Why the Sega Games Quality Went Down After Sammy Merger

cube_b3 · Post by **cube_b3** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:41 pm

EXPOSED!!!

In a symposium to discuss the issue of corporate restructuring and human rights violations, participants demanded that the "isolation room" of major video gamemaker Sega Corporation be closed immediately.

The symposium was held on June 3 in Tokyo by the All-Japan Metal and Information Machinery Workers' Union (JMIU), with about 200 people attending.

Sega has separated union activists from the rest of the workers on the grounds that they refused to comply with transfers to subsidiaries. Those separated workers were denied jobs and told to stay in an isolation room all day long. Workers who refused to apply for "voluntary" retirement following a factory closure, had their wages cut by 30 percent and were ordered to temporarily stay at home.

Sega workers said that they can no longer endure the company management continuing to rob them of their jobs by isolating them as a warning to others.

A lawyer for the Sega workers in the court struggle stressed that the constitutional rights to live and work must be applied to the company.

A jurist stated that although corporate restructuring is not rare in Europe, there is no such harsh violation of workers' human rights.

A JMIU representative pointed out that in the 1970s, the major aim of suppressing human rights by Japan's corporations was to oppress and eliminate activists, but now it shifted to one of smoothly enacting corporate restructuring.

The participants resolved to fight till they win the final victory. (end)

http://www.japan-press.co.jp/2001/2238/r0605shut.html

Man...

mrandyk · Post by **mrandyk** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:51 pm

so they are given an offer they cant refuse?

FiendWithoutAface · Post by **FiendWithoutAface** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:09 am

mrandyk wrote:so they are given an offer they cant refuse?

Just like in that movie i saw once.

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:24 am

Just like in that movie i saw once.

Was it The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down?

Post by **Specially Cork** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:41 am

So factory workers in 2001 are affecting the quality of Sega games in 2007?

Only the genius of Detective Bilal could ever find a link between those 2 things.

Post by **Christuserloeser** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:55 am

So factory workers in 2001 are affecting the quality of Sega games in 2007?

...then again it's not that far off: If I remember correctly, SEGA fired about 10.000 employees back in 2001. That actually would explain a good bit of the loss in quality...

Caboose · Post by **Caboose** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:15 am

The games they have released this year seem to be getting a lot better. Sonic and the Secret Rings is pretty fun and Virtua Tennis 3 is great.

APE · Post by **APE** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:02 am

"Make him an offer he can't understand."

I'd wager Sammy made demands that benefitted them rather than SEGA.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:01 pm

who wants to merge with SAMMY ffs they made SURVIVAL ARTS for eff's sake

mrandyk · Post by **mrandyk** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:25 pm

yea if only sega wouldve stayed solo, or merged with a company ive heard of like nintendo or activision or something anything but sammy.

mankrip · Post by **mankrip** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:42 pm

leileilol wrote:who wants to merge with SAMMY ffs they made SURVIVAL ARTS for eff's sake

Pachinko. Money.

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:21 pm

Sega has never been that great to start with. There's only one thing they were consistenly good at, and actually still are: arcade games.

Post by **Christuserloeser** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:00 pm

Well, they've had their moments... Phantasy Star, the first Sonic, Alex Kidd, Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Panzer Dragoon, Shining Force, etc. I am aware that many of their best games were clones of other successful brands they couldn't get for their systems (like Dragon Warrior, Mario, Fire Emblem, Final Fight, etc.) but at least those clones have been fairly good

gamedudex2 · Post by **gamedudex2** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:22 pm

wishes nintendo would try to buy sega.

S. Thompson · Post by **S. Thompson** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:13 pm

gamedudex2 wrote:wishes nintendo would try to buy sega.

I'm already traumatized from seeing the Sonic and Mario at the Olympic games video game- don't give me a heart attack.

- Fuzmeister

Caboose · Post by **Caboose** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:24 pm

S. Thompson wrote:
gamedudex2 wrote:wishes nintendo would try to buy sega.
I'm already traumatized from seeing the Sonic and Mario at the Olympic games video game- don't give me a heart attack.

- Fuzmeister

My thoughts exactly. Here's hoping they don't get Sonic in with Super Smash Bros.

Post by **Specially Cork** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:27 pm

Caboose wrote:
S. Thompson wrote:
gamedudex2 wrote:wishes nintendo would try to buy sega.
I'm already traumatized from seeing the Sonic and Mario at the Olympic games video game- don't give me a heart attack.

- Fuzmeister
My thoughts exactly. Here's hoping they don't get Sonic in with Super Smash Bros.

What would be wrong with that??

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:53 pm

It's very likely that they will.

cube_b3 · Post by **cube_b3** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:27 pm

S. Thompson wrote:
gamedudex2 wrote:wishes nintendo would try to buy sega.
I'm already traumatized from seeing the Sonic and Mario at the Olympic games video game- don't give me a heart attack.

- Fuzmeister

I was hoping it was an April Fools Prank.

Boney Cork Wrote

So factory workers in 2001 are affecting the quality of Sega games in 2007?

Only the genius of Detective Bilal could ever find a link between those 2 things.

Christuserloser Wrote:

...then again it's not that far off: If I remember correctly, SEGA fired about 10.000 employees back in 2001. That actually would explain a good bit of the loss in quality...

That's how you make connections Cork

Post by **Quzar** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:39 pm

I don't see what disgruntled factory workers have to do with the game quality at all, unless you mean the physical quality of the discs and such. It's not like the factory creates the content...