Keiji inafune has left capcom
10-30-10, 02:34 PM
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Keiji inafune has left capcom
Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune has left Capcom, one month after revealing his Mega Man Legends 3 Project for 3DS, six months after being promoted to Global Head of Production and 23 years after joining the company. He was also the CEO of Capcom's online games subsidiary Daletto.
According to Andriasang's summary and translation of his blog post announcing the departure, Inafune declared he had no more "stairs" to climb within Capcom. "It would probably be good for me to sit gracefully in this seat and become a leading figure in the industry," he wrote. "However, I cannot do this. Settling down means death for a creator. As long as you are a creator, you cannot settle down." Inafune has been particularly unsettled lately, making frequent, harsh criticisms of the Japanese game industry, and (in what seemed like a frustrated joke at the time) declaring that he hated his job.
We think we know what happened here: It wasn't that Capcom higher-ups, uh, encouraged him out for his critical statements, or that Inafune received a more lucrative offer from one of the Western publishers he has become so fascinated with -- it's just that his Mega Man Legends 3 character design got last place.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/29/ke...leaves-capcom/
Mega Man will never be the same. I wonder what new I.P. he'll create next? And which Western developer will he go to? Bethesda?
According to Andriasang's summary and translation of his blog post announcing the departure, Inafune declared he had no more "stairs" to climb within Capcom. "It would probably be good for me to sit gracefully in this seat and become a leading figure in the industry," he wrote. "However, I cannot do this. Settling down means death for a creator. As long as you are a creator, you cannot settle down." Inafune has been particularly unsettled lately, making frequent, harsh criticisms of the Japanese game industry, and (in what seemed like a frustrated joke at the time) declaring that he hated his job.
We think we know what happened here: It wasn't that Capcom higher-ups, uh, encouraged him out for his critical statements, or that Inafune received a more lucrative offer from one of the Western publishers he has become so fascinated with -- it's just that his Mega Man Legends 3 character design got last place.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/29/ke...leaves-capcom/
Mega Man will never be the same. I wonder what new I.P. he'll create next? And which Western developer will he go to? Bethesda?
10-30-10, 06:17 PM
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10-30-10, 06:55 PM
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10-30-10, 08:00 PM
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Re: Keiji inafune has left capcom
I do hope we still see more Dead Rising games...although Inafune should never be allowed anywhere near a movie camera ever again.
