Oh. And there just happens to be an easter egg hunt, in MGSV: Ground Zeroes, in both the Jamais Vu and the Deja-vu mission, where you wipe out Metal Gear game titles, by literally shining a light on them, using a gun with a special light? LOL. Only titles directed by Kojima are wiped out. And when you have wiped out, you hear Psycho Mantis on the radio, stating that you like Kojima games. And then Hideo’s voice thanking you for support.

And then there are also the two Kojima Productions logos missing the FOX figure, which you place inside them, also by shining a light, a searchlight on them. And of course, there’s the scene in the opening cinematic of the main mission, where skullface uses the same gun to remove the name of his outfit from the chopper. The name? XOF, an anagram of FOX.

Sounds a little fishy, right? A little bit deliberate, considering the recent developments? And then there are those hints in that secret Youtube channel, where certain letters were inside the texts were written in capitals. Letters form words like XOF, FOX, LIES, etc.

Believe me, this is all just viral marketing on a grand scale. We’ve been duped. Reed some of my posts on FB group Outer Heaven. Or, read this: https://www.facebook.com/notes/riku-ruohom%C3%A4ki/konami-is-evil-and-you-fell-for-it-sucker/10204287990255074

One more thing on that. I dont care what kind of lawsuits you are risking if you are taking a beating like Konami is you explain yourself and make things transparent for the fans if you want to stay in business.

Why are you going out of your way to give Konami the benefit of the doubt? Kojima studios was owned by Konami. He does not own that entity or he would have already been a contractor. Its pretty clear by their actions that they have no respect for the gaming community or their own PR. Dont forget this is a company built by console gamers that now says consoles are not their focus.

Like I’ve told my friends and others, we don’t know the full story, and due to NDAs, and probably never will. The whole name and artwork debacle was possibly due to some sort of binding contract of some kind, while it is very easy to see it as an attack (as you said, taking the name of of someone’s art is a very personal insult towards the artist), I doubt that was their intention, it is very possible that due to Kojima leaving, his name had to be removed until another, separate contract was signed. Alas, we will probably never know the truth, but with the ways contacts are I recommend taking things like that with a grain of salt and giving the legal team the benefit of the doubt. I would honestly hate to have their job with all of this going on.

They took Kojima’s name off his own work. They are basically taking out their anger over a fallout on someone who has made them a lot of money and fans of him. Taking an artist’s name off their own work is a complete insult to everyone who has supported Kojima and Konami over the years.

Isn’t he working on The Long Dark? Could have something to do with that (though given it’s art style, I find it kind of doubtful)

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While I don’t agree with Konami’s new strategy, I think it’s a bit hyperbole to liken the company to abuse.

Kojima goes over budgets routinely. I am sure he will bounce back and may make better games because of this.