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[Puscifer]

This is scary.

Kojima was put in a broom closet

 

[cireza]

They better make Code Vein 2.

 

[Tajaz2426]

Yeah just fire everyone before Christmas and don't give them any money America style.

Why did I never think of this! Could you imagine the faces made when that announcement happens?

Edit: I want you to know good sir, I am taking notes here and if you ever need a job in recruiting and also derecruiting the employees, let me know. You have masterful ideas, my guy.

 

[Shin-Ra]

Namco pretty much died with RR7 as a top tier developer for my interests.

I’ve never been super into 2D/2.5D fighters (very casually enjoyed Bloody Roar, DoA2 and Soul Calibur) and all the 30fps, murky brown and western-developed Ridge Racers after 7 were an abomination.

Now they’re just another mid-publisher.

 

[Nickolaidas]

That's...not how it works. There's a reason why they removed their partners from their website.
Publishers want money. If they see this isn't the way to go they will drop them. "The right type of gamer" for publishers is the general public. Not a specific minority.

Again, this is going to end up blowing on their faces sooner or later.

There's a reason Japan is carrying the industry lately...studios will end up understanding why sooner or later.

Honestly, I don't give a fuck about western devs/publishers. I just want Japan to tell wokeness to fuck off and be as based as Korea/China in character designs and stories.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

This is scary.

Yep, very scary.

 

[bitbydeath]

This is scary.

The same happens in government but government workers don’t care.

 

[nial]

The focus on SBI in this thread is quite strange given that Bandai Namco is only publishing that game and had no part in its development.

I agree with the sentiment, but BNE does own Reflector Entertainment. Heck, its logo even looks like this:

 

[David Ricardo]

At least this masterpiece didn’t get canceled.

They probably had a few other sweet baby games in the making and, seeing the catastrophic preorder numbers of this one, decided to cancel them.

 

[Bloobs]

They probably had a few other sweet baby games in the making and, seeing the catastrophic preorder numbers of this one, decided to cancel them.

If Nintendo wouldve kept Scamco working on Metroid we might have gotten some hot lesbian action.

 

[username12]

This is scary.

Americans would gladly accept the challenge and stick around for years.

 

[DeltaPolarBear]

They probably had a few other sweet baby games in the making and, seeing the catastrophic preorder numbers of this one, decided to cancel them.

That's my suspicion.
When you see that the cars ahead of you have crashed into a pileup, you press the breaks to avoid joining them. Bandai doesn't have any real reason to cancel large amount of games right now other than if they think many of them are going to fail.

I guess we will never know. Bandai will never tell.

 

[fran.fernandez]

Btw if you are permanent employee they can’t cut your salary as well , only the bonus (paid 2 times a year )

 

[mckmas8808]

He's not wrong, he's just saying what he would do.

"I'd hit someone if they hit me", "wrong, you'd just run!"

Weirdo lol.

No, he's wrong in saying it's not scary for people. It is scary. Hence why people are leaving the company.

 

[poodaddy]

No, he's wrong in saying it's not scary for people. It is scary. Hence why people are leaving the company.

He was very clearly just saying his perspective on it and that he wouldn't find it scary, not that others wouldn't. Come on man.

You're being that guy who argues over the pronunciation of the word route right now. Don't be that guy, chillax broham. I'm gonna smoke a joint, and I want you to inhale vicariously through me k? It's just what we need, gimme a sec.... and you're welcome in advance.

 

[DarkstarRising13]

With how Bandai Namco's been greenlighting and financially backing DEI disgusting slop like Unknown 9: Awakening...I mean, really, what did you expect?

 

[Tajaz2426]

Why are some folks worried about these employees? No cares about them, but themselves and they need to be looking for another job.

Plenty of coal miners did not even have a backup job, no employment hopes around them, and people were saying learn to code and find a new job, etc.

I believe China is opening coal mines almost on the daily and run over half of the mines in the world. They can just learn to mine. Seems pretty easy to me. They have open pit mines, underground mines, etc.

Plenty of mining jobs as they have over 3200 mines still active and more coming on line. You folks that feel sorry for these employees, let them know to send their resumes to some folks over there.

And we are done.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Why are some folks worried about these employees? No cares about them, but themselves and they need to be looking for another job.

Plenty of coal miners did not even have a backup job, no employment hopes around them, and people were saying learn to code and find a new job, etc.

I believe China is opening coal mines almost on the daily and run over half of the mines in the world. They can just learn to mine. Seems pretty easy to me. They have open pit mines, underground mines, etc.

Plenty of mining jobs as they have over 3200 mines still active and more coming on line. You folks that feel sorry for these employees, let them know to send their resumes to some folks over there.

And we are done.

Its because gaming is a chummy kind of industry with lots of social media back and forth between employees and gamers. And tons of previews, interviews, video game shows with directors coming on stage to talk about their game etc... So a lot of gamers (along with loud gaming employees on Twitter) go into some kind pity mode with each other patting each other on the back.

Most other industries arent like that, since it's more transactional and nobody knows who people are at the company.

SAP laid off 10,000 workers. SAP is a tech software company, so really no different than games or google. I dont think anyone gives one shit about SAP people losing jobs because they arent a visible kind of company with the public since they make corporate ERP kind of software, which is boring, and you never have any news sites or YT talking about ERP software with millions of views or streams. Its even a foundational kind of program that makes or breaks a company. But if SAP somehow started to go broke I dont think anyone in the general public would really care. But you'll still hear about Nintendo, Sony, MS, Call of Duty etc... on mainstream news sites (not just gaming) because those are very front facing consumer products and brands.

 

[mckmas8808]

He was very clearly just saying his perspective on it and that he wouldn't find it scary, not that others wouldn't. Come on man.

You're being that guy who argues over the pronunciation of the word route right now. Don't be that guy, chillax broham. I'm gonna smoke a joint, and I want you to inhale vicariously through me k? It's just what we need, gimme a sec.... and you're welcome in advance.

I don't want to be "that" guy. So I'll step back.

 

[Robb]

I hope one of the titles they cut weren’t a new Kid Icarus or something..

 

[Js562]

Leave them in a room huh. That'll be me and shit will be funny as hell

 

[Danjin44]

 

[mayham2199]

It's not. I will just do nothing.

That's the thing this would never work in the USA.

The focus on SBI in this thread is quite strange given that Bandai Namco is only publishing that game and had no part in its development.

The real reason for this is the failure of projects like Blue Protocol (which is a big-money GAAS game that bombed really badly). These are projects that had no western involvement, yet are bombing v.hard.


I don't like to take others' work without credit, even if it's meaningless or I could have done it, they saved me time and effort so they get thanked..

yea I was going to bring blue protocol what happened? Didn’t even give it a chance in the west.

 

[00_Zer0]

The Nintendo title got canceled?? Yikes, what is going on over there. That’s like two in a row

Happens all the time. Could have been a Star Fox Assault Remaster that Nintendo wanted them to do? Remember when Nintendo did the same thing with Namco by cancelling their version of Metroid Prime 4 that wasn't up to Nintendo's standards.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Honestly it's not that bad. It's basically unemployment but you go to work still.

If the company isn't funding the projects, be glad you have time to pay rent and look for another job.

For real. Scary is not knowing if youll be able to put food on the table or keep a roof over your head.

At least you can use your "nothing" time to look for other opportunities and still get paid meanwhile.

 

[Kotaro]

At least this masterpiece didn’t get canceled.

So disappointed to see Bamco association with Sweet Baby Inc

These Japanese companies will learn that DEI will kill their business, just ask Square Enix

They have no business taking part in this toxic Western culture war

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Happens all the time. Could have been a Star Fox Assault Remaster that Nintendo wanted them to do? Remember when Nintendo did the same thing with Namco by cancelling their version of Metroid Prime 4 that wasn't up to Nintendo's standards.

Yeah, I know that’s what I was referencing.

 

[ExtendEmbraceExtinguish]

So disappointed to see Bamco association with Sweet Baby Inc

These Japanese companies will learn that DEI will kill their business, just ask Square Enix

They have no business taking part in this toxic Western culture war

No. It’s bland dei regarding character designs. If they brought the hot back or amazing characters ( I would pay 50 bucks for Kelly kapour surviving a zombie apocalypse game) based on dumb@$$ one liners. Now I want l4d with the office characters.

 

[Evil Calvin]

And you wonder why there rarely are game delays. Crunch is the norm and this crap that Namco is doing is stuff developers are hush hush about....so they don't get back-balled.

 

[Gambit2483]

At least this masterpiece didn’t get canceled.

This has to be yet another game made in a bubble of toxic positivity. You can't tell me they gave this game to a group of regular people to focus test and got positive feedback...they really have to stop making videogames like this.

The fact it's only $50 says they know it's trash and don't expect huge sales.

 

[The ass]

Seems like the whole western world is crashing. Companies everywhere are firing people, no one is hiring. And yet the stock market is still high. Huge crash incoming?