SEGA recently released the Yakuza series on GOG, but couldn’t help but remove several developers and supporting studios from the game’s credits.
according to reports PC gamerTimo 653 reddit He noted that each game in the series has been affected, with perhaps the removal of chief creator Toshihiro Nagoshi getting the most attention.
But not just him, for example, director Kazuki Hosokawa, art supervisor Saizo Nagai, and game design supervisor Koji Yoshida were also removed from Yakuza 0.
The supporting studios, which help with the more technical aspects of the game rather than lead the design of the game, have also been cut. Lab42 was previously credited as porting Yakuza 0 and Kiwami to his PC, but has been removed from those credits. QLOC was similarly alleged to have ported Kiwami 2 and Yakuza 3, 4, 5, 6 to PC, but this was also dropped.
“Despite using a larger font and more spacing, the GOG credits are now shorter than the Steam version because all names have been removed,” Timo653 said. says. “Many names are missing from almost every section of the credits. Some of the deleted people appear to be former Sega employees who left for Nagoshi Studios, but I don’t know who else was deleted.”
Nagoshi Studios, which is owned by NetEase, was founded by Nagoshi after he left Sega in 2021. Given the connection between Yakuza’s roots and the core of Ryu ga Gotoku Studios, several Sega staff members I joined Mr. Nagoshi’s new adventure. IGN has reached out to Sega for comment, though it’s not clear if the employees removed from the credits are related to those who left Sega and moved to Nagoshi Studios.
Timo653 continued, “This feels unnecessary and disrespectful to the people who worked on these games. At the time of this writing, only the GOG version has these ‘updated’ credits. I’m here. The people who worked on these games are still properly credited. Steam version. “
This collection includes seven numbered Yakuza games, meaning zero to six, and Yakuza: Yakuza, which essentially rebranded the series in the West. not. Yakuza Studios tried to explain why the change was made, but it probably only made things more confusing.
Ryan Dinsdale is a freelance reporter for IGN. He will talk about witchers all day long.
