I lose faith in anything Microsoft touches:
- Bioware: no longer an RPG dev, now just a shooter dev (Dragon Age's mediocrity should be an indication of how they've lost their way)
- Lionhead: Fable was okay. Fable: Lost Chapters was better. Everything after that was absolutely horrible. If you say otherwise, then you've never played a real 3rd person RPG.
- Rare: enough said
- CAPCOM: they definitely picked up Microsoft's greed. Easily the greediest 3rd-party publisher other than Activision
- Oh, Activision: they've openly stated that 60% of Live subscriptions play CoD and they want in on that action. Fail.
- Square Enix: a notch below CAPCOM in the DLC and title-churning greed. Hopefully they can turn themselves around with Eidos Montreal (new Deus Ex and new Thief), but their RPG franchises are pretty much dead to me
- EPIC: they used to care about gameplay polish, balance, and having the best multiplayer. Now all they care about is having the best pre-release screenshots.
Mrmccormo
Are you serious? Microsoft had nothing to do with how Bioware is set up now, you may want to look at EA for that. You're calling out Epic? I bet you'll be the first person in line to get Gears 3! I lose faith in anything Microsoft touches:
- Bioware: no longer an RPG dev, now just a shooter dev (Dragon Age's mediocrity should be an indication of how they've lost their way)
- Lionhead: Fable was okay. Fable: Lost Chapters was better. Everything after that was absolutely horrible. If you say otherwise, then you've never played a real 3rd person RPG.
- Rare: enough said
- CAPCOM: they definitely picked up Microsoft's greed. Easily the greediest 3rd-party publisher other than Activision
- Oh, Activision: they've openly stated that 60% of Live subscriptions play CoD and they want in on that action. Fail.
- Square Enix: a notch below CAPCOM in the DLC and title-churning greed. Hopefully they can turn themselves around with Eidos Montreal (new Deus Ex and new Thief), but their RPG franchises are pretty much dead to me
- EPIC: they used to care about gameplay polish, balance, and having the best multiplayer. Now all they care about is having the best pre-release screenshots.
Mrmccormo
Are you serious? Microsoft has nothing to do with Biowares success, or lack of success right now. You might want to look at EA on that one. COD was just a much bigger draw on Xbox Live, and even know people who own PS3s, who bought a 360 just to play that over Xbox Live. So Activision, you should just blame Kotick. A lot of people think Microsoft is the devil, but you can't blame them for most of those posts.
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