Poll: Who is more evil, EA or Activision?

[Herbsk]

Activision - I give EA props for releasing Dungeon Keeper to GOG while I can't remember hearing the last time Activision did something good. And Bobby Kotnik is an ass and a devil.

On the other hand, I blame EA (with Bioware) for the ruin that was DA2, so they are not off the hook either...just less hated.

Also, for the record, I find both COD and Battlefield to be boring and uninteresting, so count me out of that arguement.

 

[Inkidu]

EA's just a big stupid beast who occasionally does good, but more often than not knocks over an office building. Actvision is pure corporate, Lex Luther-from-the-eighties caliber evil.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

EA. After it took over Bioware, it whored out Mass Effect to the PS3. Now, at first, I was just hot that we lost that as an exclusive, but after having time to mull it over, what really makes me hot is the fact that the PS3 fans arent getting the full experience for the game. I recently downloaded that "introductory comic" that they have to pick their decisions from the first game, but they are really getting shortchanged with it. There is no weight to your decisions, no emotions tied up in your decisions, and it misses everything that the first game was about.

If anyone is going to play Mass Effect, they should play it entirely. If the whole thing couldnt come over to the PS3, then it should have been preserved intact on the 360 and the PC. That, to me, makes EA the worst of the bunch.

(I wont even go into the extra outfits and crap they put out for your Mass 2 characters...)

So allowing a different audience to try out the game, and enjoy it, is whoring it out? Seems pretty unfair to say that, I am sure many people who play the PS3 are very happy about it being sold on that system.

Go back and read my post again. I said that they are not getting the full version, and I feel if they are going to get the game, they should get the FULL experience, not some crappy comic to allow you to make the important decisions that can NOT be made with the same emotional impact as it was if you were playing the game. Another example, when you come across Archangel in the game, and it turns out to be Garrus, I went nuts. The PS3 crowd will not get that same feeling because they arent getting the full version. So yeah, it comes across as EA was just trying to get as much money as they could to me.

 

[Tinneh]

Activision, even though both companies milk a military franchise, at least EA's is fun.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

EA due to there tampering have ruined Mass Effect 2

Define ruined.

ME2 definitely did not have the feel of a ruined game. It was a well-polished, well made, entertaining game with deep and interesting characters and the ways in which your decisions and previous play influenced the ending was quite clever. It also had, in my opinion, good replay value (ie: I played it about 5 times before I touched another game).

OT: Slightly more activision, but I HATE some of Ubisoft's buggy games, they are full of nonsense sometimes... My copy of Assassin's creed (a new, unscratched disk) gave me the buggiest few installs I have ever had on this pc. I had 11 BSODs in 1 day.

My PC almost fried from that game.

I agree about Mass Effect 2. I definitely loved the game. The parts where I could see EA's grubby little fingers came when they started selling outfits for the characters. THAT part I didnt like. At least that didnt have an affect on how I enjoyed the game.

 

[Adamc-mh]

Nintendo is afar worse evil for that abomination they called the Wii

Oh come on, the Wii wasn't evil, it just wasn't what everyone had hoped it would be.

There's a difference between evil and bad, you know.

Nintendo aren't Evil just greedy...

 

[Tdc2182]

This thread should be called, "Battlefield fans will say Activision, CoD fans will say EA."

Hah, no.

I fucking hate Activision and I love Call of Duty.

I personally thought the last two Battlefield games were extremely lacking and I never found a problem with EA

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

What every over person who took a step back before answering the question said, neither. Guys you do realize there are hundreds of honest, hardworking people in both companies who try to make the best game they can for their fans right? Calling everyone of those people "evil" is waaaaaaaay too far for my tastes.

Stop it.

There are no "evil" corporations.

There are just corporations. EA and Activision both do what's good for business, because, you know, THEY'RE BUSINESSES. If they did exactly what the fans wanted they would be run into the ground and dirt poor. I know people get that feeling of self-importance when they complain about the "evil corporations", but it's no better than conspiracy theories. So grow up.

Neither, corperations by definition are not evil. They exist to make money and so are going to do their very best to do that. If they bowed down and actually listened to gamers I expect the entire industry would be bankrupt in about one year.

That said, I dont appreciate Activision, or rather Bobby Kotick, trying to milk Call of Duty like good'ol George Lucas did with Star Wars.

 

[Alphakirby]

Activision,anyone who can screw classic franchises over like Activision has to be evil.

THAT is a toy concept for a game that uses toys for it's characters to be playable. That is also supposed to be Spyro The Dragon. Activision has officially raped this franchise in a desperate attempt to appeal to children and rake in the money.

If that's not evil,I don't know what is.

 

[Knusper]

Personally I think that EA is more evil because I bought Bad Company 2 and later the Vietnam expansion and then found that I couldn't play multiplayer or play the expansion which in total is waste of £25 and when I ask them what to do they just tell me to reinstall it

Activision isn't exactly an angel, though.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

Activision is the more annoying. EA may spam Madden like it's a disease, but they release a lot of good games like Mass Effect to even things out. Activision has no shame. Even if the story of any game ends, they figure out how to make a sequel to it. Take Prototype. I love the game, but the story ended, so Activision decided to shit out another one. They also release another Spider-Man every year, and wouldn't shut up with Guitar Hero. It should have gone until the DLC age and then stopped, only releasing new songs, not new games.

I don't really have a huge problem with either though.

 

[Sebster 105]

HEY GUYS
CALL OF DUTY IS FUN
TROLOL,
on a serious note in 2008 it'd be EA but now it's Activision because they've cancelled all other franchises other than CoD

Guitar Hero noo

The cow is still fat

 

[Lloyd O Siadhail]

I dislike Activision because, Blizzard Entertainment used to be a humble company before they merged with Activision. Activision brought Blizzard store to the front and sold out the dedicated hard-core player achievements within the bracket of hard core raiding for a simple 20 dollars to a casual WoW player. All there money scheming ideas had a disastrous effect on the community as a whole, from the Faction change to the Name Change.

Blizzard Entertainment said at one of the first Blizzcon's. That they first released World of Warcraft that they had no intentions that they were going to EVER give the player the chance of changing Factions,Gender change, Server Transfer and also Name Change this is all Activisions fault. Which changed the society of World of Warcraft as a whole cause everyone weren't safe anymore a simple few dollars/euro is all the player needed to change there name change there faction or go to another server if they. Scammed multipliable of players and then move on to there next unsuspecting victims.

Due to Activisions business mind they will probably push on Blizzard to even grant high level characters for a certain amount of cash from a customer/player. They are already on there way with the Recruit A friend feature but dont count me wrong it a good idea but not everyone will use this feature for entertainment sake! The power-leveling/gold selling company's are only been fueled by this feature for there own profitable growth. Making Blizzard losing out on there forever case of combating the gold sellers and powerlevelers on are servers...

With the announcement of another Call of Duty game was good to hear story wise cause everything hopefully will tie up together making a good transition from MW2 to MW3. But whats annoyed me is that activision is releasing the Elite CoD version at a price, with EA they even said at E3 that they would like people to try out there beta version of Battlefield 3 and were very open about it. But with MW3 no meaning to going on the hate here just some facts, MW3 is going back to the style of COD 4 which is good cause it was the best one, but Battlefield 3 will have 3 times the amount of DLC, then Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Which hopefully wont be reskinned versions of there previous games and incorporate them.

This is just my two cents.

 

[Puzzlenaut]

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people the Mass Effect series was good. His second greatest trick was convincing people of the same for the rest of Bioware's shitty, godawful games. I blame EA for that.

Fuck you, EA.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

This thread should be called, "Battlefield fans will say Activision, CoD fans will say EA."

Well a lot of original CoD fans like myself will says Activision because they have more or less destroyed a possibly great franchise and marketed it into mediocrity and blandness.

OT: Activision.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

Being one of the original CoD fans myself, I agree with this. I mean shit, I still have the original PC gamer demo of the very first CoD game ever somewhere in my room.

 

[Xelzeno]

EA, every game they touch (Buy out) becomes crap, they buy a developer or their franchaise then they give out a sequel to it, that is so bad you want to cry and then when the game didnt get as popular as they wanted, they shut down all production.
Then they give out a game that becomes popular, and yes it was a bit fun, a lot of packages is released to it to make it last longer and so far there is nothing really wrong, then a sequel comes out, and almost all the things added in packages in the first game is gone, and then they release the same content packages just for the sequel instead, and then come up with some more, then a sequel is released to the sequel and again they bring nothing from the packages of the earlier games and instead slowly releases those as content packages. And now they have plans for another sequel, My my....

Well, I hope Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 3 will at least be good. You never know, the curse can be lifted.

And for all those that say Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 2: Fantasy edition... I mean Dragon Age 2 was good, Yes(To the first), It was. But it could easily had been a lot better, especially in areas where bioware usually excels. Like Story and character designs.

Oh, and for all that "Corps aint evil" "It's just buisness" There is making money, and kicking a cow to get milk, and if you don't like the taste of that last cup of milk mixed with blood, you kick it until it dies.

 

[Katana314]

EA has been improving. They allowed a new IP; Mirror's Edge, lowered their DRM usage, supported PC gaming, and some other things. I don't think their games are often that good, but as a publisher, taking their opinions, beliefs and methods into account, I certainly like them more.

That said, I tend to have more fun with COD4 than Battlefield games.

 

[XDravond]

For some reason I got more of the hate nerve against Activsion than EA.

EA used to be THE EVIL but now they seem to gone softer, not much better but softer. Only thing i like about those two is that they have money to re-pump in to games industry

Although Ubisoft seem like they trying out for top spot (I did have some really bad anger-management issues then i stopped playing Assassins creed 2 and HAWX 2.... that always-online-DRM scheme messed up a keyboard or two, lost 2h boring grinding once and the keyboard took a timeout then) soo yeah you should probably have had Ubi there and just for fun Valve...

 

[Phlakes]

Stop it.

There are no "evil" corporations.

There are just corporations. EA and Activision both do what's good for business, because, you know, THEY'RE BUSINESSES. If they did exactly what the fans wanted they would be run into the ground and dirt poor. I know people get that feeling of self-importance when they complain about the "evil corporations", but it's no better than conspiracy theories. So grow up.

...On a more related note, Activision.

If they did exactly what the fans, wanted then would they sell more games . . .

But the fans (for the most part) don't know what makes a good game. Same goes for any fan of anything. I mean look at fan fiction. If the film industry only did what the audience wanted, we would have major production of Mary Sue's self insertion erotic thriller Barney fic.

Well, it's the same principle. The games would probably suck. And then they would probably be out of business. Emphasis on probably.