Hideo Kojima has been fired – at least, that was Metal Gear Solid voice actress Donna Burke's read of the situation last week. Konami has since said that her comments were inaccurate, and, writing on Facebook, the Ground Zeroes performer agreed. "I should be more accurate," she said, no doubt with a drawn out sigh.
"Konami is correct in that Kojima has not actually been fired," she explained. "As I stated previously, he and his team are still working hard on getting the game out. My sincere apologies to Konami, Hideo Kojima, and the fans for giving the wrong impression." It takes guts to publicly own a mistake, so props to Burke for that.
To be fair to the iDroid star, this entire story stems from the fact that some fans threatened to boycott Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain due to the ongoing drama occurring behind-the-scenes. To those people, we'd say: stop being idiots. Regardless of the office politics, hundreds of people have worked hard on this game – Hideo Kojima included.
Do you really think that they'd want all of their effort to be overlooked just because of the rumours in the press?
[source facebook.com, via videogamer.com]
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Regardless of whether he has been fired, I'll still be picking it up. Can't be doing with this so called office politics and drama!
I dont care about Konami. I will buy this game because it was created by Kojima. I think this will be his best game so far =).
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Hey if you're not sure, keeping it to yourself is the best you can do. If people keep their mouths shut until certain. This drama wouldn't happen. -_-
He quite clearly is still being fired though, just not until after completion of the game. I thought that was the general idea of what she said before, and this is just a case of quibbling over semantics. Really, just because he's still there now doesn't mean that he hasn't been fired, just that he's been given until the completion of TPP before he is out. It's basically the same thing.
@R-L-A-George
This drama wouldn't happen at all if the dumbsh*ts at the top of Konami had respect for the man who has kept the company relevant in the video game industry.
I'm not surprised someone was going to backpedal on the statement, but I'm sure Kojima's done with Konami regardless.
I'll still get the game, maybe even get the collector's edition, but I have a feeling this'll be the last true Metal Gear game.
I can't wait for Metal Gear 5. I'm not to worried about where Kojima lands. Hands down one of the best producers in the industry. It just hurts to think someone else making MGS 6. Snaaaaake!
Does Kojima get a portion of the sales or is his team paid upfront for making the game?
If he gets a portion I say Day 1 sales show support.
If he got paid upfront everyone should wait for a sale so we can voice our opinion to Konami.
"To those people, we'd say: stop being idiots" Those are some strong words there. I do think people should be the game though but I feel Konami owes fans an explanation.
of course, she doesn't want to be fired from the cast, just like Kojima....
@Malouff
Usually devs are paid by the hour like any other non-commission job, then get a bonus based on how well the game does.
Him and the other members of Kojima Productions were demoted to private contractor or something to that effect, so this whole "mistake" excuse is likely just her backpeddling to save her own keister after Konami blew their collective gasket over her tweeting about it.
Its just a technicality at this point, either they quite (Konami possibly giving them the "option" to retire early) or they gave them early notice that after the projects done their gone.
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