MS and not because of their hardware. I personally feel that MS has been damaging the gaming community for console and PC for years now. Often they have purchased companies to make them inhouse of sorts. They force the companies to produce top quality games(yes that's good), but often at the expense of crippling or closing down developers other divisions. Other times MS has made a company make a game that they shouldn't have only to close down the developer late. While I can't name all the companies MS has harmed I know a few personal ones that I cared about until MS destroyed them or their IP.
Fasa, great PnP game company. MS bought the Fasa Electronics for the Battle Tech license. MS was hiring Fasa staff away for Fasa Electronics division. The owners saw what was happening and sold the PnP IP to other companies and family. However MS held onto the Software license and has produced crappy games except for BT since then. Seriously Shadow Run was RAPED compared to what it could have been. Crimson Skies 2 was ok.
Bungie, awesome developer before hand. Made games like Myth a fantastic RTS style game and a few others. They had Halo that was going to be a more open Shooter and looked interesting in the original design. They also developing Oni at the time. MS bought them up. Oni was put to another division. Halo 1 became a CRAP Sci-Fi zombie shooter an mostly made it's reputation on console. Bungie now ONLY makes Halo games.
Ensemble. Do I really need to say more. Fantastic RTS company that made comparitive RTS games to Blizzard in their own style. They were forced to make Halo RTS for the console and the company was forced to shut down... yay MS?
MS Flight Simulator? what happened to that company. gone.
There are also a variety of companies that they close down or pull investment out of.
Another theme. MS makes PC game developers make console games and shuts them down if they aren't million sellers. Why make PC developers to console developers. It's a handicap unless you give the resources and talent. Bungie is the only company that made it and even then part of them was destroyed. Their talent is just a pale shadow.
Yeah, MS can go kiss it. Because they are more harm than good.
Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.
