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Developers of Assassin’s Creed Battle Street Fighter for Most Hated Gaming Brand​

Perhaps no fandom loves to hate as much as gamers. With fierce opinions, hours of personal investment, and a complex relationship between gaming and psychosocial problems, gamers want to tell people about it. They complain about Ubisoft the most. The Assassins Creed developer is the most hated gaming brand in 23 countries.

Capcom is number two, most hated in nine countries. The Street Fighter producer aggravates fans with buggy code and curious, creative decisions. Conversely, loveable games brand Nintendo is most hated only in one country: Norway. “Does Nintendo know that they’re essentially killing Nintendo Online’s SNES/NES emulator by releasing ONLY shit/forgettable games?” complains @TinyFluffyGoat.

METHODOLOGY & SOURCES​

We compiled a list of some of the biggest global gaming, fast food, tech brands and ISPs within the UK and US. Using Twitter’s API, we pulled tweets mentioning these brands.

We then used language analysis tool SentiStrength to determine the sentiment of tweets (considering tweets with a negative component from -5 to -2 as negative). Aggregating the data by country and US states, we calculated the % of negative tweets and ranked the brands to reveal the most hated in each region. For all countries, we omitted brands without at least 10 unique users tweeting about them.

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The Most Hated Brands In Every Country - RAVE Reviews

Don’t give in to hate, Luke. That leads to the dark side.

www.ravereviews.org

There are a lot of other "Most Hated" categories in the above link, not just gaming.

 

[drganon]

Saudis Arabia must have really hated grabbed by the ghoulies.

 

[lils]

it's a pity they can't all be the most hated

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Saudis Arabia must have really hated grabbed by the ghoulies.

Well they’d chop hands off if you did that to someone.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Hot damn, Ubisoft.

 

[MrA]

Nigerians Colombians and Thais know what's what

 

[Aion002]

I am Brazilian and I agree. Current Ubi sucks.

Which is incredible, since before last gen ubi was amazing for me: Splinter Cell, Assassin's Creed, World in Conflict, Prince of Persia, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon and so on. Today I just...

For Honor is one of the biggest wasted opportunities ever.

 

[22•22]

Nigerians Colombians and Thais know what's what

What

Edit - Now I'm hungry

 

[DeepEnigma]

I’m shocked Japan is Capcom over Konami. Especially with all the MH love.

 

[keraj37]

Ghana is cathing up and is already in the mid 80s of gaming hence hate toward Atari.

 

[TheStam]

EA: "Am I a joke to you?"

 

[kanjobazooie]

What do these percentages mean? Ghana hates Atari, and the percentage is 0%. Canada hates Game Freak, 100%.

What is this?

 

[zeorhymer]

It's really weird that Game Freak would be the most hated brand in the US and Relic the hated brand in China. What did Relic ever do to China?

 

[VAVA Mk2]

WTF is Game Freak?

 

[ChoosableOne]

Ubisoft needs to discover a tower in Europe.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

WTF is Game Freak?

Pokémon.

 

[drganon]

Ghana is cathing up and is already in the mid 80s of gaming hence hate toward Atari.

They're really bitter about how bad the 5200 controller was.

 

[ChoosableOne]

WTF is Game Freak?

You just make it worse for Game Freak

 

[VAVA Mk2]

Pokémon.

What?! I thought it was a Nintendo in house studio that made them.

 

[Hosam6xavi]

Hey I don't hate Rare or anyone i know hate them !!!

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

What?! I thought it was a Nintendo in house studio that made them.

Nah Nintendo just publish.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Hey I don't hate Rare or anyone i know hate them !!!

Show me your copy of Atic Atac or I don’t believe you

 

[Banjo64]

Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Vietnam just hating on Rare, what the fuck?

 

[RCU005]

There is no way Game Freak is more hated than EA or Ubisoft in the USA. This chart is wrong!

The most hated companies are: EA, Ubisoft and Activision. Probably because they are the only ones that continuously make yearly franchises without any proper value added year over year.

Game Freak? There is no way! in the US, even less!

 

[michaelius]

What's the deal with China and Relic ?

 

[Bryank75]

 

[skit_data]

Ghana stuck in the 80s still?

 

[Notabueno]

There used to be a vote for the year's worst Video Game company, but they decided to stop under the pressure which was a huge shame and has been missing in the community since.

I'm glad some people are trying to conduct those studies although I question their methodology.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Ghana stuck in the 80s still?

0.0% also

 

[FoundryMusic]

 

[Deputy Moonman]

Capcom most hated in Japan according to image but wouldn't that really be anything MS Studios related? I guess that would be more apathetic than hatred.

 

[AJUMP23]

What?! I thought it was a Nintendo in house studio that made them.

No. Yamauchi started the Pokémon company with another dude and so the Nintendo heirs own the Pokémon company and Nintendo has a large investment in it but it is a separate entity.

I don’t know who gamefreak is either.

 

[Three]

Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Vietnam just hating on Rare, what the fuck?

To be fair to those countries, what's to like about them nowadays?

 

[ManaByte]

We compiled a list of some of the biggest global gaming, fast food, tech brands and ISPs within the UK and US. Using Twitter’s API, we pulled tweets mentioning these brands.

Holy shit. This is the most retarded study in the history of retarded studies.

 

[I Love Rock 'n' Roll]

Nintendo and GameFreak hate is real. Not Sony, Sega, SNK, Apple or MS!

 

[Banjo64]

To be fair to those countries, what's to like about them nowadays?

I thought South Korea had the sexy girl bands?

 

[jufonuk]

Won’t be going Norway then.

 

[MrA]

Holy shit. This is the most retarded study in the history of retarded studies.

Do you mean it is technically what companies 12 weirdos on Twitter whine about the most

 

[nightmare-slain]

i'm surprised Epic isn't mentioned that much. i guess i shouldn't listen to people on the internet!

 

[HermitSperg691]

Pokemon(Game Freak), Capcom, and Game Freak seem to be the most hated.

Good

 

[Mr Moose]

UK, NA and Australia hate GameFreak? lol

 

[Bragr]

This is clickbait with no bearing on anything. They used some Twitter algorithm bullshit that makes no sense and doesn't show who's the most hated at all.

It's just someone who wants to have a fancy story about the most hated companies, but they have no idea how to compile that, so they slap together some absolute rubbish twitter shit.

 

[Great Hair]

Is Gamefreak = Microsoft? Who is Gamefreak? How can it be a BRAND?
ah Nontendo

We compiled a list of some of the biggest global gaming, fast food, tech brands and ISPs within the UK and US. Using Twitter’s API, we pulled tweets mentioning these brands.

 

[blacktout]

I’m shocked Japan is Capcom over Konami. Especially with all the MH love.

Since the methodology here basically boils down to "what companies are people bitching about the most on Twitter," what you're really seeing isn't the most hated companies but rather the companies with the biggest, angriest fan bases. This is why Game Freak is on the map. The Pokemon fandom is huge and constantly pissed off.

I assume something similar is going on with Capcom in Japan.

This is also probably why a universally reviled company like EA is missing. Absent the occasional really egregious scandal, people just don't care enough about them or their games to get in fights about it on social media.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Games have success everywhere regardless of location.

 

[RoboFu]

Based on negative tweets isn’t a proper measurement. Everyone likes Pokémon so a lot of people are going to have opinions on the games. They are still going to play them and like them.


Basically the more people like something the more they will tweet about it and tweets are mostly critical in nature.

 

[Three]

I thought South Korea had the sexy girl bands?

I meant Rare. They pulled a Konami. They sat on all their IPs. Made avatars for years then switched to only a single GaaS through an entire gen like Konami and eFootball/PES.

 

[VN1X]

I'm somewhat of a gamer myself but I was never asked any of this?

I refuse to acknowledge this list as such and so should the rest of you!

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

Love how Ghana still can't get over the disappointment that was E.T. and is holding that grudge on Atari....

fucking OGs right there

 

[Fahdis]

Pakistan & Epic Games? I thought about it for a second since most people don't even care about gaming there and consider it a waste of time. Then I remembered my younger cousins the age of 6-12 playing Fortnite day and night. The survey was probably done by Parents and I remember my Uncle and Aunt literally hating spending money on V-Bucks every other week for their spoiled kids. Yea, it makes sense.