Times when you've wanted to slap a developer/publisher across the face?

[Saelune]

Infinity Ward for their blatant disregard for blatant hacking/glitching/cheating. The leaderboards for MW2 are a goto list of people who should be banned.
Also:
Activision, EA, Sony and Ubisoft for all the stupid things they say and do. (Greed, interference, ego, and DRM respectively)

 

[an_luas]

Randy Pitchford just for working at Gearbox. His "creative" ideas make their games rubbish in the end.

 

[Armored Prayer]

Epic Games because I fucking hate store exclusive DLC and their doing this for Gears 3.

I don't want to buy the game 4 times for all the bonuses.

 

[skywalkerlion]

* Activision. They seem to have a real stigma against PC Gamers from what I've seen. Specifically, their Downloadable Content policy. Looking around on Steam, CoD: WaW had NO Map Packs released, while it's console cousins had somewhere around 3 or 4. But it's not just CoD I've noticed - none of the DLC for Transformers: War for Cybertron (which Activision published) has made it's way to PC either. So if you want some cool new maps for Escalation, or to play as Shockwave or Jazz, you better have a Console sat around somewhere...

I'm pretty sure that the Map packs for Call of Duty World at War come with the patches for free. Here's some articles that came up when I googled "World at War PC map packs":

Spoiler

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/10/call-of-duty-world-at-war-map-pack-coming-in-march/
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/07/12/next-world-at-war-pc-patch-adds-map-pack-2/
http://pc.ign.com/articles/101/1014470p1.html

For me it's Bioware for the monstrosity of Dragon Age 2, EA for having THE worst servers I've ever seen, and Infinity Ward for not giving half a shit about the hacks that go on in their games. You cannot join a MW2 or CoD4 lobby without it being hacked and constantly having some prick's youtube channel or hacking website completely covering the top left hand corner of the screen.

 

[TrevHead]

I think Capcom have to be on top of everybodies hit list. It seems that every week were reading about Capcom doing something dumb.

EA / Bioware for introducing the conversation wheel which splits all the answers into good and evil. Having that no brain system takes away half the fun.

Been a PC gamer there is allot of companies that need a good kicking so its more of a case of who doesnt deserve slapping.

Just finding out that Ubisoft is making a comback with their DRM puts them high on my hitlist atm.

 

[Sir Shockwave]

I'm pretty sure that the Map packs for Call of Duty World at War come with the patches for free. Here's some articles that came up when I googled "World at War PC map packs"

I admit I've not really played CoD on the PC (but had some experience on the 360, and for the record I only really play it for the Zombies, and even then I can think of better shooters...at least that's where I stand on it) and apologize for possibly jumping the gun a little. I am mostly here going by Steam and what they sell on it, of which they do the DLC for Black Ops, but I always thought it was odd that the DLC for WaW was never on sale.

Admittedly, this irks me off more with War for Cybertron - the DLC released to the 360 and PS3 is up and avalible, and yet at this point in time, Activision haven't released it for us PC Gamers. Personally, I think it's a sign of Activision looking at PC Gamers as Second Class Citizens, but that's just me.

 

[sabercrusader]

not really a Publisher or a Developer but I always wanted to slap whoever thought that putting one analog stick on the PSP was a good idea.

 

[Theo Rob]

Square-enix, Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2, They recognise that people didn't like it (see the Escapist news) and say they are improving it...so they make a sequel to the game that they know hardly anyone finished becuase it was terrible.

That just makes no sense.

oh it gets worse! at the moment the only change to the so-called "new battle system" i see is FREAKING QUICK TIME EVENTS!

OT: atlus and branpresto- localize the super robot wars OGS and gaiden already! (no licensed animes=fewer probs right? )
capcom- nuking megaman and darkstalkers, at least there asuras wrath to calm be down
koei- no matter how good dynasty warriors 7 and gundam 3 were you still need a slap for dw6

 

[dalek sec]

Capcom for giving us that "helpful" AI partner in Resident evil 5 and making Lost Planet 2 a game in which you really need a second player to help you out. Did we really need some brain dead partner trying to "help" us out? She wasted all her pistol ammo, used major healing items for minor wounds and just made things worse than they were. D:

 

[Theo Rob]

Square-enix, Final Fantasy XIII and XIII-2, They recognise that people didn't like it (see the Escapist news) and say they are improving it...so they make a sequel to the game that they know hardly anyone finished becuase it was terrible.

That just makes no sense.

OT: atlus and branpresto- localize the super robot wars OGS and gaiden already! (no licensed animes=fewer probs right? )

The sales of the first two were horrible, so I doubt that they'll localize Gaiden. They may bring OGs 2 and EXCEED outside of Japan, though.

i ways forget about the sales part of the deal
thanks for the reminder
as for EXEED im wishing for that as well