EA Wins Title of "Worst Company in America"
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Ah, EA pulls the patented "George Lucas" cop-out: "So what if I suck? I still have more money than you."
Classy.
Classy.
Nearly twenty years ago I bought a copy of "Jungle Strike" for the Sega Megadrive. Still one of my all-time favorite games, and one that I've played more than probably any other game, barring the likes of Warcraft, Transport Tycoon and TF2.ResonanceSD said:
And now I feel less good about myself for it. Thanks EA, you massive douche-nozzles!
TheMadDoctorsCat said:
TF2 is a given
I haven't bought an EA game since the absolute travesty that was DA2. WHERE'S MY BURRITO?
Oh man, I "lol'd" so much at that. Literally clapped my hands at the monitor.Hevva said:
I frequent sites like Forbes-Games and The Consumerist, so I actually kept watch on that bracket. I almost started a thread on it myself but assumed someone either already had or the Escapist editors themselves would bring it up.
Anyway, the whole thing is hilarious. I still think Comcast, Facebook, Walmart, Zynga (who wasn't nominated), or most notably Bank of America are more deserving, but having EA "win" makes a fairly strong statement about how pissed the gamers are. This shows they pushed their consumers WAY too far.
I seriously doubt they'll take anything away from this, but who knows. Maybe they'll stop ripping off costumers, buying out and destroying developers, milking and ruining franchises, and childishly mud-slinging at their competitors. Hell, maybe they'll even change their ludicrous DLC policies, price gouging, and even turn Origin into a useful, non-intrusive system people actually WANT to use.
(you have NO idea how hard it was to type that last bit without laughing)
I hope this wasn't SOLELY because of the goofy Mass Effect 3 thing.
I wouldn't have given it a second thought if it hadn't been "Which color of poo would you like?" part.
I wouldn't have given it a second thought if it hadn't been "Which color of poo would you like?" part.
I hate EA, but BoA should have won this. Those of you that have said that the reason bank of America didn't win is because it only affects Americans must not understand how a world economy works.
Agreed. Also, who doesn't enjoy shooting baddies in the dick? Seriously, some of you are so quick to throw out accusations with little to no proof. At least the guy who brought up the RME fiasco did so knowing damn well that people are still talking about it and I'm sure they're still trying to get their money back from donating to less-unfortunate kidsWanderingFool said:
Another thing, EA may have some fucked up business practices, but how they even compare to a mega-corporation who care only about their own money is far beyond me. At least EA has the good graces at least to try and earn their shit (pun totally not intended).
This just tell me that some people who use computers care about companies that make games for computers. I'm not that shocked.
EA can be regarded as a cancerous mass that eats at the medium Videogames. It swallows up Developers and kills them off, along with their Franchises.EA is to Videogaming what Christianity was to human Advancement in medieval times. EA holds the medium back.
In 50 years, people may speculate about how far gaming would be if EA weren't there.
But: It's a Company that hold the Videogaming medium back, no more. EA is not responsible for my empty Wallet. Maybe they would be if i bought their games.
EA isn't responsible for my former employer going bankrupt.
The Bank-collapse on the other Hand just might be.
In 50 years, people may speculate about how far gaming would be if EA weren't there.
But: It's a Company that hold the Videogaming medium back, no more. EA is not responsible for my empty Wallet. Maybe they would be if i bought their games.
EA isn't responsible for my former employer going bankrupt.
The Bank-collapse on the other Hand just might be.
They also don't understand that Bank of America isn't technically an American company.TheVioletBandit said:
You can't blame them, though. Despite the hate we give EA, it's really just free publicity, and despite how much we 'hate' all of their marketing strategies, we do say their games are fun and worth your money.Soviet Heavy said:
Not siding with EA here; they're a bunch of greedy assholes at the worst, but seeing them laughing at this isn't very surprising.
As much as they probably don't deserve to be labelled the WORST company in America, its as good going to them as anywhere else - they won't listen, anywhere else is unlikely to listen, and this way we've made it very clear that we really, really don't like what they're doing. Whilst they publicly state they don't care, if more stuff like this keeps happening, they might have to start caring. Those 300,000,000 fans can turn on you real fast, and many already have if they were voted for this.
Ok EA does a lot wrong and generally speaking sucks. But I do think they are worse than many of the companies that were up for the vote, by a long margin.
Nobody had their life ruined by simply being a customer of EA.
Nobody had their life ruined by simply being a customer of EA.
People dislike EA for more than just what they seem to have done to Bioware. This is just being used as the tip of the spear.JCBFGD said:
