EA Wants "To Be 90 Plus Metacritic at Everything"

[Zeriah]

Wow.

I can't actually believe this.

It's like EA have no idea how much people hate them

They're the Cartman of the gaming world.

They are similar to Cartman aren't they... hmm. They should make a South Park episode where Cartman teams up with the head of EA to cause all sorts of asshole-ish shenanigans

Funnily enough Cartman did meet up with the head of EA sports when he sold them the rights to crack baby basketball, thinking he'd make millions and not need to give the babies families any money (like college football EA games or whatever). EA fucked him though and didn't give him a dime, so they are probably enemies now, which could lead to even further hijinks.

OT: I say good luck. I don't know a single person who has Origin for anything other than Bioware games/BF3.

 

[VanTesla]

This is one of the many reasons I dislike EA with a passion... Yes I play some of their games, but never will I do so on Origin... Also the balls they have to be so anti-consumer and think this will make them more money is just baffling... It's not even about being a big corporation, but it being a bad business design and how they lose so much money for acting like complete douchebags...

 

[VanTesla]

Stop. Making. Metacritic. Matter. Assholes.

Amen to that. Metacritic is a consumer tool, not an automatic stamp of success/failure.

Also it being as reliable as a piece of dung...

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

12 million have downloaded? that's because they were required to use your shitty service to finish their sequels to your games, I have no intention of using your shitty service ever again, especially with that attitude of yours.

90+?

I smell a metacritic bombing of -10 across the board for you.

 

[Vie]

I'm about to explain to EA how they can achieve their goal of getting 90+ across the board with their games on Metacritic.

Buy Metacritic.

Fire it's current staff and replace them with your drones. Order them to give your games 90+ ratings and trash other companies games, regardless of what the real reviews are. Then block all voting on the ratings - make them in house only - and reap in the profits.

The profits being Metacritic's demise.

 

[Furioso]

Wow.

I can't actually believe this.

It's like EA have no idea how much people hate them

They're the Cartman of the gaming world.

They are similar to Cartman aren't they... hmm. They should make a South Park episode where Cartman teams up with the head of EA to cause all sorts of asshole-ish shenanigans

Funnily enough Cartman did meet up with the head of EA sports when he sold them the rights to crack baby basketball, thinking he'd make millions and not need to give the babies families any money (like college football EA games or whatever). EA fucked him though and didn't give him a dime, so they are probably enemies now, which could lead to even further hijinks.

Now that you mention it I actually have seen that episode, here's hoping they have more wacky adventures, if anything it will be about the boys taking them down for screwing them again

 

[hensethe1]

Just bought a game through Origin today. Can't start downloading before 24 hours has passed because they need to verify the payment, though the payment has been drawn from my account. This never happened using steam, never will

 

[redmoretrout]

The only thing that really matters is the prices of their products. Origin's prices need to be competitive with Steam's and people will start to migrate.

 

[KeyMaster45]

Aw, isn't DeMartini cute. It's like the mentally impaired kid who wants to be an astronaut.

It's worse than that, he's the mentally impaired kid who wants to be president and later succeeds through sheer wtf lunacy.

 

[VoEC]

This makes me sad. Really, just sad.

Comparing Steam and Origin to social networks.
And as if that trivial score of metacritic would reflect in any way the worth of a game.

If EA continues to measure themselves after numbers and trends, I will never take them serious. What happened to "Can a computer make you cry?"...

EDIT: You want to know why people hate you EA? This is why.

 

[chimeracreator]

Just bought a game through Origin today. Can't start downloading before 24 hours has passed because they need to verify the payment, though the payment has been drawn from my account. This never happened using steam, never will

I ran into a several hour delay on Origin once as well. At first I wasn't sure that I bought it. So I waited a few hours and checked my credit card to verify that it was charged. Then I ended up calling them waiting thirty minutes on hold and finally had my purchase go through a minute before I talked to the guy. I still did simply to complain that this system was seriously messed up... and also potentially illegal in some states. So the stats for me are:

Number of Games on Origin: 2
Number of Times I Had to Call: 2

Number of Games on Steam: 177
Number of Times I Had to Call: 0

I think that says a lot about who has the better mouse trap.

 

[subtlefuge]

Well, they've proven that they can buy IGN, so who knows...

Who am I kidding? IGN is no victory, and Army of Two will never be a 90+ game no matter who you pay off. I will say that it might help for them to have ONE fanboy in existence.

 

[Navvan]

Lets see whose winning the race with me...

I have one game on Origin because they made me (Mass effect 3).
I have 94 games on Steam. Some because I had to, but most because they were simply the best or most convenient deal around.
I think Origin has a ways to go.

Not to mention EA has a bad reputation with the Gaming community whereas Steam is in relative good graces.

 

[Reyold]

I don't know wether to laugh at them for their stupidy, rage at them for their arrogance, or just go "meh" and watch as their company blows up from the inside out.

I'd advise getting the popcorn. Reading EA's PR efforts is like watching a slow-motion train crash.

Yeah, no kidding. The Mass Effect ending, insulting their fanbase when people complained about it, their falling stock, the "Why Do People Hate EA?" article on IGN, and much, MUCH more.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

So digital disturbution services are like mousetrap. If I understand this correctly that makes steam a humane mousetrap that offers a sweet treat but causes no real harm, while Origin is like that sticky stuff that mice chew their own legs off to get out. Do I have this right?

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Maybe, just maybe, 90 plus on everything on metacritic is possible, EA, if you stop torturing your devs with ludicrous deadlines. If you decided to focus on quality rather than quantity while still expecting quality (like a complete asshole) , you might have a shot in hell of coming close to that. You have the money and you have the talent to craft excellent games, just give your employees the time.

Or you could just buy reviews and high scores. After all, if you have enough money anything can get a 10 out of 10.