EA Wins Title of "Worst Company in America"

[Kinguendo]

While I hate EA and it would be a much better world if EA was the worst company in America, sadly it isnt.

Oh and screw EA for their brush off of the fact that they just got voted the WORST and will just continue doing the exact same thing, seriously... screw those d-bags.

I guess it's more first world problems that got them up here. I doubt Apple or Walmart would be that far behind if their sweatshop workers were able to honestly voice their opinion about them in this poll.......

Yeah, weird that more sweatshop workers dont go online to voice their discontent about their working conditions... must be all the games they play and online shopping thats taking up their time.

 

[minuialear]

Wow, so people say EA's attempts "to nickel and dime consumers to death" overshadow WalMart's inhuman sweatshops in China?

Congratulations, internet: you've indirectly placed the ending of a game series above the well-being of human life. Stay classy.

Yeah, that's just about one game. Sure. Whatever makes you feel superior to us all.

I voted for EA because frankly I never even encountered a Walmart. I know there's one in my COUNTRY, and few on this side of Europe, but I simply had no contact with them. EA has been ruining my childhood's series for a while now.

So you voted EA over Walmart purely because Walmart's sweatshops don't directly affect you. The fact that Walmart (or Apple, for that matter) has treated millions of people like animals and pays them less than minimum wage while doing it so that they can lower prices on goods isn't as bad as DLC and allowing a game studio to release a crappy ending, because you don't ever actually have to see a Walmart, but you have had to deal with having to pay an extra $10-20 for content that you believe should have been in the game in the first place, or because you paid $50-80 for a game in which about ten minutes out of at least 15-20 hours were terrible.

Please, explain to me how your excuse makes your vote any less depressing.

 

[Valis88]

I'm sorry, but there's no way a video game company is more evil then companies that ruin the economy and poison the enviroment or force no alternatives to oil or create sweat shops in a form of literal slavery. This is a simple case of the first world having a louder opinion and throwing a temper tantrum like a CHILD!

Grow up.

EDIT : Look, I thought about this post and realize it could be modded but I stand by it. People suffer in this world, and there is no way a video game company trumps other companies charging third world countries 25-40% of their income for water alone or poisoning their enviroments causing thousands upon thousands of birth defects. This is simply a case of our uneducated public being unaware of what alot of american companies are doing or not caring because it does not effect them.

I agree with you.

 

[Abedeus]

Wow, so people say EA's attempts "to nickel and dime consumers to death" overshadow WalMart's inhuman sweatshops in China?

Congratulations, internet: you've indirectly placed the ending of a game series above the well-being of human life. Stay classy.

Yeah, that's just about one game. Sure. Whatever makes you feel superior to us all.

I voted for EA because frankly I never even encountered a Walmart. I know there's one in my COUNTRY, and few on this side of Europe, but I simply had no contact with them. EA has been ruining my childhood's series for a while now.

So you voted EA over Walmart purely because Walmart's sweatshops don't directly affect you. The fact that Walmart (or Apple, for that matter) has treated millions of people like animals and pays them less than minimum wage while doing it so that they can lower prices on goods isn't as bad as DLC and allowing a game studio to release a crappy ending, because you don't ever actually have to see a Walmart, but you have had to deal with having to pay an extra $10-20 for content that you believe should have been in the game in the first place, or because you paid $50-80 for a game in which about ten minutes out of at least 15-20 hours were terrible.

Please, explain to me how your excuse makes your vote any less depressing.

Well, I could go into a long, dwindling argument with you about why your opinion is superior to yours, but I don't give a crap.

 

[dagens24]

Wow, gamers are pretty pathetic. EA? The WORST company in America? Really?

 

[nyysjan]

So EA is worse than Exxon-Mobil, Goldman-Sachs, Koch industries, any of the coal mining companies that have basicly guilty of negligent homicide or Xe/Blackwater/whatever?

/facepalm

 

[cpnichol]

Worst gaming company, fine. Worst company out of all the companies out there? Not even close. Or has everyone forgotten why the economy crashed a few years ago?

 

[Grunt_Man11]

Only gamers could win a vote for a company that hasn't financially ruined thousands of lives, lost thousands in jobs and contributed to a global depression.

/sigh

"/sigh" indeed.

I mean really people? There are companies that are way more deserving of this title than EA. However, it seems that using Executive Meddling to cause a hyped up video game trilogy to have a crappy ending is worse than the following:

1) Kicking thousands of people out of their homes via foreclosures.
2) Illegally putting people's mortgages on the stock market, and thus contributing to real estate collapse, (which then lead to number 1).
3) Charging people money for not being rich enough to have X amount in their checking account at all times.
4) Cutting corners with safety and thus causing one of the biggest oil spills in history.
5) Demanding "bailouts," squandering it all on personal luxuries, and then demanding more "bailouts."

There's probably more that could be added to this list.

"All those other companies ruined lives? Pfft, that's nothing compared to ruining a video game."

What's next? Bill Gates beating out Charles Madson in a worse person to ever live contest?

 

[mfeff]

Shrug, they are not all bad... in fact... I have enjoyed shorting their garbage stock since November... weee go EA, way to not disappoint!

http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/commentary/content/marketobs/call+volume+heats+up+on+electronic+arts/observations.aspx?id=110292

 

[Yeager942]

EA has done some asshole things, but I don't really think they deserve top spot.

 

[minuialear]

Wow, so people say EA's attempts "to nickel and dime consumers to death" overshadow WalMart's inhuman sweatshops in China?

Congratulations, internet: you've indirectly placed the ending of a game series above the well-being of human life. Stay classy.

Yeah, that's just about one game. Sure. Whatever makes you feel superior to us all.

I voted for EA because frankly I never even encountered a Walmart. I know there's one in my COUNTRY, and few on this side of Europe, but I simply had no contact with them. EA has been ruining my childhood's series for a while now.

So you voted EA over Walmart purely because Walmart's sweatshops don't directly affect you. The fact that Walmart (or Apple, for that matter) has treated millions of people like animals and pays them less than minimum wage while doing it so that they can lower prices on goods isn't as bad as DLC and allowing a game studio to release a crappy ending, because you don't ever actually have to see a Walmart, but you have had to deal with having to pay an extra $10-20 for content that you believe should have been in the game in the first place, or because you paid $50-80 for a game in which about ten minutes out of at least 15-20 hours were terrible.

Please, explain to me how your excuse makes your vote any less depressing.

Well, I could go into a long, dwindling argument with you about why your opinion is superior to yours, but I don't give a crap.

I kinda wish you did give a crap, because I would love to hear that one.

But on a more serious note, this isn't about anyone being superior to anyone else, so much as it's about you trying to act like the fact that you don't live near a lot of Walmarts is a valid counter-argument to the statement made by someone else about how depressing it is that people care more about their video games than about human rights.

It's like saying you're justified in caring more about the price of gas than about child labor in China, because you've never happened to stumble upon a pair of shoes made in China. The problem isn't that you care more about gas prices than child safety (well, that is a problem, but anyway); it's that you're trying to argue that the fact that you don't happen to be near the source of the problem means you're justified in not caring as much about the problem.

 

[Abedeus]

Wow, so people say EA's attempts "to nickel and dime consumers to death" overshadow WalMart's inhuman sweatshops in China?

Congratulations, internet: you've indirectly placed the ending of a game series above the well-being of human life. Stay classy.

Yeah, that's just about one game. Sure. Whatever makes you feel superior to us all.

I voted for EA because frankly I never even encountered a Walmart. I know there's one in my COUNTRY, and few on this side of Europe, but I simply had no contact with them. EA has been ruining my childhood's series for a while now.

So you voted EA over Walmart purely because Walmart's sweatshops don't directly affect you. The fact that Walmart (or Apple, for that matter) has treated millions of people like animals and pays them less than minimum wage while doing it so that they can lower prices on goods isn't as bad as DLC and allowing a game studio to release a crappy ending, because you don't ever actually have to see a Walmart, but you have had to deal with having to pay an extra $10-20 for content that you believe should have been in the game in the first place, or because you paid $50-80 for a game in which about ten minutes out of at least 15-20 hours were terrible.

Please, explain to me how your excuse makes your vote any less depressing.

Well, I could go into a long, dwindling argument with you about why your opinion is superior to yours, but I don't give a crap.

I kinda wish you did give a crap, because I would love to hear that one.

But on a more serious note, this isn't about anyone being superior to anyone else, so much as it's about you trying to act like the fact that you don't live near a lot of Walmarts is a valid counter-argument to the statement made by someone else about how depressing it is that people care more about their video games than about human rights.

It's like saying you're justified in caring more about the price of gas than about child labor in China, because you've never happened to stumble upon a pair of shoes made in China. The problem isn't that you care more about gas prices than child safety (well, that is a problem, but anyway); it's that you're trying to argue that the fact that you don't happen to be near the source of the problem means you're justified in not caring as much about the problem.

Well, as long as you feel superior to everyone who has different opinion I guess that's okay.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

EA faced stiff competition from WalMart, Citibank, the US Postal Service and a small army of other corporations in Consumerist's knock-out poll before squaring up to the much-reviled Bank of America in the final.

What's the US Postal Service doing on that list? Any company already burdened by having their prices set ridiculously low by the goverment and by not getting a red cent of support from it does NOT need extra hate from us.

I mean sure, I don't like junk mail either, but that's hardly their fault.

I was a postman in the UK for a while, and yeah, I think it's essentially down to:

'wah wah I don't like THIS thing!'
'Well, you see we need to do that or a regular stamp would be ten bucks and all you have to do is drop that shit in the recycling'
'yeah, but wah wah I dont like IT!'

AS for EA, it seems they've learned that the customer does this:

'WTF? EA, I can't believe you just pulled that shit on your own customers'
'Bwahahaha, shut up and buy more games'
'No, I'm boycotting you until you chang- oooh shiny new game! Here's sixty bucks! Oh and here's another twenty for DLC!'
'Double Bwahahahaa!'

I think EA could put a virus on their next game that deletes any non EA saves and people would rage about it, then still buy the DLC for that game, which includes a virus that starts to delete any non EA content at all.

 

[minuialear]

Wow, so people say EA's attempts "to nickel and dime consumers to death" overshadow WalMart's inhuman sweatshops in China?

Congratulations, internet: you've indirectly placed the ending of a game series above the well-being of human life. Stay classy.

Yeah, that's just about one game. Sure. Whatever makes you feel superior to us all.

I voted for EA because frankly I never even encountered a Walmart. I know there's one in my COUNTRY, and few on this side of Europe, but I simply had no contact with them. EA has been ruining my childhood's series for a while now.

So you voted EA over Walmart purely because Walmart's sweatshops don't directly affect you. The fact that Walmart (or Apple, for that matter) has treated millions of people like animals and pays them less than minimum wage while doing it so that they can lower prices on goods isn't as bad as DLC and allowing a game studio to release a crappy ending, because you don't ever actually have to see a Walmart, but you have had to deal with having to pay an extra $10-20 for content that you believe should have been in the game in the first place, or because you paid $50-80 for a game in which about ten minutes out of at least 15-20 hours were terrible.

Please, explain to me how your excuse makes your vote any less depressing.

Well, I could go into a long, dwindling argument with you about why your opinion is superior to yours, but I don't give a crap.

I kinda wish you did give a crap, because I would love to hear that one.

But on a more serious note, this isn't about anyone being superior to anyone else, so much as it's about you trying to act like the fact that you don't live near a lot of Walmarts is a valid counter-argument to the statement made by someone else about how depressing it is that people care more about their video games than about human rights.

It's like saying you're justified in caring more about the price of gas than about child labor in China, because you've never happened to stumble upon a pair of shoes made in China. The problem isn't that you care more about gas prices than child safety (well, that is a problem, but anyway); it's that you're trying to argue that the fact that you don't happen to be near the source of the problem means you're justified in not caring as much about the problem.

Well, as long as you feel superior to everyone who has different opinion I guess that's okay.

Again, it's not the opinion itself (that your games are more important than human rights), it's that your logic behind the opinion (because if you don't live near the problem, then it's okay to not care about it) is faulty.

But okay, keep obsessing over the idea of superiority. Because that's definitely making your logic seem even more intelligent.

 

[Nilsenator]

I hope Grey Carter doesn't mind me quoting this tweet he made, as I feel that it's very fitting:

"Gamers will do anything to prove their point to publishers except, you know...not buying their products."

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I hope Grey Carter doesn't mind me quoting this tweet he made, as I feel that it's very fitting:

"Gamers will do anything to prove their point to publishers except, you know...not buying their products."

Indeed, as I and many others have said, why should they care if the whole world thinks they're a shower of baby eating bastards, if we as customers continue to throw all our money at them.

IF I was in their company I'd take this news as proof that we can continue to keep pushing, to see just how much shit our customers will take before they realise that other people make good games and they don't actually have to keep handing us the sixty bucks.

So long as it's in bundles of used notes and not a handful of change in a sock, feel free to hate me by throwing all your money at me too! Um... something about your mum, and that.

*holds bucket ready*

It seems to have filtered thru to quite a few people that Nestle have some bloody terrible skeletons in their closets, and Walmart have caused some pretty bad things to happen to small towns while treating their staff...not well, to say the least.

Yet while people will avoid these brands, EA just keeps on getting those million sellers.

This isn't a monopoly folks, you don't have to keep feeding EA, Ubisoft, Activision if you feel strongly, there's hundreds of other places to send your cash.

At this point it's like sending your kids to the woods each night because they come back with better candy for free than they'd get from the local store, not caring why.

 

[CarlMin]

Okay, so this is one of the reasons I imagine people would find it hard to take the gaming community seriously.