Topic: What role do Publishers play?

[Stimutacs Addict]

Aside from the obvious answer, what else do they do?

EA and Ubi Soft get all this credit for their great games, but aren't they just publishers? Developers do all the work, it seems.  

[KDR_11k]

Paying the dev teams, packaging, marketing, money making.

[BlkPaladin]

Yes they either directly fund, or out hire diffent developers.

[Stimutacs Addict]

so the publisher doesn't really deserve much credit.

 

[KDR_11k]

Very often Quality Assurance is also a job of the publisher, but not always.

[Flames_of_chaos]

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Very often Quality Assurance is also a job of the publisher, but not always.

Well EA doesnt show that much quality, Eidos has no quality minus timesplitters 2.

[StrikerObi]

Ubi Soft doesn't just publish games. In addition to publishing games made by other developers they also have their own development sutdios. So, they also make games.