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[Puscifer]

Who's crying like an anime fan on prom night now!?

comcept shuts down

comcept, the company founded by Keiji Inafune in December 2010, was officially dissolved by a shareholders’ resolution on January 13, according to a notice published in today’s Japanese…

t.co

 

[diffusionx]

who thought they still existed?

 

[kpopSuperstar]

They must have struggled to finish whatever game they were working on and they pulled the plug.

 

[Loomy]

"You might think I'm being hypocritical, but the really big wall that the Japanese game industry is hitting is the changing of its creators into salarymen," Inafune said.

He decried the fact that developers at the companies work with a sense of security -- knowing that lifetime employment is an option spoils game creators, and creates a system where "not working hard becomes advantageous."
-Keiji Inafune

Living his dream til the very end.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I never played it.

 

[Sticks]

 

[LordCBH]

 

[Fbh]

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Failed at everything it did.

 

[Venzik]

I remember getting hyped for the early concept art on Kickstarter. Didn't check in on it again until that wildly out of touch video ad. Left me kinda scratching my head, wondering what had gone wrong.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Inafune was just in the right place at the right time.

 

[Puscifer]

Wild lmao

 

[Sticks]

Failed at everything it did.

I liked ReCore

 

[MiguelItUp]

I genuinely thought this already happened.

 

[Skifi28]

Mandela effect studio.

 

[Loomy]

I genuinely thought this already happened.

They "closed" the Comcept+Level-5 studio a while ago. This is the main Comcept one finally shutting down.