Top 10 Developers Killed By Their Publishers
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Another one bites the dust…These are the developers and game creators that were put out of a job, shut down, terminated or straight up fired by their publishing company. Business is hard, but so is being a game dev. Welcome to and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 Developers Killed by their Publishers.
#10. “Runic Games” (2008-2017)
#9. “Core Design” (1988-2010)
#8. “Mythic Entertainment” (1995-2014)
#7. “Bullfrog Productions” (1987-2001)
#6. “Pandemic Studios” (1998-2009)
#5. “Lionhead Studios” (1996-2016)
#4. “Maxis” (Emeryville studio) (1987-2015)
#3, #2 & #1: ????
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2:39 “Star Wars Battlefront II” (2017)
I think there is something wrong here.
The original SWBF II came out in ’05
#1 better be Activision killing Bungie with Destiny 2 (EDIT: i misunderstoof the title but im still leaving my comment because its true :p lol)
Now EA is fcking up with Dice and they already fcked up the linear Star Wars project.
What about EA Black Box
all we need is a merger between Disney and EA and the world will be doomed
before i even clicked the thumbnail, I knew this was going to be a list of EA’s victims
More like “Top 10 Developers Killed by EA”
Just show’s how much of a cancer EA really are to gaming.
Out of 10 entries, 6 are successfully made by EA.
Just rename the video to studios shut down by ea
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