Day 21: Give Credit Where Credit Is Due...Damn It!

I haven't posted in awhile, sorry about the absence. I couldn't decide on anything to review last weekend. I spent most of last week not really playing anything other than TeamFortress 2 again. I'll probably have a new review this weekend though cause I recently finished Bulletstorm. Anyways, to the matter at hand.

Something was brought to my attention today that pisses me off. When you take a look at a video game box do you ever notice something missing? Just looking at the front of a box you'll be able to determine a game's platform, rating and publisher but what about the people who actually made it? A book always has the author on the front, why not video games? Exceptions include games that are developed by the publishers themselves like Valve, Bethesda, Square-Enix, Nintendo, etc. In a lot of cases the studios making games are incidental collections of employees working under an unnamed internal studio in which case the omitting of the studio name is understandable. But in cases where the studio is distinct it deserves credit on the front of the god damned box. Sure, the publisher may have paid to make the game and market it but they didn't work their asses off to develop a product that will most likely generate millions. All they did was reap the rewards and console the investors. So please, give credit where credit is due, put the studio name on the box EVERY time. Hell, you might just sell a few more copies if people outside the know notice a pattern.