Konami to close offices in Redwood City, CA by July 2007

Pakwan Kenobi · Maniac Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002

Konami sent out a press release today announcing that the offices in Redwood City, CA will be consolidated into its newer campus located father south in El Segundo, CA. At least one representative of the KDE office in Redwood City has stated that the employees will be offered the opportunity to move down to the new Southern California location. For more details, please read the blog from Wired Magazine, which is linked at the beginning.
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Pakwan Kenobi · Maniac Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002

Just on a personal note, not only are the PR staff, marketing, product managers, and what not based in the Redwood City campus, but so are the stepchart creators for many of the home versions that have been released on American and European consoles and the testers for said home versions. Quite a few of the guys floating around these forums with a "Konami Staff" title are indeed from the Redwood City campus.

I would understand if many of those guys wouldn't want to move to SoCal, or if they wanted to do so, but couldn't due to financial or other obligations.

Any thoughts?
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RBCF retunes · Trick Member Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Location: 2P side

It's not that bad. Some stepchart creators needed to quit, anyway.
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AceJay · Trick Member Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Location: Princeton, NJ

^True, but not most of the Universe guys. Those were kickass charts.
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Arks · Konami Staff Joined: 03 Aug 2004

Ya do know that the same people who did Universe did UM4 and SN US and UM3 and Strike and so on and so on, yeah?

Tis a sad day here at Konami SF. The loss of jobs is never something to be seen positively, I think.

That being said, we're just staying positive throughout this transition.

RBCF retunes · Trick Member Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Location: 2P side

Universe was chock full of mediocre jump-whoring charts.
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Reenee · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2003

Now now, let's be realistic. Universe did have those sort of charts, but it still wasn't like dominating a significant chunk.
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koffan2 · Trick Member Joined: 22 Sep 2004

And the UMs were notorious for freezewhoring, too.

Hopefully this turns out for the best.
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RBCF retunes · Trick Member Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Location: 2P side

Universe ain't full of perfect steps, either.

UM1 was the only mix that had freezewhoring, and it was shitty for many other reasons as well.
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Melvis at the Disco! · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:12 pm Post subject:

Man, knowing how many QA guys that'll be out of jobs once July hits... hearing the news today was like my own version of Va Tech (I know, horrible comparison, but you think of nearly a dozen friends finding out they're losing their jobs real soon, and you'll think it's pretty bad, too...)

I'm bummed my friends in Prod. Mgt./Production will likely relocate.

And Gamers Day will likely be in SoCal from here on out, not SF. Wah.

(and for the record, UM2 was THE pinnacle of KDEA stepcharts, I say. No personal bias, really.)

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Dex. · Trick Member Joined: 02 Mar 2002 Location: LC,NM

I like how this topic went to step charts...

Sucks to hear about that closing, I was just over there 3 weeks ago, and J.E. gave me a tour of the offices. Hell, I even crashed on one of the couches for a bit. Really lame that everyone there would have to move.

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sfetaz · Vivid Member Joined: 02 May 2002

So how do I apply for any job openings that come up?

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cheesecake · Trick Member Joined: 19 Nov 2004 Location: Michigan

Maybe a bunch of step arists are losing their jobs to make room for Chris Foy *wink wink*
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Mr. Wendell · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:18 pm Post subject:

Bah on your hate on step charts...at least they could make some decent freestyleable steps for some songs.

I'm bummed for my friends and close associates losing their jobs.
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