Most companies are evil
I've seen franchises go downhill from where they began there a plenty of games in which the first in the series is the only good one and then executive meddling ruins any other games later on that's not to say all games go downhill just some of them. However when a gaming company hold the ability to claim copyright of a game or any form of content i think it is wrong. Copyright laws should be changed so that companies can't own the franchises that make them who they are. It should be the original makers of the content that own the copyrights to it not the company they work for. This is especially true when companies become money crazed and prevent beloved franchises like megaman from continuing even though they are well established just because it doesn't earn them top dollar. This is true for anime and film I mean seriously it's an issue when executives decide to run an show into the ground because it makes them money even though the creator doesn't want to continue or the story has finished. It ruins the quality when the comapny controls the rights to stuff like this. Look at how good indies are compared to a lot of the company name games. There have been a lot better indie's more often in recent years then there have been from the gaming companies themselves. It's at this point that you realize that it's not because the guys making the game were bad at it but rather that the companies meddled in it's production or didn't give them the time they needed to finish the product. At this point it's obvious poor quality means bad company. This goes true for animation possibly even music is affected by this. Though company should only be able to fund projects, and even then if a new game franchise is starting and loks like it's not going they can possibly pull the plug, but not on franchises with an already established fanbase. Even if it doesn't make much money the company should only cancel the franchise if it's causes them to lose the money in sales. At this point im wondring if changing copyright laws so that the creative control as well as ownership of these things is to go back to the original makers of the games is already some sort of worldwide movement.
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I know microsoft is evil but how are all the others evil you also forgot capcom
what is so evil about square enix and konami?
Um you're joking right?
While Crapcom is evidently trying to not screw over the consumer with SF 5, now that they are on the verge of bankruptcy, It's something you can't say about any of the other atrociously bad, egomaniac, evil companies around these days(how many times has Square actually gone under now=enough said, and well Konami just uses their bad game releases, as a excuse to just screw over their fanbase even more, until they just decided to leave the Video Game industry altogether to make micro transaction based mobile games, and um sexvania Pachinko machines lol)
Squares whores out both the FF and DQ franchises to any crappy random developers, and there's no quality control whatso ever, they just keep butchering them. As for Konami lol, are you seriously not aware of Konami's actions as of late, and there's a reason why all their developers have been jumping off that sinking ship(well I guess It's literally sunk now) faster then you can blink.
While Crapcom is evidently trying to not screw over the consumer with SF 5, now that they are on the verge of bankruptcy, It's something you can't say about any of the other atrociously bad, egomaniac, evil companies around these days(how many times has Square actually gone under now=enough said, and well Konami just uses their bad game releases, as a excuse to just screw over their fanbase even more, until they just decided to leave the Video Game industry altogether to make micro transaction based mobile games, and um sexvania Pachinko machines lol)
Squares whores out both the FF and DQ franchises to any crappy random developers, and there's no quality control whatso ever, they just keep butchering them. As for Konami lol, are you seriously not aware of Konami's actions as of late, and there's a reason why all their developers have been jumping off that sinking ship(well I guess It's literally sunk now) faster then you can blink.
Square Enix does nothing but whore out Final Fantasy, which hasn't even been remotely good since Final Fantasy IX, and they ruined Thief and Hitman.
As for Konami, well this www.giantbomb.com/articles/rep…
As for Konami, well this www.giantbomb.com/articles/rep…
All of them are evil, and evil was necessary. All of their product are tools to make money, without this motivation, great game cannot be made.
SEGA is evil.
how? they do far better than capcom now humororusly known as crapcom, and microsoft.
EA in a nutshell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoYWdH…
The companies have become far worse then imaginable, ao bad, it defies any bit of logic of any kind.
We should be thankful that things got as bad as they are though, because this has lead to legendary developers leaving such companies to go out on their own, in hopes of being able to create something truly great once again, something they can actually be proud of(if they stayed, their legacy would've been totally tarnished).
It finally occurred to developers, that wait a second, these games belong to us, we made them, all the ego centric assholes who run those big companies own, is a name, and "very specific" char art. Once one guy left, it created a chain reaction
Oh, it gets even better, they are going around putting together dream teams. The amazing part is, how easily, and fast they are getting these dream teams together, It's crazy. Seems like a entire industry of developers have all been hoping to work on a actual great project, so once they heard X legend calling, they flocked to them.
Something tells me, in around 2017 the heads of gamers everywhere are just going to explode(if all of them truly do get their games out in 2017, it most likely will be the single greatest year in gaming history).
We should be thankful that things got as bad as they are though, because this has lead to legendary developers leaving such companies to go out on their own, in hopes of being able to create something truly great once again, something they can actually be proud of(if they stayed, their legacy would've been totally tarnished).
It finally occurred to developers, that wait a second, these games belong to us, we made them, all the ego centric assholes who run those big companies own, is a name, and "very specific" char art. Once one guy left, it created a chain reaction
Oh, it gets even better, they are going around putting together dream teams. The amazing part is, how easily, and fast they are getting these dream teams together, It's crazy. Seems like a entire industry of developers have all been hoping to work on a actual great project, so once they heard X legend calling, they flocked to them.
Something tells me, in around 2017 the heads of gamers everywhere are just going to explode(if all of them truly do get their games out in 2017, it most likely will be the single greatest year in gaming history).
Companies are made to make money. It's not that they're evil, it's just that they're in the industry to make money, and they'll do drastic things which, guess what, don't cater to what everyone wants. If they release a game which doesn't make enough money, they'll move to another franchise - that's how business works.
Holy lack of paragraph breaks Batman. I couldn't read that original post if I wanted to.
No, most companies aren't evil. They're just focused on making a profit, and not smart enough to be nice to their consumers.
No, most companies aren't evil. They're just focused on making a profit, and not smart enough to be nice to their consumers.
i suppose thats true buthonestly isn't it common sense to be nice to the consumers. I mean most ppl of society see it as wrong and a company is part of society so why can't they se ethrough their own ignorance. Honestly when the company fails us who then will produce their games?
well the soft, fluffy, easy-going companies tend to die away faster than you can check a trailer in e3
I don't know, ATLUS seems to be doing pretty damn good, even after 25 years of running a company like that, and you know what, it also has enabled them to release ever increasingly better games on a unusually regular basis at that(byfar the most impressive track record, not only do their games have a almost perfect track record, but they make a lot of games. To make that many games, yet still keep standards so high, is a damn gift to say the least, not to mention their publishing/localization choice record is pretty godly as well).
You know what, Capcom was godly for the longest time, know when they turned into a POS company, the very damn instant the CEO of Capcom turned into a asshole sigh, there wasn't even a few month delay/grace period(omg, it happened at the worst damn time possible too, hell they even canceled a game that was literally finished, and would've been released in just a few months, nevermind all the other games they were working on/planning were either canceled or rushed out the door/watered down, to get out of production as fast as possible)
You know what, Capcom was godly for the longest time, know when they turned into a POS company, the very damn instant the CEO of Capcom turned into a asshole sigh, there wasn't even a few month delay/grace period(omg, it happened at the worst damn time possible too, hell they even canceled a game that was literally finished, and would've been released in just a few months, nevermind all the other games they were working on/planning were either canceled or rushed out the door/watered down, to get out of production as fast as possible)
Atlus went bankrupt a couple years ago and was bought out by Sega. Not sure if that qualifies as "doing pretty damn good".
No, they didn't go bankrupt, the parent company sold it for whatever reason, perhaps the Parent company went bankrupt/needed money, but ATLUS sure as hell didn't. Infact right before the Sega BS hahhened, ATLUS was on fire for 2 strait years, specifically the two right before Sega bought ATLUS. ATLUS couldn't do anything wrong, and they were very profitable, it was epic. Then the year after Sega took control, omg the string of atrocious 3rd party games, and very few of ALUS's developed games were localized.
Uh, yes? Atlus as a subsidiary was broke, and merged into Index - that is, Atlus as a company seized to exist after 2010. Index/Atlus then went bankrupt three years later and was bought by Sega.
Hardly a success story.
Hardly a success story.
I hate Index, don't ever call them ATLUS. ATLUS never went broke, the assholes who owned the company went broke due to the main company they owned.
The situation is similar to Sony. Sony is almost bankrupt, because they pool their money, and most of their money is being uses for the gaming division, while their electronic division is left to suffer. The gaming division is turning profits(be it very slowly, but still), where as the electronics division is bombing big time.
In ATLUS's case, ATLUS is great, but the parent company sucks balls.
Do not mix up some Jackass owner, and their own faults, with ATLUS, It's not the same thing.
The situation is similar to Sony. Sony is almost bankrupt, because they pool their money, and most of their money is being uses for the gaming division, while their electronic division is left to suffer. The gaming division is turning profits(be it very slowly, but still), where as the electronics division is bombing big time.
In ATLUS's case, ATLUS is great, but the parent company sucks balls.
Do not mix up some Jackass owner, and their own faults, with ATLUS, It's not the same thing.
There was no parent company after 2010 (until Index was bought out by Sega, anyways). Atlus and Index merged, with Atlus remaining nothing more than a brand name. What you're saying is equivelant to arguing that Apple is a "parent company" to iPod, as opposed to iPod being a brand name that's completely run by Apple. Atlus is Index.
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so have you been employed in either Atlus or Capcom or what is your source?
the nearly finished game was megaman wasn't it? worst thing about it was they blamed the fanbase for their "cancelling" the game, as if they had any legit plans to release it in the first place. They been poing the megaman fanbase with teasing and having him appear in a game trailer but not the game. it's gonna bite them in the butt. Disowning the people who made you eventually leads to your downfall.
Yea it was one of the 3 Mega games being made, forgot which one the nearly finished game was though. Yea exactly, no only do they canceled a bunch of megaman game, they blamed the fanbase(now that I remember more clearly, think it as the reason for canceling it=wtf
Yea,was it Megaman Legends, that was the one basically finished? Well rather it was or was was only half ways done, yea sigh. They teased people on and off for years about Megaman Legends, and then they do thatHell to only reason the fanbase would effect development/publishment of such, is if everyone deemed it a POS, but that wasn't the case, literally the entire fanbase was praising such/looking forward to it). There's been a lot of very bad business moves in the industry, but with the exception of MS's DRM/Big brother scam attempt, that may be the worst business move ever made.
Yea,was it Megaman Legends, that was the one basically finished? Well rather it was or was was only half ways done, yea sigh. They teased people on and off for years about Megaman Legends, and then they do thatHell to only reason the fanbase would effect development/publishment of such, is if everyone deemed it a POS, but that wasn't the case, literally the entire fanbase was praising such/looking forward to it). There's been a lot of very bad business moves in the industry, but with the exception of MS's DRM/Big brother scam attempt, that may be the worst business move ever made.