Konami no longer producing AAA titles

As I said I wouldn't take customer service's word on anything but I would like to add that it is certainly not the norm for a game company to freely disclose information especially through lower tier workers.


Besides the part of the question they responded to was clearly  "...now that you guys  are leaving the MGS series behind?" (which wasn't actually a question) and everything they responded with pertained to this. They had already told us their plans to continue these series months ago (as they stated in their reply) and they reiterated it here. Like Dojima said the questions weren't answered.

I hope I'm not sounding combative, just trying to explain how this didn't tell us anything that we didn't already know and did not in fact answer any of the 3 questions asked.


@scars: It is, but as you didn't argue that portion further I have nothing to rebut. It doesn't answer what they are doing with it at all, as you said "they'll either keep using the Fox Engine or use something else as they choose" and your question about licensing it out is still a possibility. My point is this, we don't know what they are going to do. So how exactly did you receive an answer if we already knew the possibilities and they didn't say they were doing any of them?

Your first question does not in fact hinge on "Konami ceasing gaming development". Even if they replied that they were leaving MGS behind it wouldn't give us any info on the future of fox engine and it would certainly not mean that they are ceasing game development as MGS is only one of many series that they own. Heck, they could leave all their IPs behind and it would still be illogical to assume that they would not create a new IP unless they actually say that they won't. By your own response you admit that the questions weren't answered because you asked the wrong ones basically and you support it with another false equivalence (red text). If your question was whether Konami was going to cease gaming development then you would be right in saying your questions were answered. The questions you actually asked were not answered, rather they were rendered irrelevant as you said but, as I pointed out before (as did the customer service representative), they were irrelevant months ago as they already said they were continuing these series.


Also I missed the memo where Japanese companies were banned from licensing out tech that they are using in their own games. I just don't see how it is logical to draw these conclusions based on a generalization like that. Unless there is some legal thing I am unaware of (inform me if there is) Konami would be well within their rights to do so and seeing as how they are shaking things up at the company I wouldn't rule out the possibility.
If you are taking the time to ask questions why not ask what you want to know instead of asking completely separate questions and interpreting the answer as you see fit?


Why did you ask 2 questions about the fox engine when you really wanted to know if they were still going to make games regardless of what they did with the engine? That is what is confusing me. I know you say it was the "obvious source of concern" but if that were truly the case you could have outright said it instead of asking semi-related questions.



The third question was not answered because you specifically stated MGSV. If you are saying that it was an error and you meant the MGS series (not specifically V as you stated) then yes your question was answered, but once again that particular question was answered months ago.



I also took the liberty to bold a few portions of your response that I felt were rude and with heavy heart I have to point out that that kind of logic could be applied to your whole inquiry as this information had been given to us months ago.

I come to this forum to have discussions but I find more and more often that I step in to defend/agree with another poster's opinion only to have the whole conversation spiral into an endless list of excuses and "obvious" implied meanings. It is like nobody wants to engage in a conversation, they simply want to be right. Perhaps you could clear this up and you can admit that you may not have used the best choice of words when asking your questions but if this latest post is anything to go by I am going to predict that is not the case and simply abstain from arguing any further. To use your words it is "obvious to anyone paying attention" that I have already made my point both logically and in plain english. I still agree with Dojima that the questions asked (not the ones in your head) were not answered.

I really doubt they actually took the time to read the letter completely or just looked at keywords, I assume they got tons of emails asking about MGS so this response was probably given a lot. I don't think Customer Service would know anything about the engine, so in my opinion, I don't think we have an answer to what will happen to it.
Just because MGS isn't going anywhere doesn't really mean that the Fox engine will be used.

I really dislike mobile games so this is such a shame. I love Castlevania and Silent Hill so much, if that is where the series is going to go then I consider them finished.

You know, if mobile games could accomplish any type of touch interface more sophisticated than 'hit/swipe the object' or 'navigate tiny menus and stutterwalk through a halfass port of a game you love', id be fine with mobile gaming, till then ill make do with my psp and the massive library i can cram into it

I heard about that too. Are you ready for tactical pachinko espionage with a dash of erotic violence?

www.siliconera.com/2015/10/05/konamis-pachinko-company-filed-a-trademark-for-big-boss/

Like Liquid Snake in MGS2 and before MGS4 changed all the details about everything, Metal Gear will live on through our arms as we hit the lever.

It kinda lame to hear about that. I don't see anything wrong with targeting China since it's a booming market, but I do think having the game only be available there sucks and I can't see traditional Contra games translating to touch controls well.

What's kind of funny about Chinese games to me is that while China in general has zero respect for copyright law and will fake/replicate just about anything, Tencent (the ones helping Konami with Contra here) make it all but impossible to play their games outside of China. For a little while, I was interested in playing their Xuan Dou Zhi Wang ("King of Combat", a King of Fighters knockoff), but you have to...make a Chinese social media account, provide proof of China citizenship and log on to an online Chinese server every time you wanted to play it. Wow dude.

I am not surprised they are going down this road. It certainly seems alienating for specific fanbases of specific franchises since it might mean less used for extended localization.

I myself have juggled being a Konami fan. Being in the U.S. I just don't have a taste for pachinko machines. Outside of the more or less recent works of MGS or Lords of Shadow, I haven't been a consistent fan. So with this move, I assume I'll just plan to get some of the fill I got from Konami from somewhere else... Iga is a starting point. Hoping Kojima does something similar.