What the F*** is wrong with EA

[Da Orky Man]

It's just you... To forbid someone from doing something is a violation of so many rights...

Depends what. Forbidding someone to murder - violation of rights?

 

[WanderingFool]

You know, I hold up the "Soldier in All of Us" commercial for Black Ops as the best televised ad for a video game I've seen. EA's commercials are just garbage.

Yeah... that was a pretty fucking good commercial.

Anyways, im sure EA hasnt even heard of Extra Credits, than alone actually watched the episode dedicated to their pisspoor marketing. Everyone, spam Emails to EA with the episode link.

*Edit*

It's just you... To forbid someone from doing something is a violation of so many rights...

Depends what. Forbidding someone to murder - violation of rights?

Over-ruled by the right to life... in most cases. And no, im not saying all soldiers are murderers by this, thats a kill or be killed situation,usually, which the soldiers on both sides ended up forced into.

 

[MammothBlade]

They're not trying to appeal to us, they're appealing to people that don't care unless media tells them they should.

So the sort of people I don't want to play with unless it's making them cry and ragequit. Oh EA, you geniuses. You're trying to make it more fun by inviting fresh victims.

 

[Something Amyss]

Is it just me or should EA be forbidden from making another commercial ever again. They seem to make the worse possible decisions. I?m watching Hulu and I see the battlefield commercial and what is the backing song? 99 problems. Seriously? Then I think back and I remember EA past decision on representing their products. This game is too disturbing from your Mom commercials comes to mind.

Look I don?t really have a problem with the song and it might even fit for Max Payne 3. At least the song would ironically tie to the game. But Battlefield is just a s shooter; this association is just stupid machismo

I'm hoping this is hyperbole, and not an actual desire.

Plus, this is like the fifth topic on the commercial.

Five topics and I STILL Can't see what's so bad. Oooh, it's a poor fit, let's put EA in the stocks!

 

[madster11]

Hey, guess what you're talking about right now?

Yeah. The Ad.

Guess what worked?

 

[Pandabearparade]

Where the hell have you been?

I've been asking this since Spore's DRM.

Get with the times, brah.

Not everyone can be as quick on the uptake as you, good sir.

 

[IKSA]

Just you... and I loved the "Your mom hates this game" commercials, if those are the ones that you are talking about.

Too bad those commercials hurt this industry.

 

[InfectedStar]

Oh it's not the worst thing EA has ever done.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2009/07/ea.comic.swag.072409-580px.jpg
just look up some of the things they pulled with the marketing of Dante's Inferno and see why 99 problems is nothing.
short version: Faked protests which angered people of most religions, angering Nannies with achievements, and treating women like sexual objects.
good job EA, you pushed back the reputation of gamers 5 years.

This just feels like incentive to switch that pre-order of BF3 to Skyrim.

 

[jthwilliams]

Suggestion to OP:

Stop whining. This has been posted. Remember Extra Credits? They talked about this sort of thing. (Go check out their videos if not)

Next, if you do not like something, learn to get used to it. This sort of thing will continue because large game-publishers do not realize that Non-Gamers do not want to go in and play Battlefield 3. They want something casual first.

Petition EA saying stop with this. Start one. Do something other than complain. Otherwise, you have no purpose other than to just sit there pouting.

While I don't know if EA will every read this particular thread they certainly do pay people to go through the internet looking for referncece to them and see if they are generally positive or generally negative. Pretty much every company does.

So complaining about EA on a forum does actually do something. And if there are been 5 thread at escapist on their commercials that have be high activity and generally negative. There is a chance that will come up in their general report.


***BTW*** in case you don't believe it. This is a serious and real thing. You can be paid to surf the web all day searching for mentions of companies, reading and rating them and companies pay other companies serious money for the data. (However I think you probably get crap money for actually being a researcher of this type)

 

[CD-R]

Seriously another thread about the 99 problems ad?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.314960-EA-advertising-stop-attacking-CoD-for-no-reason?page=4#12794275

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/6.315156-Trailers-Battlefield-3-99-Problems-Trailer#12800784

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.318008-Random-Out-Of-Place-Song-for-BF3-TV-Ad#12952753

Give it a rest!!!

 

[SidingWithTheEnemy]

Take a look at this kind of advertising. Let it sink in for a moment. Imagine the kind of person who buys a game based on this stuff. Try and visualise them. The way they look, the way they act, the things they do in their house when they're alone.

Now stop.

This is who EA thinks you are.
This is what EA thinks you like.
This is what EA believes you want to spend your money on.

Very Good argument, one little flaw:
EA doesn't think.

Honestly though, the PR departement knows what it's doing and they do the thinking. While we could argue about an anally gang raping them and all the other "tossers" who are resposible for publishing crappy games the game will sell very well and people will buy it nonetheless.
Just stop watching comericals that hurt your brain or take it one step further and stop buying such games.

I personally doubt that if they can't get me to like their commercial (the one big super hype of their product) I won't like the product one bit.