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Megathread Controversies and bad/good behaviour of Companies in the industry (WIP)

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Documentation and collection of the good and bad things video game companies do

PhantomXero1x

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Hexasheep93

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Geez might as well link the whole website lol :shinobu_kaka:
 

Xephavitos

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I think it's absolutely worth mentioning Marvelous and XSeed here.

XSeed, Marvelous' North American publisher branch promised No More Heroes 1+2 patches to the PC version after dropping some really terrible ports a few years ago at this point, and they still haven't delivered. No More Heroes 3 on Steam is based on the downgraded Switch version rather than the PS5/XSX versions, and despite Marvelous claiming they were gonna patch the Steam version, they still haven't, and they've only bothered updating the Microsoft Store version of the game.

Rune Factory 5 released with several problems on PC, most which got fixed with a community patch, and Marvelous still hasn't released an update to fix some of the withstanding problems. Not to mention the other problems with the game itself.

The Senran Kagura games on Steam are rather mediocre ports, some of which have graphical bugs (like with Burst Renewal in certain areas of the game, and stuff like the pause screen), terrible shimmering (that anti-aliasing cannot fix) due to completely lacking mipmaps for textures, and in the case of Peach Beach Splash, a busted VR implementation that has really terrible head movement smoothing and reprojection stutter due to not running at the VR HMD's refresh rate. For bonus points, Neptunia x Senran Kagura (yes, that port was handled in-house by Honey Parade) completely lacks gyro support for the minigames on PC, and Kandagawa Jet Girls is a barebones Unity port with FixedUpdate induced stuttering (So you have to cap the game at 50FPS to prevent really terrible juddering/stutter).

Daemon x Machina still has some really glaring issues for an Unreal Engine PC port, and completely lacks the gyro feature for controllers that the Nintendo Switch version has. Also, it requires a mod to tweak the camera FOV (if it's too close, or if you are using an ultrawide monitor, which in the case of the ladder is the result of Unreal Engine's terrible default settings, which no Unreal developer is seemingly wanting to spend a minute to properly fix).

After hearing about Marvelous' recent profit losses, and their ESG bullshittery, thank goodness they're going under. My treatment of NISA, while I think they have problems, at least isn't anywhere as bad as how I view Marvelous at this point. Them and XSeed are the laziest bunch when it comes to ports and game localizations, and judging by what they've shown of Daemon x Machina 2, that game is going to suck too. They're also partially responsible for killing the Senran Kagura franchise.
 

HYppog

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Can someone sum up on which companies still are trustworthy not to cave in to these puritan bullshits? I'd like to give my money to support those instead of these traitors named here.
 

Hexasheep93

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None.

Individual devs are great but no company is worth your money or time.

Little Witch Nobeta devs are great, I highly recommend them.
Yeah supporting independant devs seems to be the best choice. That said I would treat it in a case by case basis.

Also, Its rare but not uncommon that a company does not cave to the idiot mob and I think is important to show them that doing that is more profitable than bending the knee to social media idiots.
 

Ebicentre

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Tekken 8's character creator is confirmed to call Male/Female 'Motions'.

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Bandai Namco is one of many Japanese companies to embrace ESG.
 
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