Capcom overworks devs with 'no mercy' - Street Fighter producer

m happy Ono is back SF is back on business even thought it has cheap ass DLC's then again whos the jack ass who introduced DLC's in the first place??

So how did Ono-san lose his job again? orite...

The benevolent force of Capcom strikes again. Ignore its on disc DLC and witness its wrath.

So he expected to get paid the same and do less?

How is that fair to the rest of the company :/

You mean, when he went back to work, they actually expected him to WORK?!? How cruel! :)

Didn't Apple recently get into trouble for the same thing? Learn your history Capcom; and FAST!!! 

In my experience, people in Asia usually work 12 to 16 hour jobs on average. He's not lying and he's certainly not lazy.. I have a feeling that the developer is at the breaking point (he doesn't care anymore), since he sought out the media, despite knowing that he might be fired for saying this.

It's common practice to overwork salary workers, because they don't get paid overtime.

Now this is the Capcom i know!

 @Eboslav @s4dn3s5 You two must be either still children or never held a decent job to support anyone in your lives. That's the only way I can think of how you guys are able to so grossly misinterpret the circumstances .1) He doesn't get a say with the DLC fiasco. He does what the CAPCOM corp heads tell him to do. He just designs the games and oversees things from that level down. 2) Do you think it's fun dressing up in a costume and acting like a-hole in front of people everyday of the week travelling all over the world? Ok let's ignore the fact it's commonsensical to realize THAT IS NOT ALL THAT HE DOES. That's a small chunk of his job.

But have you ever had to constantly travel for a job before? It's fun for a little while but gets extremely stressful and tiring especially when you....3) Realize you don't have time for yourself and more importantly your FAMILY. That's why you try to get good jobs - to make life easier for you and people you take care of. What the hell is the point when your job is MAKING YOU ILL and taking you away from YOUR FAMILY and YOURSELF.4) Just because you make good money does not mean you are not entitled to better working conditions. IF MONEY CAN TAKE AWAY DECENCY IN TREATMENT OF YOUR WORKERS then DAMN. Let's just go poop in Bill Gate's mouth since the slippery slope argument can probably slide us down that direction easily.In other words - come on. Either get real or grow the fuck up. There are better complaints that can be made.  

interesting article, personally I see him as a lazy executive. He should be lucky to have kept this job after the DLC fiasco and piss poor support for games (PC version should've come up patched already, instead this game is stagnant atm)On another note, the hell this clip was about? Is this what he does at work?? Are we supposed to feel sorry for him because he has to wear a suit while getting paid like the filthy rich man that he is?

With every kid and grandma wanting to join the industry! There are more laborers than jobs. The bosses know this.

aww poor baby can't deal with stress, he just earns in a year more than I'd be able to make in an entire life...

capcom is greedy

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Oh, Capcom is becoming more and more like a real employer every time i read about them :P

Thats screwed up, i'd leave and work somewhere else if i was him and if this continous!~

I find it funny, he returns to work and they say ' ok here's the work you have to do' and he goes OH NO!! ITS TOO MUCH!? Really?  I mean he comes in from being in the hospital, yeah, but gee now he has to fly to Rome on the company's dollar.. Oh boo hoo! Do an interview about the game, OH NO!! How very sad his life must be. 

Aren't most, if not all companies at the height of callousness already?

No workers, no company.  Simple.  You can't ban a worker movement... that's ludicrous.  That's like banning riots, they're going to happen whether you like it or not if people are motivated enough.  If they got enough guys there to stick together, Capcom can't ignore them.  1 person can't fight that fight.  1 person is replaceable.  What, they're going to fire half their staff(some of whom are top people there) and bring new guys in?  That would be so damaging to their day to day business.

Also, to be honest they do it to themselves.  If you don't put your foot down and just passively accept the longer hours, the crappier pay, the disrespect, then that's what your job devalues itself to.  If you let them walk all over you, they will.  I'm not saying fight every negative thing that comes your way, definitely pick your battles wisely, but don't cave into everything.

You find a cool job that entails a massive amount of work(which is horribly undervalued), and it pays minimum wage.  ...well, how do you think it got to be that way?  Because people are willing to do it for minimum wage.  If they couldn't get anybody to fill that role for that amount of money, the company either goes without or bumps up the perks.  This is what's so damaging about immigration and people taking -anything- they can get just to survive in a different country, they have the drive to succeed at their job and they're getting paid far less for it.

They don't allow it? If all the workers band together, they cant stop it. What are they going to do fire everybody? The company would go under as you cant just hire  a bunch of people off the streets to make a game.

Capcom is like any other japanese company.

I do not feel sorry for any devs these days.  Working is hard, they all have a choice to go into sectors involving manual labor.  Instead they whine and act entitled to mo imaginery moneys from consumers.  As though their tales are so much worse then anyone elses.

Let these over-stressed company line towing zombie employees that live in a false sense of reality go.  Maybe they can send the whiners here in American to countries like Japan and Korea, it would be so nice no longer have to listen to whiny/entitled employees on the internets.

Capcom needs every man in the field.  On disc DLC doesn't hide itself you know.

I now have even LESS regard for Capcom than I already did. They jip their consumers. They jip their employees. Who the Hell does Capcom NOT jip? Oh, yeah, their azzhole investors; the guys who do NONE of the actual "work" yet want boatloads of money out of it.

Yoshinori, ditch Capcom! Those deuches don't deserve someone who's willing to put in the work that you have. Considering investors get the lions share, people on your level shouldn't even have to work that hard to begin with.

I've been at odds with Capcom since Street Fighter IV and RE5. Stuff like this pushes me even further away. That's sad considering I grew up loving Mega Man, Street Fighter II and Resident Evil 1 thru 3.

"I said I was ready to come back to work and they acted like I was ready to come back to work."

Yeah, that's brutal.

Surprise surprise, its the companies thats been making hit or miss games, rehashes, franchise bleeding, or hiding/ locking large parts of games till more money is paid for the past few years

Seems to me they ALL need to grow up and grow a set.  I mean, c'mon.  What's with all the whining?  Someone shoul send cheese!

Capcom turned out a huge disappointament as a company... I got so sick after what they did with Megaman and RE5 that, if I buy RE6, I'll feel like supporting unfairness and EVEN shamelessness for they being so money eater capitalists, masochists!

Capcom became a greedy demon and this shows in the way it milks it's main franchises: Resident Evil and Street Fighter. RE became trash but that's because the person who makes these games great is not working for them anymore. As for SF, Ono is still there and Crapcom is milking the living crap out of him. He should do just like Shinji Mikami and leave.

Wonder, what's the future hiding for capcom? Will it be another SE or even worse.

I really feel sad when I remmember old days, playing awesome games from the now Crapcorn.

being overworked is no new thing, normal work in Japan is considered overwork anywhere else so when a Japanese man say's he's being overworked oh snap. maybe Valve is looking to make a fighting game. they will give him all the time he needs.

Sounds like a nice company to work for.

That was sarcasm btw, for those who don't realise it.

Capcom is a great example of how a company that had an amazing loyal fanbase started pissing on it till it's at the stage that it's at now that when something like this comes up people are more then happy to be against Capcom.