Tecmo has defended its position in the conundrum over Itagaki's resignation and lawsuit against the company announced yesterday.
The company says the "unpaid completion bonuses" Itagaki speaks of were an agreement of previous management, and that Itagaki had been paid his dues in the form of annual bonuses.
"Our company getting sued by this employee is huge problem," said Tecmo, going on to claim that his "reasons for making this lawsuit public are self-centered.
"What's more," adds Tecmo, "this employee is filing this suit for himself and making it seem like he alone is responsible for the development of the game titles the rest of the Team Ninja staff had poured its heart into."
But work on "new game titles" is ongoing, says Tecmo. "Team NINJA is currently working on a line-up of new titles. All of Team NINJA is starting to work together on interesting new game titles," reads the official statement, translated by Kotaku.
Not stopping there, the statement also apparently mentions Itagaki's sexual harassment suit, saying that internal investigations were continuing (despite having said previously that no sexual harassment had taken place).
I don't see how his case for completion bonuses are 'self-centred' (although, he quite possibly is) - in cases like this, you do it for yourself....anybody elses gripe is theirs to follow themselves. If any other member of Team NINJA have the same problem, I'm sure they'd do the same - it just wouldn't make as many headlines as Itagaki.
Some woman, a staff member at Team Ninja, accused him of sexual harrassment. Like all under-payed/under-appreciated women do
By the way... what makes you say its 'all getting a bit tit-for-tat now'? It started yesterday, and since then there has been one statement from each side. The way you say it, its like it's been going on months with lots of bitchy comments.
"Our company getting sued by this employee is huge problem," said Tecmo, going on to claim that his "reasons for making this lawsuit public are self-centered.
So denying the man his money and then saying sue us or shut up isn't self centered? Strange world we live in eh?
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