Sonic Creator Yuji Naka Sues Square Enix, Says Company Doesn’t Care About Games

Sport designer Yuji Naka, who’s greatest recognized for his time at SEGA and for creating Sonic The Hedgehog, posted a sequence of tweets on Thursday, April 28, 2022 revealing that he had filed a lawsuit towards Sq. Enix for eradicating him because the director of Balan Wonderworld six months earlier than the sport was launched.

Naka had introduced his retirement from Sq. Enix on the finish April 2021. Whereas he had not clarified his purpose for leaving, he did so now in his tweets because the trial towards Sq. Enix had ended.

“Six months earlier than the launch of #BalanWonderworld, a piece order was issued eradicating me as director, so I filed a lawsuit in court docket towards Sq. Enix. I wish to let you know that the court docket case is over and the work order is now not in impact right now,” Naka wrote on Twitter.

In response to Naka, Sq. Enix didn’t care about “video games and recreation followers.” He claimed that he was eliminated because the director of Balan Wonderworld for suggesting a few modifications associated to the sport.

“I believe it is just pure to request modifications to make the sport higher since we’re making the sport, and if we are able to’t do this, we should always simply talk about it, however plainly we are able to’t do this. I don’t suppose they’re able to maintain the sport,” Naka mentioned.

Naka had requested his attorneys to barter with Sq. Enix to permit him to handle points on Balan Wonderworld’s improvement till the very finish. Nonetheless, he was compelled to take the corporate to court docket, as they denied his requests.

The veteran recreation designer had objected the concept of letting a YouTuber carry out and publish the rating of in-game music for promotional functions. He steered that the corporate launch the unique rating as an alternative.

Secondly, Naka mentioned that court docket paperwork acknowledged that he had ruined enterprise relationships with Arzest, Sq. Enix’s recreation developer associate, as he complained in regards to the remaining construct which Arzest had submitted with out fixing the glitches in it.

Naka went on to say that Sq. Enix shouldn’t be taking excellent care of their “recreation followers” and that they need to have strived to make the sport higher until the very finish.

“I consider {that a} recreation must be made with the intention of constructing it a superb recreation till the very finish, in order that recreation followers can take pleasure in it once they purchase it. I believe it’s unusual to take away a director who feedback on a recreation with out consulting him as a result of there’s not sufficient time to take action,” Naka wrote.

Naka was of the opinion that Sq. Enix’s angle was the rationale why Balan Wonderworld was receiving the sort of response it obtained from followers.

“It’s actually unlucky {that a} work that I created from the start has such a consequence,” Naka wrote.

Yuji Naka is a Japanese online game programmer, designer and producer. He’s the previous head of the Sega studio Sonic Workforce, the place he was the lead programmer of the unique Sonic the Hedgehog sequence on the Sega Mega Drive.

Naka additionally led improvement on video games together with Nights into Goals (1996), Burning Rangers (1998), Sonic Journey (1998) and three video games within the Phantasy Star franchise (1987-2000). In 2006, he left Sega to ascertain Prope, an impartial recreation firm.

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