Gamasutra's Publisher Survey

I still get Gamasutra's Game Developer Magazine, though it's just a 'webzine' now unless you pay for it, which I do not.  Anyway, the fact that I'm still subscribed means they think I'm a game developer, or at least they pretend to not notice and/or care that I'm not, and as such they include me on their regular surveys (salary, publisher reputation, etc..).  I just recently filled out the publisher survey, and since I figure my input to them will dribble into a black hole, I wanted to capture my signature industry vitriol here for posterity's sake.

After having the chance to numerically rate all of my most loathed publishers as low as possible, I was then given the opportunity to say a few words.  So I did.

Activision/Blizzard:

Recent behavior regarding perceived rights to broadcasting of starcraft games is indefensible and reprehensible.  Also, the imminent monopolization of all games to battle.net is a blatant erosion of consumer rights.

EA:

They're not in the games business, they're in the extortion business.  They treat their own paying customers as the enemy.  EA is the poster child for what's wrong with mainstream game development and publishing.

LucasArts:

Do they do anything new anymore, or are they just busy milking the back catalog?

Microsoft:

Hurry up and die.  Microsoft is a cancer on gaming.  XBox Live is like eugenics for gamers, breeding out all the wholesome qualities of gamers and leaving only purely hedonistic selfish sociopaths.

Nintendo:

Consciously and systematically alienating real gamers in the relentless pursuit of the profitable calculus effect of 'casual' crap.

Is it any wonder nobody ever sends me Christmas cards?