Poll: Game Developers...Who has eaten your wallet?

[edens_shadow]

Bethesda. Bought Fallout 3, then bought each of the expansion packs as they came out...then they brought out the game of the year edition and I raged hard. I now see that damn game for 35 bucks, while I spent well over 100 for everything. Bah.

 

[DustyDrB]

I own more BioWare games than anything else:
-Mass Effect 1 and 2
-Knights of the Old Republic
-Jade Empire
-Dragon Age 1 and 2
-Baldur's Gate 1 and 2
-Neverwinter Nights

After them, it's either Rockstar or Obsidian. I see Obsidian pulling ahead, though, as I've become something of a fanboy for them.

 

[lacktheknack]

Currently, Spiderweb Software. My status as a gaming hipster is swelling nicely.

 

[Treblaine]

Valve owns my wallet. (Steam wallet. See what I did there?)

I own all their games, except L4D, but they didn't develop those, it was Turtle Rock Studios.

This is kind of misinformation, Turtle Rock Studios did develop the original Left 4 Dead but the studio is owned by Valve anyway and near the end of development the folded into each other. So they're basically different teams in the same company, and pretty certain Robin Walker (Team Fortress 2's lead designer) played a HUGE role in making Left 4 Dead 2 so that's basically bread and butter Valve.

Not that it matters you didn't buy 'em, just clearing up - they're as Valve as Half-Life 2 ever was, and more Valve than the original Portal. If you can measure "Valve-iness," anyway.

The thing is Valve is far more integrated with the studios it makes partnership with. They are in the same offices, go to lunch together and everything.

Activision or EA, they may acquire a studio in a different country and only have a few QA people visit the studio, and the occasional teleconference with the executives of each. They made trade game assets and engines but one thing they don't do is trade ideas, you can only do that by working closely together and integrated.

Valve and other companies are integrated, the riches are shared. The the Activision/EA model is much more like Client employee, there is a huge divide between the publisher and the developer.

 

[Buizel91]

Epic is in the poll twice.

Hehe oops, my bad :$

I'll shove Bungie in there

 

[Simon Pettersson]

Well Bethesda, Bioware and DICE already own my soul so ....

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

Had to go with Bioware, because besides Ubisoft, they are the only person on that list that I own games from

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Relic, otherwise interplay(mainly Black Isle, but hell pretty much all of interplay's games used to be gold) of old or sierra(mainly relic under then, but they also had bloody goldmine devs under them, so I would say they're up there) when that still existed...

 

[SadakoMoose]

Yuke's
Human Entertainment
Grasshopper Manufacture
AKI
Capcom, although I'm really pissed at how much I paid for Umbrella Chronicles...
and Nintendo.

 

[kouriichi]

Bethesda @__@

Theyve taken so much of my money its not even funny. I didnt even have time to give it to them. It was just.... gone.

 

[Sonicron]

Ubisoft. Specifically, Ubisoft Montreal. I got them to thank for all the wonderful Prince of Persia games of the last decade, and let's not forget about the Assassin's Creed franchise. There are many good developers out there, but these guys are the best in my book.

 

[Evil Top Hat]

A cut of all profits made through steam game sales goes to Valve, so I would have to say them, even though I have bought almost no valve developed games.