As you can read form the title..it is not discernible by me why people have this unending utter hatred for publisher.Admittedly, i did write bad things about publishers and yes i hate them for some reasons.However,publishers on some occasions did great things for the consumers.They did publish some great games. Let us look at EA(due to the amount of hate)-yes EA is a money hungry company-just like everyone else in any business.Yes,they produce bad games.Still,don't forget that EA did bring out some great games-Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age-while not revolutionary or will be remembered by many 10 years later-are great.I might argue that Mass Effect 2 is not a good RPG-It's a shallow game like other shooters but it is very well executed.As long as you don't look it as an RPG,you will have a good time with it. They also published Crysis in 2007-Crysis is perhaps the graphical benchmark until Crysis 2 is out(again by EA).The first one costs 22million USD and where do you think the money came from?I know few people here will say Dead Space and Mirror Edge as great,for me they aren't,they are decent.Decent is enough of an indication that EA does not always joke. Now Activision Blizzard.They biggest of the bunch;with quite possibly the most sinister CEO in the industry.Allegedly,they have come up with many money-grabbing schemes.The stimulus package for MW2 when you can get such content in other games for free,coming out with a new Guitar Hero almost every few months(Had stopped i guess) and more. People also point fingers to Activision for ruining up its Blizzard part by removing LAN for Starcraft 2,making WoW too easy,destroying WoW's world by Cataclysm,making Starcraft 2 into 3 parts. They biggest issue related to the powerful publisher is of course the Infinity Ward lay-offs. Latest, some haters claimed that Bungie will fail and will receive the same fate that some people in Infinity Ward did following the announcement of its deal with the owner of some other talented development studios. While i do agree with some of the allegements,i hereby want to defend the publisher on few matters.First Starcraft 2 is already great and BattleNet will not require any monthly fee,they removed LAN partly because it is obsolete and everyone is playing online nowadays,the galaxy editor is damn powerful and free,the campaigns is so big that each one race requires attention and all will be available in multiplayer from day one,WoW:Cataclysm makes the preceding expansions and the vanilla game almost completely inferior in every aspect. The Actvision-Bungie deal was a move out of necessity;in my opinion.Bungie has less than 200 people in it.Can it publish its future titles without forfeiting of the attention to the game development?It was a good move by Bungie as it will regain its creative freedom(instead of pumping out HALO under the order of Microsoft),it will have the budget to start a high quality new IP and all of that are part of the deal.
activision destroyed blizzard. Activision don't have the first idea how to run an MMO, they think they can do it without continuous expenditure. Blizzard were doing just fine before activision butted in and started controlling the bank balance. now servers arent getting upgraded, bugs take months to fix and it takes three days to get an answer from a GM. EA's crysis may be a graphical benchmark, but you have ignore the absolutely ridiculous number of serious bugs it has, and frankly, you can't.
How could i pay attention to the bugs when the game is so intense? I think they've have spent a lot in maintaining WoW. Like the world design,each expansion world's design is superior to the its predecessor.Also,the dungeon finder is very neat.
because the bugs are game breaking. mine door not opening, helicopter getting stuck in a crane (so you cant get anywhere within sight of it without getting mown down), rocket launcher vanishing from inventory whenever a helicopter appears, solid objects suddenly starting to let bullets through, crashes to desktop. They're a bit hard to ignore. And I don't care if they were fixed in later patches, they should never have been in the shipped version. I'm not paying for a game that requires hundreds of MBs of patches just to make it playable. There hasnt been an expansion since activision got involved. The dungeon finder was the eventual fix for an issue that could have been fixed in days by upgrading the servers, but no, we had to put up with not being able to get into instances for months until they found a solution that didn't involve spending money.
