Keiji Inafune Quits

[Mr. X]

http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/10/29/keiji-quits/

Considering the fact that he was the main reason why Legends 3 was getting made, there's probably going to be problems.



(Of course, I don't care about that series, so meh for me)

[TrueTenguMan]

What sounds rather odd is that he's choosing now to quit, especially when Universe and Legends are still being developed. But this I know, can't be a lie. I mean I think we all know where he's coming from from resigning right?

[CutmanMike]

He's been taking about "someone taking his place" for a while. I didn't think it would be this soon though. Especially after all those promotional videos about MML3 and MMU.

I believe the fate of good Mega Man games (classic style) has just gone down the pooper, but I hope not!

[brotoad]

maybe he'll keep developing those two games and then leave? who knows!
i'm not sure about the fate of megaman classic though, afterall megaman X6 was developed without inafune and that was a total trainwreck! we'll just have to wait and see! (there may not even be a megaman 11 anyway!)

[Mr. X]

Capcom Unity is reporting that all Mega Man and Street Fighter projects are continuing as planned.
http://www.capcom-unity.com/mega_man/go/thread/view/7461/26155941/Keiji_Inafune_Quitting_D:?pg=2

[MusashiAA]

The ramifications of this are gonna be sooooo interesting.

Thank God I'm not just a MM fan. Still, today is a sad day.

The fate of the Rockman franchise might now just rest on our shoulders and Capcom's.

Unless Inafune-san is just taking a well-deserved break. A very long, well-deserved break. He may just work on his own now! Godspeed, Inafking!

[Lord Toadman]

This is going to be exactly like when Yuji Naka left Sonic Team. R.I.P Rockman, you had a nice 21 year run.

[brotoad]

honestly i'm happy for inafune, it's gotta be hard stepping down from such a high position! if he hated his job i'm glad he is doing this for himself!

[Nexus11]

Saw this just now on Protodude's and holy shit am I surprised!

It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out however and to see where Inafune ends up in the future.

[RenzokukenL]

if the inevitable mm11 turns out to be crap who else is gonna grab pitchforks and stuff to attack Capcom HQ?

[Emmanuelf06]

It's not the end, it's not only 1 man who do the games I think...
Inafune didnt like really mmX serie because he wanted that his "Zero" (yes he creates Zero) was the hero of the "X" serie.

After, he did MMZ and ZX.

Anyways, it's Akira Kitamura who created Rockman, but yes, Inafune did great works (except mmz and ZX for me because there isnt real heroes as MMX).

Don't worry, it's not the end but it's the end just for the ZX,SF and EXE...

Maybe now, the priority 1 will be classic and X serie...

I don't know a lot the story of capcom and inafune but i try to understand!

(Sorry for my english, im french ^^)

[brotoad]

i think ZX, SF and EXE were already done with before inafune quit!

[Emmanuelf06]

hummm...yes! =o

[Korby]

if the inevitable mm11 turns out to be crap who else is gonna grab pitchforks and stuff to attack Capcom Castle?

Fixed it for ya.

Anyway, I'm glad he's doing what he wants to. It takes a lot of guts to do something like that, as brotoad mentioned.
Besides, they already finished up the good series.

[CutmanMike]

As it turns out, Inafune wanted to create his own subsidiary company in an effort to have a more hands-on approach to game design (think Kojima Productions). Capcom turned down this proposal  and shortly after, Inafune resigned.

Well that sucks cause I'd pick Inafune productions of Kojima Productions any day!