gaming What Is The WORST Gaming Company?

[Black Licorice 58]

There are gaming companies that rub people the wrong way, but the incidents are usually forgotten in a few years. This thread is for the companies that you can hold a grudge with. What is the WORST company in gaming?

[Megas 27,630]

EA for obvious reasons

And currently present-day Capcom, it's amazing how such a formerly great company can screw up so horrifically. Every time they post their latest woes they keep saying that the only way to improve is to put more effort into DLC and mobile games. You know, the same things that got them in that state in the first place

[Concerto Dusk 240]

from software because they make big freaking games, but no map, not a single map whatsoever, plus, take dark souls, backstab fishers, its too easy to noob kill

[Castle Bleck 19,361]

 

Though they at least managed to produce ONE pot of gold:

 

Edited January 27, 2014 by Anti-Villain

[SS Patches 138]

i just have to say them right now

 

LJN

Wisdom Tree

 

i Can't even begin to describe how bad they are

LJN made the worst games ever they all sucked none of them were any good but still they made games

Wisdom Tree made hacked christian games they were all illegal just rip offs of other games such as Zelda 1 and Super Mario Bros. 2

nintendo even had to make sure that a Wisdom Tree game could never be played on a Nintendo console but they found a way past that

[Castle Bleck 19,361]

Wisdom Tree made hacked christian games they were all illegal just rip offs of other games such as Zelda 1 and Super Mario Bros. 2

nintendo even had to make sure that a Wisdom Tree game could never be played on a Nintendo console but they found a way past that

 

And I'm sure WT offended countless Christians (including myself) (you know, THEIR TARGET AUDIENCE) in the process.

Edited January 27, 2014 by Anti-Villain

[Demonic Soulz 483]

EA has turned to shit and Capcom sadly is going there slowly.

LJN was just horrible

Wisdom tree are copiers

 

 

 

from software because they make big freaking games, but no map, not a single map whatsoever, plus, take dark souls, backstab fishers, its too easy to noob kill

 

 

I never ran into a backstab phiser also big game does have maps but I'm just a big fan of From Software

[Concerto Dusk 240]

trust me, on xbox, theyre everwhere, i run a level 30 dex build, beaten seath, bed of chaos, and nito, and the dlc, so when i pvp im pretty much op as hell, then the backstab fishers ruin your fun, even worse, are the modders

[Xievie 498]

Nexon for sure.

 

They are HORRIBLE. Customer support took 18 months to respond to my ticket, just to say "we're sorry, we are currently having a high volume of tickets".

 

Then, do you know lame their ingame events are? Repeat a mission over and over again for a special it, or just pay to skip hours of farming.

They are moneygrubbing, 90% of their patch notes has gimmicky events made just to make a quick buck.

 

Servers are TERRIBLE. Laggy, crashes everyday, and the entire playerbase whines about it.

 

I'm glad I quit their games.

[Geek0zoid 1,468]

Ever heard of Stellar Stone? THAT'S the worst game company. EA may be terrible, but at least they can actually make a decent game if they put their minds to it.

This... this is just unplayable.

[Lunas Husband 2,777]

The guys who made Halo 2 and up.... I don't know who they are.. (That's just how much I dislike them...) but they gone and bucked up what could have been a very wonderful set of games! 

 

The first Halo, was just wonderful! Great story(okay not "Great" but good none the less), Great game play, and it looked really good for it's time. 

 

Then Halo 2... looked nasty... story was boring..  

 

Then Halo 3.. looked okay, other then that.. it sucked, they got rid of dual wielding... its like what?! you give us that in 2.. but take it away in 3... its like how?! what did MasterChef just get weak on us or something? 

 

Then Halo ODST... ewww. 

 

Then Halo Reach.. just saying it out loud makes me want to throw up a little... 

 

and Halo 4... never played it.. After Reach I gave up.. should have stopped at 2... but I was really hoping they would fix this shit sooner.  

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

EA. They seem to be rather greedy. Yeah, EA is a pretty crappy company.

[Onylex 2,837]

EA, they rush every single game producing compony they own which, makes all of the games come out half assed.

 

They also put a bunch of pay walls up just cause they are greedy as fuck.

I mean Kingdom Reckoning has a pay wall/online pass and it's not even an online game... WTF is that shit?

[FaZe Vinyl 521]

Eutechnyx - Creators of masterpieces such as Ride to Hell and NASCAR The Game: 2011 (AKA possibly the worst sports game of all time). Sure, they listen to their customers, but they still can't put out good games half the time. NASCAR The Game: Inside Line was decent at best, and that's their best game.

 

 

EA - Besides all of the reasons above, I don't like EA because they buy their competition out. ESPN was about to overtake Madden (2K5 >>>) so what did EA do? Shoved a bunch of money towards the NFL to get the exclusive license. A better example would be NASCAR. In 2002, you had Thunder 03, NASCAR Racing 2002 Season by Papyrus, and NASCAR Dirt to Daytona by Monster Games. All of them were great, and that was a problem , so what did EA do? You guessed it, they went crying to NASCAR, paid them off, and were able to be without competition until 2009 when they canned the franchise.

[SS Patches 138]

And I'm sure WT offended countless Christians (including myself) (you know, THEIR TARGET AUDIENCE) in the process.

ah yeah forgot about how they ticked a lot of people off

[Forlong 1,726]

MIcrosoft seems to be trying their hardest to get all consumers to hate them forever.  Honestly, how could they screw up the Xbox One more than they already have?

[Castle Bleck 19,361]

ah yeah forgot about how they ticked a lot of people off

 

Especially with:

 

 

8th Commandment: Thou shalt not steal.

 

WT: Hey, let's "borrow" other games' programs!

[SS Patches 138]

Especially with:

 

 

8th Commandment: Thou shalt not steal.

 

WT: Hey, let's "borrow" other games' programs!

it's a great thing that they no longer exist though they probably still do under a different name even if their not so christian adventures were spent into a christian sex shop because fun fact WT in fact were known as a different name Tree of Hope before "borrowing" games which Tree of Hope founded a Sex Shop not many people beleive me when i say that but it's true

[Twilightlicous 53]

EA and Activision is the worst company, they was good before but its shitty now. They are in a race (IW and Treyarch). They are publishing same shit every year. BF4? they added some VFX in it, some scripts, done. Lets publish it. Im pretty sure they give money to IGN etc.. like IW did how can IGN give more than 8 to worst game (CoD:Ghosts) if you look at the steam only 5000 - 6000 players ingame. EA was in good days when NFS: MW, LoTR: BFME Series, MoH. MoH was in a good way i was really enjoying it then BAM! MoH 2010 came with "Modern Warfare" subject. Then worse MoH: Warfighter came with same shit. EA ruined after MoH 2010. 

Why i called Ghosts is the worst game? because its BADLY optimized for every system and they are not REFUNDING. They dont even answer when you send support email to them, all you get is a blank black screen, on others game can made it to menu then it stucks when they clicked to play. If you got an awesome system. Try it. theres %25 chance that you can play it or it stucks and that means you throw your 60 bucks to road. And you know what? game only uses 2GB of RAM and they want 6GB from you. Thats madness, i got it for 30 bucks on christmas same thing happened to me now it sits on my steam account. EA's games are playable but they are not give me the same fun as before. Reason i called them "same shit every year" because they are about Run run run.... shoot shoot shoot.... kill kill kill.... whats the point of that to make your team win? i bet you dont care about that! only players care about is "killing". Story is same too! Russians (or arabs) attack, your a US (or UK) soldier try to get back your country, kick some butt. No you cant do that in real life. Thats why they suck. You try to feel like a badass with a M249 in your hand killing computer programmed bots. If you run in combat with a gun in real life. Enemy would spot you and BAM! your dead, see thats not happens in CoD or BF. Its called bad AI thats another point why they suck. My point is old games are always the best ( - 2007 ) they cant do games like Half Life, Doom, Quake those are the fathers of FPS and masterpieces that last forever. Dont even get me started on CoD and BF's player mass  and ages of them.

 

Edit: Maybe you think 5000+ is a good number its not. GMod have 300.000+ players and its the number in the middle of the night. Also maybe you can respond me with "come on they are video games " i understand but not even 1 realistic thing? people call BF a simulation. Just sayin'. I never got more fun in any game than GMod.

Just in case i used "you" for giving an example.

Edited January 27, 2014 by Twilightlicous

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 2,984]

EA and Activision is the worst company, they was good before but its shitty now. They are in a race (IW and Treyarch). They are publishing same shit every year. BF4? they added some VFX in it, some scripts, done. Lets publish it. Im pretty sure they give money to IGN etc.. like IW did how can IGN give more than 8 to worst game (CoD:Ghosts) if you look at the steam only 5000 - 6000 players ingame. EA was in good days when NFS: MW, LoTR: BFME Series, MoH. MoH was in a good way i was really enjoying it then BAM! MoH 2010 came with "Modern Warfare" subject. Then worse MoH: Warfighter came with same shit. EA ruined after MoH 2010. 

Why i called Ghosts is the worst game? because its BADLY optimized for every system and they are not REFUNDING. They dont even answer when you send support email to them, all you get is a blank black screen, on others game can made it to menu then it stucks when they clicked to play. If you got an awesome system. Try it. theres %25 chance that you can play it or it stucks and that means you throw your 60 bucks to road. And you know what? game only uses 2GB of RAM and they want 6GB from you. Thats madness, i got it for 30 bucks on christmas same thing happened to me now it sits on my steam account. EA's games are playable but they are not give me the same fun as before. Reason i called them "same shit every year" because they are about Run run run.... shoot shoot shoot.... kill kill kill.... whats the point of that to make your team win? i bet you dont care about that! only players care about is "killing". Story is same too! Russians (or arabs) attack, your a US (or UK) soldier try to get back your country, kick some butt. No you cant do that in real life. Thats why they suck. You try to feel like a badass with a M249 in your hand killing computer programmed bots. If you run in combat with a gun in real life. Enemy would spot you and BAM! your dead, see thats not happens in CoD or BF. Its called bad AI thats another point why they suck. My point is old games are always the best ( - 2007 ) they cant do games like Half Life, Doom, Quake those are the fathers of FPS and masterpieces that last forever. Dont even get me started on CoD and BF's player mass  and ages of them.

 

Edit: Maybe you think 5000+ is a good number its not. GMod have 300.000+ players and its the number in the middle of the night. Also maybe you can respond me with "come on they are video games " i understand but not even 1 realistic thing? people call BF a simulation. Just sayin'. I never got more fun in any game than GMod.

Just in case i used "you" for giving an example.

As a Call of Duty enthusiast, I'm extremely disappointed about Ghosts mostly because of how badly optimized it is for PC; it is much worse than Black Ops since the framerate stutters extremely frequently. It's surprising because IW's previous game, Modern Warfare 3, was at least quite well optimized for PC. After buying Ghosts, my first IW game purchase, I'm going to be much more careful about buying COD with the exception of Treyarch games because I have enjoyed and played quite a bit of WAW, BO and BOII.

 

However, I have to disagree with you on some other points.

 

Reason i called them "same shit every year" because they are about Run run run.... shoot shoot shoot.... kill kill kill.... whats the point of that to make your team win? i bet you dont care about that! only players care about is "killing". Story is same too! Russians (or arabs) attack, your a US (or UK) soldier try to get back your country, kick some butt. No you cant do that in real life. Thats why they suck. You try to feel like a badass with a M249 in your hand killing computer programmed bots. If you run in combat with a gun in real life. Enemy would spot you and BAM! your dead, see thats not happens in CoD or BF. Its called bad AI thats another point why they suck.

 

Of course the core gameplay of Call of Duty is the same every year; it is what makes COD COD. If COD gameplay style is something you don't like, that's not a problem with the game; it's just that COD is not your preference. I think I would rather have the same game every year (though I think that statement in many cases is exaggerated) than completely different games every year.

 

As much as I am tired of the idea of the glorious heroic Americans saving the world from the filthy evil Russians (though being slowly replaced by China and Latin American it seems), I personally found that the campaign in Call of Duty games have generally been quite well done (except Ghosts which I found the campaign to be poorly executed); my personal favourites being World At War and Black Ops II. It's quite obvious that realism isn't a priority in Call of Duty, but again that isn't a flaw, it's just their style and it has proven to be quite popular. I don't understand the mindset of unrealistic=bad.

Edited January 27, 2014 by 115Predator

[Toon Richard 534]

LJN. Need i say more?

Pretty much this thread in a nutshell.

[Commander Fresh 36]

After I saw the title of the thread, I knew immediately that somebody was going to mention EA. I would like to defend EA a little here. While they've certainly had their fair share of bad decisions, such as certain deadlines, marketing/PR strategies and acquisitions (etc.) one thing that EA can't be blamed for every single time is when a bad game releases. EA keeps a pretty strict hands-off policy when it comes to its subsidiaries' games; in other words, the most of EA's influence on companies like DICE and Bioware after a game has been contracted are suggestions and deadlines. With that in mind, if a game feels incomplete or badly optimized (etc.), EA is generally at most, partly to blame. Bad games that stemmed from bad ideas/concepts are usually less of EA's fault than the developer's fault, minus a few exceptions.

[Dddrgn 450]

The guys who made Halo 2 and up.... I don't know who they are.. (That's just how much I dislike them...) but they gone and bucked up what could have been a very wonderful set of games! 

 

The first Halo, was just wonderful! Great story(okay not "Great" but good none the less), Great game play, and it looked really good for it's time. 

 

Then Halo 2... looked nasty... story was boring..  

 

Then Halo 3.. looked okay, other then that.. it sucked, they got rid of dual wielding... its like what?! you give us that in 2.. but take it away in 3... its like how?! what did MasterChef just get weak on us or something? 

 

Then Halo ODST... ewww. 

 

Then Halo Reach.. just saying it out loud makes me want to throw up a little... 

 

and Halo 4... never played it.. After Reach I gave up.. should have stopped at 2... but I was really hoping they would fix this shit sooner.  

 

Up until halo 4, the developer was bungie. Halo 2 had a more in depth story than 1, but had less of an exploration aspect. Halo 3 DID have dual wielding, it was halo 3 ODST that removed it since the main character wasn't a spartan. ODST looked to give a new viewpoint on the war, and if you listened to the audio logs and took your time, looking at everything, it did it quite well. Halo reach removed dual wielding since the spartans were newer ones that didn't have the same augmentation as master chief, so they weren't strong enough to dual wield effectively, it was a prequel to halo 1 so they went back to the original formula in many ways. Halo 4 was good, but at that point, the game wasn't halo anymore. Halo 4 was also developed by 343 industries. Also, how does a company making a series you dislike make them the "worst"?

[Radiance64 7,053]

What EA has become is pretty damn miserable.

I'd say Microsoft has been pretty bad lately now too, thanks to some seriously shady business practices. :okiedokielokie:

The worst fall from grace of any game developer though has to be Silicon Knights.

They only somehow pulled off two great games(Eternal Darkness, MGS Twin Snakes) with help from Nintendo and Konami, decide to leave Nintendo, make a really crappy game called Too Human which stole assets from Unreal Engine without permission(and then they got sued, and lost), and to top it all off you have their leader Dennis Dyack blowing his fuse on internet forums at people who didn't like Too Human(who was basically everyone). Then they go on to make the worst X-Men game ever and miserably fail at trying to get Kickstarter funding for an Eternal Darkness 'successor'. The worst no contest imo.

[Castle Bleck 19,361]

MIcrosoft seems to be trying their hardest to get all consumers to hate them forever.  Honestly, how could they screw up the Xbox One more than they already have?

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My response to Microsoft:

 

Edited January 27, 2014 by Anti-Villain