Let's be honest, loads of companies have made some extremely good games only to be bought out by EA who very promptly go "hay guise, welcome aboard, here are your budget restrictions and god help you if you go past x date" which is why they fuck everything up. Devs need to tell EA to fuck off and continue developing what they want, at their own pace, and fuck the publishers. If the game is good, the people will come. Look at Minecraft. One of the biggest selling games ever, killed by Microsoft.
until