EA Boycott?

[Vrach]

Or you know, you can just avoid their forums. You don't lose out on anything good, fun or useful and you dodge that bullshit altogether. Works for me.

 

[Burst6]

I never bought an EA game before anyway. Their games aren't usually worth more than a rent.


I WAS planning to buy Mass Effect 3, but the whole origin thing put me off. I'll just wait for Gamefly to send me a copy.

 

[everythingbeeps]

Yawn. Let me know how your little crusade goes. I'll be off playing EA games I enjoy and not foolishly depriving myself of them in a pointless gesture of indignation.

 

[M4t3us]

I've started this since they joined SOPA and will keep boycotting them, I'm sure the lack of my $10 a month for Need for Speed World won't bother them much but I'm making a point and will stand by it.

 

[sinterklaas]

Never buying an EA game again.

EA can go sit in the corner together with Ubisoft.

 

[Aeonknight]

Also... who seriously goes to forums for FPS's? I'm a forum whore myself but that just seems a little unnecessary.

People do. And people get banned for it.

And where's the discussion value there? "Aw dude, I totally got this sweet headshot awhile back!"

"SCAR or gtfo!"

that's about it.
Anyone going to those forums for any other reason is likely just going there to stir up shit. And EA ain't having none of that. Much like the mods here if you ask me.

Turns out I was wrong about elitism here...

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/forums/show/3923.page

There. Found it after about 2 seconds of searching. Yup, nothing to discuss...

Also, on an EA forums related note... why can't they just add a wordfilter if they hate cursing so much?

Let's see...
A troll thread by Buk_Futt3r, a worst guns thread, 2 threads about the USAS, "tutorial" threads on how to properly use guns/kill snipers, bitching about the mine nerf.

Oh yes, that treasure trove of information is worth getting banned over.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I applaud your initiate, even though I think it will fall on deaf ears.

And I am sorry to say that I will also be getting ME3, I just need to confirm how things end.

Wiki it.

Look, I'm all for boycotting, and I'm really all with the sentiment behind this, but...

EA, and many other huge gaming publishers, are already on the brink of giving up on the PC as a gaming platform anyway. They would only take a boycott as the final sign that the PC is dead, and then it really would be.

I'm perfectly happy with EA leaving the PC scene.

 

[Yopaz]

Look, I've played EA games. They're not horrible, although they have been mashed through the jaws of corporate interests. But recently, EA is going off the leash, attacking it's own customers.

Incidents such as prohibiting people from playing their LEGALLY bought games if they misbehave on their forums, as well as locking the accounts (and the games, effectively cutting off access to the games) of people who haven't done a damned thing wrong (the recent case of a man named Aaron who was banned because someone else swore in the forums while also mentioning Aaron's username).

This has gone on too long.

Either EA stops their abhorrent, and possibly illegal, practices, or we stop buying their games.

I, Fuhjem, am pledging henceforth to never buy a single game that EA has at any point put their hands on.

That means no Mass Effect 3 for me (and as anyone who knows me knows, I am a diehard fan of the ME series), no Battlefield 3, no Star Wars: The Old Republic, nothing EA is putting their filthy hands on.

I'm going to do my part to call to attention the extreme amount of bullshit that EA is doing to their very own customers, the very people who let them exist.

If you believe as I do, let the world know and post here. Maybe we can have a petition put up, telling EA to cut this bullcrap.

Thanks for your time.

I suggest you go to a bar, buy a beer and insult the barman. Do you think you get to drink the beer or not? If people behaved badly in real life there are real consequences, why shouldn't there be ones online?

Because the internet is free and there are no laws at all... Yeah, before you ask I am being sarcastic.

People who ruin the experience for others get banned. It's overly harsh to say the least, but not enough for me to ban EA. Now the fact that I am not a EA fan makes it pointless for me to boycott their games, but hey, if you want me to I'll join the group who's not buying Mass Effect 3. I hated the original games anyway. Need For Speed games though... I wont boycott them... Unless The Run is as crappy as the first trailers made it look like...

 

[isometry]

I've also stopped buying EA games to boycott their anti-customer practices.

That means no Mass Effect 3 for me (and as anyone who knows me knows, I am a diehard fan of the ME series), no Battlefield 3, no Star Wars: The Old Republic, nothing EA is putting their filthy hands on.

Same here, ME3 was the hardest to give up, but all three of those big games could potentially have gotten some money out of me if it weren't for EA.

It helps that I bought Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit last year and experienced first hand a good/great game being ruined by EA's DRM bullshit (I'm a PC gamer). Therefore any time I think of buying ME3, I just remind myself that it will be weighed down by all the crap EA will dump on Bioware's creation.

 

[Valdus]

For what it's worth I've been boycotting EA for a while now. Though sadly there's little point. Too many people will refuse either because they're slaves to certain IP or simply because they're too skeptical that the boycott would actually take off.

If you find a group large enough to start one though, count me in. The last EA game I bought was over a year ago and it was 2nd hand. I'll happily stick to this one-man boycott even if it gets no where (yes, I hate EA that much).

 

[Twilight_guy]

Internet boycotts and petitions don't work. If you want to start a movement you need another strategy as this one is clearly broken.

 

[LT Cannibal 68]

oooooooooooooooh one less sale from a faceless poster on a message board, that'll learn em.
i can respect your passion but ea will react the same way a giant does when i hit him with an iron dagger when i'm level 1.

 

[KiloFox]

i'm gonna do this... but i'll probobly still play ME3... i'll just buy it used so not a penny of MY money goes to EA...

 

[DaWaffledude]

I would, but EA pretty much owns the majority of the games industry.

 

[Valdus]

oooooooooooooooh one less sale from a faceless poster on a message board, that'll learn em.
i can respect your passion but ea will react the same way a giant does when i hit him with an iron dagger when i'm level 1.

This is the attitude I meant. If everyone who thought like this actually tried the boycott instead it might actually hurt.

 

[CopperBoom]

Why no boycott boycott's.
I don't think anyone who says the will boycott a game compony everdoes except for a small few.

...and even if they do, who will care?
It is not enough to matter.

 

[winter2]

Although I believe EA have clearly gone off the deep end and I have decided for myself to not purchase their games (ME3 be damned) as I will not support this particular brand of lunacy, I am not expecting miracles by any means.

Anybody else feels like getting shafted, by all means go ahead, but it's not for me.

Also, I remember when EA used to be cool back in the day....

 

[FEichinger]

Piracy would solve your problem.....but ofc we would never fall so low

*cough* *cough*

No.... never....

It's still sad that the only way not to get hit by their ridicoulus anti-piracy crap is to pirate instead of buying the game like you would have done without Origin.

See my take on piracy (link should be on my twitter feed, I believe.)

Other than that, I'm with the OP. Honestly, the only thing I am close to dropping out of a boycott would be ME3. And, unless EA somehow manages to get the Origin-Stick out of their rear end, I won't drop out there either ... (If they do, though, I'll be having a hard time trying to boycott, but since that's unlikely, I'm not too scared ...)

Yes, it is unlikely to have any effect, if we boycott. And yes, it's only a very little share of profit lost - which is likely going to be counted towards the "PROFIT LOST DUE TO PIRACY!!!!!" statistics ... lol. And yes, it effectively blocks us boycotters from playing considerably decent games. Nonetheless it's principles to speak up for. And if we don't speak up, who will?
I'd rather lose the experience of ME3 (and BF3, for that matter) than give in to EA with their recent pile of crap called public relations ...