Rare is a publisher?

Activision without question.

They pretty much killed Guitar Hero and similar games by oversaturating the hell out of the market. The way the whole Infinity Ward fiasco went down. Them running Call of Duty from respectable series into basically a joke.  Plus a majority of their games these days are simply terrible.

EA still puts out some pretty solid games from time to time (though without nearly enough support), and Capcom has become a big supporter of PC gaming which has been refreshing and the DmC refresh was pretty entertaining. Surprised Konami isn't on the list, and as much as I want another epic 2D Castlevania like SOTN, Lords of Shadow is a surprisingly solid game. Metal Gear is kind of a joke these days.

EA is poison for anything it touches. They are downright the worst publisher by far... There's a long list of things that they've done that I did not like.

eralier i would propably have said activision.. these days however, it is a tie between Capcom, EA and Microsoft

EA because of many medium sized issues such as always on drm, online passes, forced origin, etc.. in total it is a very large amount of annoyances that makes them equal to the others.

Capcom because of the complete discrespect of on disc DLC that is locked, aswell as the Super arcade anniversary 13th edition of any game they create these says.

Microsoft (propably the winner here if any) because of the always online, no used games attempt. i dont give a fuck if they didnt go through with it it. they would if preorders didnt drop. notice how they didnt say anything about those policies untill people found out themselves. if this wasnt the age of the internet, people wouldnt have known before xbox one had hit store shelves. what i am trying to say is that you could put it into perspective like this: if you come home and see someone breaking into your house, but he stops and walks away because you caught him in the act. would you just let it go?. MS have also implemented microtransactions in their games, but these prices are insanely higher than any other who does that, except for scam mobile games that just hope you incorrectly press a button during gameplay.

Actually, yes, if a game goes against what people actually liked/loved about previous games in the franchise, that made them fans in the first place, then I do think their opinion has incredible merit. Kind of like Bomberman on Xbox. Or the latest Sim City. Or Metroid Other M. Or Star Fox Assault.

I don't personally actually care, as I've never been a DMC fan to begin with. But I have many friends who are, and I know for a fact that they all had legitimate gripes and reasons for hating it. Kind of like how I myself am a longtime Castlevania fan, and cannot stomach the "Lords of Shadow" garbage they (or rather some Euro developer they hired) are putting out now. Why? Because it's not Castlevania, in any real sense. I tried it. And I just couldn't do it.

Like I said, if YOU like DmC, congrats. But you obviously have a polar opposite opinion to most of these longtime DMC fans, being that you say you weren't really a fan of the rest of the games, but like THIS one, whereas they love the other games, and hate THIS one. Everyone has their own taste. But your opinion isn't any more valid then theirs.

Well we agree through different paths... but it really is such a dirty move to do a release so close to the other and barrage players purely out of greedy...

About CoD, if we go by the continued bigger numbers up to MW3 it is reasonable to say that the older versions died pretty quickly (even tough It may be possible to have a MP of WW), but you get it... I'm more happy of CoD declining because that means possibility of new genres growing than out of hate for Activision or CoD itself, the only crowd we can "blame" for the milking of a franchise are dead brainers buyers... any company will always be in the market for profit, and if you give them such a easy way out, they will take it.

I tought about them... actually if we look closer very little publishers don't have yearly releases, but at least AC change more from game to game than CoD right? And are better looking and less MP focussed, maybe they get less heat because of it... and Just Dance is Guitar Hero 2.0 and we already know how it will do.

This and I might add "in the process of destroying Maxis". Three of my favorite games back in the day were Simcity, C&C (westwood) and Syndicate (Bullfrog, I also loved Theme hospital back in the day). Now two of those are dead and the remaining one, Simcity,  has been shot down and almost killed by the DRM saga of the latest release. EA loves to destroy the games you liked and shut down good studios.

id say they did that years ago with Sega Saturn

Has Just Dance really changed that much? My gripe with AC is I actually LIKE that series. COD i can take or leave. But the thing with annual franchises outside of sports is they WILL decline. its not a matter of if but when. THe only franchise i can see that kind of beat this is KOF but even then they stopped doing annual releases years ago. AC to me does not suit a yearly release. People dont buy it for the MP and they dont change MP that much anyway. That shows the quality of the MP. I dont want to see it fade into the night but its already starting to decline. All three series are.