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In an incredible chain of events, the Tokyo police have arrested a 16-year-old boy who made several threats against Konami and his employees through the ratings system of his smartphone’s virtual game store. Initial reports speak of the player being upset by a game glitch, so he proceeded to threaten the company with a bomb.
The boy’s reviews have been removed, but according to Mainichi, a local media outlet, the threats said “I am going to put a bomb in Konami’s offices”, “I am going to blow up Konami” and “I am going to kill the people who work at Konami ”. The same medium adds that the reviews were numerous and that they repeated the idea that terrorism was still possible.
Bomb threats
At this time the player has admitted the charges and would have confessed that everything was due to a connection error in eFootball PES 2020 Mobile, the mobile version of the game formerly known as Pro Evolution Soccer. There have been no statements by Konami that it has been away from video game development for a long time, at least at the rate it had a decade ago.
Ironically his best known game is now eFootball PES 2020 Mobile and it was precisely this title that caused the discomfort of this player. It is unknown if the young man really had the ability and the intention to exploit Konami’s offices, but the truth is that his statements, even though they seemed to be those of a child enraged by the famous “lag”, cannot be ignored.
Image courtesy of CBS.JP.Konami was a leading company in the Japanese video game market, however, it has been distancing itself from the industry little by little and today it only has a few active titles and a few in development. Despite this, it has more than 100,000 employees in the offices that were threatened today by a 16-year-old boy.
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