EA Wins Title of "Worst Company in America"
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When all the trees are dead and the waters poisened you will see: you cannot eat videogames.
A GAME Company is worse than companies that actually ruining the environment, bullying smaller companies, making people jobless and threating international ecomony?
Nicely done consumers!!! You just proved you how mindblowingly stupid you are.
A GAME Company is worse than companies that actually ruining the environment, bullying smaller companies, making people jobless and threating international ecomony?
Nicely done consumers!!! You just proved you how mindblowingly stupid you are.
Mass Effect 3 ending > Global Depression?
I think EA is quite a godawful company trying to wring out the last penny from its customers, but they are not part of the whole global economic fiasco.
I think EA is quite a godawful company trying to wring out the last penny from its customers, but they are not part of the whole global economic fiasco.
Yeah they got an award, but do they care? Will they care? Will this change how they do business or how much money they will make today or tomorrow? Not likely, no. These kinds of popularity polls serve no real value.
Whether or not they deserve it is irrelevant.
Whether or not they deserve it is irrelevant.
EA has been a hated company for many, many years. This Mass Effect issue is just more fuel for the flamebait.Dfskelleton said:
Oh look at that, there are people who exist outside the USA and perhaps have different experiences from Americans....what madness is this?!?!
Granted they should probably have made it a closed poll but seriously few if any of those companies would have had a noticeable* effect on non-americans day to day lives but EA...well they are a tad more likely to have fucked an non-American internet users puppy for fun.
*I know a lot of economic woe can be traced back to BoA but most of our own national banks fucked the goat on that too.
Granted they should probably have made it a closed poll but seriously few if any of those companies would have had a noticeable* effect on non-americans day to day lives but EA...well they are a tad more likely to have fucked an non-American internet users puppy for fun.
*I know a lot of economic woe can be traced back to BoA but most of our own national banks fucked the goat on that too.
They're both evil, giant corporations that Nickel-and-Dime consumers and do other assholeish stuff.Zack Alklazaris said:
Edit: On topic, I think it's hilarious, and EA's response is also great. I'm impressed by EA having such a basically-tongue-in-cheek response. They certainly aren't the worst company in America, but it's fine to give the award to a generically-bad company once in awhile. Like Time's People of the Year or the Nobel Peace Prize, sometimes they just throw the award away to some dick, so eh.
This, this so hard.Eri said:
I'm sorry, but from what I heard from personal accounts about EA, it isn't a bad place to work for. They don't fuck you over, and they are probably ship you would get on to if your livelyhood depended on it. Yes they have the hate of the gaming world (am I the only one that has a 'I don't give a fuck' take on EA?) but that's just the gaming world. They are probably the business model company that everyone wants to be as they expand. Even from a buisness standpoint they have their shit down.
I guess a good number of gamers are the most shallow minded of people, opinions outweigh inquiry.
Yeah, these results probably aren't skewed at all, right? I think Activision is a much worse video game company, and there are at least five other non-video game companies that would make my list. I think the ME3 thing probably has a lot to do with it, that and Origin.
EA won this over British Petroleum? Lets see...rushed endings to video games and DRM or ecological fucking disaster? Seriously Internet? You're becoming the people who make us not want to live on this planet anymore.
Also, why did the asshat who made a broad, sweeping generalization about how the results of this poll somehow reflect on the entire population of America as 'retarded' only get a warning? While the person who pointed out that fact to said douchebag get suspended?
Also, why did the asshat who made a broad, sweeping generalization about how the results of this poll somehow reflect on the entire population of America as 'retarded' only get a warning? While the person who pointed out that fact to said douchebag get suspended?
They deserve it. Origin sucks EA, I should be playing BF3 on Steam (I know that's not the only problem)...display that golden poo proudly, god knows you live up to its expectations.
I guess this has been a long time coming EA.
I really, REALLY don't like EA, but the worst company in America? Really? That might be just a bit much.
I really, REALLY don't like EA, but the worst company in America? Really? That might be just a bit much.
This makes about as much sense as when Apple was voted to to more influential to video games than Nintendo. Sorry but this seems to be a whole bunch of people pissed off with Origin and the ME3 ending.
Which is sad because to my knowledge EA hasn't resulted in sending people to their death, taking homes from people on short notice, or destroying the Gulf like other companies listed.
Seriously just literally is just the opinion of some butt hurt gamers.
Which is sad because to my knowledge EA hasn't resulted in sending people to their death, taking homes from people on short notice, or destroying the Gulf like other companies listed.
Seriously just literally is just the opinion of some butt hurt gamers.
A couple minor "to be fair" points:
"To be fair", BoA was forced into making those crappy loans to people that couldn't afford them due to the American goverment's affordable housing plan which pretty much specifically told BoA (and a lot of other banks) to make those loans. So really the whole housing crash lies on the shoulders of US politicians.
"To be fair", EA is indeed responsible for plenty of things to piss off the internet. But ME 3's ending is not one of them. EA didn't write the endings, Bioware did.
That said, screw EA and their war on used games. That's my biggest complaint about them. I just really can't imagine used games sales making that big of a dent on their profits. The same way a random person here and there picking up your game new six months after it's come out doesn't expand your profit margin all that much. You make the majority of your money on a game within the first couple weeks of its release when EVERYONE has to buy it now. Didn't sell that many copies? Stop making crap games that no one wants. Seems pretty simple if you ask me.
"To be fair", BoA was forced into making those crappy loans to people that couldn't afford them due to the American goverment's affordable housing plan which pretty much specifically told BoA (and a lot of other banks) to make those loans. So really the whole housing crash lies on the shoulders of US politicians.
"To be fair", EA is indeed responsible for plenty of things to piss off the internet. But ME 3's ending is not one of them. EA didn't write the endings, Bioware did.
That said, screw EA and their war on used games. That's my biggest complaint about them. I just really can't imagine used games sales making that big of a dent on their profits. The same way a random person here and there picking up your game new six months after it's come out doesn't expand your profit margin all that much. You make the majority of your money on a game within the first couple weeks of its release when EVERYONE has to buy it now. Didn't sell that many copies? Stop making crap games that no one wants. Seems pretty simple if you ask me.
The very luxury oriented nature of EA makes it a prime target for a protest of this nature --- no one NEEDS their services, so they must ostensibly rely on customer satisfaction and loyalty in order to remain successful. And YET they nearly seem to take utter glee and satisfaction in screwing the very customers they rely upon for their success over and over and over again. Blasting them down in a poll like this could potentially be effective because indeed, people with the free time to vote in polls on the Internet are likely the same people who are going to be spending lots of money on EA products (and less likely to be the kind of people worried about their house foreclosing).
People angry at both companies might still have voted EA because EA should be behooved to listen to what is essentially a good portion of its consumer base--in moreover in a medium that is likely to reach many other members of that same consumer base. If they looked at the vote from the perspective of, "Even if either is unlikely, which company is more likely to re-examine its practices if they 'win'?" BOA definitely won't, not from something like this. EA should. (Whether they will or not is an entirely different matter, and likely proportional to how many people still decide to buy their products even when they are unhappy with them, which is an ongoing nonsense deserving of its own article.)
This isn't saying Bank of America and corporations like it shouldn't be held accountable for their actions, but that there are better ways to take action against them---such as pressuring Congressional representatives for no more bailouts and stricter reforms on corporate operations (as two off-the-top-of-my-head examples; there are probably better ones out there). BOA provides, relatively speaking to video games, an essential service. They are likely to be unaffected by an opinion poll on the Internet which is likely, largely responded to in the majority by the kind of people who sit around and play video games all day. Better to vote for the company the poll might be more likely to impact.
People angry at both companies might still have voted EA because EA should be behooved to listen to what is essentially a good portion of its consumer base--in moreover in a medium that is likely to reach many other members of that same consumer base. If they looked at the vote from the perspective of, "Even if either is unlikely, which company is more likely to re-examine its practices if they 'win'?" BOA definitely won't, not from something like this. EA should. (Whether they will or not is an entirely different matter, and likely proportional to how many people still decide to buy their products even when they are unhappy with them, which is an ongoing nonsense deserving of its own article.)
This isn't saying Bank of America and corporations like it shouldn't be held accountable for their actions, but that there are better ways to take action against them---such as pressuring Congressional representatives for no more bailouts and stricter reforms on corporate operations (as two off-the-top-of-my-head examples; there are probably better ones out there). BOA provides, relatively speaking to video games, an essential service. They are likely to be unaffected by an opinion poll on the Internet which is likely, largely responded to in the majority by the kind of people who sit around and play video games all day. Better to vote for the company the poll might be more likely to impact.
I'm not a fan of EA but to have it win out of a bank who cheats homeowners out of their homes with falsified papers and sells of thousand dollar debts that have already been payed off to third parties that try to collect it again unless faced with a lawsuit... that's pushing it. At least EA gives you the choice not to pay for whatever feature that perhaps should have been included in the regular game. Until EA retroactively deducts hundreds of dollars from my credit card for games I already bought, I wouldn't vote it for number one
This is just sad. In the real world there are far worse companies than EA.
Bringing down the global economy/poisoning the environment/helping to decimate the locally owned high-street; all these things are far worse than fudging up ME3 and corrupting your favourite games studios.
Bringing down the global economy/poisoning the environment/helping to decimate the locally owned high-street; all these things are far worse than fudging up ME3 and corrupting your favourite games studios.
Yeah, EA sucks, but the worst company in America it is not. So I can't necessarily blame them for their reaction to it, cause it is silly. That being said, I do feel they need to change their game plan to make it more consumer friendly, but I doubt they will even consider making such changes unless we just stop buying their games altogether to really hit them where it hurts. Sadly I don't have much confidence that many will be willing to do that and I very much want to be proven wrong.