2023-06-26 10:08:19
You’ve probably seen one of the best opportunities to buy the complete Yakuza series (minus Like a Dragon) at GOG these days, where it’s 70% off. However, if you do get your hands on this bundle, you should know that the game’s credits have changed significantly, and many of the game’s developers and even Yakuza’s original creator, Toshihiro Nagoshi, have been removed, as this user spotted on Reddit. The reason is that Nagoshi and those developers left Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and set up a new studio (Nagoshi Studios) under the umbrella of NetEase, and RGG did not accept their departure amicably. In addition to Nagoshi and his team, all members of Lab42, the studio that made the PC versions of Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami, were also removed from the credits. Kamurocho doesn’t forgive, but does seem to have forgotten. The issue of properly crediting developers in video games is an ongoing conflict for workers, with many companies being criticized for not giving creators proper credit. There is no real regulation other than the guidelines from the International Game Developers Association (IDGA) which states that anyone working on a game for 30 days or 5% must get a credit, there is no legal basis for that, so developers in This aspect is subject to the studio.
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