That never happened cuz you have no proof I made that mistake.

Lol. I voted Konami

Wasn't even a hardcore PC gamer when I got into Blizzard games. Blizz without a doubt.

For me it's definitely Rockstar Games.

I'm pretty sure it was either Westwood and their games or Westwood + Blizzard that popularized RTS games. Definitely not Blizzard alone though. MMOs were popular even before WoW, it just managed to grab even non-gamers. Yeah, that's huge, but hardly genre-defining. It did have a huge impact but the genre already existed, and as far as I know, WoW didn't drastically change it.

MMOs existed and were popular even before WoW, and I'm pretty sure WoW didn't drastically change the genre. Its impact on the genre and its popularity is huge, but I think it didn't drastically change anything so that it could be said to have define the genre. It's by far the single most important game in the genre, but the genre already existed way before WoW.

I suppose it's important how you want to define what it means for a game to define a genre. To me, it's not just about popularity (although it is importan too), but also about the roots.

Oh, maybe I should get back on topic. I suppose Blizzard, because everything Blizzard touches turns to gold. There have been some mistakes too, but overall, Blizzard has been pretty great. I like Rockstar as well, but personally I think GTA is greatly overrated, and they haven't made that many other games in a long time. Also, I don't think iterating over the same thing (GTA) over and over again makes a company great. It may be great for business, but it's way too easy and safe for me to be able to call someone that great.

Blizzard makes more cheesy games, but ones people remember because of it, so I'll go with them.

Yeah, Westwood was the one that basically created the genre with Dune and Command and Conquer, but it wasnt until Warcraft that things really got popular.But ill give you this one, since Westwood importance over Blizzard on this one cant really be ignored.But in my opinion you are wrong about WOW.It dosent really matter if the genre has already been created before by another game.I mean, most revolutionary games we have nowadays have inspiration on games that came before it.The point is that WOW did things so right, abe with new or existing ideas, that should be credited as such.It basically laid the foundation for the other games in the genre, and when one game does that, I think its worth the title "revolutionary".Thats at least how I see it.

Voted Konami.

No contest.
I still play Warcraft 3 and Starcraft: Brood War and the first two Diablo games to this day.
When was the last time anyone played GTA:San Andreas or even GTA IV? Rockstar games age like milk.

New Blizzard (SC2 and up) vs Rockstar might be a contest, but factor in old Blizzard and it's just a bloodbath.

One company did not popularize RTS gaming.
Blizzard and Westwood were equal rivals until EA fucked Westwood up. People forget so easily just how big Westwood was. And those weren't the only one. Age of Empires held its own against both weswood and Blizzard.

Blizzard eventually won because the superb design of their games made them keep selling long after they got old. But at the time of the golden age of RTS gaming, three companies made the genre popular, not one.