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

[GoGoFrenzy]

If we are counting publishers: EA and Activision

If devs: Bioware and Infinity Ward

All the stupid overpriced dlc/map packs for all. Also let's not forget shutting down servers or ruining existing franchises with piss poor writing revamps as individual examples.

 

[lacktheknack]

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y126/Connieboy/Ubisoft.jpg

Ubisoft, for starting this whole bloody mess.

 

[Nadia Castle]

Silicon Knights, sitting on top of the Eternal Darkness and Legacy of Kane series whilst spewing out awful games like Too Human and X-men then suing Epic as an excuse for how lousy they were, not to mention accepting massive financial help from the government then loosing more staff than they ever hired.I loved Eternal Darkness and all but a couple of great games in your resume doesn't let you just churn out crap with no end. If their not the most evil their defiantly the biggest idiots.

Also Sega for not releasing Valkyria Chronicles 3 in English but now I'm just being petty....

 

[Mikeyfell]

I think you mean publishers
Developers aren't evil, I think that if it were up to developers all games would be better and cheaper.

But it's publishers like Activision that makes developers release the same game over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
or Ubisoft that force developers to release unfinished games and sell the rest as DLC.
Or EA who make developers do both of those things.

All publishers want to do is sell copies, which might conflict with the developers who want to make games.

So when you have Valve who is their own publisher you get awesome games like Portal and Left 4 Dead and Half Life. then you also get the negative side of being a publisher who cares about quality control and sometimes games get lost in an endless cycle of trying to get it perfect.

If Valve was part of a major publisher we'd have episode 3 by now and it would suck.
So take what you get.

 

[Enthuril]

It's interesting how many people opened this thread just to see Karutomaru and his Ubisoft hate.

More on-topic though I agree with all the people saying Activision and EA, though I'd say that in some ways Capcom are worse than them. Because, you know, releasing another edition of the same game with extra stuff a few months down the line and not releasing the extra content as DLC as well forcing the players to buy the same game again is really an intelligent and kind business practice.

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

I'd say Blizz assuming I don't get full offline single player for D3 by the time servers shut down.

They still run Diablo IIs servers so you've got long enough to enjoy the damn game.

 

[Leoofmoon]

Maxis.
snip for the sake of your very soul

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...

meanwhile at EA

Welp I don't wanna be on this planet any more*cocks a shotgun*

 

[Wintermoot]

this has even more flame potential then high-octane napalm!
EA
*Repeating the same game or series to make lots of monies
EA sports
*Not delivering what was promised
ME3 got allot of flak for this
*Unnecessary sequels to what could have been DLC
again EA sports it,s just a roster update
*Convoluted non-functioning DRM
Spore and by sort-off extension Origin

there is also stuff not on your list that would put EA in a bad light
EA just has a big bullseye painted on their back just for threads like these

 

[BlackStar42]

and this

Stars and stones, what the hell is with her face?! Those creepy, soulless eyes and that plastic skin...

 

[SeeIn2D]

I hate hate hate Nintendo. Nintendo are the biggest culprits of "Hm this new game seems surprisingly reminiscent of Game1 Game2 and Game3, also Games4, 5, and 6". I honestly despise them. I like a few series' namely being Pokémon, and that's about it, but I honestly have no time for Mario, Zelda, or any of their other games that they've been retooling with slightly better graphics and different controller schemes (sometimes) since the 80s.

I also have absolutely no time for Activision or EA even though they're publishers not developers. EAs servers are the absolute most rage inducing things you can deal with. I hate their servers with a passion. They are so buggy and glitchy that I really don't want to play any EA games online. And Activision is just a piece of shit all around with their constant pressing of developers to put out games as fast as possible, and then when the games are flawed the developers have to go through months and months of fighting with Activision to be allowed to fix the game.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

Ubisoft, Electronic Arts & LionHead, soooooooooooooooo buggy. End of, good bye, see ya'll later.

 

[Aprilgold]

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.

I don't understand why everyone hates on Pepsi, they made the best drink ever in my mind yet that is my opinion therefore it is not truth.

People hate Ubisoft because they implement bad DRM that does nothing.

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The dudes who made the school shooting RPG. Or Ethnic Cleansing.

 

[Enthuril]

No. Nooooooo. I don't even know what DRM is. I hate Ubisoft for all the garbage they shovel out every year with no respect or regards to their potential customers.

You don't know what DRM is? That's kind of amazing considering how much of an issue within the games industry it's been in the past few years...

And I wouldn't say Ubisoft just shovel out garbage, the Assassins Creed series is good at least, and there's nothing wrong with Rayman.

 

[Hazy992]

You don't know what DRM is? That's kind of amazing considering how much of an issue within the games industry it's been in the past few years...

And I wouldn't say Ubisoft just shovel out garbage, the Assassins Creed series is good at least, and there's nothing wrong with Rayman.

He only plays on Nintendo and doesn't pay attention to what else happens in the industry.

Yes, there is something wrong with Rayman, and I have never played any Assasin's Creed game because it's buried under all the garbage Ubisoft releases.

What actually is it you don't like about Rayman?

 

[DigitalAtlas]

Capcom. They'll be forgiven when we see Mega Man Wii-U.

 

[Enthuril]

No. Nooooooo. I don't even know what DRM is. I hate Ubisoft for all the garbage they shovel out every year with no respect or regards to their potential customers.

You don't know what DRM is? That's kind of amazing considering how much of an issue within the games industry it's been in the past few years...

And I wouldn't say Ubisoft just shovel out garbage, the Assassins Creed series is good at least, and there's nothing wrong with Rayman.

Yes, there is something wrong with Rayman, and I have never played any Assasin's Creed game because it's buried under all the garbage Ubisoft releases.

What exactly is wrong with Rayman? They've all been enjoyable releases so far, and even the Raving Rabbids games have something that's fun for a few hours. And you can hardly complain that all the titles Ubisoft have released are garbage if you can't be bothered to actually look at them for more than 5 seconds.

You don't know what DRM is? That's kind of amazing considering how much of an issue within the games industry it's been in the past few years...

And I wouldn't say Ubisoft just shovel out garbage, the Assassins Creed series is good at least, and there's nothing wrong with Rayman.

He only plays on Nintendo and doesn't pay attention to what else happens in the industry.

Yes, there is something wrong with Rayman, and I have never played any Assasin's Creed game because it's buried under all the garbage Ubisoft releases.

What actually is it you don't like about Rayman?

I know, but I can dream of a better response than that...

 

[Hazy992]

It gave me little motivation to play it, it had no story whatsoever, it hardly lasted a few days, and overall it felt like a downloadable title they sold at full price. What greedy corporate shithead would-
OH WAIT!!!!

I'll admit $60 was too much of a price but it's not like something like New Super Mario Bros. really offers anything more in terms of story and gameplay. A game doesn't need a deep story to be good.

 

[Hazy992]

I know, but I can dream of a better response than that...

You'll be waiting a long time if that's the case

 

[Kathinka]

valve, for creating the abomination that is steam, and tricking people into sheepishly defending them for it with shrewed buisenes pratices.

 

[Dangit2019]

I know it's trite, but Ubisoft and Blizzard both deserve the guillotine for DRM (or whatever the hell Blizzard calls their DRM-clone).