Here we talk about the fucked up shit publishers have done to developing companies and customers. I guess i'll start.
>Bethesda
Bethesda are actually pretty fucking scummy when you start searching their dirty laundry. I'll start with the pics that most anons have probably seen
>Arkane
When the whole human head shit was going down with Prey 2, it was also elaborated that Bethesda did much of what they were doing to human head, to arkane, specifically to acquire them on the cheap. During production of Dishonored Bethesda started to arbitrarily reject milestones, and withhold payment to Arkane to try and make them desperate to buy them on the cheap, which they obviously succeeded at doing since Arkane is now owned by Bethesda and a shell of its former self making shitty SJW vidya of dishonored. Also related to this is what Bethesda did to human head which I mentioned. They tried the same shit with human head that they used to acquire Arkane with a hostile takeover, wich was the milestone abuse and refusal to pay the development company for their work to keep themselves afloat and continue developing. This is also most likely how Bethesda got ID, they like to do it a lot as they don't like to actually pay people for things as evidenced by the mod author fiasco too
>Call of cthulu
So bethesda the publisher It's always the publisher and the parent company zenimax doing the fucked up shit, while bethesda the developer just makes tes and fallout games contracted headfirst to make CoC, which was initially supposed to be the western equivalent of Silent Hills and sometimes Resident Evil, but with Lovecraft themes thrown in. Initially development was going well, until Bethesda demanded headfirst port the game to xbox as well while in development, to take advantage of the success they'd seen for morrowind on the console. Headfirst was a pc developing company though, and the xbox was notorious for being a bitch to work with, so this slowed them down significantly. Eventually bethesda was getting tired of waiting and wanted the game out the door quickly due to the console cycle of xbox ending soon, so the game was forced to be rushed out as an incomplete, buggy mess, on the tail end of the console cycle with little to no advertising and had poor sales big surprise, although the reviews were fairly high for the game for actually doing the things it was able to do right in the situation really well. Unfortunately this failure forced on them by bethesda followed them everywhere they went, and appeared to be the primary reason the next two CoC games died in development hell, as publishers had very little confidence in its success, which sucks since it'd be a genre we don't have a lot of games for, specifically the lovecraftian horror genre
>ID artist
Bethesda is very greedy, which should come as no surprise to many anons here, especially once it was discovered they're lead by a jew who was so sleazy he was actually barred from banking with other jews
One such incident of Bethesda/Zenimax greed was the situation of one of IDs artists entering a tf2 contest to make fucking hats. Beth/Zenimax wanted to sue the guy for making money off of royalties of his artwork, feeling as if it was "theirs" but backed off when realizing it was a retarded idea and horrific for PR. The dude then left the company. The poster also alludes to Beth/Zenimax corporate culture, which forces you to brownnose the bosses, rather than be good at your job to succeed and overrall make the place a shitty place to work, which was highlighted in the pic as well as the next one, when its mentioned a lot of ID devs left.
Doom Site
The last site is just another small example of Beth/Zenimax fuckery, where they forced the owner of the DoomRL site to take it down with their lawyers because it was "infringing on their brand". They did this as well with the indie developers who wanted to name their game scrolls. Because apparently Beth/Zenimax feels as if they own the rights to the word scroll now.
Then there's also the paid mods fiasco, as well as the creation club which happened recently, and Beth/Zenimax mocking their customers with the horse powerarmor and their constant need to put Skyrim on every fucking console and try to resell people the same product over and fucking over again. There is also the time when Beth the developer stole the mod author of Autumn Leaves plot and setting for his mod about the robot murder and investigating it and placed it into far harbor. And when they intentionally fucked over Obsidian out of their bonus with the bullshit metacritic score which conveniently was 1 point short of their goal.