Originally Posted by
vanin
Activision-Blizzard rings a bell.
And Capcom.
And Ubisoft.
And so on.
That's just how the indsutry works (sadly), people complaining about EA nickle-and-diming its customers with Activision-Blizzard litterally next door (as the site is dedicated to one of their games) is pretty ludicrous in and of itself, RMAH, spectral horse etc. speak for themselves in that regard. And Activision-Blizzard yearly publishes the same watered-down rehashes of the same game as well. Capcom is great at nickle-and-diming their customers, better than EA is by miles upon miles. Ubisoft, and Activision-Blizzard recently, are apparently great at having very intrusive always-on DRM, but Activision-Blizzard gets away with it due to being, well Activision-Blizzard, while Ubisoft faced pitchforks. Origin is essentially the same thing as BattleNet, keep that in mind.
The industry is saturated with bad bussiness practices and EA probably isn't the worst, but they are alot clumsier when they go about doing bad stuff so that they stand out. Activision-Blizzard is by comparison agile ballerinas when it comes to dancing out of blame's way, EA is more like a drunk falling right on it.