EA games won the Worst company of America 2012, wow : Othor Games

» Tue May 15, 2012 6:04 pm

EA's pretty bad and has done a [censored]load of damage within the industry. Including Project 10 dollar, assimilation of Studios (Westwood, Origin and soon to be Bioware), the worst customer service I've seen, creating a monopoly with the Madden brand and just releasing it each year without changing it much and a whole bunch of other reasons. EA deserves the award, I know I won't do any more business with them after the [censored] ending I got with Mass Effect 3.

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:59 pm

EA deserves the award...

If you're not actually concerned with any real issues in the world, then yes, EA deserves the award. If you're not stuck in the sad gamer niche, then EA is pretty saintly compared to some of the companies that ACTUALLY deserve it like Monsanto.

» Tue May 15, 2012 3:39 pm

Why the hate for EA?

I guess you're not aware of how they treat their workers. I'm sure this is the main reason they won the worst company of america.

» Tue May 15, 2012 11:44 am

If you're not actually concerned with any real issues in the world, then yes, EA deserves the award. If you're not stuck in the sad gamer niche, then EA is pretty saintly compared to some of the companies that ACTUALLY deserve it like Monsanto.

Won't disagree with you about Monsanto, surprised that they have kept themselves under the radar for so long.

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:49 pm

it's no surprise to me, they were messing with a popular form of entertainment

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:29 am

I was more referring to the "award winning" and "300 million" parts of their response. I couldn't care less how the vote turned out, 'cause it was quite possibly one of the dumbest ideas for a poll I've ever seen.

Stating the facts "we win awards" and "our games are popular" is now smug... Learn something new every day.

EA's pretty bad and has done a [censored]load of damage within the industry. Including Project 10 dollar, assimilation of Studios (Westwood, Origin and soon to be Bioware), the worst customer service I've seen, creating a monopoly with the Madden brand and just releasing it each year without changing it much and a whole bunch of other reasons. EA deserves the award, I know I won't do any more business with them after the [censored] ending I got with Mass Effect 3.

And this is why this makes me embarrassed to be part of the gaming community. Most of these people were probablly pissed off about mass effct 3s ending.
Meanwhile BoA is taking life savings, peoples homes, and [censored] the economy. But no your right, not having a happily ever after with you blue waifu is much worse.

Also, people who are only saying they will stop with EA after such a minor thing (the story isnt how people wanted, cry more), will come crawling back.
Hell there are already people begging EA to make dlc, so they can throw money at them. Until recently I didnt know just how pathetic gamers are/were.

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:51 am

Gamers are a whiny breed :tongue:

This all happened just because Mass Effect 3 was released recently and people are still upset about the ending. And the ending do svck, it's horrible, but to consider the ending of a fictional entertainment product more evil than Bank of America which happily destroy lives to make money, well, is extremely narrow minded to put it nicely.

The bank's list of victims goes on and on. The disabled? Just a few weeks ago, the government charged Bank of America with violating the Fair Housing Act by illegally requiring proof of disability from people who rely on disability income to make their mortgage payments. Minorities? Last December, the bank settled with the Justice Department for $335 million over Countrywide's practice of dumping risky subprime loans on qualified black and Hispanic borrowers. The poor? In South Carolina, Bank of America won a contract to distribute unemployment benefits through prepaid debit cards – and then charged multiple fees to jobless folk who had the gall to withdraw their money from anywhere other than a Bank of America ATM. Seriously, who hasn't this bank conspired to defraud? Puppies? One-eyed Sri Lankans?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314#ixzz1r66S7YRf

» Tue May 15, 2012 6:18 am

Stating the facts "we win awards" and "our games are popular" is now smug... Learn something new every day.

Excuse my blatant ignorance. In the future, I will attempt to refrain from displaying my severe lack of wit and intelligence. Now please do yourself a favor and forget that thing you have learned today, for it harbors no implication of my definition of smugness; just my own unfaltering stupidity.

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:28 pm

Video game developers care for one thing only and that my friends is money. And EA is doing a damn fine job getting it.

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:47 am

There's no such company as British Petroleum... stop making this mistake America.

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:37 pm

There's no such company as British Petroleum... stop making this mistake America.

Really, they change their name from British Pertroleum to BP and you get mad that people still refer to them as British Petroleum?

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:35 pm

There's no such company as British Petroleum... stop making this mistake America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Petroleum

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:15 am

I guess you're not aware of how they treat their workers. I'm sure this is the main reason they won the worst company of america.

Really? While Activision refused to flat out pay the developers of Modern Warfare 2 and had to have a lawsuit against them to finally do so resulting in half of IW leaving.

Yep EA is worst in America.

Activision is far worse just amongst publishers alone and is the root for various things because Activision has proven very shady business practices can work if they have PR to back up their products.

» Tue May 15, 2012 5:25 am

EA totally deserves this.

» Tue May 15, 2012 7:52 am

Just so everyone knows...EA has no problem with extortion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR6-u8OIJTE%5D

Might be old but good for everyone to know.

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:28 am

Gamers are a whiny breed :tongue:

This all happened just because Mass Effect 3 was released recently and people are still upset about the ending. And the ending do svck, it's horrible, but to consider the ending of a fictional entertainment product more evil than Bank of America which happily destroy lives to make money, well, is extremely narrow minded to put it nicely.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314#ixzz1r66S7YRf

EA has long been the object of hatred of gamers. I feel it is largely due to some of the things EA has done, but also because of how self-entitled gamers can get.

» Tue May 15, 2012 11:48 am

EA has long been the object of hatred of gamers. I feel it is largely due to some of the things EA has done, but also because of how self-entitled gamers can get.

And @ Freddo....

See my earlier post.

» Tue May 15, 2012 4:04 am

Why the hate for EA? I don't play a lot of their games. Only FIFA, and I quite like it. Is it because they bring out new installments so frequently (which are basically just the same game with cosmetic changes)?

Because this is the internet and the latest controversial news online is the Mass Effect 3 ending. So EA was in a negative spotlight more so than usual at the time people could vote for this.

I'm sure if this competition had been held at another time shortly after Activision did something stupid then they would have 'won' instead.

» Tue May 15, 2012 4:06 am

I know this won't do anything to stop EA from [censored] everything that is about gaming, but it still felt good for them to notice people dislike them.

» Tue May 15, 2012 12:56 pm

When things like making bad games are considered a bigger offense than polluting the environment or taking advantage of people in third-world countries, you know we live in a [censored] up world.

» Tue May 15, 2012 1:37 pm

Though I agree with I suppose most of you that EA makes crappy kind of games...well, I'm sort of a weird case because one of their games is my favorite game of all time and it's gonna be some good game to beat it as my favorite game no matter how advanced the world and the gaming industry gets. It's EA's Fifa soccer 2003 but only the Fifa soccer 2003 on the xbox and I mean only on the xbox with the regular or duke controller only. I mean I even admit I'm weird in that case. But it's true.

» Tue May 15, 2012 8:49 am

And @ Freddo....

See my earlier post.

It's not just the microtransactions. Gamers have been hating it before stupid microtransactions or questionable things in Origin or locked content on the disk that had to be bought as DLC. That said, when people pirate a game en masse because they're offended by the DRM its makers gave it, there's something wrong there other than EA.

At the same time, I do feel that EA has recently been making more and more stupid decisions. Not enough to net them a genuine "worst company in America" dishonor though, not when other companies are doing things that are much worse.

Disclaimer: Crimson Paladin does not wish to imply, infer, or suggest that anyone on the Bethesda Softworks Forums is in any way self-entitled or would even dream of doing anything illegal.

» Tue May 15, 2012 6:43 am

I know this won't do anything to stop EA from [censored] everything that is about gaming, but it still felt good for them to notice people dislike them.

Any publicity is good publicity as they say.

» Tue May 15, 2012 6:02 pm

I know this won't do anything to stop EA from [censored] everything that is about gaming, but it still felt good for them to notice people dislike them.

And they know the vast majority of people who "dislike" them will throw money at them the next time they release a [censored] DLC and will pre-order the next piece of [censored] game they release.

Doesn't matter until gamers start to SERIOUSLY vote with their wallets. But too many gamers have the willpower of crack addict and the attention span of a gnat for that to ever happen. EA will continue to create crappy games and overpriced DLC and the Mountain Dew addled hordes will continue to shove their money down thier throats with one hand while down voting them on the internet with the other.

» Tue May 15, 2012 10:57 am

Really, they change their name from British Pertroleum to BP and you get mad that people still refer to them as British Petroleum?

As I understand it, the name was changed to the initials as it's no longer predominantly under British ownership. Which didn't seem a problem until some people started getting all xenophobic.

Any publicity is good publicity as they say.

Tell that to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner.

I'm still not really getting the problem with this poll: it seems to have turned into yet another platform for the entitled "entitled and whiny" whining.