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Poll: Which publisher suits Adhesive Games best?* (126 member(s) have cast votes)

Which publisher suits Adhesive Games best?*

  1. Activision Blizzard (5 votes [6.02%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.02%

  2. Valve (47 votes [56.63%])

    Percentage of vote: 56.63%

  3. EPIC (3 votes [3.61%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.61%

  4. Konami (3 votes [3.61%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.61%

  5. Microsoft (1 votes [1.20%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.20%

  6. Interplay (1 votes [1.20%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.20%

  7. Sony (2 votes [2.41%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.41%

  8. THQ (9 votes [10.84%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.84%

  9. Take Two (4 votes [4.82%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.82%

  10. Ubisoft (8 votes [9.64%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.64%

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#1 Provi

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Posted April 30 2011 - 12:46 PM

Some aspects to consider:

- History
(Some publishers specialize in specific genres or certain game platforms.)

- Intellectual property rights
(Which publisher do you expect to allow Adhesive Games to retain its IP the most?)

- Budget
(Larger publishers can offer more funds for development.)

- Publisher-Developer Relations
(Some publishers restructure game development while others have more of a hands-off approach.)

- Advertising Power
(Some publishers have advertizing advantages in different parts of the world.)


* For those of you who prefer that Hawken remain a completely indie title, just treat this as the least of 10 evils. :)

Please share the reasons that led to your choice.

EDIT: Added EPIC.

#2 Ganthir

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Posted April 30 2011 - 03:41 PM

Take-Two is probably the only publisher that wouldn't tarnish Hawken in my opinion.

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Posted May 02 2011 - 01:39 PM

i dont have a preference on publisher as long as the game its not damaged.

aint you the the forum mod from battlefield heroes provi :?:

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#4 Provi

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Posted May 02 2011 - 01:56 PM

Maligkno said:

aint you the the forum mod from battlefield heroes provi :?:
Hello there. :)

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Posted May 03 2011 - 07:18 AM

Publishers get their greedy mitts into IP's and ruin them. There has to be a better way to release this game so it won't be ruined by arrogant publishers pandering to the investors rather then serving the gaming community. If you have to go with a pub. then please do not go near EA, Activision, THQ or UBI.
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Posted May 03 2011 - 01:43 PM

capcom published steel battalion in every wrong possible way that it was possible to do. putting a sim on a console, requiring a 200 dollar peripheral just to play, rather than letting gamers use their keyboards and joysticks and letting the huge controller be optional, not having dedicated servers meaning that the multiplayer had a definite lifespan, and so on.

Microsoft is pretty much the abusive stepdad to mechwarrior.  Forcing mw4 to be dumbed down, canceling the original mw5 when it was in production back during the original xbox launch, giving the go ahead on both mechassaults, then just sitting on the IP and doing a whole lotta nothing with it, but not letting other people use it until relatively recently, and even thats not going well.

EA is EA and Activision is activision.  both will sell their grandmothers to meatprocessing factories if it lets them turn up a higher bottom line the next quarter to show up the other.

Konami, no opinion

Sega, is a shadow of its former self

Sony, eh

ubisoft, anything they publish that ends up on pc is almost always the worst possible port, they hate the pc like if it killed their parents.  

take 2 and THQ are both smaller publishers that seem to be less intrusive on the products they publish, i think
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Posted May 03 2011 - 03:15 PM

None of the above. Really, there's no reason not to go the indie route these days. Sell direct from your own website, or if those durn pirates bug you sell through Steam - sure, they'll take 30% of the gross but you're looking at the biggest captive audience in PC gaming, and with the kind of slow-build excitement this game seems to be generating you're guaranteed huge sales.

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Posted May 03 2011 - 07:09 PM

I think THQ would be the best option since they give a lot of freedom to their developers (well outside of wrestling games).  Thanks to them we got original games like STALKER and Metro 2033.  The downside is they don't know how to advertise a game besides Smackdown.

Take Two would be a good option too, but I've heard horror stories of how they handle their employees like with Red Dead Redemption.  They make great games, but their work ethics would go against how Adhesive Games operates.

Activision is not an option. Simple as that.

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Posted May 03 2011 - 07:28 PM

THQ is horrid, they ruined both Warhammer 40k and Homeworld series, Homefront was an epic failure as the port to PC alone was almost unplayable as well THQ is a land slide fall as they lost last year over $125million and this quarter alone they dropped $124 million. I don't see them doing much more as they continue to release crap ports to PC or if it's a PC based game they do thier best to steal money from the customer ( DOWII: Redemption), a $70 game that should have been a $20 DLC for the 2hrs of play it gave you.

I will never buy a THQ game again as for years they have been punching out series that have been wose each release and they offer zero support. In most cases they just drop the title ( Homeworld) all together and leave the consumer with a buggy game.

I will 2nd the question posed above, " do you really need a publisher given all the online venues out there that allow for D2D.
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Posted May 03 2011 - 08:28 PM

The reason I left the option for "Indie" out is because I know that fans like you and I are biased in that we already know and love Hawken - we don't require expensive advertizing because we are the crowd who have been lucky enough to see it already.

Gaming consumers like us rarely if ever get to see the actual offers and internal workings of game development. So the challenge is for us to bridge the divide between being consumers and being producers.

I sincerely ask: Do you trust Adhesive Games' judgement that much?

If in a turn of events, they chose a contract with Activision, I think I'd have to trust that they made the best choice of the options they had.

They had a terrible experience with Intel the last development cycle - but here they are still, making another great game. Who better to give the the benefit of the doubt than a developer who is still smarting over a project's carcass from a contract blunder?


Suspect I am biased? I am on your side - I roll my eyes when I think about the tragedies that were Tribes, Homeworld, and Project Offset of course!

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Posted May 03 2011 - 10:08 PM

Good point Navy Marcom about Warhammer 40k (they are making a new game, but its gonna be a third person shooter).  But Homeworld was published by Sierra so they didn't have any part in that.  Also, if you're going by how publishers handle the PC release and DLC, then Take-Two, Activision, and EA are not any better.

Maybe they could strike up a deal with Valve to have the game on Steam but then have EA handle the console release like they do.  That way we could get the best of both worlds.

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Posted May 03 2011 - 10:52 PM

I can add Valve. Can't believe I left it out to begin with!

Remember, you can all recast your votes!

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Posted May 04 2011 - 01:11 AM

Valve it is then.

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Posted May 04 2011 - 03:26 AM

Provi said:

I can add Valve. Can't believe I left it out to begin with!

Remember, you can all recast your votes!
I think there's been a mix up in the poll. It looks like when you added Valve, all of the votes moved down one space.

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Posted May 04 2011 - 07:57 AM

Sega got 1 vote?  :shock:

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Posted May 04 2011 - 08:09 AM

In a round about way I referring to Relic as the game designer on Homeworld and how it ended in an epic failure, THQ choose Relic to develop the game even after that.. and the Relic/THQ combo exacerbated the problem between the two of them. I have yet to hear a single word out of either company.. and you won't; I know a few people who worked at Relic when they were doing homeworld, they left the company as they themselves were taking heat for the epic fail of homeworld 2 and the lack of any support or communication. Sounds exactly like DOWII series behaviour in spades.  Yes somehow, Games workshop has re-upped the lic with THQ.. holy crap. I've played warhammer since the first Shadow of the Horned Rat came out.. not any more, I refuse to buy them now.

I think whatever venue you choose to take, make sure it's one that does not try to manipulate your end work and allows for clear and decisive communication with the buying public.. You do that and you'll be in the top tier of companies with loyal fans.

Shiro Zeta said:

Good point Navy Marcom about Warhammer 40k (they are making a new game, but its gonna be a third person shooter).  But Homeworld was published by Sierra so they didn't have any part in that.  Also, if you're going by how publishers handle the PC release and DLC, then Take-Two, Activision, and EA are not any better.

Maybe they could strike up a deal with Valve to have the game on Steam but then have EA handle the console release like they do.  That way we could get the best of both worlds.

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Posted May 04 2011 - 09:09 AM

Porcupine said:

Sega got 1 vote?  :shock:

:o

Apparently whomever voted for Sega didn't play Chromehounds....

#18 Provi

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Posted May 04 2011 - 11:56 AM

lavalamp1138 said:

Provi said:

I can add Valve. Can't believe I left it out to begin with!

Remember, you can all recast your votes!
I think there's been a mix up in the poll. It looks like when you added Valve, all of the votes moved down one space.

Whoops, will fix. Can't do it alphabetically apparently.

And yes, Ubisoft has that error, but I'm crossing my fingers people will recast..

#19 Porcupine

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Posted May 04 2011 - 05:56 PM

Provi said:

lavalamp1138 said:

I think there's been a mix up in the poll. It looks like when you added Valve, all of the votes moved down one space.

Whoops, will fix. Can't do alphabetical it apparently.

And yes, Ubisoft has that error, but I'm crossing my fingers people will recast..

So thats why Sega had a vote!  :lol:

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Posted May 04 2011 - 06:00 PM

Fyi, I voted for Valve and it got shifted to Ubisoft when you reordered it. (I revoted though)
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