I honestly think that true traditional gaming is slowly being destroyed by these power hungry companies. Before them, companies would strive to make awesome games and please their fans, but with the rise of these publishers, their sole purpose was to make money, which they did. More money for them meant less for other smaller companies, meaning that the big publishers (activision and ea) could buy smaller struggling companies. The smaller companies couldn't compete with other companies with big publishers, as the publishers could provide huge funds for advertising. So basically more and more genuine respected companies have fallen victim to these greedy companies, changing their primary goal of making a good game and being remembered, to being able to make the most money. It's a sad truth and it seems to be a common problem in today's world.

Developers owned by Activision:

Raven Software
Pandemic Studios
Neversoft
Gray Matter Interactive
Infinity Ward
Z Axis
ShaderWorks
Vicarious Visions
Toys For Bob
Beenox
RedOctane
Bizarre Creations
Demonware
FreeStyleGames
7 Studios


The list for EA is too long to write and can be found here:

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Some may argue it is a good thing smaller companies sided with such larger companies, because it allowed them to get their name out and make more games, but they had to make as much money as possible in each of their games, often lowering quality/raising prices.

Such is the case for games like call of duty, and I know that a lot of you may think this is nonsense and that gaming is at its best yet, but I hope that older members can see my point and not the next generation of 12 year olds whose birthday correlates with the newest and "most innovative" cod game yet.

tl;dr

Gaming is being exploited for money, EA and Activision are evil.