Poll of the Day > what publishers are you never buying games from?

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if you picked one of the bottom two answers on today's POTD, what publishers are you boycotting?

for me, it's EA. they don't really make games i'm interested in, but even if they did i wouldn't support them. DLC for DLC and loot box gambling being essential for victory? no thanks, there's other publishers to get games from.

P R I D E A N D A C C O M P L I S H M E N T
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Not sure I'd ever bother boycotting a publisher, but I also tend to buy when things are on clearance or I pick stuff up used anyway.
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ea and activision can die in a fire together
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EA the most heinous of super villain hideouts
Blizzard... i still hold blizzard and activision as different companies even if they aren't
bethesda... mostly for some sketchy business practices in recent times
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EA. Because they no longer distribute games through Steam. There's no way in heck I'm installing TWO game distribution apps.

I've never played any Mass Effect past 2. I'd be happy to give them money for 3, but I will never install Origin.

theoretically EA, but if they made a good enough game I'd probably still buy it. (not bloody likely, though).
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If a good game comes out I'll get it, but I don't want to actively throw my money at certain companies who engage in practices I dislike. Ubisoft, Activision, EA, Konami, and Capcom have all pissed me off at various times over the last several years.
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Never is a strong word.

But I actively try to never give EA, Activision-Blizzard (use the full name, damn it, stop giving "Blizzard" a pass), 2K, and Warner Bros. money. Whether it's not buying, or if I must...getting it used.

Bethesda, Ubisoft, and Konami are not quite at that level of hate, but I don't care for them much anymore, either.

captpackrat posted...

EA. Because they no longer distribute games through Steam. There's no way in heck I'm installing TWO game distribution apps.

Apparently Valve wouldn't let them sale their DLC on Steam
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captpackrat posted...

EA. Because they no longer distribute games through Steam. There's no way in heck I'm installing TWO game distribution apps.

I've never played any Mass Effect past 2. I'd be happy to give them money for 3, but I will never install Origin.

imagine actually caring about this as much as this kid
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blueblur98 posted...

what publishers are you never buying games from?

blueblur98 posted...

if you picked one of the bottom two answers on today's POTD, what publishers are you boycotting?

Those aren't necessarily the same thing. Refusing to buy from a certain publisher isn't usually to boycott them for most people, but just not wanting to buy games you don't like.
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I don't "never" buy from them, but I'd be hesitant to buy games from most of the publishers stated in this topic so far.
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I dont boycott pubs, but i doubt I'll ever but another Konami game
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Trion Worlds. Kakao soon.
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I'm not currently boycotting any publishers, but I make sure to buy multiple copies of EA games because they're the greatest publisher and put out the best games.
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spiders.

they never finished faery: legends of avalon (they even rereleased it on steam, knowing they weren't going to finish it)

mars: war logs (before technomancer) was too empty and bland. it could have been so much better with a bit more effort and money spent
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EA.
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NCSOFT. They shut down the MMO City of Heroes , which had all the indications of still being a profitable game, with the expectation that those players would carry over to the newly-released Guild Wars 2. Not me, bud!
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Nintendo
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I'm not boycotting EA, they just haven't published a game I'm remotely interested in in quite a while.
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dancer62 posted...

Nintendo

lolol
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EA.
Titanfall 2 was a surprisingly good game though despite being published by EA. And what's more surprising is that it wasn't riddled with Microtransactions or lootboxes or other scummy shit.
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Far-Queue posted...

I'm not currently boycotting any publishers, but I make sure to buy multiple copies of EA games because they're the greatest publisher and put out the best games.

That's some low quality bait.
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Anything published after 2006
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Konami

Im also very hesitant buying anything from Capcom

Shame since they were my favorite publishers as a kid and made some of my favorite games from the last 80s through the early 00s
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Haven't bought an ea or Ubisoft game in at least 8 years.
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Visceral and Westwood.
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I'm not the boycott type. But I'll probably never buy from Telltale simply because I'm not into that style of game.

EA and SOE are the only ones on my complete blacklist (does SOE even exist anymore?)

I'm very leery about buying anything from Capcom these days. They seem adamantly opposed to doing anything that might make their fans happy and have criminally mismanaged virtually all of their best franchises into the ground. Blizzard, as well, thanks to the always-online D3 fiasco. Those two, however, are not flat-out boycotted and if they made a game that looked interesting enough to me, I'd buy it.
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darkknight109 posted...

EA and SOE are the only ones on my complete blacklist (does SOE even exist anymore?)

I'm very leery about buying anything from Capcom these days. They seem adamantly opposed to doing anything that might make their fans happy and have criminally mismanaged virtually all of their best franchises into the ground. Blizzard, as well, thanks to the always-online D3 fiasco. Those two, however, are not flat-out boycotted and if they made a game that looked interesting enough to me, I'd buy it.

What's wrong with Capcom?
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EA: Killed off numerous series off including Strike and Sim City.

Konami: Until they ween off the mobile money pit teet and pachinko and start developing good console games, I won't buy a new Konami game ever. They've also killed every single franchise that I like by by mobile, pachinko, or both.
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Revelation34 posted...

What's wrong with Capcom?

Butchered Mega Man and pretty much everything related to it (Mega Man X, Mega Man Legends 3); refused to translate Ace Attorney Investigations 2; axed all of the non-English translations of the Ace Attorney games and moved to digital-only releases outside of Japan despite huge and widespread fan requests for a physical release (initially claiming that it was due to low sales then, when AA5 sold well and exceeded their self-admitted "aggressive" sales targets, kept future games digital-only seemingly just to dick with people); is one of the worst companies for nickle-and-diming customers with DLC, going so far as to charge $6 for a set of palette swaps (not new costumes but literal recolouring of already-existing costumes) in Street Fighter III: Third Strike (with the kicker being that said swaps are only visible to others who have bought the DLC).

I could go on, but yeah, Capcom seems to take particular delight in being petty assholes to their fans. Which is a shame because I love their games and they were a huge part of my childhood.
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there was dlc in sf3:third strike? i didn't know dreamcast had paid dlc.
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Hop103 posted...

EA: Killed off numerous series off including Strike and Sim City.

Konami: Until they ween off the mobile money pit teet and pachinko and start developing good console games, I won't buy a new Konami game ever. They've also killed every single franchise that I like by by mobile, pachinko, or both.

I don't think they could do Strike again. Those games would be awful with modern day graphics and gameplay.

darkknight109 posted...

Revelation34 posted...

What's wrong with Capcom?

Butchered Mega Man and pretty much everything related to it (Mega Man X, Mega Man Legends 3); refused to translate Ace Attorney Investigations 2; axed all of the non-English translations of the Ace Attorney games and moved to digital-only releases outside of Japan despite huge and widespread fan requests for a physical release (initially claiming that it was due to low sales then, when AA5 sold well and exceeded their self-admitted "aggressive" sales targets, kept future games digital-only seemingly just to dick with people); is one of the worst companies for nickle-and-diming customers with DLC, going so far as to charge $6 for a set of palette swaps (not new costumes but literal recolouring of already-existing costumes) in Street Fighter III: Third Strike (with the kicker being that said swaps are only visible to others who have bought the DLC).

I could go on, but yeah, Capcom seems to take particular delight in being petty assholes to their fans. Which is a shame because I love their games and they were a huge part of my childhood.

I forgot they stopped making Breath of Fire too.
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Ubisoft and EA
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darkknight109 posted...

I'm very leery about buying anything from Capcom these days. They seem adamantly opposed to doing anything that might make their fans happy and have criminally mismanaged virtually all of their best franchises into the ground.

At least Monster Hunter is still good.
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I don't buy games based on publishers, I just buy games that look good to me, usually I don't even know or care who the publisher is, think of how many good games people miss because the misguidedly boycott publishers, its highly illogical
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XSeeD can go to hell for how badly they mismanaged the MMO I used to play. They'll never get a dime from me.
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Zeus posted...

Not sure I'd ever bother boycotting a publisher, but I also tend to buy when things are on clearance or I pick stuff up used anyway.

This. Although Rockstar North has definitely earned my promise of only buying their games USED from now on. I'd rather Gamestop make all the money than see the Hoser brothers make a nickel.
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EA, Activision-Blizzard, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Atlus, Rockstar, Konami, NIS, idk if there are any others.

If Square Enix (the developer) doesn't deliver on DQ11 then they'll be added to the list.
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skermac posted...

I don't buy games based on publishers, I just buy games that look good to me, usually I don't even know or care who the publisher is, think of how many good games people miss because the misguidedly boycott publishers, its highly illogical

In this post, the used game market doesn't exist.
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KJ StErOiDs posted...

NCSOFT. They shut down the MMO City of Heroes , which had all the indications of still being a profitable game, with the expectation that those players would carry over to the newly-released Guild Wars 2. Not me, bud!

I salute you sir! DOG was one of a kind.

The last game I bought from EA was DA:I. I was wavering on ME:A but then the stories began to hit and I felt vindicated.
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Judgmenl posted...

EA (Cannot get their games on Steam)
Activision-Blizzard (Do not make games I enjoy)
Ubisoft (Do not make games I enjoy)
Nintendo (Cannot play their games on PC)
Atlus (I do not like their games)
Rockstar (I do not like their games)
Konami (I don't think I've ever liked their games sans MGS1-3)
NIS (I don't like their games, and they do very bad localizations

Anything distributed by Perfect World Entertainment

idk if there are any others.

If Square Enix (the developer) doesn't deliver on DQ11 then they'll be added to the list.

+Add Any game from a Korean / Chinese developer, or any MMO from ANY eastern developer (can be Japanese too).
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I heard FFXIV was pretty good (after they killed it and brought it back at least)
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Capcom

Tbh, if Valve was still making actual games I'd pick them, they've become too content with getting fat off of the work of other developers, and publishers that use the Steam platform, which is why I don't blame EA, or any future publisher for that matter that decides to walk away from Valve and Steam.
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I haven't boycotted a company in ages... I tend to avoid Sony games though, because I'm extremely sick of anything remotely like Uncharted, and that's the direction they've basically taken everything. The only first-party PS4 releases I've had any fun with are Bloodborne and Until Dawn.
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skermac posted...

I don't buy games based on publishers, I just buy games that look good to me, usually I don't even know or care who the publisher is, think of how many good games people miss because the misguidedly boycott publishers, its highly illogical

How would you know they missed good games?
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

XSeeD can go to hell for how badly they mismanaged the MMO I used to play. They'll never get a dime from me.

Wait, XSeeD ran an MMO? What was it called? I tried Googling it and came up with nothing.

Something about that doesn't sound right, they're a pretty small company and they peddle pretty much exclusively in localizing other people's games. Running an MMO sounds like it would be beyond their capabilities.
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I dont like Ubisoft every time I buy one of their games microtransactions are shoved down my throat. Also dont like assasins creed or farcry.
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