Publishers are always the biggest cunts in the entertainment industry. Personnel managers, record labels, game publishers, book publishers, movie distributors. Of course they’d do their best to remove fun from the entertainment.
Depends on the publisher, but unfortunately there’s enough grubby publishers out there that the word is associated with bad execs. I automatically assume a publisher is unethical unless they prove otherwise. Even annapurna showed their true colours eventually.
That said, I have seen multiple instances of publishers actually saving games by stepping in and putting their own devs into the process. One example would be Valve, with left 4 dead.
Publishers are always the biggest cunts in the entertainment industry. Personnel managers, record labels, game publishers, book publishers, movie distributors. Of course they’d do their best to remove fun from the entertainment.
Depends on the publisher, but unfortunately there’s enough grubby publishers out there that the word is associated with bad execs. I automatically assume a publisher is unethical unless they prove otherwise. Even annapurna showed their true colours eventually.
That said, I have seen multiple instances of publishers actually saving games by stepping in and putting their own devs into the process. One example would be Valve, with left 4 dead.