Worst Video Game Publisher based on Ethics

[QUOTE="Zeviander"][QUOTE="Shielder7"]28 work in a micro lab, so yes irony. I have a feeling everyone defending EA and other publishers unethical practices probably work in business, using the same logic that people defended the banks when they needed to be bailed out. Which makes sense, an unscrupulous person is going to defend unscrupulous practices.  I'm suggesting your opinion is wrong, an opinion can't be wrong just you're a bad person or more specific an unethical person. as ethical business practices seem to be taking a back seat these days.  Well thats the image I'm getting off you anway.Shielder7

EA without a doubt, same game every year for multiple titles. Though to be fair they did go through a phase a few years ago that had them going in a different direction but its back to the usual old tricks. £42.99 for a FIFA 14 roster update this October, along with tiger woods or soon to be Rory mcIlroy now he is with Nike. I heard that the new madden is going to feature DLC that let's the floodlights in the Super Bowl go out for only 400ms points.ccagracing

another person who doesnt follow sport...guess you were never following the recent transfer window..in soccor ofc for the people who think football is handegg (btw im a 49ers fan and even seen them at candlesick :P)

I'm quite fine in Canada thank you. I enjoy not having a. OWNED BY CHINA tattooed on my butt, as well as being immune to American stupidity like a lack of Gun control laws and unregulated banks. Shielder7

[QUOTE="Shielder7"]I'm quite fine in Canada thank you. I enjoy not having a. OWNED BY CHINA tattooed on my butt, as well as being immune to American stupidity like a lack of Gun control laws and unregulated banks. Zeviander

[QUOTE="Shielder7"]I'm quite fine in Canada thank you. I enjoy not having a. OWNED BY CHINA tattooed on my butt, as well as being immune to American stupidity like a lack of Gun control laws and unregulated banks. Zeviander

inb4 playground dirt-slinging instead of reasonable, mature discussion.

[QUOTE="Shielder7"]I'm quite fine in Canada thank you. I enjoy not having a. OWNED BY CHINA tattooed on my butt, as well as being immune to American stupidity like a lack of Gun control laws and unregulated banks. Zeviander

Who said we wanted Mr. FlipFlop? :S 

EA

My evil publisher power rankings: 1. ActivisionBlizzard famicommander

If you go solely on ethics the worst is nintendo.

If you go solely on ethics the worst is nintendo.

GD1551

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If you go solely on ethics the worst is nintendo.

Shinobishyguy

I think they are the only game company that profits off conflict materials.

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[QUOTE="GD1551"]

If you go solely on ethics the worst is nintendo.

GD1551

I think they are the only game company that profits off conflict materials.

I think everyone does it. I also think it was the worst this generation than it has ever been. I mean annual games coming out year after year like Madden? Ridiculous. Some of these games like Gears, Halo, Assassins, etc are really good games, and now they are just destroying them by coming out with new ones every year with minor touchups. Its foolish, but when you have millions buying them, why should they stop?

EA aka The Graveyard (also known as where great developers go to die) blows them all out of the water. I go out of my way to avoid an EA game.

I think everyone does it. I also think it was the worst this generation than it has ever been. I mean annual games coming out year after year like Madden? Ridiculous. Some of these games like Gears, Halo, Assassins, etc are really good games, and now they are just destroying them by coming out with new ones every year with minor touchups. Its foolish, but when you have millions buying them, why should they stop?

xscrapzx

Quoting for truth. Madden is unforgivable. The frustrating thing is people buy these every year while devs like Superbot create decent fresh games and get axed.

AC needs to stop. AC2 is one of my all time favorites and they have gone downhill ever since. AC Revelations was the most disguised DLC as a game I can remember.

[QUOTE="famicommander"]My evil publisher power rankings: 1. ActivisionBlizzard -Unreal-

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[QUOTE="famicommander"]My evil publisher power rankings: 1. ActivisionBlizzard Shielder7

Capcom and EA have been crap for a while now.

EA still publishes games I like, so they're alright IMO.

Activision publishes what? CoD and Skylanders? Any risk they do take is sent out to die. Instead of killing studios, they turn them into CoD DLC machines. A fate truly worse than death.

Capcom is half and half. They make stupid decisions like RE6 and RE:ORC, as well as extremely stupid decisions like DmC. On the other hand, we still got RE: Revelations, Dragon's Dogma, great fighting games, insanely good PC ports, and Ace Attorney goodness. (WHERE'S AAI2 CAPCOM!? :evil: )

Ubisoft has been really good actually, except with how they chose to treat the Wii-U recently.

RIP THQ :cry:

So yeah, Activision wins my vote.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think they're one and the same now. Activision more or less bought Blizzard if I'm not mistaken.Shielder7

It's just a holding company. Vivendi owned both. Vivendi merged its games division with Activision, and Blizzard was a part of that division. They still retained their independance, so Activision doesn't control them.

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I think everyone does it. I also think it was the worst this generation than it has ever been. I mean annual games coming out year after year like Madden? Ridiculous. Some of these games like Gears, Halo, Assassins, etc are really good games, and now they are just destroying them by coming out with new ones every year with minor touchups. Its foolish, but when you have millions buying them, why should they stop?

lild1425

Quoting for truth. Madden is unforgivable. The frustrating thing is people buy these every year while devs like Superbot create decent fresh games and get axed.

AC needs to stop. AC2 is one of my all time favorites and they have gone downhill ever since. AC Revelations was the most disguised DLC as a game I can remember.

Set your sliders up right, a quick google search makes all the difference with madden on all-pro, linebackers dont intercept as much and the game flows better with a few of the slider setups i found on a google search, mind you the average madden player wouldnt know how to tweak this.

Superbot made a shameless cash in based off a well loved formula, with characters of games nobody really cares about if they were so good as you claim them to be why did Sony cut their ties.

[QUOTE="Shielder7"][QUOTE="-Unreal-"]I thought Activision Blizzard were two seperate publishers and are simply a partnership. I've never seen an ActivisionBlizzard logo on any game box or read that as a publisher of a game.

DarkLink77

EA: Electronic "Arts"

Capcom and EA have been crap for a while now.

Mrmedia01

Given the recent comment by EA that Consumers 'enjoying and embracing' microtransactions and that microtransactions will be built into more and more of the publisher's titles moving forward. I feel I just bump this.Shielder7

I just saw that and cringed. I think they are fool of it to be honest. I don't know anyone who likes microtransactions. I think this goes back to ethics.

The only ones I consider "evil" are EA, Ubisoft, Capcom, and Sony.

Ly_the_Fairy

Why Sony?

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I think everyone does it. I also think it was the worst this generation than it has ever been. I mean annual games coming out year after year like Madden? Ridiculous. Some of these games like Gears, Halo, Assassins, etc are really good games, and now they are just destroying them by coming out with new ones every year with minor touchups. Its foolish, but when you have millions buying them, why should they stop?

razgriz_101

Quoting for truth. Madden is unforgivable. The frustrating thing is people buy these every year while devs like Superbot create decent fresh games and get axed.

AC needs to stop. AC2 is one of my all time favorites and they have gone downhill ever since. AC Revelations was the most disguised DLC as a game I can remember.

Set your sliders up right, a quick google search makes all the difference with madden on all-pro, linebackers dont intercept as much and the game flows better with a few of the slider setups i found on a google search, mind you the average madden player wouldnt know how to tweak this.

Superbot made a shameless cash in based off a well loved formula, with characters of games nobody really cares aboutif they were so good as you claim them to be why did Sony cut their ties.

No offense, but the response is a little narrow.

There are only so many changes you can make to a single football gaming franchise. You could easily make a roster update every year and do at the very worst a release every few years. Just patch it for all these tweaks. No need for a new game annually, which was the point he was making.

The game is admittedly is definitely not as good as it could have been. Contrary, to the some belief, the game IS NOT titled SSB: Sony. The characters actually feel like they were ripped from their games and all tossed to fight into this one. Like every game ever released, they stole some ideas and added their new ones.  There is not an exhaustive list of characters, but there are iconic ones like PS ones like Kratos, Sackboy, Ratchet. People complain about no Crash, etc. These guys aren't idiots. They do not have the rights for these characters. This is coming from someone that worships SSBB. The characters in Smash are known because we have seen Mario in like 9000 games for the past 20 years. Emmet from Starhawk is from a game released not even a few years ago. Sales =/= quality. For brevity sake, I don't think I need to explain this further.