Shameless Developers

[Spirultima]

Simply put, what developing/gaming company in general has no pride, and would sell their kids for a net profit?

First of all I'd have to say Treyarch for the most indefinite and direct rip off to a game to memory.

Second, Activision; not Activision itself, but good ol' Bobby Kotick, you know him and you just love to hate him.

Spoiler: The man himself

Soon to be the killer of the golden age of gaming. He will hold his lecture cane high, shielded by the vast wealth he obtained from his evil ventures.
Pray that a brave warrior will step forth and over throw this tyrant.

Finally, Electronic Arts for reasons any above-casual gamer knows (Or just people who aren't in the known)

 

[Spirultima]

well, considering its hard to make a profit in the video game industry, i think they are just doing what they can.

Regardless, respect is more profitable then a scam.

 

[Yukinari]

THQ, making as many games as possible, and while i enjoy a few, they just take a franchise, and churn out a game for it every so often.

 

[Slayer_2]

well, considering its hard to make a profit in the video game industry, i think they are just doing what they can.

Not quite, the gaming industry is one of the fastest growing and developers can rake in millions on AAA titles.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Simply put, what developing/gaming company in general has no pride, and would sell their kids for a net profit?

First of all I'd have to say Treyarch for the most indefinite and direct rip off to a game to memory.

Second, Activision; not Activision itself, but good ol' Bobby Kotick, you know him and you just love to hate him.

Spoiler: The man himself

Soon to be the killer of the golden age of gaming. He will hold his lecture cane high, shielded by the vast wealth he obtained from his evil ventures.
Pray that a brave warrior will step forth and over throw this tyrant.

Finally, Electronic Arts for reasons any above-casual gamer knows (Or just people who aren't in the known)

For some reason he makes me think of The Joker.

 

[Souplex]

Valve. I really don't like them.

 

[Dragon_of_red]

I would think EA, releasing around 5 new sports games per yeare with only minute changes, pretty money hungry there.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

I have two words for you...

[HEADING=2]PETER MOLYNEUX[/HEADING]

Sure, there's no deneying the fact that Activision and EA are only out for the money.

But when it comes to pure shamelessness, Molyneux's your man!

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[Nova5]

well, considering its hard to make a profit in the video game industry, i think they are just doing what they can.

Regardless, respect is more profitable then a scam.

Not necessarily... Scams are extremely profitable (Zynga, for example). Respect just means you have to put in more effort. What's good for business is rarely in line with what's good for the consumer.

Respect turning a profit is the exception, not the rule.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Koei, they've been making the same damn game for years now.

 

[Kstreitenfeld]

Valve. I really don't like them.

Thats a odd answer, since Valve is one of the more respected developers... But I guess thats your opinion.

 

[cambodiancam]

EA, but everyone knows that..

 

[Kstreitenfeld]

Valve. I really don't like them.

Thats a odd answer, since Valve is one of the more respected developers... But I guess thats your opinion.

Gabe Newell is nothing but a ***** to Microsoft.
Also Rockstar, they fuck up their own award winning series, ait almost a full 2 years to put in stuff that they said would be in the original game for extra cost. On top of that they make it fucking exclsuive.

I've heard tons of flak about Gabe Newell, but this is the first time I've seen someone call him a ***** to Microsoft.

 

[Kajin]

well, considering its hard to make a profit in the video game industry, i think they are just doing what they can.

Regardless, respect is more profitable then a scam.

Money pays for future games, not respect.

Respect can't pay the bills, and an inability to sleep at night is usually the price you pay for a bed made of solid gold.

 

[Mordwyl]

Whoever's in charge of the Evony game. Bobo never lied about his intentions.

 

[rapidoud]

IW are good, I saw what they were going to do with modern warfare 2, no one listened and then complained, yet I didn't mind.

Dislike EA, activision, blizzard.

Like Stardock and GPG, sure they make great relatively unknown titles and churn a little profit, but I'd far rather say I worked for GPG on forged alliance than say I worked for EA on yet another bland sports title that no one could give a **** about.

 

[linkblade91]

I would like to think Blizzard is shameless, but it's just that they're way too good at sucking in people with their games.
Sadly, with the massive popularity of WoW, we may never see another RTS Warcraft...and once they make "World of Starcraft", it's all over...

 

[ComradeJim270]

Bethesda's treatment of Fallout fans seems kind of dickish to me. They kind of acted like all Fallout fans were lunatics, which is a bit like treating all Italians as Mafioso. But that's not when I started to dislike them... that happened when I bought a game that was supposed to be Morrowind with an extra helping of awesome, and ended up having a dumbed-down, far less awesome magic system (it lost as much as it gained, at least), AI that is still the butt of jokes, bland environments, awful and repetitive voice acting, ridiculous scaled loot and enemies, atrocious pacing, and underwhelming combat.

This is also the time I stopped trusting professional reviewers, and became VERY cynical and skeptical about everything I hear about any unreleased game. All successful developers hype things up to some extent, but BULLSHIT on that scale and that level is a dick move in my book. At least with Peter Molyneaux, people know to expect it.

Now you may wonder what being a dick has to do with being shameless... well, they did it for money. Figure it out.

 

[Azure-Supernova]

I'm gonna say CAPCOM, for the heaping mass of diluted crap they made RE5 into. Since Leon hit popularity with the 13 year old girls in RE4, CAPCOM been going for a target market and they aren't the people who cherish the heaping mass of tank controls and bad scripts from the classics!

 

[Nazulu]

Nintendo with a lot of their poor quality games they made ever since the Wii was released. Also the internet connection is shocking and the extra crap for the controls to make it 'work better' for some games is ridiculous.