>>716205485
Passion got driven out, they became slop. A product.

>>716186117
>NTA but you are retarded. All Team Silent games sold well, especially considering their budgets. Konami simply wanted Call of Duty numbers.

That's the old fan narrative that doesn't make any sense. Mean old Konami didn't support the series, and had unrealistic expectations. This puts the blame 100% Konami.

From Konami's perspective:
>first game is a suprize hit at 2 million sales
>director leaves and promote others
>put a lot of money and budget promoting the sequel
>it's a sales dud with LESS sales than the original
>have no faith in them, so slash the budget and dev time for 3 and 4 and make them at once
>those games also have middling sales
>disband the team entirely
>hire westerners since American sales were always higher and there is more fan interest there
>western games are also middling sales
>shelve the entire series

Their decision making wasn't completely wrong, and may have created a death spiral for the series, but it wasn't baseless. The games just weren't selling, and Konami isn't a charity, but a money making operation. If sales were increasing each game, then it's very likely Team Silent wouldn't have been disbanded.