Worst Publisher of the Decade

[BoJack]

EA. Coz EA! I put +1000 hrs into FIFA Ultimate Team every year, and after years of shitty servers, massive gameplay issues and disgusting loot-boxes, I decided to skip FIFA 20 and I won't feed your pocket EA, until you learn that you have to respect your customers. It's a really hard thing to do, but enough is enough.

I won't set up a poll for this one, I think it's better this way. But feel free to whine and yell and criticize. You'll have our empathy.

 

[TheInfinityGauntlet]

Atlus

 

[Deleted member 8196]

Atlus?

 

[CenturionNami]

Konami or Atlus.

 

[Tunesmith]

Toss a coin between Nicalis and Dangen.

 

[criteriondog]

I feel like this thread won't end well and will likely be locked.

 

[Haze]

EA is the easy answer so I'm going to say Bethesda

 

[King Dodongo]

Eh Atlus gave us Radiant Historia at least, so it can't be them.

 

[Vincent Alexander]

Agreed on Atlus

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

EA.

 

[Deleted member 4346]

Konami. It's got to be Konami?

 

[Firima]

EA did give me another Mirror's Edge (and, therefore, another glorious Solar Fields soundtrack), and for that I will be eternally grateful.

Going with Atlus. What the fuck is in the water over there?

 

[TechnoSyndrome]

Either Blizzard or Konami

 

[Silver-Streak]

It's probably either EA or Activision

Edit: removed the offtopic comments around decades.

Also holy crap I forgot Konami.

 

[Deleted member 5745]

EA or Konami.

 

[Vic Damone Jr.]

EA. Special shoutout to Konami for being dicks to Kojima and practically exiting the industry.

Why Atlus? At least they still release different things.

 

[Vincent Alexander]

Actually, I change my answer to Riot Games. All the terrible shit that came out about their work conditions and employee treatment bumps them ahead of Atlus and their transphobic and homophobic content in games. Both have been shit though.

 

[Cloud-Strife]

KONAMI

 

[Jakisthe]

I mean, very obviously Konami. Everyone else at least gave us games; at their worst it's all better than some pachinko garbage or nothing at all.

 

[Stef]

I'd go with Konami...

 

[Yuntu]

In terms of "publisher I care the least about" its probably Atlus because they have nothing interesting for me.

Actually bad? 90% of them because all of them did shady shit this decade.

 

[Sargerus]

Konami killed Metal Gear and Silent Hill. It's the only answer.

 

[cowbanana]

EA.

They can't even ship a single player Star Wars game in a state fit for release. Fuck the paying customer is the eternal EA mantra.

 

[cmdiego]

I mean...the decade isn't over yet (decades start on 1, not 0, as there is not a 0 AD), but yeah it's probably either EA or Activision, I guess we'll see if something magically changes over next year.

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A decade is a sequence of ten years. It can start on any number.

 

[OuterHeaven]

EA

 

[Strike]

Konami or EA

 

[Deleted member 8852]

EA or Blizzard.

 

[Silver-Streak]

A decade is a sequence of ten years. It can start on any number.

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Completely valid, but if people are thinking in cyclical decades, they go start on the 1s, not the 0s.

My answer still stands if we're talking about the last 10 years, though.

 

[Deleted member 59126]

EA, seriously fuck these guys.

 

[Deleted member 21003]

EA or Activision. Both evil.

 

[Phoenom]

THQ Nordic. Or Activision Blizzard.

 

[Cess007]

Can we set some parameters to decide? Are considering only qualitity game input, or are we including industry wide controversies?

 

[Kamikazekoala]

EA

 

[Mattakuevan]

Atlus? Y'all serious? They put out some amazing games with some problematic content in them.

The answer is, and probably always will be EA/Activision.

 

[jetsetrez]

I don't understand all these Atlus mentions. Did they make some heinous social gaff that I'm unaware of or something? I don't understand how that would be anyone's first pick. Seems like the cut and dry answer should be Konami imo.

 

[JustJavi]

If we talk about the last 10 years, EA or Activision with a special mention to Dangen, Niscalis and Riot for the "great efforts" put in the last year.

 

[ngower]

EA.

I didn't pick up FIFA this year and have no plans to until they stop riding the Ultimate Team train at the expense of literally everything else in the game. It's a passive money making machine for them rather than a good soccer game.

Paired with their closure of studios, cancellation of games, degradation of beloved franchises and scummy business practices they are just impossible to like right now.

 

[cmdiego]

What was that publisher that harassed developers and withheld royalties?

 

[saiko]

EA, Blizzard, or Konami. I'm leaning towards Blizzard.

 

[Mattakuevan]

I don't understand all these Atlus mentions. Did they make some heinous social gaff that I'm unaware of or something? I don't understand how that would be anyone's first pick. Seems like the cut and dry answer should be Konami imo.

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They're mad about a scene in P5 and Catherine Full Body. Its enough to invalidate the entire company for some users.

 

[lost7]

EA published Mass Effect 2 in this decade, so just based on that, they cannot be the worst publisher

 

[Becks']

Konami and Atlus. Both of them can fuck off.

 

[BasilZero]

Atlus or Konami.


Edit: Oh and the companies that did layoffs but still got a big pay day.

 

[Deleted member 5028]

EA. Special shoutout to Konami for being dicks to Kojima and practically exiting the industry.

Why Atlus? At least they still release different things.

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Homophobia and transphobia that's used as a punchline or in a mocking fashion.

They're mad about a scene in P5 and Catherine Full Body. Its enough to invalidate the entire company for some users.

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Fuck this comment.

 

[Electro]

EA published Mass Effect 2 in this decade, so just based on that, they cannot be the worst publisher

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And Dead Space 2.

But this gen, they were not good imo.

 

[LilScooby77]

EA published A way out so I'll say Blizzard.

 

[Mr.Deadshot]

Microsoft dropped the ball hard mid Xbox 360, but it seems like they are turning things around for the next decade.

 

[Deleted member 15428]

EA, Konami, Blizzard and Atlus

 

[Mattakuevan]

Homophobia and transphobia

Fuck this comment

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Fuck you, EA/Activision laid off hundreds of people this year for the sake of profit. Atlus isn't even a blip on the shitty scale.

 

[BasilZero]

They're mad about a scene in P5 and Catherine Full Body. Its enough to invalidate the entire company for some users.

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Well for me its the fact that they wouldnt let people record games and the release/announcement style for their games.