The previous thread reached its post limit.

Also, there's a new twist to the Simcity debacle. Apparently SimCity was supposed to be offline, but it didn't fit with EA's vision...

http://consumerist.com/2013/03/15/ea-says-it-rejected-offline-play-for-simcity-because-it-didnt-fit-with-our-vision/

EA has a draconian DRM system and is ridiculously bad at PR with gamers while Activision sets the example yearly that you don't need to make original content to make it in the gaming world and now other publishers are following suit such as Ubisoft with Assassin's Creed and EA would love to make it where Battlefield was a yearly franchise if they could have two developers instead of one developer working on the Battlefield franchise like Call of Duty's Treyarch and Infinity Ward.

Here's the previous thread.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1449154-who-is-the-worse-evil-activision-or-ea/

EA makes me sick to my stomach. They represent everything that is wrong with the industry.

OP you're just so transparent...

EA isnt evil, its pure g4y.

I kind of seen the Simcity thing turning out to be Simcity was meant to have at least an offline toggle. I heard there was some fun stuff in the game, but I'll just get Simcity 4. My computer can run that game, so whatever. Seems EA actually mandated the always on DRM. Maxis isn't the software toy dev it used to be since Will Wright left the company. Too bad, because it'd be cool to have more games based on the Game of Life(Game of Life is a life growing simulator that is sort of called a game. Not to be confused with the board game) or maybe have the guy who made SimTower(oh, how I want to play that) make another.

Now we are lucky we had another Simcity.

I think the number of COD clones that's out there is greatly exaggerated. Sure there are multiplayer FPS that take elements that COD popularized, but the COD Modern Warfare style of short single player campaigns with lots of scripted setpieces and very little freedom isn't all that common. The main ones I can think of are Battlefield, Medal of Honor, and Homefront. That's not a lot of games/series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_%28series%29#Games_and_platforms They just hide it better than COD.