Kojima Vs Konami moment during The Game Awards 2015
This year The Game Awards clearly grew into its own and, as an award show, it was spot on. However the most surprising and stand out moment wasn’t a left winner in certain category or a trailer for one of the great games set for release in 2016. It even wasn’t the speech by Reggie Fils Aime in celebration of Mister Satoru Iwata’s professional accomplishments that stood out.
It was after when Keifer Sutherland accepted a Game Award on behalf of Hideo Kojima and all the people who worked on MGS5 The Phantom Pain that host and creator of The Game Wards Geoff Keighley took a moment to explain why Kojima wasn’t at the one giving the acceptance speech.
There already was some speculation on the “why” when Kojima wasn’t present during the PlayStation Awards 2015 (an award show from PlayStation for the Asia region) and the game was accepted by “a Konami PR person”. Most chalked this up to fact that both award shows would take place on different continents with very little time in between making it difficult to be at both.
We have now learned the true nature of Kojima’s absence:
Apparently it was Kojima’s full intention to be at the Game Awards but a lawyer contacted Kojima on Konami’s behalf basically barring the game’s front man from accepting a Game Award during the game industry’s biggest award show.
Is this Konami sticking to their guns and reminding Kojima to honor what’s in his contract or is their more going on? If all of what has transpired between Konami and Kojima was just a PR scheme of some kind it surely would be an elaborate ploy and a pretty risky one. I am not even sure it would make sense but I’ll gladly wear the tinfoil hat and believe we are being bamboozled, because the alternative is the assholery of barring a creator from accepting an award from his work.
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yes u are, now kindly remove ur boring a$$ out of here 😛
It is like watching someone’s marriage falling apart, and you know that both of them are fukin´ idiots. It´s like soap opera, I hope Quantic Dreams will make good game out of it. Would like to Kojima to slap *** Konami or silently walk away? Ahhh, you made Solid Snake cry 🙁
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You DO know you don’t have to read the “boring” articles?
Too late now. But you liked my comment, admit it, far more interesting than the article itself 🙂
I can’t believe I wasted my time…
Reading this comment!
Let Konami have their fun. They’ll notice the dip in profits soon enough once they notice nobody will buy their products anymore due to this exact kind of behaviour.
You think I care about you gamers? Games are only a fraction of the profits I make. The real money is in pachinko machines, slot machines and mobile game micro transactions. Yes that’s right, mobile gaming. I’m going to milk those filthy casuals for all they are worth and then… proceed to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!
I thought that I might get some info from this article … Instead I found only more speculation.
I would say I find it hard to believe that Konami would be such an asshat to the man whose baby has made them multi-millions, but big business isn’t always about grace and good manners. Love or hate it, MGS is a huge franchise. It’s creator deserves a little more respect.
What’s this promising new game from 2016? And can this show be streamed online or anything, I wouldn’t mind watching bits of it over the weekend.
Kojima’s problem is that he thinks he’s a writer and no one at Konami seems to have a strong enough pimp hand to cure him of his delusions.
The issue is by fact. Kojima really thinks extremely highly of himself and that pic you have on the main article of him is exactly how he thinks of himself as if he is the character of his creation. He must be weird to work around and having other members at konami understanding and not backing him up when he left. Anyway for a japanese man who is richer than all of us why on earth would he even be a topic of discussion here on wololo so all can be soo concern is beyond me.
It is, in my opinion, really strange to bar one of the leading creators from accepting an award for his work. It is beyond silly, and am curious to find out what happened between the involved parties in ten years time if ever at all.
Sorry that I must say that, but we all didn’t know whats happend between Konami and Kojima. We don’t know if Konami oder Kojima is here the “bad guy”. For the most MGS and Kojima fans it’s clear, they don’t need any proof, they know it can only be Konami’s fault… but the world is not so easy like the fans want it. It is only possible that Kojima do something badly wrong and Konami is totally guiltless.
All what I want to say with that is, that I don’t know the reason for this “Show” that Konami show us this year, so I can’t judge who is the good and who is the bad guy here.
I’m of the same opinion. i remember an article a while back about kojima being a control freak and basically being an all around difficult person to work with but from what(little) information that I’ve seen it seems that its konami in the wrong here and by a huge margin. Its definitely possible that kojima is the one at fault… but i sincerely think its konami being *** in this case