some companies
I think you're too focused on the PC Market because Gameloft are some really evil MoFos!
They got to the top of the mobile market by copying ideas from the pc market and ruthlessly pushing and exploiting their employees who are getting almost no sleep. And everytime they release another Asphalt Call of Battlefield they patch the last one to a broken or imbalanced state to make you buy the new one. It's easily traceable if you check the reviews on app stores. And of course they try to tap your wallet with paymium/freemium blowfish but that is common courtesy on the mobile market. Yeah EA is still a greedy megacorp who values money before their customers but Gameloft man, they are like EA's Sith apprentice and twice as evil!
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Look, if we would really want to dig deep, we could talk about the shovelware exploitation small-time scam companies that plague the casual PC market since the early 90s and continue to thrive under different names but often with the same management to this day. Greenlight, as bad as it is, is an escape route for all the devs who were already <censored> in the <censored> way too many times by people like this.
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Gameloft, founded and owned by former Ubisoft folk.
And pretty much "Ubisoft for Mobile" without being part of the same financial organization.
So... Ubi's more evil twin ?
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Looks like it: Link
Then again, poor working conditions seem to be an industry wide problem. As everything, making games is business thus it's saddening but unsurprising to watch the same principles apply.
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Most of them a are pretty bad.. Konomi for Slave Labor.. UBISoft for Udon't play..
But worst of all is still EA...
IT ruin lifes and kills small inventive company with their money .. I will hate them forever..
They don't even release ME3 on steam because they want use origin to takeover steam and then jack price to rip us off.
I like Valve.. but where is my Half life 3!!!
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Origin donwload speed are terrible slow, i know, i know many of you are going to tell me : Hey man check your connection/ISP, but STEAM works perfectly, downloading at fulll bandwith (available). Also i hate EA cos' they ruin many of my beloved franchised like Command & Conquer. And the worst ..... THEY KILL Shepard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW this is just for fun but ..... there're real "Evil" companies out there doing really wrong things, like weapons,dump toxic waste or contamining our planet.
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EA its not so bad, BF4 players got free DLC recently, and Origin is pretty good, has better prices than Steam, at least for my region, Ubisoft is not evil they are just incompetent, but they have some creative mids arount there somewhere.
Konami on the other had are just a bunch of a*holes, who just want to milk the few know names they have. Just look at this not a single care was given...
Also why is VALVe there??? they dont make games... hayoooooooo
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My vote would go to Data Design Interactive for straight up releasing garbage games. They literally retextured one of their games and released it as a total new game. Luckily, they suck so much they don't really have an impact on the gaming industry so no one really cares about them (as it should be).
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Well, despite the shitstorm it caused in overall game design quality, you have to give them that: CoD essentially revolutionised the FPS genre and opened it up more than ever. The price was undoubtedly too high, but they did something that wasn't utterly bad. (Frankly, the single player modes are better action movies than anything the movie industry produced in the past decade.)
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Indeed, I forgot to take that in consideration. Still, after the first Modern Warfare or maybe World at War, none of the following CoD titles were exceptionally revolutionary to their respective years.
At least they had the decency of making their microtransactions purely cosmetic, when they added it in Black Ops 2. But still screws completionist whores like me. lol
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the one time i had a problem with UPlay i called their support (Steam doesn't even have phone support) and the guy was very friendly and could help me immediately (try getting help from Steam support within minutes, lol).
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EA milked so many franchises, killed so many studios and my experience with their support was the worst I had in my life. I don't buy anything of them since 2010. EA earned a "NO" that will last at least 10 years.
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You'd be surprised by them then. They are like Valve/Steam was in 2010. Heck, the way Origin improved, I'd say it is a better gaming client now than Steam itself. And EA support is almost legendarily good now.
I know it is hard to believe, I didn't believe it myself, but despite their fuck-ups (which have also decreased slowly, but still exist), they are a better company.
Then, of course, they do things like this recent Star Wars blunder…
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For what they did it isn't enough to be nice for a short period.
Assuming I believe you, I would be afraid that they become bad again as soon as the players returned.
A list that bothered me or even hit me directly:
And that are only those I remember of instantly without thinking about it.
They can't fix it by being nice for now, they need to be nice for a long time until I will put my hands on their games again.
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I can understand. As I said, they do have their fuck-ups still and release games that are worthy of the rage of the gaming community. Still, I would honestly put them now lower on the "terrible" chart than Capcom, Bethesda, UbiSoft, maybe even Activision and Sony. For example, EA didn't let hackers get the personal + credit card information of their user base and offer a cheap game as a compensation but only if you accept a contract that you won't hold them responsible.
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I don't use much credit cards. It is unusual to use them here, (I always use prepaid cards if possible). But I see what you mean. Yeah, I encountered those PSN attacks too as I love to play Gran Turismo. It is a bad thing that such things happens. Personal info has a great value and most people sadly don't recognise this. Every system can be hacked but Sony got hacked so many times in a short time period...
As I said I read the ToS of BF3 back then. To make it short: You basically allow EA to look at your whole computer, processes and files. They can do with the info what they want to. Everything masked behind that security argument blabla. That is why I first cleaned my computer from everything before I even dared to install BF3. Initially you could block Origin transmitting those data but someday a patch came where that wasn't possible anymore.
What I mean is: The one got hacked multiple times, the other spies on you legally and could sell the info if they want to. Great options...
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Well, welcome to the modern day of video games. Not that older companies were better (I honestly think even these things are better than what those immoral slave-drivers did in the eighties and early nineties), it's just a different kind of bad now, thanks to the technological advancements.
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I hope the future won't be like in Remember Me. :-S
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Rockstar, because I still wait for a sequel for Bully. :(
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I don't know about you, but I think Valve is pretty evil.
Having a 8 person team for one of their most played games (CS:GO), small team overall, which leads to horrible Steam support, massive delays for crucial necessary updates (sometimes they don't even release it), they don't talk to the community, their PR is non-existent, and they're much efficient when releasing updates that generates money to them (cases, skins, operations, stickers, etc), while forgetting about game-breaking issues...
Valve is just a massive money eater monster, that happens to release some stuff we love.
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There isn't... there are multiple other Online Platforms (GOG, Desura, Origin) and On-line shooters (Over watch, COD, Quake Live)
One persons product being more successful than the other isn't a monopoly.
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Indie developers who put out shit and then try and censor reviewers with Take Down notices and stuff. (you can tell I run a website). Saying companies are evil just for business decisions you don't agree with is a bit silly. If people didn't still buy the games, they wouldn't make money so they would change their practices. The consumer is as much to blame for some of these things as the companies. Any company with shareholders must follow the bottom line or they simply would not be able to continue trading.
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I'm torn apart between EA and Activision, but probably EA, yeah, EA mostly...
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