Awwww... Well, we'll always have that impressive Double Turkey, EA. See you next time. Try not to get a swelled head from this.
Electronic Arts Voted Out of "Worst Company In America" Poll
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Like I said in the other thread, maybe the Consumerist finally fixed the ability to vote more than once this time (it doesn't look like it, but maybe the site just ignores repeat votes from the same IP address), or maybe they rigged it themselves to prevent a third win.
Honestly, at this point, the only people who ever cared about this contest were the Consumerist audience, and the gaming community after EA won the first time.
Maybe that's a good thing though, the amount of gamers and gaming sites that started taking this third-rate popularity poll way too seriously was getting a little out of hand. With EA out of the way, gaming news sites will go back to ignoring this tiny popularity contest and stop pretending that EA winning it means anything meaningful at all.
Still, kind of hoping another more obscure entity wins it though, giving the award to Comcast or Monsanto is basically going to accomplish nothing, if their PR departments even acknowledge that they received it. Somebody like Seaworld gets it, that might actually at least provoke a response from their PR department.
I will now return to promptly forgetting about this contest's existence by next week.
Honestly, at this point, the only people who ever cared about this contest were the Consumerist audience, and the gaming community after EA won the first time.
Maybe that's a good thing though, the amount of gamers and gaming sites that started taking this third-rate popularity poll way too seriously was getting a little out of hand. With EA out of the way, gaming news sites will go back to ignoring this tiny popularity contest and stop pretending that EA winning it means anything meaningful at all.
Still, kind of hoping another more obscure entity wins it though, giving the award to Comcast or Monsanto is basically going to accomplish nothing, if their PR departments even acknowledge that they received it. Somebody like Seaworld gets it, that might actually at least provoke a response from their PR department.
I will now return to promptly forgetting about this contest's existence by next week.
Eh, to me it seemed like EA was only in there for the "Returning Champion" spot anyways. I mean what did they do last year that was so horrible? BF4? Did anyone actually expect that to be good? I'd say SimCity was a bigger blunder. But still, EA wasn't the only company that put out a couple of crap games last year, as such I'd say that hardly makes them worthy of a third Worst Company in America trophy...
At least a third in a row. There's always this year.
Personally my money's on Microsoft for all the BS with the XBone announcement (specifically how Don Mattrick straight-up insulted potential customers on more than one occasion). I'd say that's far more worthy of a big golden poo than putting out a couple of crap games.
Speaking of Mattrick...why isn't Zynga on that list? I'd say the "crimes" they committed were worse than anything that EA did last year.
And for that matter, what's up with Abercrombe & Fitch being on the list? What'd they do? I'm actually asking to see if anyone knows since I don't. I don't care for their over-priced clothing and as such don't buy their products, but did they do something horrible last year? Or is it just their image of "Only douchebags shop here"?
At least a third in a row. There's always this year.
Personally my money's on Microsoft for all the BS with the XBone announcement (specifically how Don Mattrick straight-up insulted potential customers on more than one occasion). I'd say that's far more worthy of a big golden poo than putting out a couple of crap games.
Speaking of Mattrick...why isn't Zynga on that list? I'd say the "crimes" they committed were worse than anything that EA did last year.
And for that matter, what's up with Abercrombe & Fitch being on the list? What'd they do? I'm actually asking to see if anyone knows since I don't. I don't care for their over-priced clothing and as such don't buy their products, but did they do something horrible last year? Or is it just their image of "Only douchebags shop here"?
As a matter of fact, EA paid very close attention to the fact that they won two years in a row, citing this specific poll as one of the reason as to why they got rid of the Online Pass. That's a significant change for them, and a significant consequence of this poll.EternallyBored said:
Ah, I actually didn't even know about that, I mostly just remember them blaming homophobes for their win last year, but this is a good point.RJ 17 said:
Companies like BoA, Monsanto, and Comcast receive a lot more in actual legitimate protests and direct legal action than anything a popularity poll on the internet will ever accomplish. A smaller company, or a more customer service oriented company like Facebook, or Seaworld, is much more likely to actually respond to something like this.
I think that's where a lot of clash in philosophy comes from in this particular contest. You've got some voters choosing the company they think should be the worst on an objective scale, while others are voting for the company they think will actually pause for a second if they do win.
Really, even the companies who get selected in the first place just to compete are a random grabbag mix of companies that actually do really shady or unethical things, and others that just have shitty service. The poll itself can't even seem to figure out if we are supposed to be voting for the worst (evil) company, period, or if we are just voting for the company that pisses off its customers the most.
I mean, if we are going for objectively terrible, and actually closest to being literally evil, this poll is missing some of the real bigshots out there: Nestle, Shell, Xe (or whatever the hell Blackwater is calling itself nowadays, although they might be offshore enough to not be considered an American company anymore), and a number of other companies that are directly responsible for the death and suffering of human beings on a rather large scale. So yeah, the entire contest was worthless as an actual judge of "evil" before it ever began, it's more akin to "what company is currently pissing off the internet the most right now".
This.mysecondlife said:
I can already imagine the hellish outcome of that... <link=http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Mr-Burns-Saying-Excellent.gif>*shutters*
OT: Eh... It's better that EA didn't win a third time... otherwise maybe certain news outlets, that are not FOX-related, would have made some vague connection to how video games in general are evil or something outlandish like that...
i was thinking what sort of madman vote agaisnt EA being shitty, but then i saw its competitor. yeah, EA wont win this one but we got even worse company up agianst it. then again, what kind of "special" person must one be to put these two against each other in the first round. that should have been the final fight.
There are companies that are exploiting developing nations' population as slave labour, companies censoring political thought, companies using dirty tricks to maintain/establish monopolies, and companies that are devastating the planet yet somehow EA is even in the conversation of worst company? EA is just a company with terrible customer relations and occasionally terrible products.
Haha, and now the new CEO can claim, "Under my leadership, we are no longer voted worst company in America." and hang a mission accomplished banner on the door leading into the office.
Nevermind that this is them barely losing to another top runner nor that it likely has nothing to do with anything good EA has done as opposed to bad Time Warner has done.
Nevermind that this is them barely losing to another top runner nor that it likely has nothing to do with anything good EA has done as opposed to bad Time Warner has done.
Isn't it sad that videogame and TV companies get voted the worse while some corporations are just plain destroying the planet? Monsanto should win every bloody year.
Which is why I consider this poll to be garbage. For EA to be considered the Worst Company in America over, say, the Bank of America is really showing a lack of priorities.The Cheshire said:
Exactly. EA are fucking terrible as a video game publisher. But in a world full of companies that steal billions of dollars, deliberately ruin the environment, and even deliberately kill millions of people, I'm not convinced "Makes some bad games" is really enough to qualify as the worst company ever.schrodinger said:
Good! There are companies out there whose negligence and inspection dodging have gotten people killed. That EA won at all shows just how horribly out of touch and self absorbed we are.
"Yes yes your oil rig blew up because you dodged inspection killing workers and spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico.... but have you fucked up my favorite video game franchise?"
"Yes yes your oil rig blew up because you dodged inspection killing workers and spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico.... but have you fucked up my favorite video game franchise?"
Or, more then likely, most people are aware that even though EA is a horrible company, there are worse companies out their.Sofus said:
Even I had to vote Time Warner over EA. At the worst if you don't like EA you can just not buy games from them. Many people have no choice but to work with Time Warner and they know it. As a result they could not care less about their customers. Also this.