>>40157563He earned over half a billion dollars for his company by insisting upon LGPE.
That's more money from one project than the Vatican City makes in a year.
Pokemon is a brand. A brand exists to make money. Masuda is doing a damn good job of making money. Much as I personally hate what he's doing with this brand, any objective analysis of his work must conclude that he deserves to be rewarded handsomely for his efforts.
But seriously though fuck Masuda and all the higher ups at Game Freak and TPC holy shit why did it have to be this way