EA Really Doesn't Want to be The Worst Company In America

[barbzilla]

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Wow, That is the most well written argument against EA I've seen put together in a long time. Cheers to you m8!

OT: If they don't want to be the worst company then they should change their practices, it is as simple as that. Stop trying to drag the world about by its wallet, and give half a shit about your customer and you will be set.

 

[Erttheking]

I can't be the only one who read his bullet points going "bullshit....more bullshit....padded numbers.....and more bullshit"

Prove it... prove it... prove it... and prove it.

OT: You know what EA? Give up. Honestly give up.

The people bitching about you make up something around less than 10% of your consumer base. And you know what? They will not stop buying your games. They buy them by the truckloads just so find something to ***** about.

You pretty much have 4,000 Bart Sibrels on your tail at this point. Just roll your eyes and keep making games. Stop taking the time to validate these people. They are not numerous enough to mean anything to you. All the rhetoric about "gamer revolution" or "the market will crash again!" is not being done by economic anylysts. It's being done by some 17-22 year olds sitting at their computers and whining against the keyboard all day and one fat british guy with a messiah complex.

Your games are fine, the occasional online-only game is not going to make anyone whither away and die. Do what George Lucas learned to do and just start jabbing them with the poker just to drink the delicious tears [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NWapK_It3XI/S76GdYLbUQI/AAAAAAAAAyI/WOiK3vIEXHY/s1600/Jedi+Ghosts.jpg]

You know, I really wish you wouldn't refer to people with very legitimate complaints as "bitching" it's very rude and, when you think about it, more than a little hypocritical.

 

[V da Mighty Taco]

Still though, I'm glad Grey posted this without much opinion on it all, leave it a bit ambiguous lol

You have no idea how hard that was. Still, more material for Critical Miss I guess.

You done the right thing, son.

Seriously though, kudos for that. Less bias in a news article is always welcome.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

If EA does win this poll (and it's almost certain they will) I wonder if their stock prices will take another hit.

It's not a legitimate poll and obviously it's debatable on what the REAL worst company is but still...It shows how much people hate EA. There's no way stock holders can ignore that.

 

[Evil Smurf]

EA ar'n't going to read this thread, why are you all posting as if they will? Furthermore they don't care anyway. Give up, don't buy their games and complain to them not the escapist.

^YES!

I laughed so hard when I scrolled through all these comments saying, "WHY DON'T YOU LISTEN TO US" and then came apon your comment Evil Smurf. It just rings so much truth, EA wouldn't bother looking on a forum such as this one because the only feedback they look for is the dollar signs.

I only just noticed my grammar mistakes D:

But yeah, I try to see the logical solution to mistakes, in a chaotic world you must be sane.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I can keep calling a banana a female aardvark, but it doesn't make anymore true.

Nice Red Dwarf reference.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

if you have voted that EA is worse than the Bank of America despite being up to date on current events, I'm gonna say this right now: YOU'RE A FUCKING MORON. And if you're just ignorant of the BoA's actions, then get yourself familiar.

I have to say I'm going to be voting for EA in the final round and I would appreciate it if you didn't insult me for it.

You cannot compare an entertainment publisher annoying people through some DRM and DLC to a bank that has a history of legitimately screwing people over, which goes up to THROWING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES. Games, at the end of the day, are just a luxury, a commodity. Banking services are HIGH on the list of necessities and a HOUSE is a bloody necessity right up there with food and water. Sorry, but this scorn against EA against far, FAR worse companies is silly.

 

[Atlas13]

I'm just gonna leave this right here.
http://consumerist.com/2013/04/05/ea-admits-it-can-do-better-but-blames-worst-company-success-on-homophobes-and-whiny-madden-fans/

Especially this part right here.

While any number of tech and video game sites and forums have been writing about and linking to the WCIA polls (here's lookin' at you /v/), our analytics show absolutely no incoming traffic from anything we'd label as political, let alone conservative.

So it looks like EA was talking out of their asses about the whole LGBT thing. So they were just using it as a shield against any criticism.

You cannot compare an entertainment publisher annoying people through some DRM and DLC to a bank that has a history of legitimately screwing people over, which goes up to THROWING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES. Games, at the end of the day, are just a luxury, a commodity. Banking services are HIGH on the list of necessities and a HOUSE is a bloody necessity right up there with food and water. Sorry, but this scorn against EA against far, FAR worse companies is silly.

Well, let's look at this in another way.
Do you think Bank of America cares at all about an online competition to win a poo trophy?
Do you think they'll care at all? Or respond at all?
Now look at EA. The competition isn't even over and they've already responded. And the fact that they HAVE responded makes it all the sweeter.

 

[marurder]

Clearly they feel as if they cannot do wrong. And it is the consumers who are at fault for the list. If they want to do better, prove it and stop treating customers like criminals. That said, I am totally aware that nobody of import to this will actually read any of these posts. Which is their loss, in the end.

 

[BoogieManFL]

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

Oh yeah? How many of those registered users have it because they HAD TO HAVE IT. I bet Mass Effect 3 alone is responsible for quite a sizable portion of that. Cause I sure as hell would have bought it on Steam of I had the option, even if it was somehow more expensive.


"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."

I chose not to buy the new Sim City game, but since it's been proven it CAN function offline, if it isn't some half assed DRM attempt, why initially lie that it can't - and make no option for single player or offline play?



What a flimsy defense

/yawn

 

[Erttheking]

if you have voted that EA is worse than the Bank of America despite being up to date on current events, I'm gonna say this right now: YOU'RE A FUCKING MORON. And if you're just ignorant of the BoA's actions, then get yourself familiar.

I have to say I'm going to be voting for EA in the final round and I would appreciate it if you didn't insult me for it.

You cannot compare an entertainment publisher annoying people through some DRM and DLC to a bank that has a history of legitimately screwing people over, which goes up to THROWING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES. Games, at the end of the day, are just a luxury, a commodity. Banking services are HIGH on the list of necessities and a HOUSE is a bloody necessity right up there with food and water. Sorry, but this scorn against EA against far, FAR worse companies is silly.

Really I have to quote Dexter on this one. If you don't like BP, you can buy gas from someone else. If you don't like Bank of America, you can go to another bank (I go to Eastern Bank). If you want to buy Mass Effect 3 without supporting EA, you can't buy it somewhere else legally. You see, I have a hard time hating Bank of America because they didn't do anything to me, where as EA is getting into three messes per month. So I hate them more because they're actually doing stuff to me. If you have any unanswered question, look at Dexter's post. He says it all.

So please, don't insult me.

 

[Something Amyss]

If they want to do better, prove it and stop treating customers like criminals.

Or at least stop trying to justify reviled business practices.

If you do something that people don't like and you're cool with that, that's one thing. To continue to do things that people actively hate and be all "why are you guys hating on me?" That's another. And it's just screwed up.

Captcha: Jack be nimble.

And Jack Flash sat on a candlestick cause fire is EA's only friend.

 

[Weaver]

I think there is a divide EA isn't seeing between oil, banking and games.
People expect banks to fuck them over, they expect to be gouged at the pump by heartless suits who ruin the environment... games are their recreation. For many people, they're how we relax, and how we escape. We expect playing games to be easy and pleasurable. We expect the companies that make them to be fun and personable. When you're not, you get flak for it.

To have games subject to more and more control, more in the way DRM, more in your face marketing, more "buy our shit in game" style DLC and microstransactions the less easy it is for us to forget about the world we're trying to forget about.

 

[Atmos Duality]

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

As one of those 45 million registered consumers who were unwillingly transferred from the EA Downloader to your crappy Steam wannabe, I will NOT put that POS that you call a service on my PC.

Oh I missed that juicy bit.
*I* have an Origin account. Not one that I created, but one that EA created for me because I was gifted Mass Effect 2 via Steam before Origin's launch.

And I have no doubt that they're padding those numbers with people like me, who have "accounts" but who have no intention of using them; including the accounts derived from previous Steam sales!

The irony is thick as lumpy pudding.

 

[gyrobot_v1legacy]

if you have voted that EA is worse than the Bank of America despite being up to date on current events, I'm gonna say this right now: YOU'RE A FUCKING MORON. And if you're just ignorant of the BoA's actions, then get yourself familiar.

I have to say I'm going to be voting for EA in the final round and I would appreciate it if you didn't insult me for it.

You cannot compare an entertainment publisher annoying people through some DRM and DLC to a bank that has a history of legitimately screwing people over, which goes up to THROWING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES. Games, at the end of the day, are just a luxury, a commodity. Banking services are HIGH on the list of necessities and a HOUSE is a bloody necessity right up there with food and water. Sorry, but this scorn against EA against far, FAR worse companies is silly.

Really I have to quote Dexter on this one. If you don't like BP, you can buy gas from someone else. If you don't like Bank of America, you can go to another bank (I go to Eastern Bank). If you want to buy Mass Effect 3 without supporting EA, you can't buy it somewhere else legally. You see, I have a hard time hating Bank of America because they didn't do anything to me, where as EA is getting into three messes per month. So I hate them more because they're actually doing stuff to me. If you have any unanswered question, look at Dexter's post. He says it all.

So please, don't insult me.

Or as someone says, don't buy SimCity and ME3 if you hate Origin so much. But if you are "forced" to buy a game shows your lack of commitment against EA. Anyone remember the MW boycotts and how much good they did?

 

[Erttheking]

if you have voted that EA is worse than the Bank of America despite being up to date on current events, I'm gonna say this right now: YOU'RE A FUCKING MORON. And if you're just ignorant of the BoA's actions, then get yourself familiar.

I have to say I'm going to be voting for EA in the final round and I would appreciate it if you didn't insult me for it.

You cannot compare an entertainment publisher annoying people through some DRM and DLC to a bank that has a history of legitimately screwing people over, which goes up to THROWING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOMES. Games, at the end of the day, are just a luxury, a commodity. Banking services are HIGH on the list of necessities and a HOUSE is a bloody necessity right up there with food and water. Sorry, but this scorn against EA against far, FAR worse companies is silly.

Really I have to quote Dexter on this one. If you don't like BP, you can buy gas from someone else. If you don't like Bank of America, you can go to another bank (I go to Eastern Bank). If you want to buy Mass Effect 3 without supporting EA, you can't buy it somewhere else legally. You see, I have a hard time hating Bank of America because they didn't do anything to me, where as EA is getting into three messes per month. So I hate them more because they're actually doing stuff to me. If you have any unanswered question, look at Dexter's post. He says it all.

So please, don't insult me.

Or as someone says, don't buy SimCity and ME3 if you hate Origin so much. But if you are "forced" to buy a game shows your lack of commitment against EA. Anyone remember the MW boycotts and how much good they did?

Don't see what that has to do with anything. Haven't bought a single game from EA in the last year.

 

[Agente L]

Oh boy, the consumerist just released an article completely destroying peter moore and EA.

This keeps getting better and better.