They have been for a while other than overpriced mobile games and not having ff live up to its title. As a publisher they are fantastic and have even been releasing great ports on pc.

Funny, I read all those examples as proof that we're a group that would rather bitch about small meaningless things rather than begin larger industry change.

I guess it depends where your priorities are.

@Rainstorm

How in the hell have they milked Rock Band?

Besides, all those things you said are pretty minor in the long term. We're going through a transition where people are resisting the changes.

If you want to talk about big problems we SHOULD be working towards:

1. How to handle piracy and the lengths to which publishers will go to combat it. This ties into DRM, but the average person will complain without seeing the bigger issue. WE need subscription services and better prices, not millions spent on DRM and closing down websites (which totally works, by the way(!))

2. Game prices and how to maintain them. Those things you mentioned are attempts at combating the fact that creation in this medium that just isn't profitable. If this isn't fixed and fixed quick, there IS going to be another big industry crash and soon.

3. Admit that sometimes you're not the target audience. The biggest problem this generation has been people going up in arms about things that don't really matter to anybody with a modicum of intelligence in the world. My biggest worry is that, as sales continue to fall, some developers might actually start listening to this bull.

4. And while we're at it, trying to work out why sales are falling across the board. Almost every major game of the last 6 months has flopped. Individually people reckon it's because they stopped listening to the fans, but they're failing to see that major franchises not selling is in no way a good thing for the industry.

Because, ya know, new IPs aren't selling either.

U answer those companies w ur cash. Dont buy them.

I buy call of duty games when its on sale for 20 bucks. Thats all its wotth to me.

disc-locked content, and (maybe) DRM i can agree with, but the rest?

no one forces you to buy day 1 DLC, and i really don't see the big deal in releasing DLC content to be available on day 1. season passes do nothing more than give you an overall discount on all (or most) of the DLC content for the game (example - you pay $30 for the pass when it could cost you $40 - $50 to buy all of the applicable DLC individually) which is a good thing, imo. and no one forces you to buy into that, either.

if the extra, non-disc locked content doesn't affect or isn't required to experience the game's core content, why complain about it if they make it available right away or cheaper for you in the long run? it makes no sense...

"just look at the effect united gamers have had this Generation...The Cole Redesign, the Dante Redesign (to a lesser degree), the Mass Effect ending debacle that led to free MP DLC no doubt (this is EA)..."

all of that is just a bunch of whiny bellyaching over first world problems. i personally didn't see anything wrong with the new cole before people cried about it, and dante reboot/ME3 ending was just a poor excuse for people to act like a bunch of spoiled, entitled crybabies.