This Price + No Kojima = No Buy

["The Canadian"]

Gentlemen. I am an old man.

I was in high school when the MGS2 trailer dropped and my friends and I watched it huddled around a thick laptop plugged into a 28k modem. It was in Japanese. I don't even remember how we got it. Probably because one of them was korean.

At this price though? If Konami wants to try to milk money off of Kojima's work, that's their legal right.

But these experiences exist because of Kojima and if a single red cent doesn't make it to him for this game, not buying it is my moral right.

No thanks Konami. No thanks.

[Afevis Solmunko]

Kojima never received royalties for Metal Gear, he was an employee working at a company managing a team of 314 developers (for MGS3 at least) to make a product.

Here's a partial list of the old MGS3 staff who are known to still be at Konami/involved with Delta;

Ikuya Nakamura (MGS1/MGS2/Boktai/Boktai 2/Boktai 3/Lunar Knights/MGSPW/MGSV)

* Director of Metal Gear Solid Snake Eater 3D for the Nintendo 3DS which added crouch walking and over the shoulder third person aiming
* Co-Director of Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes
* Director/Writer of Boktai 1, Boktai 2, Boktai 3 and Lunar Knights

https://www.mobygames.com/person/57934/ikuya-nakamura/credits/

Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater (2004) staff:

Atsuko Ito (ZOE2/MGS3/MGS4/MGSPW/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/134700/atsuko-ito/credits/

Hiroyuki Tsuchida (ZOE1/MGS2/ZOE2/MGSTTS/MGS3/MGS4/MGSPW/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/58000/hiroyuki-tsuchida/credits/

Juntaro Saito (Suikoden 2/MG Ghot Babel/ZOE1/MGS2/Boktai/Boktai 2/MGA1/MGS3/MGA2/MGSPO/MGS4/MGSPW)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/57949/juntaro-saito/credits/

Kazuhide Hatsuyama (MGS3/MGS4/MGSPW/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/156856/kazuhide-hatsuyama/credits/

Kenichiro Shigeno (MGS1/MGS2/MGSTTS/MGS3/MGS4/MGSPW/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/57958/kenichiro-shigeno/credits/

Kumi Sato (Policenauts/MGS1/ZOE1/MGS2/ZOE2/MGSTTS/MGS3/MGS4/MGSPW/MGSV)

Https:/www.mobygames.com/person/57976/kumi-sato/credits/

Kuniharu Ogura (MGS3/Lunar Knights/MGS4/MGSPW/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/156857/kuniharu-ogura/credits/

Masashi Watanabe (MGS2/Boktai/Boktai 2/MGS3/MGA1/Boktai 3/Lunar Knights/MGS4/Suikoden Tierkreis/MGSPW/MGRR/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/57982/masashi-watanabe/credits/

Masaya Kobayashi (ZOE1/MGS2/ZOE2/MGSTTS/MGS3/MGS4/MGSPW/MGRR/MGSV)

* Cutscene Director of Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

https://www.mobygames.com/person/957028/masaya-kobayashi/credits/

Mineshi Kimura (MGS1/MGS2/MGSTTS/MGS3/MGS4/MGSV)

* Director of the canceled Metal Gear Solid Rising

https://www.mobygames.com/person/57939/mineshi-kimura/credits/

Naoyoshi Yamashita (ZOE2/Boktai 2/MGS3/MGA2/MGSPO/MGS4/MGSPW)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/156862/naoyoshi-yamashita/credits/

Nobuyoshi Nishimura (MGS1/ZOE1/ZOE The First of Mars/MGS2/ZOE2/MGSTTS/MGS3/MGS4/MGSPW/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/57971/nobuyoshi-nishimura/credits/

Ryoji Makimura (MGS1/ZOE1/MGS2/ZOE2/MGSTTS/MGS3/MGA1/MGA2/MGSPO/MGS4/MGSPW/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/57979/ryoji-makimura/credits/

Satoshi Hirano (MGS1/MGS2/MGSTTS/MGS3/MGSPO/MGS4/MGSPW/MGRR/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/57919/satoshi-hirano/credits/

Shintaro Naka (MGS2/MGSTTS/MGS3/MGS4/MGSW/PT/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/58003/shintaro-naka/credits/

Takayuki Aoki (ZOE2/MGSTTS/MGS3/MGA2/MGSPO/MGS4/MGSPW/PT/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/134674/takayuki-aoki/credits/

Yoshiyuki Koido (ZOE1/MGS2/ZOE2/MGS3/MGA2/Lunar Knights/MGSPO)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/57942/yoshiyuki-koido/credits/

Youta Tsutsumizaki (MGS3/MGS4/MGSPW/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/156850/youta-tsutsumizaki/credits/

Yuji Korekado (Policenauts/MGS1/MGS2/MGSTTS/MGS3/MGSPO/MGS4/MGSPW/MGRR/MGSV)

* Main programmer of Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3
* Lead programmer of Metal Gear Solid 4

https://www.mobygames.com/person/57952/yuji-korekado/credits/

Yutaka Shimoyama (MGS3/MGA2/Lunar Knights/MGSPO/MGS4/MGSPW/MGRR/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/156868/yutaka-shimoyama/credits/

Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence (2005) staff:

Akihiro Teruta (MGS2/MGS3/MGSPO/MGS4/MGSPW/MGRR/PT/MGSV)

https://www.mobygames.com/person/124897/akihiro-teruta/credits/

Noriaki Okamura (Policenauts/ZOE1/ZOE The Fist of Mars/MGA2/MGSPO/MGSPW/MGSV)

* Director/Writer of Zone of the Enders 1
* Producer of Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops, Metal Gear Solid Digital Graphic Novel and Metal Gear Acid 2

https://www.mobygames.com/person/188296/noriaki-okamura/credits/

["The Canadian"]

Thanks for this! Very detailed.