Sony, to go broad, for their TERRIBLE treatment of second level franchises from 2011-2013. There are a bunch of them but specifically the one that I will never forgive them for is PlayStation All-Stars. They cut ties with Superbot after the game came out and exceeded sales expectations slightly, handed development over to Santa Monica, and stopped caring. SSM (now SMS) then dropped all PSAS support to make Ascension microtransactions despite the former game charting higher every month besides launch month on PSN and consistently placing in the top 10, with the latter game being effectively DOA within three weeks.
Then the PSAS fanbase (the largest official forum fanbase the company has ever had) found out that they cancelled two of the big characters we were asking for, because they pushed those two back to release Zeus from GoW and Isaac from Dead Space as advertisement characters first. So instead of Dart and Abe from Oddworld, we got characters that nobody wanted, both to advertise and give an excuse for dropping support due to low sales of these two characters.
THEN, I personally started the petition for #ReleaseDart, and the fanbase entered full campaign mode trying to get SOMETHING to finalize the game - the moment growing large enough to get mentioned on several gaming sites. Eventually they caved and promised us a final balance patch - a decent compromise. It'd be out by fall 2013, according to SSM. The final day of the legal definition of "fall," they tell us that it's getting started now, with one guy working on it. So for six months they lied to us and told us they were working on it with a team of people, while they did no such thing. Credit to the guy, he took ALL the fan input and made a hell of a patch by himself, but it took five to six MORE months for that to happen just to make sure the fanbase fell apart before it could continue any campaigning.
They did this with other games too, but the middle finger that the PSAS fanbase got from Sony and SSM ensured that I will never buy a SSM game new. I will specifically buy GoW4 used if I buy it (which I likely won't); if they don't want me as a fan they're not going to get paid from me.
Sony has gotten generally better with this since then but they're the ones who called the shots on this and other insanely questionable decisions so I hold them just as responsible.
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