Hideo Kojima, the revered creator of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, has been banned from this year’s Game Awards due to the details of his contract with Konami; a rather cruel turn of events that all but confirms Kojima’s departure from the relentless company.
Konami had previously reported that Kojima was in fact on vacation as opposed to no longer being with the company, a fact that was immediately disproved from a number of sources and quite obviously revealed that Konami was attempting to save face after the esteemed developer’s departure.
The news comes from the Game Awards 2015:
In tribute of Kojima’s absence, Stephanie Joosten was brought on stage to sing Quiet’s theme:
Kojima’s contract is said to expire this month, at last giving the legend the freedom he so deserves, however the same cannot be said of the Metal Gear Solid franchise…
Relax people, I did the math. This is just beacause Hideo Kojimas is so damn fuggin’ amazing that with just his presence the audience would die of a multiple epilepsy attack. It is preety clear he got banned. Kojima would just commit incredible mass murder with just his epic entrance. Pff people are so scared of nothing nowadays..
What game awards is this? Who runs this s♥♥t?
So that Ground Zeros side op where you extract Hideo was an actual plea for help.
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I preferred Zone of the Enders to MGS. It felt like he wasn’t given enough control over the project after MGS2.
So, considering that Konami is a family-owned & operated yakuza company (literally) that is known for “reassigning” problematic employees (including directors & executives) into such esteemed positions such as pachinko manufacturing & gym floor mopping, I wonder what Hideo’s actual job is now as he’s trapped in that work contract that likely has a massive financial penalty clause should he try to break it?
So, while Hideo is being awarded (with konami execs “humbly” accepting the award on their own behalf – not a mis-type), I wonder what esteemed job he was performing?
Likely turning the screws in one of the Konami pachinko factories for the new Metal Gear Solid pachi-slot cabinets.
It’s either that, or he’ll be sued for breach of contract while his house gets burned down and his family is made an example of.