• kftX@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I feel like the key word here is resignation. Platinum has changed from its early days and so has the quality of its output (Babylon’s Fall; Astral Chain, which I loved everything about but the gameplay). It is possible that because of the capital injection/investment by Tencent, Kamiya doesn’t have the same creative freedom/pull to make the games he wants anymore.

    Unless he speaks up we will never know, and I doubt he will. Can’t wait to see what’s next for him tho.

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    1 year ago

    He’s probably been frustrated with the company since Scalebound, this was only a matter of time. Everyone knows Kamiya isn’t exactly shy about sharing his opinions so I bet he’s been butting heads with people nonstop. Hope he pulls a Kojima and gets some funding to do his own thing.

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      1 year ago

      Oh wow Scalebound, I was so excited for that game. Wish he was able to finish that as he seemed to be very passionate towards it. I heard MS was extremely pissed with the development process as well.

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    I get the feeling that whatever he’s been working on since the last thing that got canceled, got canceled.

    That or tenacent offered him a dump truck of money to do something, that’s not unheard of

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    Man’s probably been on a downward spiral ever since he lost the ability to block people on Twitter.

    Loved his games in the past, but I don’t think he’s made anything good in a while, and I’m curious to know if there’s any other studio willing to take in such a diva of a game developer. Wish him the best of luck.