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Which company disappoints their fans most often?

Not sure why people mention 343i. Their only crime was taking the reigns of Halo - a MS decision.

Capcom and Konami.

SE I never cared about.
 
Capcom and Square Enix.

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Gotta be Square Enix most recently.

Valve have of course disappointed their older fans the longest purely down to one game.
 
Sega.

Where is Virtua Fighter 6?
Where is the North American version of PSO2?
Where is Sonic on PS4 / Xbox One?
Give us a console port of Daytona 2!
Where is Shenmue HD?


I could go on and on.
 
SE is unbelievably disappointing. They used to be my favorite company up until the psx generation. Now, it'd be hard for me to care less about their releases not named Final Fantasy.
 
One thing is to do what you think is best for your company instead of listening to the fans. Then there's Square Enix, who at this point I honestly believe they do it on purpose to piss their fans for some reason.
 
If your answer is Nintendo, then you have led a charmed life.

The real answer is Square. That FFVII thing...you have to have outright disdain for your fans to do that. That, or youre so out of touch that its a wonder you're making any money at all.
 
Nintendo, because you can't expect anything but shit from Square-Enix anymore. Nintendo still makes some good games, but their games always has some fatal flaws and idiot decisions. I don't even know why I even buy their games anymore.

Mario Kart 8: The fucking coin item can go to hell and totally ruins the multiplayer for me. And why the heck they removed the leaderboards from Mario Kart Wii!? Let's make a beautiful game and fuck up with the basic stuff.

SSB4 I'm shocked how bare-bones the online modes still are. I also feel that the gameplay and psychics are pure garbage, but that's just my opinion.

Nintendoland The game is good and some minigames are great, but no online multiplayer or even leaderboards... sigh.

Super Mario 3D world The best one, but way too easy which is a common problem in almost any Nintendo game nowadays.
 
All these Nintendo posts are hilarious, especially the "We didn't ask for Tropical Freeze/3D World" post. You must be living under a rock if you think Nintendo is the worst for disappointment when we have Capcom and Sqaure's constant stream of negative press from all their poor choices, plus I can understand all the posts about 343.
 
fhqwhgads said:
All these Nintendo posts are hilarious, especially the "We didn't ask for Tropical Freeze/3D World" post. You must be living under a rock if you think Nintendo is the worst for disappointment when we have Capcom and Sqaure's constant stream of negative press from all their poor choices, plus I can understand all the posts about 343.
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I was just thinking exactly the same thing.

Tropical Freeze was my GOTY (next to Shovel Knight). 2014 was a pretty great year for Nintendo fans and it looks like 2015 is going to be nuts again.

Most importantly, I don't hear any of that online/microtransaction/mobile bullshit talk from Nintendo and I can't thank them enough for that.
 
Probably Square Enix overall.

For me personally, Nintendo. Square has brought me to a place where i don't care about them anymore, so they no longer disappoint me. Nintendo i still like, so their policies are still genuinely disappointing.
 
Atlus has been very disappointing for me. Riding that Persona train too much. Persona 5 taking forever admits a complete lack of console games.

Konami is also god awful. Nothing really beyond Metal Gear Solid and even that is past it's days and is continually tiring. Then the cancellation of a new Zone of the Enders was akin to murder.
 
Booshka said:
Halo CE: Anniversary on 360 should have had Halo CE's original Xbox MP.

Halo 3 and Reach weren't properly updated and supported like 343 said they would, especially Halo 3.

Halo 4 is a terrible Halo game and took a ton of updates and patches to even become mediocre in Multiplayer. Spartan Ops is not a good substitute for Firefight.

MCC is an absolute disaster.

Halo 5 has ADS (albeit mostly cosmetic) and Sprint as standard features. Instead of increasing base movement speed and making strafing more viable, they kept base movement speed slow, and strafing is practically nonexistent.
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Allow me to add a few more things to the list.

Nightfall was disappointing. It took them three weeks to get the subtitles on a decent level. The secondary story videos are more interesting than the main story however they're a problem to watch thanks to a not properly working Halo channel.

The quality of the comics has nose dived, it's not even funny.

Screwed over non-US players during the H4 launch period and constantly lied with a straight face. We still don't have multiplayer filters, something Bungie gave us in 2007.

All in all it feels like a studio that doesn't enjoy what they're doing.
 
I've been a defender of them for a long time, but I have finally come out of denial and realized that Square Enix has changed for the worse, a lot. I still like many of their games, but my expectations have been lowered a lot regarding announcements and release dates.
 
Based on NeoGAF at least it's Square Enix or Sega. I put a lot of the blame on their fans for believing either of them will return to their respective golden years, but yeah most of the time when someone is says company x disappointed me it is one of those two. Capcom is a close third. I have been in the same boat with Bioware and Bethesda myself. It took me a few years before I accepted that they were no longer interested in making the games I wanted from them.
 
For me that's easy, as there is only one company i actually care about enough to get disappointed by them... and it is the same company that thrills and delights me with quality games more so than not: Nintendo. Let's just say that "corporate" Nintendo lets me down often, and "gamedev" Nintendo steals my heart even more.
 
Square Enix for me.
I don't like where mainline FF is heading and we haven't gotten interesting and varied spin-offs of the franchise since the DS and PSP days.

I really want a Crystal Chronicles or FF A3 sequels as well as another TWEWY game, but SE are just skeletons with no meat these days.

They are deader than dead.
 
Namco is also fast approaching this zone. They've been playing it far to safe. They've shied away from making new ips and full new games in thier classic franchises. Gone are the days of many Namco games that displayed some of the best artistry and music production in games. It seems like all they do is put out anime games and F2P games these days. Plus Tekken. They just aren't an exciting company and feel like they are "just there".
 
Floex said:
People saying Nintendo over companies like Capcom & SE ._>
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I think people are making good arguments for Nintendo. You have to still enjoy what a company is doing to be disappointed by them.

There's really no excuse to be disappointed by Square nowadays since it's been so long since they gave a fuck.
 
I would say SE but they let DE:HR happen and that provides a huge amount of good grace in my book

Of course they also let Thief happen so hmm

At this point though, Capcpom
 
Floex said:
People saying Nintendo over companies like Capcom & SE ._>
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I don't think companies like Square and Capcom have any expectations on them for people to be disappointed with.

So I guess I'll go with Nintendo, they are either amazingly great or amazingly dumb, there is no middle ground for them. If there was a thread about who does the best job pleasing their fans I would still say Nintendo.
 
Capcom and Square Enix, definitely. I guess Sega fans have it rough too. That would be the top three, I guess.

In no way shape or form does Nintendo qualify unless you're a Startropics, Murasamejou, Earthbound/Mother, Star Fox, F-Zero or Metroid fan. Heck, not even Metroid. One bad game and having to wait a few years is nothing compared to what Capcom, SE or Sega fans go through.
 
I'll go with Square-Enix, all you have to do is read PSX threads after the FF7 announcement and for some, it ruined the event for them completely
 
until 2009 it was EA, these days its square-enix, but activision and ubi soft are scumbags too these days with their season passes and map packs.
 
Absolutely Sega. I say this as someone who has followed them since the Genesis days.

-Constant flow of mediocre to bad Sonic games
-Completely ignoring some franchises
-Few Saturn games are even available via re-releases in digital stores
-No effort to bring some DC and Xbox titles to current consoles as digital re-releases (JSRF, Shenmue I and II, Panzer Dragoon Orta etc.)
-PSO 2 not coming to the west
-Total War games are not sold digitally in Asia

Though there have been a lot of really risky decisions I have to give them credit for. They rebooted NiGHTS and Samba de Amigo, which probably lost them money ergo the lack of desire to use more of their obscure franchises. They still make a lot of good games and released a lot of their Genesis and arcade games digitally last gen. You just really don't know what you're going to get with Sega.
 
A short list on why it's Nintendo-NoA:
  • Region locking
  • Don't let me buy Fatal Frame 5
  • Promised N64 and DS virtual console, still nothing
  • No DKC on US virtual console
  • amiibo stock issues
  • No standart New 3DS for america
  • Still no RGB mode on Wii U
 
Sega. Absolutely paranoid of the West to the point where they'd rather not release anything at all instead of running the risk of not turning a big enough profit, and then when they do push for new initiatives that make their future seem a bit brighter they get cold feet after 1 product underperforms. They also like to completely ignore all feedback regarding the Sonic series due to being lost in their own fantasy delusions, leading to constantly tossing out what works in favour of what everyone is screaming that they don't want.
 
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