What do you think developers are best at?

[gigastar]

Pretty much as the title says, really, but i will elaborate.

Now its not hard to notice that the works of two different game developers are completely different. But I want to know who you think is best at what and if possible why.

Obviously it doesnt have to be a best at good things. Also dont slam a developer if you dont play thier games. This is a nice and well meaning thread.

-Valve, best at screwing with thier community and best post release support for thier titles.
-Bioware, best story, natrually.
-Capcom, best developer of fighting games.
-Ubisoft, best at ruining franchises. Most of us should remember a game called Rayman, before it turned into Raving Rabbids.
-Electronic Arts (specifically EA Sports), best at reproducing the same game over and over.
-Bungie, best at producing a community of castrated 12 year olds with voices that only come in 'scream' variety.
-Microsoft, best at parting people from thier cash. Personally im immune to it.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Valve - procrastinating

Infinity Ward - imploding

Bungie - repeating

Gearbox - resurrecting

Lionhead - out-of-arse talking

Obsidian - under-developing

Bethesda - building

Ubisoft - policing

Treyarch - following

Bioware - listening

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

Fucking around, all of them, all the time.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Pretty much this. Except you forgot Blizzard - delaying.

I'd more go for Blizzard - crack dealing

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Pretty much this. Except you forgot Blizzard - delaying.

I'd more go for Blizzard - crack dealing

Since WoW maybe, but that was one game of many. Ironically, it was the one game they forced out the door quickly to save Vivendi's ass. The rest were delayed for polish at least once.

Oh really? REALLY?!!

YOU try telling that to the millions of abandoned WOW wives and children then!!!

I'm kidding, just kidding.

[small]wow is pretty evil though[/small]

 

[Radeonx]

Being underpayed and harshly scrutinized for not following a 15 year old's release dates seems to be a specialty for quite a few developers.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Pretty much this. Except you forgot Blizzard - delaying.

I'd more go for Blizzard - crack dealing

Since WoW maybe, but that was one game of many. Ironically, it was the one game they forced out the door quickly to save Vivendi's ass. The rest were delayed for polish at least once.

Oh really? REALLY?!!

YOU try telling that to the millions of abandoned WOW wives and children then!!!

I'm kidding, just kidding.

[small]wow is pretty evil though[/small]

Hey, they abandoned the Warcraft universe nerds by distorting and killing all the good lore, too! Don't forget about them!

*Sob.*

There there.... [gives bro-hug while stealthily stealing your wallet to pay for WOW subscription]

 

[Chibz]

Since WoW maybe, but that was one game of many. Ironically, it was the one game they forced out the door quickly to save Vivendi's ass. The rest were delayed for polish at least once.

Yeah. Clearly a relatively small corporation that owns only a few intellectual properties saved the ass of a Fuckin' HUGE international conglomerate. One that is making a boatload of money in music, television, film, book publishing and more. You know, the one that pretty much arranged the merger between Blizzard and Activision.

Yeah. You have no idea how stupid that statement is.