Gamasutra - IGA on the responsibility of being Kickstarted

I don't mean to shake up a hornets nest here... but what kind of unwarranted pressure are you talking about? If you're thinking what I'm thinking, Gamasutra itself would likely be one such source of said pressure. I'd read the article and find out but I don't support Gamasutra.

I said this elsewhere, but I think it bears repeating:

"KI: First, I don't want people to get the wrong idea. It's very easy to vilify Konami and make it seem like they're this very evil corporation. But as far as myself, and my career as a producer at Konami, I had a lot of freedom there. And while there were, of course, budgetary limitations that were put on me, I still feel like I had a decent enough budget to make a good game. It wasn't like I was getting half of what I needed, or anything like that."

Man, this gives me more respect for IGA. He is a *really* classy guy. Even after everything that happened, he still has perspective on his own situation and his former employer's and realizes where they were coming from, and to be thankful rather than spiteful for what he had. Very much a class act. I might write a blog entry about this sort of thing, sometime.