Jimquisition: Why Do People Hate EA?

[GoddyofAus]

I hope companies like EA and Activision look at Valve with utter disdain. Valve are everything they wish to be but aren't; loyal fanbase who will buy a game developed bythem without a second thought.

Valve are the benchmark for all other businesses to follow in the Gaming industry.

 

[Amaror]

Oh yeah EA, It's always funny to see what stupid decision they will make next, like making a special dead space 2 advertisement (You know which one i am talking about).
Or ruining great devellopers like Bullfrog,Westwood or Phenomic (I take that one personal, because they're from my country and the spellforce series was awesome.)

 

[Rinshan Kaihou]

I agreeo 100% with everything Jim said, once again. EA is such a horrible company, but it sucks because most of the games I look forward to come out of that company. It's like they deliberately go out of their way to be anti-consumer, yet complain when they don't sell enough copies of games or whatever. Also I agree, they shoul dtake a leaf out of valve's book. Valve has probably the most and most loyal fans of any developer/publisher out there, especially since STEAM was done so damned well!

{Also Mr. Jim Sterling, I would love a shirt, you sexy ***** you! Thank GOD, for you }

 

[JaceArveduin]

Another good one Jim. I started having a dislike for EA when they made 1 shitty patch for Rise of the Witch-King and left it to rot. I love that game, and hardcoding some weird-ass delay that even effects LAN games into it just made me a very sad bastard.

Oh, and Jim, ya sexy bastard you, I could always use a new Gravity Rush shirt.

 

[Falseprophet]

Wait, I know EA is evil, but what does activision do, besides the whole CoD schmuck?

Well, there was that time they tried to steal Greg Hastings' identity [http://www.1up.com/news/greg-hastings-activision-steal-identity].

And there was the way they pretty much single-handedly killed off music games through oversaturation.

Jim, sexy beast that he is, wrote about a few more [http://www.destructoid.com/activision-argues-that-it-s-not-an-evil-empire-198825.phtml] last year.

 

[Isaac Levy]

Could you do one on Activision some time? Think I'd get the picture better if I heard it from you, would be interested in the shirt but I'd have trouble hiding my mup size with a large >.>

 

[attackshark]

all hail valve.

[iwouldlikeagravityrushshirtpleasealsojimissexy]

 

[Anthony Wells]

i....100% agree with you on this. every point you made is a point i have made to my friends on why EA is a horrible business. I didnt hate them or activision for awhile. but seeing these horror stories...and idiotic remarks....have made me officially hate them. EA however is ,as you said, worse now.


[I would like the Gravity Rush shirt please. Also Jim is sexy and thank god for you.]

 

[Don Savik]

Everything wrong with EA can be summarised by playing Bad Company 2 for a few hours.
Then play Battlefield 3.

See the difference?
I thought so.

Not a Battlefield fan but I have both and played both for some hours, what's the difference?

I agree, they're both solid and well polished games. In fact, the diversity in Bad Company 2 was almost....worse. Snipers were too good and shotguns were useless. At least in levels like Metro you can use shotguns.

Also it has some of the best air combat in modern games.

 

[Rad Party God]

Yeah, I somehow miss the days where Activision was the villain and EA was kinda likable compared to Activision, but now, it's all the way around and I even see Activision as... innofensive compared to the bloated, shitty mess that EA has become.

Thank God for your pearls of wisdom Jim (wink, wink), also, I want that shirt, you're sexy as fuck... I live in Mexico, can you make an exception, you cheap ass, sexy bastard?.

 

[subtlefuge]

At least EA isn't IGN. Seriously, how does that happen?

[I would not mind a shirt. I know it could not contain your sexiness, but maybe it will have room for mine.]

 

[Siris]

I think EA does get a whole lot of flak for their choices, and most of it is well deserved. I just find it a bit annoying when the only way people can express their anger is through screaming and swearing as opposed to witty videos -wink wink-

(I would very much like a Gravity Rush shirt, and Jim is the ubermensh)

 

[Lord Doomhammer]

Jim you have come a long long way from the unteachable videos you made when you first appeared here.

 

[The White Hunter]

Everything wrong with EA can be summarised by playing Bad Company 2 for a few hours.
Then play Battlefield 3.

See the difference?
I thought so.

Not a Battlefield fan but I have both and played both for some hours, what's the difference?

Played both for many hours.

BC2 is more it's own thing, it's alot more unique, whereas BF3 borrows alot more crap from COD.
I don't dislike COD but BF doesn't need to copy it to succeed and I found BF3 alot less enjoyable than BC2 as a result of the "must-beat-COD-at-COD" mentality that seems to possess EA these days.

 

[Hitchmeister]

In defense of the "they're just a business" comments: that's not supposed to excuse what businesses do, but point out the naivety of expecting anything better from a business. Yes, occasionally a Valve comes along and offers better than you would expect from a business, but that's just it. They deliver what you shouldn't expect.

The sad thing is, both EA and Activision started out as champions of the consumers. There was reason to love them when they started. Activision first appeared making games for the Atari 2600. They actually gave the programmers credit, which was unthinkable to Atari, and attracted better, more motivated programmers to make better games for the players. It was wonderful. EA started as a distributor for small innovative computer game developers that couldn't get their games out to as wide an audience as the games deserved. By working together, really good stuff got to the hands of grateful players everywhere and EA was seen as a wonderful thing. Given enough time, however, both companies grew into the thing they originally hated and were designed to fight. Because they got so big they had to become the type of business you should never expect anything better from.

(Please hold the shirt. It wouldn't fit me any better than Jim.)

 

[Tamrin]

This is pretty much an episode version of his GameFront article "Why Electronic Arts Makes Me So Mad" from last December . I loved reading it then as much as watching it today.

 

[Terramax]

Also, i dont want the shirt, Jim does nothing for me and i already have a tent. ;-)

Damnit! I can't 'thumbs up' as this isn't facebook.

 

[MB202]

Reading the description and watching this video, I found another reason why people hate IGN as well as EA.

 

[quantumcat]

Yikes. It's hard to defend EA when you hear a list of their sins all in a row.

[I would like a Gravity Rush shirt please. Also Jim is sexy.]

 

[Paul Barclay]

In some fo their earliest advertising, EA asked the question, "Can a computer make you cry?" They must have been having problems with that, so they decided to see if a computer could make me swear at it or throw pieces of it across the room.

http://chrishecker.com/Can_a_Computer_Make_You_Cry%3F

[Also, I would like the shirt, but could you go ahead and send me that "threatening or bad" other thing as well?]