EA - We Can Do Better

Aloreth said:
To be fair, there is now way that ea is the worst company in America. I have friends that work in the gaming industry and they have all said that ea is the only company that treats its staff like people, don't work them to death and have a benefits system.

I'm not the biggest fan of ea but its just immature Internet peeps that think its amusing to vote them down. Having said that.....always on is just drm :)
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I agree, there are far worse companies out there.

I wouldn't vote for EA as the worst company, this is just ridiculous, however the claims and counterarguments made in the quote in the OP are stupid. I don't consider them to be an "evil" company, but they have totally lost the plot.
 
OcUK, we can do better.

You've all become a bunch of EA trolls, you're boring and quite frankly embarrassing.
 
Clearly avoiding the genuine issues, DRM, micro transactions and day 1 DLC's are the issues. EA are greedy and it's obvious.
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
They're a **** company who do their best to takeover successful new IP's, force the studios into turning out sequel after sequel without any regard to quality of game/story/gameplay and then they just dump the carcass when the proceeds start to dry up.
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A bit like cancer really :p
 
*finished reading the article*

My reaction.....


They deserve to be named the worse company in America for damn good reasons!
 
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ZombieFan said:
Doesn't this prove that the online aspect isn't actually DRM? If it was, then it would have been a lot more difficult to run the game offline surely than just a few config hacks?
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Well no because it is actually DRM. Being able to bypass DRM isn't exactly a new thing, in fact the main reason always online DRM is hated is because it has a long history of failing to stop piracy and doing very little except punishing the paying customer in the end.
 
m4rk84 said:
Well no because it is actually DRM. Being able to bypass DRM isn't exactly a new thing, in fact the main reason always online DRM is hated is because it has a long history of failing to stop piracy and doing very little except punishing the paying customer in the end.
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I'm just playing devils advocate, but why has it been classed a DRM? Just because a game requires an internet connection doesn't make it DRM, unless it's specifically there to prevent the game from being copied. Which doesn't seen to be the case with Sim City otherwise it wouldn't have been so easy to bypass?
 
ZombieFan said:
I'm just playing devils advocate, but why has it been classed a DRM? Just because a game requires an internet connection doesn't make it DRM, unless it's specifically there to prevent the game from being copied. Which doesn't seen to be the case with Sim City otherwise it wouldn't have been so easy to bypass?
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If it isn't DRM why wouldn't they provide a way to play a single player city offline if it's been proven so easy to do?

It would have helped them sell a ton more copies...
 
Robbo said:
, but there's a rather large degree of arrogance in this post and they seem to have missed the point in many respects...
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I saw the post, I started reading thinking "wow they might be getting it, they might be acknowledging gamers and their fans (and critics) they could actually change...

But by the second or third paragraph, as you say, the old EA arrogance kicks in, "we are right, the rest of the world is wrong FU all!"

Same old EA, my boycott continues :p
 
m4rk84 said:
If it isn't DRM why wouldn't they provide a way to play a single player city offline if it's been proven so easy to do?

It would have helped them sell a ton more copies...
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One reason would be that they are hoping to make more money by selling DLC directly through the game. It's much easier to get an impulse buy out of a customer if the game is always online, rather than wait until the customer connects to the online service.
 
ZombieFan said:
One reason would be that they are hoping to make more money by selling DLC directly through the game. It's much easier to get an impulse buy out of a customer if the game is always online, rather than wait until the customer connects to the online service.
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This makes no sense. It would be absolutely possible to sell DLC while fully supporting a single player mode. In fact they will be selling the DLC through Origin anyway?
 
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