Originally Posted by nstgc
Originally Posted by MiasmaAgent
Publishers help with advertisements, localization, support the devs on multiple platforms etc...


...setting deadline, telling the devs to push out games before they're ready, telling the devs what can and cannot go into a game, preventing devs from using the IP they themselves developed etc...


Exactly. Hell, it got to a point that publishers wouldn't even fund some genre's at all! Think about the clone wars, cheesy FPS and RTS rip offs for 15 years. Hardly anything else was getting funded.