Because reasons? You make it sound like they haven't earned the negative image. Maybe some of those reasons don't matter to you, but it's shitty of you to come around being oddly dismissive of such opinions.
Yes, i'm so dismissive of these well thought out and poignant "opinions"
FUKC THOSE LOSERS!!
Konami now is a distant shadow of its former self. I said I won't buy their games, I meant it.
I don't care what backroom drama went on (it's still all hearsay in the end) if they produce a good game, I'll play it and judge it by it's own merit, not by completely dismissing the work of the developers because of some rumors i heard a year ago.
And as I said before "the negative image" of Konami is just from a very vocal minority, the vast majority of gamers don't know and don't care about the 'martyr Kojima' and gestapo Konami narrative bandwagon.
So please, explain to me rationally why I should boycott a game from what will probably be an incredibly talented assembly of hard working artists, designers and developers?
Maybe I shouldn't have played Uncharted 4 because they stole that concept artists image, or played The Last of Us because they used a metro map without getting explicit permission, or because they replaced Alan Tudyk with Troy Baker (those monsters!), and they even had their team crunch in the weeks before launch (employees sleeping in their offices? what is this slave labor?) I can't believe I supported such scummy practices! I really regret playing those
excellent games that enhanced my life over the years!