It’s not always about the quality of the game as much as it is the support. I don’t like the Crysis games but it’s hard to deny their community support (for instance, free clan site hosting). I see GPG in the same way since SupCom/FA had very tightly-knit communities and GPG employees were active within it all the time. They listened to their customers, had beta tests with the best players in the community to fix balance issues, etc.

Compare that to Epic, a company that banned people from their forums for speaking negatively about UT3 and ignored people (me!) on fan sites like BeyondUnreal. Epic is completely lame, they don’t fix their games (I’m not even sure they test them, to be fucking honest), and they don’t give a fuck about the community regardless of what their PR goons say publicly. They’ve also nearly abandoned the PC platform after stating that it was their “bread and butter” a few months before UT3 dropped.

the last one resonates very strongly with me. Maybe i’m a huge loser, but I still play Battlefield 1942 and source-based games. Best investments ever.