Edge - The World's 50 Greatest Developers

[Happy Cat]

I can't say I agree with this list at all, they always seem to have something against SEGA. But I can't help but laugh that they rated Mojang higher then Nintendo, that part I do agree with. but.. both Mojang and Nintendo are too high on the list lol

Top 50 devs:
1. Valve
2. Mojang
3. Nintendo EAD
4. Platinum Games
5. Naughty Dog
6. Rockstar North
7. Bungie
8. FromSoftware
9. Arkane Studios
10. Riot Games
11. Epic Games
12. Media molecule
13. Dice
14. Kojima Productions
15. Irrational
16. ArenaNet
17. Blizzard
18. Rocksteady
19. Ubi Montreal
20. Bethesda
21. Double Fine
22. Terry Cavanagh
23. Thatgamecompany
24. Gearbox
25. 343
26. Firaxis
27. EA Canada
28. Bioware
29. Eidos Montreal
30. Playdead
31. Sony online entertainment
32. Crytek
33. Redlynx
34. Vlambeer
35. CCP
36. Telltale
37. Id
38. Ninja theory
39. Quantic Dream
40. Codemasters
41. Criterion
42. Mossmouth
43. Harmonix
44. Sony Santa Monica
45. Capybara
46. Creative assembly
47. Halfbrick
48. Wayforward
49. Jagex
50. Relic

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=46348988&postcount=1

[SpeedyBlueDude]

4. Platinum Games
5. Naughty Dog
6. Rockstar North
7. Bungie

Only part of the list that seems correct to me.

Also, no Sega? Seriously?

[max_cady]

At the risk of sounding like an idiot, what the heck is Mojang? I never heard of that company.

I'm also interested to see what their criteria was for that list.

The only SEGA dev listed there is Creative Assembly.

[Happy Cat]

At the risk of sounding like an idiot, what the heck is Mojang? I never heard of that company.

I'm also interested to see what their criteria was for that list.

The only SEGA dev listed there is Creative Assembly.

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[Barry the Nomad]

Do they meant "greatest" in that its a fun, kooky, place for developers to work? Because in that sense, I could see SEGA not being on the list. They've released awesome games in 2012, but for the staff and dev teams it wasn't all that fun.

But if they're going by the output, then I think SEGA should be on the list. I mean, I like Halfbrick but c'mon. They released one iOS game in 2012, thats it: Jetpack Joyride. It's a fun title for the platform, but I really can't agree that a place like Halfbrick is greater than all of SEGA, or even internal SEGA devs like Creative Assembly or SEGA hired teams like Sumo Digital. I'd think Sumo and CA totally deserve spots on that list.

[max_cady]

@Will

Oh, ok... I thought it was an indie game made by one guy, I had no idea there was a company behind it.

[Happy Cat]

@Will

Oh, ok... I thought it was an indie game made by one guy, I had no idea there was a company behind it.

well, mojang was originally one guy, so you're sorta right

[MadeManG74]

No AM2 on that list.

Shitty list, 0/10, would not read again. I ain't even mad.

[Trippled]

Sega is too bloated of a company to list. Notice how they don't use Publishers in General.

Had the Yakuza and the Valkyria Chronicles Team kept a Idetity throughout the years, and the latter make more Console games, you might have seen them somewhere.

But yeah no AM2? pfff...

[Nameless 24]

Some of those devs don't deserve to be on there. Harmonix being one of them due to continuously making Rock Band games. What the hell is CCP? It's like they randomly picked developers that exist in 2012/2013.

Also, where is Yakuza Team? They made 2/3 games this year (one of them a NEW franchise).

[crackdude]

Jagex? Creators of decade-old Runescape? Really?

[Happy Cat]

Jagex? Creators of decade-old Runescape? Really?

lol runescape, played that years ago

looking at the graphics now on the current site, the environments look like they've been majorly improved. but... the character models look horrible as they did years ago lol

[crackdude]

Mind you I'm not saying Runescape is bad. Just saying Jagex hasn't made a game in over 10 years, yet it's on the list and AM2 is not. Shocking to say the least.

Harmonix? Crearive Assembly? And this is just looking at the bottom os the list. AM2 should be at least somewhere in the top.

[SpeedyBlueDude]

Jagex? Creators of decade-old Runescape? Really?

I don't see a problem with the creators of the best MMO ever made being on the list.

I kid. I kid.