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Which merger is the worst for gaming?

Square-Enix 71 37.37%
 
Namco-Bandai 8 4.21%
 
Sega-Sammy 6 3.16%
 
Activision-Blizzard 53 27.89%
 
Square-Enix buyout of Eidos 8 4.21%
 
Take Two buyout of Rockstar 1 0.53%
 
I just wanna see the results 43 22.63%
 
Total:190

Not on the list. EA buyout of Bioware. Good move fo EA, bad move for Bioware. Quality is going down the drain. Mass Effect was good, Mass effect 2 was mainstream. Dragon Age was good but not excellent. Do I really have to talk about Dragon Age 2. Out of your list I think I will side with most of you, Square-Enix was the worst one.



 

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We all know you only did this poll to point out the obvious: Square-Enix should have never been.



Square Enix



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Square for sure! I really miss their old games.



Got to go with Activision Blizzard.



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Square-Enix only became mediocre in recent years. There was a fairly long period when S-E was a great company.

My biggest complaint is A-B. Not only does Blizzard fund Activision, thus keeping them in business and thus decreasing quality and innovation in the market, but it has also seen Blizzard make some very greedy decisions, that they probably wouldn't have otherwise.

The rest I don't really care about. And didn't Sega-Sammy form because the alternative was Sega going bust a while earlier than it did?



What exactly is so bad with Activision-Blizzard?



DeathToIran24 said:
What exactly is so bad with Activision-Blizzard?

Activision is the pimp, and Blizzard is now their whore.


They sold Starcraft II for 3 times the price of a normal game

They removed the offline capabilities of D3 so that they could have always online' drm

They have a real money auction house in D3 which they take a cut from

 

The money Blizzard brought in selling their body allowed the pimp to fund his nasty habbit of buying drugs, and pushing them to the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this pimp is rather unsruculous, so he cuts his cocaine with detergent, and his pills with god knows what. The money from the whore is helping this unscrupulous pimp spread his deadly drugs, meaning that it is more difficult to find clean drugs.

 

A sad situation.



scottie said:
DeathToIran24 said:
What exactly is so bad with Activision-Blizzard?

Activision is the pimp, and Blizzard is now their whore.


They sold Starcraft II for 3 times the price of a normal game

They removed the offline capabilities of D3 so that they could have always online' drm

They have a real money auction house in D3 which they take a cut from

 

The money Blizzard brought in selling their body allowed the pimp to fund his nasty habbit of buying drugs, and pushing them to the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this pimp is rather unsruculous, so he cuts his cocaine with detergent, and his pills with god knows what. The money from the whore is helping this unscrupulous pimp spread his deadly drugs, meaning that it is more difficult to find clean drugs.

 

A sad situation.

They could charge 500$ for thier games. They still make the BEST games. Blizzard is fine. Once i see a new SC game coming 3 times in 3 years. *once per year*. then i will agree.

Since when does SC2 cost 3 times more then a normal game?!



Square-Enix did ruin the JRPG, yes, and that's a great shame.

But Activision-Blizzard created that unstoppable hellspawn Bobby Kotick and commenced a slow descent into the ground of not only Guitar Hero, CoD and Tony Hawk's (whatever, we can live without those) but also Blizzard games. Starcraft II didn't have LAN. What game doesn't have LAN?



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