Poll of the Day > Which video game publisher is the most hated in the video game history?

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This sounds like a no brainer question since many people would most likely pick EA first, then Activision 2nd as the very worst and most cancerous video game publishers in the video game industry but I'm sure there are a few other people who may believe there are other game publishers worse than the ones I mentioned in the poll.

EA put DLC on their DLC, and both required separate subscriptions.
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Capcom has become very hated ,too.

EA then Konami.
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Konami and Capcom....... both have a long way to go to catch up to EA *smh*
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BournesLegacy posted...

Capcom has become very hated ,too.

Eh, mostly on their fighting games side.

Monster Hunter World is massively popular. And people still hold out hope for new Mega Man games.
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Is this even a question? EA has killed off more studios then any other publisher combined.

Second I would say is Konami followed by Ubisoft. I honestly can't remember anything REALLY bad about Activision other then their insistence on making Call of Duty an annual franchise.
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EA has been so prolific when it comes to just pure evil within the gaming industry that it isn't close.

Yea those other mega publishers have done some awful stuff and will continue being shit. But when it comes to pure quantity EA can probably beat them all put together. Not even counting their "star wars themed online casino targeted at children."

I'm a bit bitter with what has happened with Bioware so I'm choosing EA on that ground alone.
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Laughin' Jokin' Numbnuts

Konami because Solid Snake can never return to Smash.
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Of the ones on the list, EA. For people that grew up in the 80s and 90s? LJN. Their legacy of shitty games is unmatched.

DeathMagnetic80 posted...

Of the ones on the list, EA. For people that grew up in the 80s and 90s? LJN. Their legacy of shitty games is unmatched.

They probably were not coherently hated like EA since we had no idea back then about publishers. We just rented their games and suffered greatly.

Konami is hated but they are so irrelevant at this point nobody really has expectations of them either.

EA for being hated but still putting out games people want to be good but they commonly aren't or they're filled with something people hate so people get upset.

Ubisoft gets upstaged by EA.

Capcom pulls some stupid stuff but these days it's mostly limited to their fighting games.
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It's not even close. EA obviously.

Activision is a big company and I don't really know what they make these days besides Call of Duty.

Ubisoft makes a bunch of stuff that I don't care about.

Konami was one of the best game publishers ever, in the 80s and 90s. In recent times they suck.

I've hated Capcom since they made RE4.

And on a personal level, I hate Bandai and "Namco Bandai" because they always treat Digimon as if they're on a shoestring budget, despite being this big publisher.
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Konami has killed more franchises than EA and has killed more well known franchises than EA, not to mention workers are better treated at EA than at Konami.
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WarGreymon77 posted...

Activision is a big company and I don't really know what they make these days besides Call of Duty.

Destiny. And they own Blizzard, so every Blizzard related controversy is an Activision controversy. People tend to give Blizzard a very long bullshit leash though.
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Blightzkrieg posted...

WarGreymon77 posted...

Activision is a big company and I don't really know what they make these days besides Call of Duty.

Destiny. And they own Blizzard, so every Blizzard related controversy is an Activision controversy. People tend to give Blizzard a very long bullshit leash though.

People, myself included, tend to blame Activision for a lot of the Blizzard bullshit. The claim is always "Blizzard is totally independent!" but also WoW went down hill after activision obtained Blizzard.

Unclear how related the two are.

wah_wah_wah posted...

DeathMagnetic80 posted...

Of the ones on the list, EA. For people that grew up in the 80s and 90s? LJN. Their legacy of shitty games is unmatched.

They probably were not coherently hated like EA since we had no idea back then about publishers. We just rented their games and suffered greatly.

this. I am the same age as Angry Nerd. and he makes it sound like everyone hated them back then, but I didn't. I didn't really pay that much attention to publishers. and I remember wanting to try many of the LJN games. I didn't end up being able to play most of them as a kid. but they looked interesting to me and this was before easy access to unbiased reviews. so you never knew what to expect. it wasn't til years later that I put it all together and realized LJN games tended to be bad.

LJN was a lot like Ultragames...

Y'see, Nintendo had a policy on how many games a publisher could put out in a year... so LJN was the goto license for some companies and Ultragames was the fake publisher for several Konami games.
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EA, but personally it's Activision. Blizzard has been garbage ever since they got involved.
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UbiSoft added a copy protection (Star Force) that permanently disabled CD/DVD-ROM drives to what was the newest entry (Heroes of Might and Magic V) in one of my favorite series.
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Electronic Arts.
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Blaqthourne posted...

UbiSoft added a copy protection (Star Force) that permanently disabled CD/DVD-ROM drives to what was the newest entry (Heroes of Might and Magic V) in one of my favorite series.

I'm trying to figure out what you mean by disabled your disc drive. wtf? Sounds like destruction of personal property to me.
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EA

They arent the only big gaming corporation whose actual customers are their shareholders, but they are the worst in the industry about buying up development teams and smaller publishers, and then shutting them down after they strip away all their original creativity to make room for relentless open hands demanding a dollar here and a dollar there in every single title they release.
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WarGreymon77 posted...

Blaqthourne posted...

UbiSoft added a copy protection (Star Force) that permanently disabled CD/DVD-ROM drives to what was the newest entry (Heroes of Might and Magic V) in one of my favorite series.

I'm trying to figure out what you mean by disabled your disc drive. wtf? Sounds like destruction of personal property to me.

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/01/6084-2/

I remember reading of several reports of it happening. I didn't buy HoMM5 until they released it with no copy protection (the Epic Collection).
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T0ffee posted...

BournesLegacy posted...

Capcom has become very hated ,too.

Eh, mostly on their fighting games side.

Monster Hunter World is massively popular. And people still hold out hope for new Mega Man games.

Not really. Capcom always makes good games, but they also always have malicious business practices to gouge anybody willing to take the tasty bait.
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As people have already stated, EA wins this, hands down. A couple years ago, when Konami booted Hideo Kojima and then stopped him from accepting the reward for MGS, I can understand Konami being the most hated. However, that one incident pales in comparison to the hatred most gamers have for EA. (Yes, I realize that's not the only "incident" Konami has had, but it was the one that garnered the most attention.) As already mentioned, EA has been known for taking development studios and effectively destroying them. Their money-based focus (to the detriment of quality and innovation) has angered gamers for years.

It used to be Activision, but I guess time heals all wounds. It's funny because I was just reading a story from 2009 or 2010 that was saying it's time to stop hating EA and hate Activision. And now we're back to EA again.

Activision killed tony hawk
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Blaqthourne posted...

WarGreymon77 posted...

Blaqthourne posted...

UbiSoft added a copy protection (Star Force) that permanently disabled CD/DVD-ROM drives to what was the newest entry (Heroes of Might and Magic V) in one of my favorite series.

I'm trying to figure out what you mean by disabled your disc drive. wtf? Sounds like destruction of personal property to me.

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/01/6084-2/

I remember reading of several reports of it happening. I didn't buy HoMM5 until they released it with no copy protection (the Epic Collection).

Having read about it now, yeah, that is downright criminal.
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I think they're all getting bad. EA and Act. are definitely the leaders, in that order. Capcom and Square are just doing whatever they want with classic franchises and not listening to the majority, so I can see them being disliked more and more.
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BlackScythe0 posted...

Blightzkrieg posted...

WarGreymon77 posted...

Activision is a big company and I don't really know what they make these days besides Call of Duty.

Destiny. And they own Blizzard, so every Blizzard related controversy is an Activision controversy. People tend to give Blizzard a very long bullshit leash though.

People, myself included, tend to blame Activision for a lot of the Blizzard bullshit. The claim is always "Blizzard is totally independent!" but also WoW went down hill after activision obtained Blizzard.

Unclear how related the two are.

I know they're ruining Diablo, from what I here they're the reason you can't play Diablo III offline on PC and Diablo IV is going to be a straight up monthly payment MMO like WoW.
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EA obviously but I'm also sad that Activision killed off High Moon Studios' Transformers games : /
I want a sequel to Fall of Cybertron so very badly.
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As you can see by the poll results, it literally is no contest.
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WarGreymon77 posted...

Blaqthourne posted...

UbiSoft added a copy protection (Star Force) that permanently disabled CD/DVD-ROM drives to what was the newest entry (Heroes of Might and Magic V) in one of my favorite series.

I'm trying to figure out what you mean by disabled your disc drive. wtf? Sounds like destruction of personal property to me.

Stardrive, uuuuuuuughhhhhhhhh

Trackmania Sunrise was one of my favorite games and it worked great on my old Windows 98 computer. I never saw the issue with Stardrive.

Then I built my own machine using XP. That thing screwed up my computer and had to uninstall the game (on top of figuring out how to get rid of Stardrive fully). I never played Sunrise again, which is a shame becasue it was amazing. Luckily Nations released for free right around this time and was the better game but man I missed Sunrise as it had the better editor.
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