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And the worst thing is that we allow it to happen by buying those games
I have enough of EA ruining great franchises and studios, forcing DRM and Origin on their games, releasing incomplete games only to sell day-1 DLCs or spill dozens of DLCs, and then saying it, and microtransactions, is what players want, stopping players from giving EA games poor reviews, as well as deflecting complaints with cheap PR tricks.
I'm not going to buy any game by EA as long as they continue those practices.
Sad but true. I wish EA would just fold; nobody would miss them. Hell, Bioware would've probably put out a better version overall of ME3 otherwise. Was a great game, but certain points just screamed "was cut down to this for profits."
The worst thing is, their income statement is still in the toilet even with this stragegy -_-
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People cry and cry, but video games wouldn't be where they are today without EA.
They pretty much invented the modern MMO as we know it (Ultima), pioneered the sports genre, and pushed the RTS (C&C) scene forward.
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That might just be the best video on the internet.
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Westwood wasn't fully liquidated and absorbed until after Red Alert 2 had come out. EA bought them from Virgin Interactive in 1998, but had fairly little interaction with them. The majority of the Westwood employees left before the liquidation anyway, which is why the C&C series took a very noticeable downturn once they became full-fledged EA titles.
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It baffles me how anyone can defend EA.
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Because not everyone looks at major companies and goes "Yeah, they're the spawn of the devil."
Not saying I like everything EA does. I just understand it. And not everything they do is bad, it's just that the bad always overshadows the good. In all kinds of situations. Case in point - every politicians career ever.
Even tho EA has done some good thing the company has really fucked up ethics and is constantly screwing over customers to get a few bucks here and there.
I don't think anyone would be sad to see them fall.
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Eeeh, strictly speaking EQ1 started as a SOE/Verant co-project, then Verant splintered off because "SOEs ideas weren't in keeping with their vision." They then ran back to SOE when they started running out of money.
On the subject of EA, they're shady as hell. Every game publisher/developer is. EA is just ludicrously piss poor at hiding it.
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yes because ea is the only company to ever buy out other game companies and turn their games into mediocrity.....ever!! =)
EA is pretty much still the only developer to openly admit to cutting corners on games to later release core content as DLC.
EA is still the only developer/producer to repeatedly get caught suggesting the most ludicrous things for microtransactions, such as $1 reloads in a BF3 match.
EA has the longest track record of absorbed then killed studios in the industry.
They do good, and they do bad, but their bad is a mountain of shit 6 miles high.
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Video goes on for almost 5mins to say EA are good at pushing low brow product. Also makes several belabored points about review sites and consumer sophistication.
That video is the opposite of "in a nutshell".
That is something I'll concur with.
Sometimes, it does feel like EA is trying very hard to squeeze out positive sales figures, up to the point of compromizing "their" games.
On the other hand, some of the things they're supporting probably wouldn't have had the quality they have if EA wasn't throwing money into the pit.