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Message: [QUOTE="Waffles, post: 242436, member: 703"] There's a lot of truth to that, but it's not necessarily complete: companies like CodeMasters started out as two guys trying to find their way across the C64 programming guide and got to create an empire with that same mentality. Id Software also started as a weird start up writing crappy games to bundle with a magazine, and many of the same people are still at the helm of both. The problem really starts when the suits take charge through acquisition or corporate nepotism. I remember Ritual Software being bought out and immediately heading into a direction so against itself as to fracture it, even murdering their heart-and-soul franchise (SiN) in the process. Or how Headfist Productions, a family enterprise, went bankrupt trying to deliver a product because their publisher (Fishtank Entertainment) was acquired by another (JoWood) and they weren't interested on the enormous amount of work already finished. Hell, even Insomniac Games (Spyro the Dragon) was such a startup by friends that they almost got sued for copyright infringement when they chose their original name, not knowing it was already taken. So, yeah, companies largely don't belong to gamers anymore, but some do. It's a shame that most are a blurry, faceless hurricane of DBAs ("Doing Businesses As"), subsidiaries and shared stocks that you don't even know who you are dealing with anymore. I guess that's what allows them to keep slaving the low-level employees that really do care even at times of record profits. [/QUOTE]

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