Poll: Which Company holds the title of "Biggest Bunch of Pricks in the Business"?

[xPixelatedx]

My vote is for Rare. If a company wants to make social schlock that is fine by me, but don't take all your franchises into the grave with you. You ******s killed Banjo, Conker, The real Goldeneye, Killer Instinct etc. etc. etc.

It's like you hate joy.

 

[floppylobster]

EA have to win just because they've been dicks for so long now. They've been dicks since way before everyone else started becoming dicks.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Depends on what burns your biscuits more: management, business policies, or DRM, as well as your knowledge of recent events (in fact very recent, the games industry has long term memory loss). Personally I see each of the publishers as a big machine with gears that work independently so the mistakes they make are not "this company fails" but "a gear in this company fails." I'm not going to blame the whole company and condemn them all for a mistake when the company is essentially a black box full of variables. As such, I have a hard time working up much long term ire for companies. I do think people tend to hate on EA more in a general sense as that's where people tend to lobe criticism first so I think that that central focus and reactive earns them the award.

 

[Monkeyman O'Brien]

To me it comes down to EA or Ubisoft.
EA tends to buy good studios and runs them into the ground.
Ubisoft just releases shitty games that are DRMed to fuck and are borderline unplayable.

But. EA ruined Mass Effect so I am going to have to pick EA. I still reallllly hate Ubisoft though.
Activision do seem the douchiest but they are just assholes, they don't really fuck up games that badly. They just piss everyone off.

But I voted for EA because they have this in the Origin FAQ:

Q: What happens if EA goes out of business?
A: Origin is powered by EA, the leading publisher of the world's best games, and we're not going away anytime soon.

>.>

1) HAHAHAHAHA!!! No EA, just no.
2) Someone needs to look up this little thing called the Titanic.

 

[Ix Rebound]

defenitly Ea because of their bloody online passes,
I bought $35 worth of dlc and now they want me to buy an online pass just so i can use them!
Fuck you EA!

 

[V da Mighty Taco]

The MPAA and RIAA. Complete monsters who regularly screw over artists / devs / film-makers, waged war against VCR, and now is waging war against the Internet all out of greed and ignorance. Just go to Wikipedia and look at all the stupid bullsh*t they've been doing for decades now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America

Sorry to say this, but compared to these *ssholes the Big 3 publishers are angels.

 

[Oly J]

I chose EA, they seem to have this tendancy to horde everything, has anyone ever seen a movie tie-in game that wasn't owned by EA? because I haven't consequently has anybody seen a movie tie-in game that was any good since LOTR? because I haven't (I'll just clarify that games based on different parts of a movies universe (such as KOTOR and LOTR online) don't necessarily count)

what I mean by movie tie-in game is a game based solely on the story of a movie

of course that's just my opinion, also the online passes thing...shame on you EA! also closing down so many smaller studios...you're choking the industry EA....well I can only think of one studio at present (pandemic studios) but I'm sure there are more of them

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

Activision are just businessmen doing what businessmen do.

Ubisoft are idiot children who don't know what they're doong.

But EA...EA is after your soul.

 

[Pinhead Larry]

My vote is for Rare. If a company wants to make social schlock that is fine by me, but don't take all your franchises into the grave with you. You ******s killed Banjo, Conker, The real Goldeneye, Killer Instinct etc. etc. etc.

It's like you hate joy.

I can't believe it took so long for someone to say this. I bought an Xbox for Kamei, Perfect Dark and Viva Piñata. Now Microsoft are having them make Kinect motherfucking Sports 2? Stay innovative guys! It's all well saying "we want to make VP3/Banjo 4/Killstinct sequel", but why don't you? Kinect Sports is hardly lighting the world on fire.

Fuck Microsoft. They take my £40 a year, they wank over a perfectly fine interface annually (dashboard :[[), charge obnoxious amounts of money for Points that you need a spreadsheet to really understand and stifle all creativity in their subsidiaries.

 

[WaffleCopters]

I say blizzard a big prick cause they have such awesome stories in their games (or at least they DID at some point) had the money, and the peoplepower, and they choose to think on making a WARCRAFT movie....

 

[Mr. Omega]

EA. Fuck online passes, fuck day one dlc.

As an honorable mention, I'm going to say Valve. They've turned TF2 into a promotional whore, they charge obscene amounts of money for glorified skins (no other company would ever get away with what Valve pulled on the Valentines Day update), have a system in place to screw over anyone who doesn't go directly to the shop (crates), and even put a hat store in a game that had no business with hats (Portal 2).

I'm calling it now: Counter Strike GO will have hats. I will eat a hat if CS:GO doesn't have some form of store in it.

 

[Dandark]

I just came here from a Ubisoft hate topic so I voted for them straight away. It's a very tough choice though. Activision haven't really done anything that effects me and although they are dicks, the only thing Capcom have done to annoy me is not add Akrid hunter to lost planet 2.

So for me it is between Ubisoft and EA. It's a hard choice to make but I am going to have to go with EA. I voted Ubisoft but I think i'd agree with those who vote EA.

Also those who think Valve is the worst. Really? I mean really? I know it's cool to hate Valve since everybody worships then and all but come one. They are not as bad as EA or Ubisoft.

 

[Tiswas]

Bethesda. Constantly releasing broken games and then laughing when people expect them to fix the damn things.

 

[Bvenged]

Three different flavors of awful, just can't choose.

EA just needs to be a little more off centre, towards the top right; but still equal distance for Activision and Ubi. Capcom needs to be above Ubi, but a little more further along incompetence.

Doesn't anyone see Bethesda on that list? No? How about the chart? Still no? I wonder why? And how successful are they? How much do consumers hate them? How much DRM, 1-use codes, shovelware, disc-locked content or day-one DLC do they use?
Seems like some publishers need to learn a few lessons from Bethesda.

 

[Yopaz]

Three different flavors of awful, just can't choose.

I think Ubisoft is greedier than that, otherwise it seems fairly accurate.

I voted Ubisoft for their DRM and their utter stupidity when it comes to addressing complaints over it. Telling their customer that it's their fault for not buying their games. Saying they don't like making games for PC because all PC gamers are pirates. You handle your DRM and server transfers by distilling stupidity and getting awesome concentrations and purity levels, but that is nothing compared to how you handle those who are still willing to take your abuse because your games are decent. Ubisoft, you got my personal award for biggest douche in the universe.

 

[teqrevisited]

ActiBlizz for their sheer laziness and greed. I'm not just talking about the usual Call of CTRL+V on the part of Activision, I'm on about all of the things Blizzard cut from WoW and how they did the least possible work to appease their subscribers. That's not even mentioning the significant additional fees for trivial services such as server transfer or name change.

If I had more experience with Ubisoft I'd be inclined to vote for them instead. Their DRM is the sole reason that I refuse to even try Anno 2070.

 

[Meight08]

Bethesda. Constantly releasing broken games and then laughing when people expect them to fix the damn things.

You are just jumping on the band wagon i had more bugs in mass effect 2 than in all bethesda games i played put together.

ot:I must say activision for their milking and killing of blizzard.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

EA for their horrible, borderline flame bait advertising.

I almost missed out of Bulletstorm, Dead Space 2, and BF3 because if their awful advertising turning me off. Taking out ad space to say how much better your game is than the competitions isn't funny or clever, it's just desperate.