Electronic Arts Repeats as "Worst Company in America"
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There's no way EA's the worst company. To gamers and internet users maybe, but not irl.
EA is terrible, but not THAT terrible.
EA is terrible, but not THAT terrible.
For some that might be true, but EA seems to be the only company on the whole list who seems to even care about it. Plus, considering how immediate PR affects a company like them, as opposed to some of the other ones on that list, on top of the hot streak of blunders that EA is on, it makes sense why they're such an easy target.NKRevan said:
In the end, the worst thing that could happen is that EA, like BoA, ignores the award and chugs along their path towards PR ruin.
Remember back in the heady days of 07-08 when Ubisoft and Activision were the scourge of mankind and evil incarnate and EA could do no wrong after releasing Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origin? Good times folks... good times. Oh, oh, or remember when Steam was the harbinger of corporate spyware, with Valve being a bloodsucking thief of your hardware information and could possibly flat out steal your CC information?
See, some of us remember a decade ago. Or apparently even have a memory.
Perspective people, perspective.
See, some of us remember a decade ago. Or apparently even have a memory.
Perspective people, perspective.
Hi guys. Hey, hi. I'm going to say something,
IT WAS A POLL ON THE INTERNET
This wasn't the grand tournament for the title of the worst company of the year voted by the people of the USA. It was a poll on the internet. People are entitled vote for who ever they don't like the most. Stop blaming the gaming community for every single thing that happens. What people should have done instead? Voted for bank of whateverthefuck just because EA is a Video game company?
More people who didn't like EA voted I wonder why? Maybe EA's audience are more familiar with the internet than the consumers of Bank of America or Walmart. Also don't forget that, It may say "Worst Company of America" but Non-Americans are not excluded from voting.
Stop stressing yourselves over an internet poll.
IT WAS A POLL ON THE INTERNET
This wasn't the grand tournament for the title of the worst company of the year voted by the people of the USA. It was a poll on the internet. People are entitled vote for who ever they don't like the most. Stop blaming the gaming community for every single thing that happens. What people should have done instead? Voted for bank of whateverthefuck just because EA is a Video game company?
More people who didn't like EA voted I wonder why? Maybe EA's audience are more familiar with the internet than the consumers of Bank of America or Walmart. Also don't forget that, It may say "Worst Company of America" but Non-Americans are not excluded from voting.
Stop stressing yourselves over an internet poll.
Yes. And as we all know, when a company goes against expectations, it makes its faults exponentially greater. Bank of America may have made thousands homeless, with a large number of mistaken foreclosures, and, along with several other large financial institutions, nearly broke the economy of the whole fucking world. But dammit we expected that. Little wonder then that one of the companies that ruined the world lost to a company that screwed up an online game and charges you money for extra content. If ever I'm given the wrong flavor of ice cream from an ice cream truck or charged more money for it than other places, I feel confident that that will henceforth be known as the new worst business in America.Daystar Clarion said:Just goes to show, that vidja gaems are srs bsnssFiz_The_Toaster said:
I'd like post something from another thread about this, I think it's a rather good point.
itsthesheppy said:
Seriously, it only "trades punches" because gamers decided that a broken game they paid $60 for was the equivalent of a bank kicking someone out of a house they'd already paid for or an oil company destroying a massive ecosystem. God so much of gamer culture makes me fucking sick.
I disagree with this assesment. I fly sometimes. I expect - and do - get good experience while at it. (except the turkish security folks, i found a very cool looking stone in Turkey, on a beach, the size of around 2x2CM, and they stopped and interrogated me for it because apparently i was smuggling "national cultural valuables" out of thier country, and in the end confiscated the stone.). I got a loan for my house and i walked out of bank smiling, because the costumer service was amazing, and the gal was looking out in my best interest (i study economy, i knew whats going on). So far its been 1,5 years and i have had no problems whatsoever with the loan. So no, i never go into any business expecting to be hurt, yet somehow gaming is one where i am hurt the most. Maybe i am lucky, i dont know, but personally while EA isnt the worst out there in my opinion, its no angel.Daystar Clarion said:
Is EA the worst company? No it isn't, but it does deserve the attention. Some have said, "Don't buy their games." Well, in the video game business there is more to it than that. I could easily say that I won't buy their games, but I loved Bioware so I bought their games. Now their owned by EA and their games suck now. Than I could say I love Insomniac games since earlier in the ps2 era. But now they are owned by EA and we now have Fused.
Unfortunately even though we wanna stay away from EA to get the games we want. EA tends to buyout the companies we like and either ruin them or close the studio.
Unfortunately even though we wanna stay away from EA to get the games we want. EA tends to buyout the companies we like and either ruin them or close the studio.
The hatred for EA is quite deserved. It's not like they've screwed up one or two times. It's more like they've screwed up one or two decades now. They've continually bought up companies that don't fit their own portfolio or their goals and assimilating them into their own, therefore actively eliminating variety throughout their own industry.
Of course pretty much all the other companies did larger damage to the economy of the united States and the Bank of America even caused an entire recession.
Then again, what is "worse"? Do i "scale" the damages done by each company? After all, EA is much smaller, personell and moneywise so they couldn't do as much damage as the bank of America even if they tried.
Would EA do as much damage to the economy of America if they where worth as much as the Bank of America? Are they that much of a shitty Company that they, if put in the BoA's shoes, deal a harder blow to the economy of the entire World?
That would make EA worse than the Bank of America. People who voted with that "scaling" in Mind might actually be onto something.
Then it comes down to which Company has the bigger Assholes.
On the other Hand, EA has the wonderful Potential to bring Peace and Serenity to the industry; There's some People that i'm sure helped vote EA through all the rounds simply because they make Videogames.
Jack thompson and his ilk.
I bet everyone who voted for EA feels dirty and needs a Shower now
Of course pretty much all the other companies did larger damage to the economy of the united States and the Bank of America even caused an entire recession.
Then again, what is "worse"? Do i "scale" the damages done by each company? After all, EA is much smaller, personell and moneywise so they couldn't do as much damage as the bank of America even if they tried.
Would EA do as much damage to the economy of America if they where worth as much as the Bank of America? Are they that much of a shitty Company that they, if put in the BoA's shoes, deal a harder blow to the economy of the entire World?
That would make EA worse than the Bank of America. People who voted with that "scaling" in Mind might actually be onto something.
Then it comes down to which Company has the bigger Assholes.
On the other Hand, EA has the wonderful Potential to bring Peace and Serenity to the industry; There's some People that i'm sure helped vote EA through all the rounds simply because they make Videogames.
Jack thompson and his ilk.
I bet everyone who voted for EA feels dirty and needs a Shower now
I suppose, that although yes, it is the easiest for the internet to be mad at, there are other issues at play here. For instance, the oil spill was not deliberate, and therefore can not really be a measure of how good a company is, despite the failed attempts to stem it initially. The banks' shenanigans are all a bit cloak and dagger and usually down to a few people doing things that fuck stuff up.
EA deliberately give us overpriced, half finished crap and expect us to take it. Perhaps it's the contempt they appear to have for their consumers that gives them the edge.
EA deliberately give us overpriced, half finished crap and expect us to take it. Perhaps it's the contempt they appear to have for their consumers that gives them the edge.
Say what you want about them, you all know they're instantly forgiven for any mistake when you remember they gave us..
I can understand the hatred at EA, and the recent fiasco that was SimCity certainly didn't help their case in this vote, but we also need to realize that EA really doesn't affect those who don't play their games. If you get ripped off by EA, you're partially to blame for letting them do that to you. Sure, that doesn't justify why they pursue it in the first place, but saying they are worse than companies that have affected the lives of millions of people who didn't even use their service in the first place is taking this EA hate way too far.
Bank of America deserves a lot of blame for the recession, which affected millions of lives regardless of which bank you happen to use. Most people I know who suffered most from the recession never used Bank of America, but they were still affected by its practices in a much more serious way than their entertainment.
BP is partially to blame for their oil spill in the Gulf, essentially damaging a wonderful ecosystem. You can also imagine the economic impact that would have, and the Gulf States are still trying to convince people to come down and enjoy it regardless of what happened as a result of the spill.
EA...charges too much for mediocre entertainment that you can figure out is bad before you even buy it and doesn't affect you if you don't purchase it...Yeah, pure evil right here!
Bank of America deserves a lot of blame for the recession, which affected millions of lives regardless of which bank you happen to use. Most people I know who suffered most from the recession never used Bank of America, but they were still affected by its practices in a much more serious way than their entertainment.
BP is partially to blame for their oil spill in the Gulf, essentially damaging a wonderful ecosystem. You can also imagine the economic impact that would have, and the Gulf States are still trying to convince people to come down and enjoy it regardless of what happened as a result of the spill.
EA...charges too much for mediocre entertainment that you can figure out is bad before you even buy it and doesn't affect you if you don't purchase it...Yeah, pure evil right here!
If you look at it from a broad view compared to other companies, EA isn't that evil. But as some others have stated in videos, its the sheer amount of BS that EA has thrown at our lap. And their answer to all that is that it's the consumers fault. Sure McD is bad and so is BoA, but they have been noticed and punished and more or less "fixed"....in their own way. When EA is caught doing something to stupid to the costumer...what do they do? They do something else stupid.MysticSlayer said:
EA, fundamentally, is run by profit driven CEOs hired from anywhere and everywhere besides the gaming industry. There are ten million other point that destroy their reputation as a game business, or, laughably, 'electronic artists,' but this was most important to me. It holds them back from actually making the games they have the potential to make and actually holds back gaming as a medium. Anything that holds back any art form deserves this kind of PR. Roll of the three-time victors EA for 2014
Throw me in the camp with many others who think EA is hardly the worst company around these days. Either Ticketmaster of BoA should beat them, though given the hilarious response their marketing guy put out when they made it to the finals, maybe it's a little justified.