1. SoE - I think everyone is well aware of their track record.
2. Blizzard - Why Blizzard? Because they will milk you for every cent. Hell, they even charged people $120 to attend their self gratification convention. Give a little back to the community Bliz, we made you what you are.
3. Codemasters - Importers of crappy Korean games and they can't even do decent localization.
Lastly I would say Microsoft and FASA for sitting on a franchise that would make an excellent MMO - Battletech/Mechwarrior. Instead we get some crappy arcade style mech shooters for Xbox. Considering all the factions, all the settings, the myriad of mechs and parts to customize them with there is no shortage of content for a Mechwarrior MMO.
1. SoE - One of the worst CS I've encountered and a policy of walking over your current customers to try and attract new ones.
2. EA - No direct dealings with them myself but their past record with MMOs speaks for itself.
after that humm
3. IOL - I'll throw in IOL an internet ISP that would run SoE for their CS and customer attitude. Offering a modem internet connection when broadband wasn't here yet where if you connected off peak times you wouldn't get a phone bill and then canceling peoples accounts if they used it too much on off peak times. They got bought out twice since then though so they might have changed but I still wouldn't use them after that and other problems and attitudes they had back then.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
I was referring to FASA Studio, which is now owned by Microsoft, but still around. They are currently working on a shadowrun game. They let the mechwarrior franchise die when they shifted their focus to mechassault... which is also now on the shelf. FASA, the pen and paper game company was purchased by wizkids, which was later purchased by Tops.
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1. SoE - I think everyone is well aware of their track record.
2. Blizzard - Why Blizzard? Because they will milk you for every cent. Hell, they even charged people $120 to attend their self gratification convention. Give a little back to the community Bliz, we made you what you are.
3. Codemasters - Importers of crappy Korean games and they can't even do decent localization.
Lastly I would say Microsoft and FASA for sitting on a franchise that would make an excellent MMO - Battletech/Mechwarrior. Instead we get some crappy arcade style mech shooters for Xbox. Considering all the factions, all the settings, the myriad of mechs and parts to customize them with there is no shortage of content for a Mechwarrior MMO.
1. SoE - One of the worst CS I've encountered and a policy of walking over your current customers to try and attract new ones.
2. EA - No direct dealings with them myself but their past record with MMOs speaks for itself.
after that humm
3. IOL - I'll throw in IOL an internet ISP that would run SoE for their CS and customer attitude. Offering a modem internet connection when broadband wasn't here yet where if you connected off peak times you wouldn't get a phone bill and then canceling peoples accounts if they used it too much on off peak times. They got bought out twice since then though so they might have changed but I still wouldn't use them after that and other problems and attitudes they had back then.
Didn't FASA go out of buisness and had to sell mechwarrior to someone else?
It's sort of a jumbled mess... easiest way to understand is at the FASA wiki: FASA
1: $OE
2: Enron
3: Totenham Hotspur
In that order.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience"
CS Lewis
1) SoE
2) EA
3) FASA
Reasons are pretty much covered above.
Loved the Mechwarrior Games from Pen and Paper to PC.
I actually like SOE and EA... /shrug I guess they make good games, but people still can't see past their own ass.
Worse three companies.
Apple
Can't really think... I have to go to work.
@ War_Dancer
I was referring to FASA Studio, which is now owned by Microsoft, but still around. They are currently working on a shadowrun game. They let the mechwarrior franchise die when they shifted their focus to mechassault... which is also now on the shelf. FASA, the pen and paper game company was purchased by wizkids, which was later purchased by Tops.
www.fasastuidio.com
www.wizkidsgames.com
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