The 'which developer is most evil >:D' thread

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Bioware...yeah you know...

(No seriously, then they bring up f***ing entitlement issues and creative integrity and that sort of s***, that's the main thing that gets them my vote)

(Although I realise most of them didn't make that decision, just the bag of dicks in charge)

Actually no, I give my vote to FROM Software. Because a little-known game that I adore, Armored Core V, has been rendered practically unplayable outside of Japan because they region-locked the discs for some stupid reason. The persistent territory system requires a large amount of players to enable teams to defend their territories. Japan is the only region with a high enough playerbase to make it work. Everywhere else, boosting is rife (a team organises a subset of itself to intentionally lose), and I've waited literally for hours to even get a Free Battle, let alone a Ranked one. I wouldn't be underestimating in saying that less than 50 people (that's being generous from what I've seen) actively play in the EU region (which Australia is part of). It's like they took their pitiful loyal playerbase and put it through a shredder.

...then put most of the shreds in the same bin...or something.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

You should have a poll with only two options.

EA or Activision.

Captcha: Silver Lining

 

[lukey94]

I have a rather large disdain towards Oddworld Inhabitants, purely because they said there would be more games after Stranger's Wrath .... AND THEN THERE WASN'T! They killed my childhood when they just disappeared

Evil publisher used to be EA in my opinion, but now it's Ubisoft, me and my brother got AC2:Revelations, but only he can play online because the online pass is linked to PSN accounts, rather than the PS3, at least EA's online pass is for the console, not the account. Also I downloaded From Dust on Steam a few months ago, and not only does it then launch the UPLAY DRM, I have to sign up another UPLAY account because my PS3 account won't work with the PS3 DRM apparently

 

[370999]

Inb4 Karutomaru and Ubisoft hate.

Capcom are evil.

They are evil for making me put so much time into UMvC3.

[HEADING=1]I just can't quit you Vergil! You make me so motivated![/HEADING]

Capcom doesn't care about Profit! They are busy making games for the Wii. Sssh they are.

 

[Furioso]

Maxis.


and this

Wait wait wait does that actually exist? I saw that pic before and I thought it was a joke!

OT: Microsoft for curb stomping Rare into making Kinect Sports and other certain embarrassments...

 

[EternalFacepalm]

I really don't understand why everyone hates Ubisoft. They've made some of the best games I've ever played, in my opinion at least. But I haven't played a lot of their games, so that might be the reason... But the most evil? I would say Blizzard. Because the amount of hours people have lost to WoW, could have been used to cure cancer, or something productive like that.

Always-online DRM. There's your reason.

OT: Blizzard. Blizzard so much, for reasons so blatantly obvious.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Blizzard. Definitely Blizzard. Because? Just about everything they have pulled over the years.

I was toying with it in my head, and I think I have to agree, as some developers are also the publishers and also own other smaller developers, I wasn't quite sure who to be pissed at for what...

But over the years, blizzard takes the cake I think.

sad thing is, they get away with it for the most part, they can leech off of the monster that is WoW.

 

[tarahiro]

EA. I shouldn't need to say more on that

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

How has nobody mentioned Zynga yet?

Wasn't that a big issue a while back?

IE, how they treat their employees and the shifty ways they bring customers to play their games?

 

[Fappy]

If we're going with publishers? Well I don't know. I suppose we could find out if we threw the CEOs of Activision and EA into a pit with a sharp piece of rebar and promised that if one killed the other they'd get a dollar.

 

[ratman995]

Maxis.


and this

Maxis as long since stopped making the sims, its one of those EA production companies. Maxis still gets my vote for the disappointment they have and will bring (sim city societies, spore, etc) and that they stop giving crazy claims for me to get hyped about.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

EA and Capcom are really high up there in terms of evil but Blizzard seems to be well on it's way. Valve fits in just for its massive torturing of it's fans with keeping Half Life 3 away from us for no reason.