EA Voted Worst Company in America Again

[Deleted]

Can we at least say that it's the worst video game company in the world? Or is that opinion moot as well?

Fixed that a bit.

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[Redblade]

Fixed that a bit.

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Damn, didn't know they killed off Digital Illusions, best pinball games made to date came from them.

[Jtbrig7390]

Fixed that a bit.

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And soon to be on that list is Bioware and Maxis.

Like some have said back a few years ago all EA had to do is release games and they looked good compared to Activision now its the other way around.

The question is when the scrip flip like that.

Last EA game I ever will get is Army of Two "The Devils cartel" it wasn't a bad game but was not a good one ether and took around 25hrs to max its achievements would go into detail but I would be here all night.

I personally have came up with a new rule but it isn't really new.

That rule is ill ether buy the game used or not at all if I personally dislike the game company in this case its EA. If I want to check out the next Mass Effect ill wait for a price drop and get it used.

EA can apologize all it wants its still a shit company making shit games and killing off smaller company's.

The only company EA owned that killed itself was Big Huge Games because KOA didn't sell as well as they hoped and they put way to much money into a MMO of KOA and the 3 big names they got to work on KOA.


Worst game company I could see worse company in the US......NO

Game Company's I personally hate in order.
1. Activision/EA they tie for first.
2. Capcom
3. Blizzard
4. If they don't fucken fix defiance and remove region lock on the xbox 360 version TRION.
5. and if I got to pay to play a drow I hate Perfectworld/Cryptic/Wizards of the Coast.
6. Bioware for ME3 and what SWTOR turned into.
"all my personal opinion and no intent to derail the thread"

[Razael]

So EA won it for the second time ahah . Serves them right.

[Flaks]

So EA won it for the second time ahah . Serves them right.

Too bad winning a "worst company" award doesn't do anything as long as people continue to buy their products.

[Belize]

Meh, Origin is probably one of the few things I don't hold against them. It's not like the Holy Grail Valve didn't force Steam on you through Half Life 2.

More competition is just a good thing.

More Steam sales! I can't complain.

[Toccs]

Fixed that a bit.

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Except allot of those company are still very much alive, and doing well.

Origin Systems: Alive but no longer creating games, their sole purpose now is to keep Ultima Online running. So its kind of half alive i guess.
Westwood: Put up for sale by Virgin, EA bought. (If they didn't Westwood would most likely not be around) Kept alive by EA but barley.
Dice: Put up for sale by Dice board of directors, EA bought. Company is still doing well and very much alive.
Criterion Games: Still alive and doing well.
Maxis: Developer was doing badly following the release of "The Crystal Skull", "SimCopter" and "Crucible which lead to them considering acquisition offers. EA bought and kept the company going.
Bullfrog: RIP (This was killed by EA, for now at least)
Bioware: VG Holding Corp who owned Bioware at the time put themselves up for acquisition and EA bought, as we all know the company is very much alive and doing well.
Mythic: The company is alive but its not doing well and it hasn't since its acquisition.
Visceral Games: This studio was basicly created by EA so no idea why its on the list. The company is alive and doing very well.
Pandemic Studios: Was owned by VG Holding Corp they where sold along with Bioware, the studio was closed. RIP
Black Box: The Developer put itself up for acquisition EA bought and changed the company, its alive though.

I do miss Dungeon Keeper, such a good game.

Also have a read of this http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/biowa...urself/0113848
Something I've been trying to tell some of you for a while now.

[Redblade]

Also have a read of this http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/biowa...urself/0113848
Something I've been trying to tell some of you for a while now.

Yes because he has absolutely no reason to paint EA in a good light...

[Deleted]

Fixed that a bit.

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whats about lionhead?

[Boricha]

Yeeep they won indeed, beating out Bank of America
http://consumerist.com/2013/04/09/ea...year-in-a-row/

[Kelimbror]

Except allot of those company are still very much alive, and doing well.

'Doing well' is subjective and many people disagree with your propaganda view of your 'supposed' employer.

I personally don't consider phoning it in with rehashed games or delivering flop after flop, error after error, to be what any customer defines as 'doing well'. The fact that most of these companies had none of these issues prior to being purchased by EA, well...you can spin anything but thankfully people can see through BS.

If they pay you to come here and do this, well that's just wrong, if they don't...then it's just sad.

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Yeeep they won indeed, beating out Bank of America

Does anyone want to start placing bets for a hat trick? From the 'apology' they gave before the award was even finalized, I don't expect them to change their behavior this year. I think we'll have our first 3 time winner next year.

[SirRobin]

Yes because he has absolutely no reason to paint EA in a good light...

Yeah, "slight" difference there. As I have mentioned before. Maxis may very well have not have survived with its founders, or Walnut Creek studio, without EA. However, they didn't survive with them either. Once enough of the key people that made that studio distinct, and even the studio itself, are gone... Is it really even that studio anymore? Maxis is now run by Lucy, who transferred over from EA. Maxis is even in Emeryville, not Walnut Creek.

After EA purges them, I'm not sure its fair to even let them keep the name. Since so much of what made them distinct and unique is long gone.

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you can spin anything but thankfully people can see through BS

I don't think of it as spin. I can see where he is coming from. I just don't agree with him. It is entirely possible that every single one of those studios would have failed "without" EA. However, significant portions of what made those studios unique didn't survive "with" EA either.

[Deleted]

What exactly did EA do to upset everyone so much?

I don't really buy many games anymore so I think I've missed any drama that took place in the last few years.

[Afrospinach]

Many continue to claim the Always-On function in SimCity is a DRM scheme. It’s not. People still want to argue about it. We can’t be any clearer – it’s not. Period.

Probably the only thing I would agree on with this list. People need to get over online requirements.

Some claim there’s no room for Origin as a competitor to Steam. 45 million registered users are proving that wrong.

Having a lot of long running franchises and then forcing them to use origin to get sequels probably helped them with this one. Would anyone use it by choice? Would anyone even use steam if it was not convenient? Ironically having a plethora of these services takes you back to square one levels of organisation.

Some people think that free-to-play games and micro-transactions are a pox on gaming. Tens of millions more are playing and loving those games.

I see your bullshit and raise you a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U19XX-o1UNg . Giving something away for free is a very poor way to measure its value.

We’ve seen mailing lists that direct people to vote for EA because they disagree with the choice of the cover athlete on Madden NFL. Yes, really…

In the past year, we have received thousands of emails and postcards protesting against EA for allowing players to create LGBT characters in our games. This week, we’re seeing posts on conservative web sites urging people to protest our LGBT policy by voting EA the Worst Company in America.

Both kind of sound like excuses, but then again nestle was once the recipient of a large amount of hatred due to their usage of large amounts of fresh water(which turned out to be nothing exceptional by industry standards). People do sometimes cling to really daft things. Whatever, I hope the new CEO does not have his head up his ass like this guy, it is not really a good catalyst for change. I stand by this sentiment that people really do have legitimate gripes about the company, see a thread on it about once a month around here and the only distorting feature is that the hatred is tempered by the fact that EA holds the rights so some of the industry's most loved franchises and sometimes it just feels like they are not putting in any effort whatsoever.

[RoninaThorstone]

What exactly did EA do to upset everyone so much?

I don't really buy many games anymore so I think I've missed any drama that took place in the last few years.

Most recently? The pushed Swtor out 6 months ahead of what Bioware wanted and then fired all the higher ups and talented people at bioware and replaced them with people from mythic.
Also, Simcity watches you watch porn.

[Redblade]

Probably the only thing I would agree on with this list. People need to get over online requirements.

Besides the fact that it runs just fine without being online if you mod the game.

[Dasffion]

Fixed that a bit.

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Just a note on that image, even though you probably didn't make it. Dragons gate isn't the longest running MUD of all time. Gemstone III started in 1990 and is still going today, although they updated the engine and it's now called Gemstone IV. Characters transferred over during the change so it can still be considered the same game. Dragonrealms is also in its 17th year so it's run is longer as well.

[Kelimbror]

Besides the fact that it runs just fine without being online if you mod the game.

Why would we consider factual information as proof of wrong doing when we can simply ignore it and continue to defend unfriendly customer practices? You must have forgotten what universe we were in.

[Vankrys]

'Doing well' is subjective and many people disagree with your propaganda view of your 'supposed' employer.

I personally don't consider phoning it in with rehashed games or delivering flop after flop, error after error, to be what any customer defines as 'doing well'. The fact that most of these companies had none of these issues prior to being purchased by EA, well...you can spin anything but thankfully people can see through BS.

If they pay you to come here and do this, well that's just wrong, if they don't...then it's just sad.

wonder if you'd prefer they'd be bought by blizzard activision, or ubisoft, or square-enix

[Toccs]

'Doing well' is subjective and many people disagree with your propaganda view of your 'supposed' employer.

Its not propaganda if you do your own research you will see that everything isn't as it seems, for example you could blame the developers for selling in the first place, EA does what it does. (Doesn't mean i agree with it either)

I personally don't consider phoning it in with rehashed games or delivering flop after flop, error after error, to be what any customer defines as 'doing well'. The fact that most of these companies had none of these issues prior to being purchased by EA, well...you can spin anything but thankfully people can see through BS.

Saying that none of those developers had issues prior to EA acquiring them is silly have little read and you will see what i mean. I define doing well as bringing back a substantial profit and most of these developers have.

If they pay you to come here and do this, well that's just wrong, if they don't...then it's just sad.

My employment has nothing to do with my views, and i don't see how its sad as i'm not exactly sticking up for them. You just don't agree that's fair enough but at least do some reading before making your own decision.

You come across as angry please don't aim that anger at me, we can respect each others views and still disagree.