Poll: If you hate X game Company so much
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Mainly to keep playing with friends. The games themselves aren't too bad in all honesty, this may just be rose tinted glasses from seeing so many shitty games that CoD and BF get extra bumps up the playability ladder when games you'd rather play fizzle out.
New Front mission game, what its going to be an action game.
Mercs 2 lets do this, jk you were made of ass.
FF13, your first attack option is auto, fire who decided this.
RE5 , what a bloody play it safe do nothing cash in on re4.
Medal of Honor, nuff said.
Red Faction guerrilla, face palm.
The bloat in the AAA games market where they can't innovate under risk of losing a whole development team, not realizing making games that don't shoot for "must have"
It is a vicious cycle balanced in the hands the overworked taken to 11, overseen by assholes who just want to own IP's put them in the vault so no one else can have them, while being balanced on a razor thin budget that could kill the whole thing in an instant.
Would you work your job an extra 40+hours a week for free because someone called crunch and then after a while you get a pat on the back and a boot out the door? Nope, yet these people are those who make our games.
New Front mission game, what its going to be an action game.
Mercs 2 lets do this, jk you were made of ass.
FF13, your first attack option is auto, fire who decided this.
RE5 , what a bloody play it safe do nothing cash in on re4.
Medal of Honor, nuff said.
Red Faction guerrilla, face palm.
The bloat in the AAA games market where they can't innovate under risk of losing a whole development team, not realizing making games that don't shoot for "must have"
It is a vicious cycle balanced in the hands the overworked taken to 11, overseen by assholes who just want to own IP's put them in the vault so no one else can have them, while being balanced on a razor thin budget that could kill the whole thing in an instant.
Would you work your job an extra 40+hours a week for free because someone called crunch and then after a while you get a pat on the back and a boot out the door? Nope, yet these people are those who make our games.
Activision, I do not buy (unless second hand muhahaha).
EA I buy unless Origin is required...
I love Battlefield... I loved Bad company 2 and I do not own battlefield 3. Do not own.
I will buy Mass Effect 3 if it releases on Steam. Else no. I will not buy it... I will not buy it... I will not buy it... I will not buy it...
EA I buy unless Origin is required...
I love Battlefield... I loved Bad company 2 and I do not own battlefield 3. Do not own.
I will buy Mass Effect 3 if it releases on Steam. Else no. I will not buy it... I will not buy it... I will not buy it... I will not buy it...
Because it's usually the publisher I don't like not the developer. No real way of supporting one without the other
I boycott Activision because they are a bit too "evil" and way too expensive and I boycott Ubisoft because their PC division is a bit too stupid. If I see a game I really really want, Anno 2070 for example, and then realise that the little box on Steam has words like "Ubisoft", "Solidshield Tages SAS" and "3 machine activation" limit I simply don't buy it. I neither can or want to support those two companies so I don't buy their games. I really really want Anno 2070. It's gorgeous! But I'll never get it. Unless it's 5 euros on Steam, then I might cave to it's glory.
I'm warming up towards EA because they really do publish a lot of good games and are generally not being dicks, IMO, but the whole "log" system they use for online activation makes sure I automatically thinks twice before I spend money on their games. But I can tolerate the whole log business if the game looks good enough.
Sometimes it seems that Paradox Interactive is the only large publisher that has any love for PC games with a little complexity (and thus often longevity). I buy mediocre games from them with a smile.
All this have lead to my Steam account being full of mediocre indie games with a few very solid gems but at least I still have my pride for not just bending over and taking it from faceless corporations.
If any Ubi or Acti representatives should read this, I have money to spend and I want to spend them on games. Start selling some fucking decent products and stop being ass holes about your business.
And yes I am a bit of a niche gamer but the games I want aren't exactly expensive to make. Magicka, Mount & Blade, Cities XL (more citybuilders, please!), Kerbal Space Program are all cheap games but they are still more fun to play than this months multimillion dollar budget AAA shooter/hack-n-slash action-rpg. [/rant]
I'm warming up towards EA because they really do publish a lot of good games and are generally not being dicks, IMO, but the whole "log" system they use for online activation makes sure I automatically thinks twice before I spend money on their games. But I can tolerate the whole log business if the game looks good enough.
Sometimes it seems that Paradox Interactive is the only large publisher that has any love for PC games with a little complexity (and thus often longevity). I buy mediocre games from them with a smile.
All this have lead to my Steam account being full of mediocre indie games with a few very solid gems but at least I still have my pride for not just bending over and taking it from faceless corporations.
If any Ubi or Acti representatives should read this, I have money to spend and I want to spend them on games. Start selling some fucking decent products and stop being ass holes about your business.
And yes I am a bit of a niche gamer but the games I want aren't exactly expensive to make. Magicka, Mount & Blade, Cities XL (more citybuilders, please!), Kerbal Space Program are all cheap games but they are still more fun to play than this months multimillion dollar budget AAA shooter/
All in all. I don't. I do buy AAA games on occasion and I'm not trying to be a hipster or anything but I prefer to buy games from smaller companies that wants my business. I just get easily bored with the shallowness of most modern games and gaming. Add a lot of bullshit on top and I just take my 40 or 50 euros elsewhere.
I don't "hate" X company. X company is pretty decent on the whole. However, I do disagree with some of the things X company has implemented, and I don't exactly like where that popular series X company made is going.
However, that new game X company made looks pretty cool. I want to play it.
However, that new game X company made looks pretty cool. I want to play it.
If I truly dont support a company i buy their games used. so i picked other. Simple enough end to not paying them for the game i want to play.
I don't.
It's not so much that I hate EA or Ubisoft or insert game company here; they just don't typically make games that I want to play. Example: I don't think I've ever bought a single EA game. In my life. (My sisters and my parents have bought various iterations and expansions of The Sims, but they don't keep up with gaming news.) To be fair, part of the reason I likely don't hate them may be because the Wii is my only current-gen console aside from my laptop (on which I have Steam for PC games), and therefore, I probably haven't experienced the apparent BS myself. So, what do I know?
I am a bit ticked off with Capcom lately, though, for cancelling (or just failing to translate) some of their Mega Man and Ace Attorney-related projects. We better be getting Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney, or I'll probably consider pawning my 3DS. Also, using the tsunami from last year as justification for why you had to release extra characters in MvC3 as a new disc instead of making DLC? I need to scrub my tongue with steel wool after the horrible taste that leaves. I haven't actually bought anything from Capcom since Ace Attorney Investigations, btw (I have Mega Man X Collection on my GameQ on Gamefly, but I don't know if that counts).
It's not so much that I hate EA or Ubisoft or insert game company here; they just don't typically make games that I want to play. Example: I don't think I've ever bought a single EA game. In my life. (My sisters and my parents have bought various iterations and expansions of The Sims, but they don't keep up with gaming news.) To be fair, part of the reason I likely don't hate them may be because the Wii is my only current-gen console aside from my laptop (on which I have Steam for PC games), and therefore, I probably haven't experienced the apparent BS myself. So, what do I know?
I am a bit ticked off with Capcom lately, though, for cancelling (or just failing to translate) some of their Mega Man and Ace Attorney-related projects. We better be getting Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney, or I'll probably consider pawning my 3DS. Also, using the tsunami from last year as justification for why you had to release extra characters in MvC3 as a new disc instead of making DLC? I need to scrub my tongue with steel wool after the horrible taste that leaves. I haven't actually bought anything from Capcom since Ace Attorney Investigations, btw (I have Mega Man X Collection on my GameQ on Gamefly, but I don't know if that counts).
Well if I'm burned enough by a company I don't. I don't buy Witcher 2 because of how sexist the first one was despite knowing that I will love it's gameplay. I also refuse to buy Final Fantasy 13-2 until I have seen player reception for it, same with Dragon Age 3.boag said:
If you are saying that people shouldn't criticise games companies for making bad games then you are wrong. Word of mouth can heavily influence games sales and it's one of the ways fans can influence games developers to up their game or give them what they actually want.
We aren't going to sit here demurely while they pump out shovelware and rushed games.
Publishers don't count for me, It's unfair on the developers like 38 Studios who, by their own admission, only used EA for funding matters. Things like online passes are often not even brought to their attention.
Case in point
http://forums.reckoning.amalur.com/showthread.php?3063-Did-you-push-back-at-EA-at-all-over-this-Quest-content-gated-by-online-pass.&s=2ba8c3194088140ce6161b0c374691f5&p=52812&viewfull=1#post52812
*shrug* I'm not American, and I'm inherently suspect of the real threat value of any legislation that has not yet been challenged in court. (My father was a city lawyer for many years. He says a law isn't "real" until it has been successfully implemented and defended in a real case.)boag said: