Talk:Radical Plan
From Game Developer Research Institute
That bit in Itakura's book that's linked [1] goes into rather dramatic detail about what happened with Matsuda and Radical Plan shutting down:
- 松田はザップから独立したあと、自分で「ラディカルプラン」というゲームソフト会社を蒲田につくってやっていた。 目利きの彼はいち早くオンラインゲームの可能性に気づき、それに大きく投資していた。
- After Matsuda left Zap, he created his own game software company in Kamata called "Radical Plan". He had realized the potential of online games early, and was investing heavily in the idea.
- ところが、どこかから資本を入れてしまって、話がややこしくなる。まだオンラインゲームが流行るなんて誰も思っていなかった時代だ。株主も徒業員も、マツダの先見性が理解できなかった。それで、社長だった松田を追い出そうという話になった。
- However, when you're taking investment, the story tends to get more complicated. This was a time when nobody thought online games would ever be popular. Neither the shareholders nor the employees understood Matsuda's vision. Thus, they moved to force Matsuda out of the company.
- 人のいい松田は、最後までそれに気づかなかった。気づいたときには、すでに追い出しをかけられていたから、松田は会社にあった現金を抱えて逃げ出した。彼は役員報酬をもろわず、会社に金を貸していたから、彼にとっては意味のある行動だった。追い出されるのなら、貸している金だけでも持ち出そうというわけだ。
- A kind person at heart, Matsuda didn't realize this until the very end. By the time he did realize, it had already been decided, and he took the money that remained at the company and ran. As he took no executive compensation, and loaned his own money to the company, to him this was the proper action to take. If he was being forced out of the company, he would take with him the money he'd loaned.
- 大金を抱えて自宅にいた松田に、会社の人間が金を取り返しにやってきた。松田はこっそり逃げ出して、近くの駐車場の車の下に隠れて一晩明かしたそうだ。自分を探し回る人たちの足音がすぐ近くで鳴り響いて、怖くて出られなかったという話を聞いた。
- People from the company came to Matsuda's home to recover the money he'd taken. He apparently snuck out of his own home and hid under a car in a nearby parking lot through the night. He was afraid to come out, terrified of the sounds of footsteps of people who were looking for him.
- 何とかその場を逃げ切った彼は、いったん福島に身を潜めるも、数年後、会社の件が法的に解決したので、東京に戻ってきた。
- He managed to escape and hide out in Fukushima, only returning to Tokyo years later once all the legal matters had finally been settled.
- I'm not sure how much to believe the more dramatic details here, but it lines up with Wada's story of the company's president literally disappearing. --Dimitri (talk) 23:33, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
Does the Gamasutra article mean Radical Plan worked on Harvest Moon? Or were their contributions scrapped (which, for such a late game, I doubt happened...)? - Andlabs (talk) 01:48, 6 May 2013 (CEST)
