces of the Silent Hill series (he did SH2's Pyramid Head) worked on creature design for Metal Gear Survive, that he retweeted in turn. I could see all the answers and the quotes to the tweet. "A job's a job" "All I can say is it's not his fault it's shit.", and we didn't even know what his designs looked like in the first place! Fortunately some were positive, some were surprised it has been the return of a legend to Konami after several years. But the discussion shouldn't even be about this, like Survive is a parasite and that no good thing would come from it.
Let's rethink this. Let's ask for the people who are trying to fan the flames of the people's hatred to grow up and have a reasonable view of how to make your voice heard without resorting to abuse. It has been 2 years now, and some are still using this same hashtag unironically without reconsidering who it's aimed at. It's time we think about the people who made our games as actual people, and hold them in higher regards than them being Kojima's minions, or evil people that needs to be struck down for daring to touch Metal Gear.
You don't scream at the McDonald's cashier for the company's shitty business practices. If you cared about the people you would send e-mails, letters organize protests for better working conditions, you try to help the employees. Do the same for Konami, and stop enabling the people that thrives on the abuse of honest, hard-working people.
Because they don't care about them, they never did.
- This is not defending Konami as a corporation, quite the opposite
- We need to be more effective at punching at the top execs at Konami instead of punching down
- Konami employees who aren't calling the shots are artists and creators that doesn't deserve any additional abuse than what they're living at work
- If you're ready to forgive Konami if they somehow made good games, then you ultimately don't care about the employees
- Organize better instead of following influencers who is just ready to punch on anything to have this image of "telling it like it is"
The MGS5/Konami controversy has opened the flood gates of insults and abuse that some known youtube influencers based their whole identity upon for their performative acts. But it was all fun and games because there was no one to pin it on, the company was faceless. It's always easy to throw abuse at someone you don''t know.
But now, we know.
The credits of Metal Gear Survive has revealed what we all know but refused to acknowledge. Not everyone left Konami to join KojiPro, far from it. The amount of veteran Metal Gear staff still working on Survive is nothing short of astounding, and their talent are still visible. They have put their best to put a good game. You may or may not like it, but they clearly aren't a newly hired staff just fumbling on the series, these are talented people who worked on the series for years, some for decades and are still putting hard work into a game.
Are we so much against Konami that we cannot recognize that ? Are we all going to tacitly imply that Kojima made everything ? This is not true. The staff made him. They made the realization of his vision possible. It's time we acknowledge this.
Konami is a company with documented evidence of horrible treatment of their employees, but what people has been doing is *not* attacking Konami, but the people who works there. The ones who made your favorite games are the ones who are made to suffer the most under the abuse they are receiving, while the suits are the ones who are racking in the money without even having a whiff of your complaints. You're not being in service of the plight of the people who works there if they are the one on the receiving end of your wrath.
I have recently tweeted that Masahiro Ito, a designer and one of the faces of the Silent Hill series (he did SH2's Pyramid Head) worked on creature design for Metal Gear Survive, that he retweeted in turn. I could see all the answers and the quotes to the tweet. "A job's a job" "All I can say is it's not his fault it's shit.", and we didn't even know what his designs looked like in the first place! Fortunately some were positive, some were surprised it has been the return of a legend to Konami after several years. But the discussion shouldn't even be about this, like Survive is a parasite and that no good thing would come from it.
Let's rethink this. Let's ask for the people who are trying to fan the flames of the people's hatred to grow up and have a reasonable view of how to make your voice heard without resorting to abuse. It has been 2 years now, and some are still using this same hashtag unironically without reconsidering who it's aimed at. It's time we think about the people who made our games as actual people, and hold them in higher regards than them being Kojima's minions, or evil people that needs to be struck down for daring to touch Metal Gear.
You don't scream at the McDonald's cashier for the company's shitty business practices. If you cared about the people you would send e-mails, letters organize protests for better working conditions, you try to help the employees. Do the same for Konami, and stop enabling the people that thrives on the abuse of honest, hard-working people.
Because they don't care about them, they never did.
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