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Konami is starting to anonymize output by their BEMANI sound team
- Thread starter Deft Beck
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Konami genuinely doesn't seem to give a fuck about game development anymore since they're still making a killing off gambling and exercise machines.
I genuinely wish Sony would just buy up Castlevania and Metal Gear already.
I genuinely wish Sony would just buy up Castlevania and Metal Gear already.
Konami just doesn't want to be a video games company anymore but without that highly inconvenient actual laying off or firing of employees which involves things like severance packages and lawsuits. Instead their strategy is to make the lives of unwanted employees living hells until they leave on their own.
Except they also make their lives living hell after they leave too, as Konami strongarms former employees, forbidding them to say they worked for Konami, or even blacklisting them from the industry. Konami executives seem to have zero ethical standards and consider their employees to be anonymous slaves.
Persona 5 should've replaced that
with a game development company.
edit: the spoiler tag on this forum is not great
fast food palace
edit: the spoiler tag on this forum is not great
I hate it when a company tries to put everything under one name and kills the identity of individuals.
One example was AQ Interactive's absorption of Artoon, Feelplus and Cavia. Leaving any game by the three to be just by AQ, so it made it really hard to tell what the hell was by who. Luckily Artoon basically turned tail and reformed as Arzest. Cavia I think lives on as Orca and Toy Logic (both are devs of DQXI). Feelplus... no idea.
One example was AQ Interactive's absorption of Artoon, Feelplus and Cavia. Leaving any game by the three to be just by AQ, so it made it really hard to tell what the hell was by who. Luckily Artoon basically turned tail and reformed as Arzest. Cavia I think lives on as Orca and Toy Logic (both are devs of DQXI). Feelplus... no idea.
People aren't realizing about all of this is that the sound team are also the producers and directors for the games so changes like these really can't be implemented without their involvement to begin with.
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this is where i stand on it as well. bemani has been totally bleeding talent the past couple years, this seems like either an effort to try to prevent that, or mitigate the damages when it does happen. though as mentioned, it's all kinda silly considering some of the new tracks without credits are sequels to old ones so we basically know who composed it lol
konami just seems to really be doing a bad job of adapting to an increased focus on commissioned artists in music games (and games in general). there's no other company i know of that maintains such poor working relationships with past employees once they go freelance. all this is doing is sabotaging the bemani brand that was built upon the names of their in-house artists
If Konami would do anything right, they would revert back to what they did during the 5-key era and just commission artists to do music that would be exclusive to their respective Bemani games. Some of the best stuff came out of those commissions. Granted, it would mean that just about every song made would make it into each game, greatly reducing the amount of exclusive content in each particular game itself. Pop'N would feel like a 9 button version of IIDX and DDR would get all of those songs as well.
SVDX is probably going to be just fine, as they'll continue getting doujin artists making music and remixes until everybody is tired of it.
SVDX is probably going to be just fine, as they'll continue getting doujin artists making music and remixes until everybody is tired of it.
Bemani is the last good thing Konami has going, so it doesn't surprise me that they are trying to set that on fire, too.
I'd love a reasonable explanation for this (contract extension delays, or something), but I just don't think it's gonna happen.
I'd love a reasonable explanation for this (contract extension delays, or something), but I just don't think it's gonna happen.
I'm guessing they regret giving Kojima so much freedom to promote himself and renaming their KCEJ studio to Kojima Productions and happily raising him to stardom when it suited them, which was a mess later with the whole Kojima fallout. Guess they just want to treat their employees as anonymous individuals instead of helping them get recognition that can backfire again whenever they leave the company. They want Konami as a whole to take the glory, not individual employees.
depends on how fest the text scrolls and if the person isnt just basing their choice on more than 3 seconds of music.
It still blows my mind that a company like Konami can fall so far from grace.
It's now depressing to think of what they once was...
Metal Gear
Silent Hill
Castlevania
Contra
Pro Evo
Suikoden
Policenauts
Snatcher
.....Fucking hell.
It's now depressing to think of what they once was...
Metal Gear
Silent Hill
Castlevania
Contra
Pro Evo
Suikoden
Policenauts
Snatcher
.....Fucking hell.
It isn't as bad as it could have been. Right now, it's just clunky.
And also needless, just have the artist first and have the team in parenthesis.
Really, what happened to Konami??
In the eighties and nineties and even the early 2000s they were one of the best of the best in quality electronic entertainment and a name to be reckoned with. Now, they're an absolute joke.
In the eighties and nineties and even the early 2000s they were one of the best of the best in quality electronic entertainment and a name to be reckoned with. Now, they're an absolute joke.
I suppose they think the team name is more important than the artist. Also, if the song might appear in another game (read: SEGA's music games) then they need to protect themselves licensing wise.
This feels extremely familiar.
Like I've seen it before somewhere.
Some other artists that had a falling out with Konami.
Like I've seen it before somewhere.
Some other artists that had a falling out with Konami.
PES is at its very best at the moment, but that's the odd duck in Konami.
Doing this sort of thing to avoid your talent getting head hunted is one of the most ass backwards things I've heard about in a while.
It's fairly obvious that this pulling this sort of stunts will only drive away your people. All they need to do is properly reward their key talent, it can't be that hard...
That said, I wouldn't be particularly surprised if this is indeed what is happening.
It's fairly obvious that this pulling this sort of stunts will only drive away your people. All they need to do is properly reward their key talent, it can't be that hard...
That said, I wouldn't be particularly surprised if this is indeed what is happening.
I'm going to get very rich and make an offer to buy all the gaming IPs Konami owns, so they can have all the money in order to just fuck off for good.
You guys just have to wait a few centuries.
You guys just have to wait a few centuries.
Ugh I just wish Konami would sell off BEMANI to a company who actually cares and isn't constantly trying to screw someone over.