Brett, Kaoru and I had breakfast together in the usual caf\u00e9 at the station.\u00a0 Kaoru left to go to work, and Brett and I caught up with Mikiko, Mark and Jack, to discuss our strategy.\u00a0 We (all except Jack) caught a taxi to Kachidoke to see how things have been going.\u00a0 I had partially been monitoring their usage through Logmein logs, so was quite optimistic.\u00a0 Unfortunately this wasn\u2019t to be the case.\u00a0 Out of 24 \u201cevents\u201d, they had used the system 11 times.\u00a0 A bit disappointing, but all part of the way they don\u2019t run leagues, and aren\u2019t ready to change, despite acknowledging that the way they do things isn\u2019t profitable.\u00a0 A very cultural lesson for me \u2013 they want things to change, but won\u2019t do anything to make the change happen.\u00a0 When you want to help somebody, but they don\u2019t want to do what needs to be done, it is very frustrating.<\/p>\n
Our next destination was Nishifunabashi.\u00a0 We had already received an email from them (which Mikiko had translated) saying the players like the animations and their team names, the Player Login screen is useful, etc.\u00a0 All the stuff we know.\u00a0 So again we went in to the meeting very positive.<\/p>\n
We were told about a couple of issues that had come up, and that they hadn\u2019t used the system since March 18.\u00a0 When I checked the Dashboard, I could see NO saved games on it since January 25th<\/sup> (when I was last there, most likely).\u00a0 I looked at the event log and could confirm the tablet had not even been turned on since January 25th<\/sup>.\u00a0 So now we were aware that not only are they not using it, but they are flatly lying to us.\u00a0 We were very disappointed by this, and told them what I had found.\u00a0 After their initial reaction of saying \u201cthe computer is wrong\u201d, they started to realise that we can audit what they are doing, and blamed it on not being told the importance of using the system.\u00a0 We were also told that Konami will not be spending any money (so effectively, they won\u2019t be buying it).<\/p>\n Back at the hotel, we got changed.\u00a0 Then Brett, Mark, Ange and I went to dinner (Mikiko and Jack had another meeting to attend).\u00a0 Brett and I finished the night with a few drinks at the \u201cTop of Shinagawa\u201d \u2013 the bar on the top floor of the Shinagawa Prince, to get our thoughts together and do some strategizing (although a few Long Island Iced Tea’s later, our strategies may have been a bit flawed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brett, Kaoru and I had breakfast together in the usual caf\u00e9 at the station.\u00a0 Kaoru left to go to work, and Brett and I caught up with Mikiko, Mark and Jack, to discuss our strategy.\u00a0 We (all except Jack) caught a taxi to Kachidoke to see how things have been going.\u00a0 I had partially been … Continue reading