I like them all. They are also human beings who like us can mess up every now and then.

Yeah...

The only company or studio I really dismiss is SOE.

About others, I don't care, I just like or dislike games, and at the moment I don't like any MMO in the market that I have played or considered playing.

I take each game on its own rather than bothering much about the developer. Case in point, I play EQ2 primarily, despite SOE's reputation with the gaming public, though I still feel pretty sore about the whole hacking event. I'm still watching my cards very closely to make sure that everything is ok. If not, I will leave EQ2 behind unfortunately.

I really appreciate Trion Worlds right now. It's not just because I like Rift. I like championning a studio that is not owned by a major company. They have a quality product in Rift and seem to fix bugs pretty quickly as well as adding in some features I thought they should have to make the community aspects better in the game.

Companies I stay away from? NCSoft, EA Mythic (or whatever they're called these days), and Square Enix. With all three of these companies I've had billing problems. To me it's a very basic thing to get the billing right. If they can't do that, then they won't get my money.

Loves: Blizzard, Turbine
Dislikes: SOE

All the others i'm willing to give a fair shake to.

Well I think it depends on the individual.

Me I like some companies, and hate others.

Hate list

(1) Turbine

(2) NCSOFT

Like list

SOE - EQ2

I just tolerate the others.

I used to like Turbine before they made Asheron's Call 2. But after that fiasco and then the Themepark LOTRO, then no.

Other companies... no, not really. Possibly the creators of ArcheAge, if it is an indepth game rather than yet another simplistic Themepark. TERA for the same reason but I am not hearing much good about that game.

I mean it all depends if they are making any high quality non WoW clones MMORPGs, currently there is none, in my opinion.

Who doesn't love ANet? By far my favourite!

Personally I don't harbor any ill feelings toward any development studio as a whole.

I happen to not like Richard Garriott or John Smedley.  They both changed from ambitious young developers to greedy money hungry suits.  It also doesn't help that I met both of these men and they were total douche bags.

I may not play any of the current games available on the market, but I still think companies like Turbine, ArenaNet, and Trion are doing good work.

I think all the devs are worthless.

Scared to do anything different;  Always failing in their never ending quest to try to latch onto the coattails of WoW's success;  Scared to move out of WoW's shadow;  Big trend towards making MMORPGs an Online-Single-Player-RPG;  Less interactive, persistent worlds;  Increasingly shallow gameplay (I think devs seem to forget that MMORPGs used to have deep aspects outside of combat);  Increasingly less character customization (appearances and build wise:  Little differentiation in Class + Level Systems).

Or better yet, if they did have something special going with loyal customers / players, they usually go out of their way to alter the title enough to drive them away in a quest to get a bigger audience.  They don't give 2 sh*ts if they lose once loyal customers, as long as there's a chance to replace them with more new players.

I'm currently not playing any MMORPGs, because I don't see any of them providing a worthwhile experience for my time and money.  Haven't done so in almost 2 years now.  So yeah, they're worthless to me.

For all the pretty graphics and massive amount of people playing MMORPGs these days compared to its earlier years, it's shallow, stagnant, and rotten in its core.

Originally posted by Tyrxz

Who doesn't love ANet? By far my favourite!

I don't.  When after being away from Guild Wars for a few months, I return and find my account deleted.  No amount of correspondence would get my account and characters back.

I like Aventurine that make Darkfall. I think these guys are geniuses. Totally insane but geniuses. Nobody really wants to play a game that hard, but they don't give a crap. They are the honey badgers of the dev world. see honeybadger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

I like Fallen Earth, LLC. They've always treated fans well, even if they failed to capture a massive interest.

I like whoever developed Perpetuum. Not really a game for me but I feel like they dropped a functional fun game on a shoestring budget which I gotta respect.

I like Paragon. Even though they did things that I didn't like (incarnate system), I can see where they were things the majority wanted. Plus they made one of the best MMOs ever, so I can forgive a lot.

I like Cryptic okay. I really don't like StarTrek (why do they go where no one has gone before and there are always people there? And why does the ships computer get taken over so much? Do you have a damn off switch?) so I couldn't care what they did to the IP. :) I think they got a lot screwed by Marvel getting pulled but still I find Champs a decent product.

So far I like Trion. I don't consider Rift anything revolutionary, but I do appreciate them trying little tweaks on past successes and just making the product they promised. Again, not a huge fan, but there is a difference between what I personally want in a game and what I respect as good business practice and good treatment of customers as a whole.

I don't like SoE, I think they are shallow and don't treat their work as art or even serious entertainment. They really don't test or listen to fans like even many poorly funded companies do.

I have mixed feeling about Funcom. Love love AO. AoC was a great game 2 years after it should have been, but they promised so much they couldn't deliver and that is just bad business. But I can forgive a lot for the times my barbarian (who looks like a cross between Clint Eastwood and Bill Goldberg) has cut off heads.

I wouldn't go as far as saying that I hate some developers. I just don't play their game, but I don't hate them.

As a MMORPG developer, and overall developer of the best RTS, Action-RPG/Hack'n'slash franchises, Blizzard is my top favorite developer. They probably have the best trackrecord of developing top-notch quality products.

Something I also value a lot with MMORPG developers are their attempts of breaking out, making something a little bit different and trying to take the market in a new direction. In my opinion(keyword), such companies are ArenaNet(GW2), Bluehole Studios/En Masse(TERA), XLGames(ArcheAge). Even though neither of those games have come out, I respect what they are trying to do with their games and their visions they have. No matter if any of those games actually succeed or not, their goals were mostly just and fair. (And that's what I'm judging on right now)

Maybe Bioware with SWTOR as well, but that title doesn't interest me that much, but I'm not sure. (Hence, the maybe)

Originally posted by Warmaker

Originally posted by Tyrxz

Who doesn't love ANet? By far my favourite!

I don't.  When after being away from Guild Wars for a few months, I return and find my account deleted.  No amount of correspondence would get my account and characters back.

Support is handled by NCSoft. Not by ArenaNet. Until recently.

Originally posted by Alot

Originally posted by Warmaker

Originally posted by Tyrxz

Who doesn't love ANet? By far my favourite!

I don't.  When after being away from Guild Wars for a few months, I return and find my account deleted.  No amount of correspondence would get my account and characters back.

Support is handled by NCSoft. Not by ArenaNet. Until recently.

It's still Guild Wars, and it still had ANet's name to it, and I still haven't gotten my account and toons back yet.

I dislike Funcom  (due to my experiences with Anarchy Online and Age of Conan launches)

but otherwise like em all -- even SOE

Originally posted by Tyrxz

Who doesn't love ANet? By far my favourite!

I like them but not favorite by any shot. 

Originally posted by Getalife

Originally posted by Tyrxz

Who doesn't love ANet? By far my favourite!

I like them but not favorite by any shot. 

Don't know if I like you ^.-

For the big ones, the one i like the most is NCsoft, they screwed with L2, but that's it really, they at least always made good pvp games. SOE i'm neutral, they made themepark, i don't like themepark at all, but at least they made something bu their own, SWG? never played it, so i'm neutral, they made a huge mistake who hasn't? Ea, i really dislike them, stay away from Ea when it come to mmos at least, for me they are the worst company you better never touch, or have them touch you, they use mmo like tissues, buy the idea and the small companies behind, finance and trash away as they see fit. Soe at least make the games they are fucking away, its not like EA that buy the companies behind those games.

I respect Aventurine, their game wasn't the bomb i expected for sure, but at least they tryed, and their game is still more interesting than most big name. They also infused some life with a new design, you see some want to have back ship battles, fps like combat and other similar idea they were after, the wolfy GW2 race...

CCP? what? don't know them you? *runs away*

Originally posted by Getalife

Originally posted by Tyrxz

Who doesn't love ANet? By far my favourite!

I like them but not favorite by any shot. 

I like them but it is inspite of the pre launch LIES they told about Guild wars one (Oh no, some one said something bad on the internet)

I also like Bioware, Valve, and CD Projekt red for different reasons.

Bioware for Quality, CD Projekt red for their humility and awesomeness and valve because Valve loves you and wants you to know it.

Originally posted by Kothoses

 

I like them but it is inspite of the pre launch LIES they told about Guild wars one (Oh no, some one said something bad on the internet)

What did they lie about in GW1? As far as I am concerned, I pre-ordered the game on the basis of the open beta weekends. I had played the game before I bought it.