Which publisher milks their fanchises the most???? (poll)

Nintendo

-Mario
-Need i say more?

Capcom

-Millions of MegaMan games
-Many Resident Evil re-releases and remakes

Blizzard

-StarCraft 2 (No new races; pretty much an expansion pack with updated graphics)
-Rarely makes new IPs

Square Enix

-Final Fantisy (Remakes; the many, many games they release)

Who do you choose?

i choose blizzard because of that monthly fee for WoWttobba07

all MMO's have monthly fees.

Nintendo by far do the most reusing of the same old characters, but that's because everyone loves Mario and the gang. They're like the gaming equivalent of Bugs Bunny et al. Or the A Team (because every thread needs an A Team reference)

I don't like how Square Enix are milking FF though. Especially all the FFVII stuff they brought out. That's like pooping on one of the best games ever.

EA for not taking any innovation to their sports franchises and milking their movie franchises

Activision for making mediocre movie games and Tony Hawk games

Ubisoft for making terrible ports on the Wii

square. ff13 plus numerous remakes.shoeman12

Whats mario on 70-80 something? Square only just started getting real bad with their remakes.

Nintendo hands down. Introducing Mario 1000!!! And Pokemon Turquoise!!!!!Ragnarok1051

AND it still sells!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Mario the character is milked, but the platformers are not (but Mario is incredibly well known, why would a smart business not put some popular image on many of its products?). Saying Blizzard is milking StarCraft II, then going on to point out they are adding nothing shows you are not a fan of the original and have not looked at the updates. How does one improve on perfection? How do you take StarCraft, the most perfectly balanced 3-race RTS ever made and improve on it? They are adding several new units. I myself don't want to see much change in terms of balancing or gameplay in SCII, I am quite thankful they decided to not pull a WCIII on SCII.

The biggest milkers are EA and Ubisoft.

As for you SCII comments I call BLASPHEMY!

SMG is not Mario 1000

SMG is only the 3rd game of it's kind. SM64 and SMS are the only other major 3d mario platformers. Although series like Paper Mario and the main stream mario platformers still use the same characters, they are NOTHING alike in how you play/experience them.

I say square. DA_B0MB

So do i.

[QUOTE="ttobba07"]i choose blizzard because of that monthly fee for WoWcobrax75

all MMO's have monthly fees.

Nintendo. "You get the master sword! Again..."

Nintendo...easily. If you would have told me 20 years ago that there would be Mario sports games coming out in the future...I would have laughed at you.

And now there'll be another Mario soccer game coming out soon.

[QUOTE="shoeman12"]square. ff13 plus numerous remakes.Ragnarok1051

Whats mario on 70-80 something? Square only just started getting real bad with their remakes.

I don't see why you guys are picking on Nintendo so much. At least they put effort in when they make a Mario game (Barring certain Mario Parties). The main Mario games only come out once each generation.

I think EA's the worst though, simply because of Madden.

where the heck is EA?raidenseven

Although The Sims are milked a lot.

[QUOTE="ttobba07"]i choose blizzard because of that monthly fee for WoWcobrax75

all MMO's have monthly fees.

no they don't. First Example is Rappelz which is 100% free and 10x better then WoW. If u want me to name more I can give u a list of at least 10 in a short amount of times. Or better yet go look at the MMOs at download.com Almost all the best ones are free.

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[QUOTE="shoeman12"]square. ff13 plus numerous remakes.hamstergeddon

Whats mario on 70-80 something? Square only just started getting real bad with their remakes.

Mario is 1st party, of course it's Nintendo making them.....aren't they?

KOEI

Anyone ever heard of Dynasty Warriors?

Not ALL but most of the "better quality ones". Anyways i chose Nintendo because they ve milked mario so much it s not even funny... (seriously, what sports hasn t mario been in? I can only think of hocky, badminton, and cricket.)Setsa

Nintendo... no not really. They don't use their main franchises more than one or two times a generation. (don't be fooled by third parties who license the characters)

Capcom, maybe, I don't follow them enough to know.

Blizzard... you have to be joking about this one. They release games every ice age, and most MMORPGs feature online subscription costs.

Square, they aren't milking so much as their quality of games has been going down. Though they keep saying Final Fantasy, the games are signifgantly different from each other.

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[QUOTE="shoeman12"]square. ff13 plus numerous remakes.Ragnarok1051

Whats mario on 70-80 something? Square only just started getting real bad with their remakes.

Mario is 1st party, of course it's Nintendo making them.

Saying Blizzard is milking StarCraft II, then going on to point out they are adding nothing shows you are not a fan of the original and have not looked at the updates. How does one improve on perfection? How do you take StarCraft, the most perfectly balanced 3-race RTS ever made and improve on it? They are adding several new units. I myself don't want to see much change in terms of balancing or gameplay in SCII, I am quite thankful they decided to not pull a WCIII on SCII.

As for you SCII comments I call BLASPHEMY!

foxhound_fox

I never said i didn't like it, but i just think it is SO overrated, and you obviously seem to worship the game. Every game is the same also: build as many objects as you can at the entrance of your base, create arial ships and attack the opponent. While they are distracted, attack their base with ground units.

Even expansion packs have added new races (look at The Conqueror's Expansion for AoE2 and the Dawn of War expansion), but all this is adding is some new units, technologies, a new campaign, and updated graphics. The only thing major about are the graphics, nothing else makes it "sequel" worthy.

Age of Empires 2: The Conquorer's Expansion added all of that, minus that updated graphics, and also included many new graphics.

I'll be getting it, but it is such milkage on one of the most overrated game out there.

Nintendo. "You get the master sword! Again..."

myster_samz

And it feels awesome everytime :P

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[QUOTE="shoeman12"]square. ff13 plus numerous remakes.Ragnarok1051

Whats mario on 70-80 something? Square only just started getting real bad with their remakes.

Mario is 1st party, of course it's Nintendo making them.....aren't they?

Nintendo is first party, Retro Studios is first party, Monolith is first party. Mario is owned by Nintendo. Nintendo will license that game out to Hudson or someone else to make their spin-off Mario games. Capcom for a while made many of the handheld ZELDA titles.

I think the people who voted Square need to realize that Final Fantasy, sans the Ivaclie/Vina'diel sagas, are entirely different spin offs from each other that are in no way related. (except Gilgamesh). Its merely a name. Final Fantasy 7 isn't Final Fantasy 9. Two entirely seperate universes.Vandalvideo

They have released many spin-offs for some of their games, however.

I can't believe Nintendo got less than 50% of the votes.

Madden, FFs? come on. Even without Mario, Nintendo would be the biggest milker.

We don't know everything about Starcraft 2. You can't say anything like that yet.norfair_dweller

I'm pretty sure that Blizzard said there weren't going to be any new races.

We don't know everything about Starcraft 2. You can't say anything like that yet.norfair_dweller

we know there are no new races.....

-that said....I dont think many people want a new race...seeing as how the current 3 are completly different from one another and play entirely differently...They should just focus on making the units and races even more different from one another....which seems to be what they are doing anyway.

[QUOTE="Vandalvideo"]I think the people who voted Square need to realize that Final Fantasy, sans the Ivaclie/Vina'diel sagas, are entirely different spin offs from each other that are in no way related. (except Gilgamesh). Its merely a name. Final Fantasy 7 isn't Final Fantasy 9. Two entirely seperate universes.norfair_dweller

They have released many spin-offs for some of their games, however.