Are developers simply the underlings of publishers?

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pezus said:

Kasz216 said:

Do developers have to listen to the people who pay there bills?

Why yes... yes they do...

and there isn't anything wrong with that.

If you want to completely see your own vision go make indy games... or just do the gruntwork "movie tie in" games that they get random devs to do so you can self fund your own game.


Otherwise, yeah you'll have to do what the developer wants unless you can convince them it's a bad idea.

It's only fair really.  I mean, who wants to give 5 million + dollars to someone without having any say in what they're doing at all?

Yeah, but devs like Infinity Ward. Activision was surely unjust towards them, why would the majority have left otherwise? It's not like Activision give them money of their good will, they only do it so they can get their money back multiplied by ~20. Surely Infinity Ward deserved more respect from them, some of their biggest moneymakers.

that's life. The people with the money call the shots. Obviously Activision knew what they were doing, because Call of Duty has done just fine without them. 

Respect is worth a lot less than money. It doesn't just happen in this industry. It's sad maybe, but I don't see how you can expect anything less.