In the wake of persistent fails

Any publishers or developers you don't loathe?

Bethesda good content? Decent platform yes... Content no.

Also The Evil Within was horrible in launch state. With very stupid issues...

Skyrim on PS3 had a lot of issues

Somehow I knew that this thread would quickly become a criticism of the companies I listed.

Does anyone have a company they think has a positive (not perfect... no such thing) record overall?

Paradox (both as a publisher and a developer)
Obsidian (as devs)

BTW Bethesda sucks. After Morrowind, everything they developed needs hundreds of mods/fixes to be barely enjoyable/playable

CD Projekt is definitely a good company. Cares a lot about the fans. I guess that's it when it comes to companies creating AAA games.

And some indie companies - Artifex Mundi and Wadjet Eye Games.

Nintendo FTW.

i'm currently fine with 2K ...
Konami too, even if they milk people with PES every year.
not Capcom, fuck them.
CD Projeckt Red
Paradox
Valve
Obsidian
Platinum
Rocksteady
Behtesda is not perfect, but i don't want to set them on fire yet. at least as publishers.

Vblank and Retro City Rampage. Never any problems with the game and every update added more content.

One update added mods, cards, and now the DX update added new gameplay balances, free of charge (unlike Capcom's Ultra Street Fighter 4).

No publisher gets away with anything.

Except maybe Nintendo.

first of all rockstar games i love that company then cd project

It's All Relative.

Btw everyone hates UBI, am i wrong ?

It doesn't help that it's too easy to rush something out the door by a nice date then fix the rest of it. (Either intentional or the devs being rushed by Pointy Haired suits)

Well I'm all about Bethesda games (especially TES/Fallout) but they aren't really famous of pushing out decent content. Their sandbox games are more like "frameworks" for modders to create amazing things. Also Skyrim, FNV were notoriously riddled with bugs, I remember when I played the Dragonborn DLC right after buying it and the final epic bossfight bugged out so bad that I had to skip the whole scene via console commands. So nope. What I like about Bethesda the most is that they don't sell 50 pieces of nonsense micro DLCs (yea looking at you Crusader Kings II or Borderlands 2) although they had their controversy with the hilarious horse-armor dlc for Oblivion.

Firaxis games are also quite buggy, and I don't like the new CIV practice - pushing out half-baked barebones game and releasing interesting features as "expansions".

Bethesda is knows as Bugthesda for a reason (and when they are only a publishers (aka it's not Elder Scrolls nor Fallout), that's when real fun-with-bugs-etc starts :( ).

Firaxis tends to release product with issues that are fixed in DLCs - happened in Civilization 5, happened with Xcom, probably will happen with Beyond Earth ;) - so unless I see some price bug I'm not buying any of their games until they announce Complete Edition, or sequel - which means they are done with current game.

DLCs really broke AAA gaming for me, so I really can't say which publishers are good :)

For a developer, i'm surprised that Supergiant Games hasn't been mentioned for Bastion.