Heresiarch
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Not counting indie of course because no one gives a shit about them. If it's not indie it tend to be corrupted sooner or later.
Back on topic: the only one I can think of right now is Firaxis and Sid Meier.
All the other companies/developers more or less all fell in the mud. Bioware goes all XTREME with grimdarkgritty-kiddy stuff. Not mention it's EA's slave now.
Will Wright and Maxis does nothing but pumping out the Sims expansions leeching in endless money from all the poor sods who doesn't have a life. A real one anyway.
Bethsoft killed the RPG genre by giving it a gigantic CONSOLETARDIZATION brand and make them a massive success thus make all the kiddies born after the 90s think that "Oblivion is the best rpg" and "Fallout 3 revived Fallout oh how I wish the old Fallouts are so much fun like the new Fallout 3".
Peter "Complete Batshit" Molyneux made a perfect example how crazy a guy who used to have excellent taste at game design can become over the years.
Some other guys who are not completely corrupted but nonetheless declining:
Blizzard, it loves WOW more than anything and is willing to kill the complete Warcraft franchise by letting millions of mmorpgers kill all the heroes in it. And Diablo 3 has rainbows.
Relic ditched the good old balanced RTS for RPG elements. Is that decline or incline?
Creative Assembly has becoming more and more like a brand milking machine.
Ubi is becoming more and more like EA a la rape machine.
The list can go on and on but I'll stop. I think some others are still surviving like Obsidian and Paradox but their power is far from to be a match to the declined ones.
Back on topic: the only one I can think of right now is Firaxis and Sid Meier.
All the other companies/developers more or less all fell in the mud. Bioware goes all XTREME with grimdarkgritty-kiddy stuff. Not mention it's EA's slave now.
Will Wright and Maxis does nothing but pumping out the Sims expansions leeching in endless money from all the poor sods who doesn't have a life. A real one anyway.
Bethsoft killed the RPG genre by giving it a gigantic CONSOLETARDIZATION brand and make them a massive success thus make all the kiddies born after the 90s think that "Oblivion is the best rpg" and "Fallout 3 revived Fallout oh how I wish the old Fallouts are so much fun like the new Fallout 3".
Peter "Complete Batshit" Molyneux made a perfect example how crazy a guy who used to have excellent taste at game design can become over the years.
Some other guys who are not completely corrupted but nonetheless declining:
Blizzard, it loves WOW more than anything and is willing to kill the complete Warcraft franchise by letting millions of mmorpgers kill all the heroes in it. And Diablo 3 has rainbows.
Relic ditched the good old balanced RTS for RPG elements. Is that decline or incline?
Creative Assembly has becoming more and more like a brand milking machine.
Ubi is becoming more and more like EA a la rape machine.
The list can go on and on but I'll stop. I think some others are still surviving like Obsidian and Paradox but their power is far from to be a match to the declined ones.