Contacting Publishers & Developers about no longer buying their products

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Before you read this, i'm not expecting them to listen, but feel its only right To give them my honest feedback.

Shall be contacting Bethesda & Ubisoft soon.


but we shall see. I have sent this to the EA CEO (or personal receptionist lol) & Attempted to put this on their Facebook page (i doubt this will happen)

Hello,
Im contacting you because, I will no longer be purchasing any of your products from this moment forward & i feel that its only right to tell you why.

I have been A very long term fan of EA fan through the various slogan changes including "challenge Everything" , "If its in the Game" & "It's in the game." As a child when that EA logo appeared i used to Change it to "Everything is in the game" & shout it out.
However Over the years you have gone from a beloved Publisher that gave some care attention. To a company Thats just after one thing The Green Green Money & didnt care about their fans or their games.
What have you done wrong?
Recently
You Released BF4 in a terrible state & took you years to correct.
Then Spilt up the Playerbase by Releasing Various DLC's that then kicked normal players out of servers.
Still to this day have not fixed bugs in BF4 Or even BF1 for that matter
you created an unfair playing field with battlefront 2, that includes stupid and silly power-ups.
you made very silly decision like releasing TF2 next to BF1
Microtranscations, that gives you an advantage not just cosmetics.
Minor DLC's that could be released as a free update every so often.
Have no care for The games you make & their qaulity of life.

HIstroical
Here are just some of franchises you destroyed that where good in their own right
Maxis (SimCity) - Purchased by EA in 1997; shut down in 2015.
Mythic (Dark Age of Camelot) - Purchased by EA in 2006; shut down in 2014.
Bullfrog (Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper) - Purchased by EA in 1995; shut down in 2001.
Origin (Ultima, Wing Commander) - Purchased by EA in 1992; shut down in 2004.
Westwood (Command & Conquer) - Purchased by EA in 1998; shut down in 2003.
DreamWorks Interactive/Danger Close/EA Los Angeles (Medal of Honor) - Purchased by EA in 2000; shut down in 2013.
Phenomic (SpellForce, BattleForge) - Purchased by EA in 2006; shut down in 2013.
Black Box Games (Need for Speed, Skate) - Purchased by EA in 2002; shut down in 2013.
Pandemic (The Saboteur) - Purchased by EA in 2008; shut down in 2009.
PlayFish (The Sims Social) - Purchased by EA in 2009; shut down in 2013.
NuFX (NBA Street) - Purchased by EA in 2004; shut down in 2007.

So What can you do?
I understand you need to keep the Shareholders happy, But just for once make A good Well oiled game put your take pride in your release get it right first time & the money will just flow. Look at Witcher 3, The love & craft put in to that game. YOu can do that too if you try..
Eventually you will get to point where more and more fans will feel the same way i do.

Whilst i do not think ill hear from you OR this letter will change anything.
Feedback is vital To improve Your future Products.
Until you earn my respect back & show me that you put love & effort in to your games I shall no longer be buying Anything with the EA logo assocaited with it.

Thankyou for reading, I hope you do change.
Smogsy
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If you want them to take you seriously why would you send something with so many spelling and grammatical mistakes? Why did you not proof-read it before sending?
 
As a child when that EA logo appeared i used to Change it to "Everything is in the game" & shout it out.
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tbh i stopped reading right there.....

If you want real action, change and power then Gamers need to get organised..some kind of gamer specific consumer organisation or smt.
 
I find you get taken more seriously if you can do spelling, punctuation, capitalisation, paragraphs, grammar. etc. While I admire your optimism, I suspect this will go straight into the bin at the lowest level, and none of the bean-counters at the top will care for anything but the sales figures and profit margin on the bottom line. You only have to look back to see how the likes of EA and Ubisoft swapped positions for title of "Most Evil Corporation In Gaming" over the years.

I think you're making the common mistake of thinking that these companies make good game for the joy of it, whereas they actually make games to make money. If they could make lots of cheap crappy games for low cost and get a decent profit margin out of it, that's what they would do. They don't care about you, or gamers in general beyond what it takes to persuade us to part with our money.
 
Steampunk said:
I find you get taken more seriously if you can do spelling, punctuation, capitalisation, paragraphs, grammar. etc. While I admire your optimism, I suspect this will go straight into the bin at the lowest level, and none of the bean-counters at the top will care for anything but the sales figures and profit margin on the bottom line. You only have to look back to see how the likes of EA and Ubisoft swapped positions for title of "Most Evil Corporation In Gaming" over the years.

I think you're making the common mistake of thinking that these companies make good game for the joy of it, whereas they actually make games to make money. If they could make lots of cheap crappy games for low cost and get a decent profit margin out of it, that's what they would do. They don't care about you, or gamers in general beyond what it takes to persuade us to part with our money.
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i totally agree with you, i do believe that a number of the Developers (the ones actually doing the the real work) do actually care but they can't because of the Shareholders.
do i think it will change anything? - no.
do i think they will lob it in the bin - Yes,

if i stop buying a product i give a reason why. that's what i have done. they can do anything they want with my feedback but least i gave it
 
Can you edit your OP when you've finished with your updated/proof-read version.

I was about to offer some advice regarding the spelling/grammar and general wording of the sentences until i noticed others had already pointed this out.

It's good that you are taking the time to reach out to EA to explain your dissatisfaction, but i'd hate for you to have gone to all that effort, for the CEO's receptionist to have read the first sentence and hit the delete button.
 
I'd be embarrassed to send that to someone as it stands.

Put a bit more constructive thought into the criticisms...

"you made very silly decision like releasing TF2 next to BF1" - why was that silly?
"Have no care for The games you make & their qaulity of life." - what on earth is quality of life supposed to mean for a game?

It just reads like drunken ramblings of a teenager at the moment.
 
board room worth billions oh look its smogsy :p

i used to try things like this waste of time.only people who get heard have a big following or something that goes viral.they also often the very people they listen to and also have no clue about the game your playing.:D
 
I think if you feel strongly enough to write a letter then you should. One of the reasons big games companies pump out worse and worse products is because the majority of the consumer base does not stand up for itself. I would politely suggest redrafting your current letter in order to strengthen its impact. Write poorly in any format - forums, letters, CVs - and you are simply easier to discount by some readers.
 
Does everyone feel strongly about things like this?

Surely if people do, between the community we have here we could draft a constructive letter, and "sign" with a list of people, rather than just one person.

Would maybe have more momentum, and I'm sure people here "know" some streamers and news sites to get further attention?
 
Armageus said:
Does everyone feel strongly about things like this?

Surely if people do, between the community we have here we could draft a constructive letter, and "sign" with a list of people, rather than just one person.

Would maybe have more momentum, and I'm sure people here "know" some streamers and news sites to get further attention?
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i wstupidly wrote that letter when i was extremely tired, bad idea!. however it would be an interesting project, I wonder how many do?
 
~>Dg<~ said:
only people who get heard have a big following or something that goes viral.they also often the very people they listen to and also have no clue about the game your playing.:D
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This. Heck most of the time, they don't even listen to those guys i.e. the BF youtuber lot, just look at bf 1 and star wars battlefront ended up despite those youtubers being flown out for "testing/feedback" purposes and they have ended up pretty much not playing the game a few months after release and then they start with the "is BF 1 etc. dead" videos :o

They use those guys for nothing other than being their PR/marketing boys.

But yes, regarding the main OP, absolutely pointless.

Unfortunately us small few who don't support such practices are out weighed by the millions of people that support said practices so I don't really care as much now as you are just fighting a losing battle, just wasting your own time, energy and as a result killing your own enjoyment for "gaming"

I hate these:

- micro transactions/pay to win (this seems like it will be the next big thing instead of paid for DLC now, which imo is even worse than that.... I have stopped playing so many great games purely because of this and people that are happy to throw money at better weapons/gear just so that they can win with ease)

- DLC/season pass (where it is announced/already made before the game is even out and ones that cut out content from the main game....)

- pre-ordering system, so many games over the last few years have been released in an awful state but yet the same idiots keep on pre-ordering the next title every time.... if you're going to pre-order, at least do it from steam, that way you can refund and when you do, the publisher will lose money as valve keep their cut for the listing (iirc, I read somewhere it was 30% of the price)

The only way they will listen and change their ways is if the vast majority of people vote with their wallet.
 
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A valiant attempt but no doubt they won't listen to us "little people" - or say I call us paying customers.
 
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