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Which Publishers and/or Developers Do You Trust The Most

Limit it to your TOP 3

example

1. Dougy's Kewl Games
2. Derptivision
3. Snow Axe!!1! Inc.


This is a thread in response to THIS thread.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=432333&page=5

Starting at POST #216, a graph is presented showing the number of "mentions" in yet another thread regarding who GAF members trust the most in gaming development and publishing.

Trust can be a pretty broad term. I'll leave it up to your own interpretation/instinct.

You trust them to make a quality product.
You trust them to give you a product where you feel it was money well-spent.
You trust that they will respect you as a contributing member of their customer-base.

etc...

Hopefully there's some interest. I'll let this cook for two weeks if it takes off and then collect the data and compare it the previous graph, back in POST 216 in the aforementioned post.

Have at'er.

In fact...I'll start.

1. Capy
2. Naughty Dog
3. Irrational
 
1. Nintendo
2. Valve
3. Game Freak

This goes great with the thread I just made. :lol

I should clarify a little about what I feel trust is. I feel like that any game series I already like or care about will be in good hands if I trust the company. The way I feel trust isn't that I will automatically like every new thing they'll make.
 
Blizzard and Team Ico are studios whose games I will buy sight unseen with no questions asked. Nintendo EAD at its best is right up there with them, and generally they consistently does excellent work, but is a little too large and "too productive", so there there are a bit more mediocre titles that bring down the average. Naughty Dog will likely make that list if they can make a non-Uncharted game on par with UC2. And though Valve's games aren't in the same league for me (mostly because I'm just not that big of a FPS fan, even if HL and Portal are both fantastic), they're nigh unmatched.
 
Square Enix
Nintendo Sakamoto's Team (Yes, I like Fusion and Other M)
Banpresto. May not be a fan of the OG series, but I love all their Anime based stuff.
 
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Volition.
Sega.
Game Cock.

Had trouble think of a third joke company. Last year, Volition would've been a real member of my list. I have been betrayed. BETRAYED! Sega, 3 years ago maybe when the first Valkyria came out and it looked like they had some promise again.
 
Valve
Rockstar
Naughty Dog (despite how Uncharted 3 multplayer is coming together)
Sucker Punch
Nintendo's A Teams
Kamiya led teams
Mikami led teams
Bungie (not completely ga ga on their stuff like some, but they make quality games)
 
Troika
Looking Glass Studios
Black Isle Studios
R.I.P. :(

I still very much respect Valve as a publisher, but after the release of L4D2 and destroying TF2, I can no longer wholly trust them as a developer.
 
Right now I can only think of one that I'm absolutely sure of.

That one would be Valve.

However, I can see Naughty Dog being my number 2 if I really had to think of one.

As for a third, I want to say BioWare but certain aspects of Dragon Age and even Mass Effect have disappointed me. They would still probably be a reluctant third (I will no longer buy their games without a second thought, unless it's a special circumstance).
 
Valve, Platinum Games, Cave.

Shout outs to Frictional Games and CD Projekt too though.
 
Valve is basically the most trustworthy dev. Whatever they do, as asinine as it might sound, I will completely support. Second and third would probably be Bioware followed by id.
 
Nintendo EAD - When they bring their A game, they really bring their A game
Obsidian - Different kind of trust than with Nintendo, I trust them to make a game with good role-playing mechanics and have everything else be stuffed full of glitches and bugs
Valve - Pretty much the model of consistency
 
publishers :
Nintendo
Atlus
Square Enix

devs :
Retro Studios
whichever team Kawazu's heading at Square
Sora I guess?
 
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