Just last week, it was announced that Tomonobu Itagaki would be leaving Tecmo due to difficulties with his soon-to-be-former boss, and now it seems that his loyal team is following in his footsteps. It seems that three dozen or more other members of Team Ninja are leaving the company and all of them will be filing suit against Tecmo for unpaid bonus royalties.
This doesn’t look good for Tecmo. What makes matters even worse for Tecmo is that they might not have reported Itagaki’s lawsuit immediately when he filed it on May 24, which violates Japanese law. This is why you need to take care of your employees, or you could end up being screwed one day.