Contacting Publishers & Developers about no longer buying their products

[smogsy]

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

 

[smogsy]

You may want to proof read that...

am doing now

 

[smogsy]

It's a load of incoherent ramblings. What are you expecting them to actually do with that other than hit Delete?

the forums have removed all my Bullet points and sections

 

[smogsy]

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.

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

 

[smogsy]

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?

i wstupidly wrote that letter when i was extremely tired, bad idea!. however it would be an interesting project, I wonder how many do?