Electronic Arts Repeats as "Worst Company in America"

[Xdeser2]

Hmmmmm...

When you take loved development houses, run them into the ground, chase off their talent, homogenize their games and then apologize for this by calling your detractors bigots, what the hell do you think is going to happen?

When you piss a passionate group of people off, a better perspective of the situation IS NOT the first thing they try to obtain -_-

*Sigh*

They're not the worst company in America (not by a LONGSHOT) but they are pretty shitty.

 

[JazzJack2]

I hate how they're trying to spin this with all this 'gay-hater' bullshit, the only people who hate gays are EA, their patronizing and ignorant attitude to homosexuality makes my blood boil.

 

[JazzJack2]

I hate how they're trying to spin this with all this 'gay-hater' bullshit, the only people who hate gays are EA, their patronizing and ignorant attitude to homosexuality makes my blood boil.

What planet are you living on? Did you miss the recent article that talks about EA being one of the few companies to recently stand-up against the Defense of Marriage act?

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/185627/EA_steps_up_opposition_against_law_that_prevents_gay_marriage.php

Did you miss the homosexual relationships in both Dragon Age and Mass Effect.

Fucking hell man. Get educated.

It's just mindless pandering,(and patronizing pandering at that) do you honestly think they care about gay people at all?

Plus the homosexual relationships in DA and ME where nothing more than a marketing ploy, they had no depth at all and they seemed to fall on that old trope of gay guys want to fuck any man simply because they are man, I'd almost find it offensive if it wasn't so laughably sad and desperate.

If you want a good portrayal of Homosexuality in an RPG play New Vegas

 

[JazzJack2]

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News flash most video game characters and stories have no depth at all. The difference is that SOME have gay stories, and some DO NOT.

Having gay stories doesn't automatically make you progressive

Is Valve standing up against that shit? Activision? Ubisoft? No. From what I know they're doing NOTHING AT ALL. And I'm sorry, but I will give a company credit for doing SOMETHING over another company doing NOTHING.

I give credit to those companies because they don't desperately jump on to bandwagons in an attempt to seem relevant, and the unlike EA they treat me like a person and don't see my sexual preferences as something to be pandered to or milked, I mean does EA think all gay people are retards or something and that we'll lap up their shit if they say they're on our side?

The bounds to which people delude themselves is amazing. Hate EA for the anti-consumer shit they do like SimCity DRM, but when you hate them for not caring about gay people when they're the only fucking company who's doing anything it's a little pathetic. Seriously.

I don't care if they don't care about gay people but what I do care about is them putting up this facade that they do. And frankly this attitude of, 'oh who cares about their motives as long as they're doing it' is moronic, their cynical attitude to LGBT issues does nothing but undermine them.

 

[Erttheking]

Can people stop freaking out over how stupid gamers are? Please, for the love of god

I'll keep my mouth shut until the next time a woman gets death threats for speaking her opinion.

You need to stop taking the opinions of vocal minorities so seriously.

Except all the video game forums were flooded with people directing more anger at the woman than at the people sending the threats. And I'm not just talking about Anita Sarkeesian, this shit happens all the time. If we want the public to think better of us, we need to clean up our own community.

Dude this is the internet. As long as the internet exists, there are going to be assholes. There won't be anymore assholes on the internet when there aren't anymore assholes in the Human race.

 

[SirPlindington]

Um... How about fuck no? Even if you're just talking from the perspective of a consumer with no outside context, there are still far worse companies. Come on, internet. Buck up.

 

[blalien]

Dude this is the internet. As long as the internet exists, there are going to be assholes. There won't be anymore assholes on the internet when there aren't anymore assholes in the Human race.

Well yeah, but maybe if we as a community did a better job of letting the assholes know their comments are not welcome, they'd be sitting in the corner instead of dominating the conversation.

 

[Erttheking]

Dude this is the internet. As long as the internet exists, there are going to be assholes. There won't be anymore assholes on the internet when there aren't anymore assholes in the Human race.

Well yeah, but maybe if we as a community did a better job of letting the assholes know their comments are not welcome, they'd be sitting in the corner instead of dominating the conversation.

We can't police the entire internet. We can control what happens on the Escapist, that is the limit of our power.

 

[blalien]

Dude this is the internet. As long as the internet exists, there are going to be assholes. There won't be anymore assholes on the internet when there aren't anymore assholes in the Human race.

Well yeah, but maybe if we as a community did a better job of letting the assholes know their comments are not welcome, they'd be sitting in the corner instead of dominating the conversation.

We can't police the entire internet. We can control what happens on the Escapist, that is the limit of our power.

Well, we're not doing a very good job of cleaning up the Escapist. The staff is all fine, but not the commenters.

 

[Erttheking]

Dude this is the internet. As long as the internet exists, there are going to be assholes. There won't be anymore assholes on the internet when there aren't anymore assholes in the Human race.

Well yeah, but maybe if we as a community did a better job of letting the assholes know their comments are not welcome, they'd be sitting in the corner instead of dominating the conversation.

We can't police the entire internet. We can control what happens on the Escapist, that is the limit of our power.

Well, we're not doing a very good job of cleaning up the Escapist. The staff is all fine, but not the commenters.

I'll give you that. These threads alone are filled with people throwing insult after insult at each other for not having the "right" opinion.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Um... How about fuck no? Even if you're just talking from the perspective of a consumer with no outside context, there are still far worse companies. Come on, internet. Buck up.

My only reason for being ok with the outcome.

Bank of America is horrible. I won't deny it. I won't come out and try to say that it didn't deserve the award. I bleed for people who has suffered it's wrath, including my brother who had a little rattling up due to something we're still not sure of.

But there are organizations set up to police banks or support those who are victims of banks. They won't have the Bank Lawyer's fire power, but there are places to go, Government sponsored help, and the like. Do they work and help one hundred percent of the time? no. But there is something out there.

EA and companies who follow suit make it so to even view if their product is able to work for you, you give up your rights to a lawsuit. Click here to accept the game and install it, but by doing so you give up your rights to sue or anything. Suggesting as much allows us to terminate your account, meaning you lose all access to your games (Origin). That I do find horrendous.

Bank of America did some illegal things and screwed a lot of people over. They should not have any more of your business and if you were hurt by them, you do have the right to receive compensation.

EA made it legal to screw you over. They made you sign your rights away and roll the dice to see if you got a viable product. They will determine if they want to sate your requests, but don't hold your breath. And if you threaten anything, more of your rights can be taken away and you are left with nothing.

Does the loss of a game equal to a loss of your savings or chance at a house? No. Is Bank of America guilty of a lot of suspect things that are reprehensible? Yes. But from what I know, when you enter a contract with them, you don't sign away your right to actually try to receive compensation for the crimes committed against you. I don't bank with them, so I don't know. If someone can tell me otherwise, I will change my mind. But a company who sees fit to serve me an inferior product and hide behind a statement that to even see if it works for me, I am not able to put a lawsuit against them is the pinnacle of how I do not want to see companies act in the future.

I do not wish to ignore the wrong the other companies have done. But I do not want to ignore what EA and it's ilk are doing. If we ignore it, it spreads to any company (gaming or no). Imagine the fine print on the back of your cookies that says by opening the package, you give up your rights to ask for a refund if stale or inedible in anyway. That by opening up the ikea package, the sale is final and if any parts are missing, you must buy a replacement pack at 25% of the original item's price.

I find EA's methods deplorable and worthy of stamping out before it spreads as acceptable business practice to other industries. That is all.

 

[Sectan]

Paraphrasing Jim Sterling "IT'S A GOLDEN PILE OF SHIT." If this was some vote of "Which company should be dismantled" and the winning company actually got their company destroyed then yeah it'd be stupid if EA won over BofA. This is an internet poll and the only consequence of this poll is getting mailed a gold poop statue.

 

[blalien]

Dude this is the internet. As long as the internet exists, there are going to be assholes. There won't be anymore assholes on the internet when there aren't anymore assholes in the Human race.

Well yeah, but maybe if we as a community did a better job of letting the assholes know their comments are not welcome, they'd be sitting in the corner instead of dominating the conversation.

We can't police the entire internet. We can control what happens on the Escapist, that is the limit of our power.

Well, we're not doing a very good job of cleaning up the Escapist. The staff is all fine, but not the commenters.

I'll give you that. These threads alone are filled with people throwing insult after insult at each other for not having the "right" opinion.

I think the Escapist should have a commenting system similar to Reddit, where comments can be voted on and the best ones float to the top. It would make the comments a better reflection of the community, instead of the loudest people getting all the attention.

 

[SirPlindington]

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Not denying you made good points, but did you quote the wrong person? Because I see no substantial relation between what I said and what you said. I'm honestly just looking for clarification here.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

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Not denying you made good points, but did you quote the wrong person? Because I see no substantial relation between what I said and what you said. I'm honestly just looking for clarification here.

... I might have...

nor do I remember which actual page the comment I was looking for resides.

Can we pretend I meant you?

 

[SirPlindington]

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Not denying you made good points, but did you quote the wrong person? Because I see no substantial relation between what I said and what you said. I'm honestly just looking for clarification here.

... I might have...

nor do I remember which actual page the comment I was looking for resides.

Can we pretend I meant you?

Pretend? Why would we need to pretend? You clearly meant me the whole time, and that statement brooks no further discussion.