Game Companies You Trust and Do Not Trust?

[Haiku's Knife]

What gaming companies do you have faith in to put out consistently quality products? Which ones are you wary of?

Mine Trust:

Tecmo Koei/Team Ninja
Bandai Namco
Capcom
Valve
Spiders
Nintendo
SNK
Arc System Works
FromSoftware

It's Don't:

Bethesda
Rockstar
343 Industries
Ubisoft
EA
The Coalition
BioWare
Bethesda
Bethesda
Bethesda

[bad_fur_day1]

I feel like previous track record is important when anticipating if new titles will be any good or not. My highest ranked currently would be Subset Games (FTL, Into The Breach), anything that Hideo Kojima is involved in is likely to be very good. Certainly Larian have been proving themselves. I don't play many FromSoft games but going by their track record I'd be pretty confident in picking up their releases.

[Moogal™]

Trust: Valve
Not trust: all others

Yes that is true.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

I´m not really a fanboy of anyone, if they release something good then nice and if they don`t then I find someone who does. Mostly moved on to indie devs anyway instead of big names with empty ideas.

[abcd]

It used to be you could trust the dead ones.

Now they go through several periods of undeath to make that more difficult.

[Scorpion]

I trusted:

Blizzard North
Westwood
Bullfrog
Sierra
Lucasfilm
Revolution Software
Senscape
Origin
3D Realms
Codemasters
Nintendo
Sega
Activision

I distrust:

EA
CD Project / CD Project Red
Activision-Blizzard
Microsoft
Sony
Rockstar
Bethesda
Epic Games

[Crystal Sharrd]

It's not really something I really keep track of, but I have lost all trust in Atlus.

[Chaosolous]

I trust Larian and FromSoftware.

[Moogal™]

Originalmente postado por bad_fur_day1:

I feel like previous track record is important when anticipating if new titles will be any good or not. My highest ranked currently would be Subset Games (FTL, Into The Breach), anything that Hideo Kojima is involved in is likely to be very good. Certainly Larian have been proving themselves. I don't play many FromSoft games but going by their track record I'd be pretty confident in picking up their releases.

I think Kojima is very hit or miss. I will give DS another chance at some point but for now i don't regard it highly. MGSV:TPP is definitely one of the best games ever tho, and most other of the entries in the series are pretty good too, but some like 4 and PW aren't that good imo, and i do not even rank 2 that highly, personally.

[Ulfrinn]

None

All of them

And the reason I trust none is because I've seen companies I thought were better, go down the same exact paths of the ones that turned out to be ♥♥♥♥. So there's not a company out there that I would trust not to do the same as well at some point. KoeiTecmo really botched the Dynasty Warriors series, and added micro transactions, even stopped translating the voices which is the best part. Who the ♥♥♥♥ wants to stop and read important battle information when they're in the middle of fighting someone? That stuff really needs to be dubbed. It's not an RPG.

Then they made Fatal Frame 5 which was so easy I kept checking during the middle of a playthrough if I could turn on hard mode. You can't. At least, not until you've already beaten it. I died once in the entire game, and that was an insta-death segment that I had no idea what the game wanted me to do.

Capcom has been a joke

Ubisoft has been crap for over a decade

Bethesda has been going downhill since Oblivion and Fallout 3

I was done with EA in the early 2010's

Rockstars online for GTA V was so broken by hackers as Rockstar devs did nothing to stop it that I won't waste money on another product of theirs again.

So, I trust no AAA studio.

[temps]

I used to be a BioWare fan and got a lot of their early games like SW: KOTOR, Mass Effect original trilogy, some Dragon Age games, NWN, etc. But yeah they have completely lost and violated my trust and became a scummy company that just pumps out games full of propaganda for EA now.

I have a rule of never paying more than ~$5 for any EA or BioWare game going forward, and in most cases I just skip.

There are so many other devs and games players don't need to eat their crap sandwiches.

[Crystal Sharrd]

Originalmente postado por temps:

I used to be a BioWare fan and got a lot of their early games like SW: KOTOR, Mass Effect original trilogy, some Dragon Age games, NWN, etc. But yeah they have completely lost and violated my trust and became a scummy company that just pumps out games full of propaganda for EA now.

I have a rule of never paying more than ~$5 for any EA or BioWare game going forward, and in most cases I just skip.

There are so many other devs and games players don't need to eat their crap sandwiches.

I think that's more EA forcing them to do things they don't want to, but yeah, quality went down after EA ssaw how successful their games were.

[TERRONE]

I trust only Volvo

[Crazy Tiger]

I look at the games, not the companies. In general I don't care enough about the devs/pubs to keep track, I often don't even know or remember who made/published the game. I have some favorites, mostly in the digital card/board games. None I dislike, though.

[Tezzious]

Microsoft and some of the companies they own or run, Bethesda, 343 and turn 10

[Adversary]

Companies aren't people, so I don't see any point in trusting them. As for the people working at them, I don't know them so I have zero reason to trust them.

Sure, two of the classmates I had in special ed both went on to make video games. But I haven't spoken with them in years and I've only played games that one of them made. Do I trust him? No, if anything he outright stated the last time we spoke that since he is making games he doesn't want to play them anymore.

Which explains why the games he made were complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.