EA - We Can Do Better

SURPRISE....

Electronic Arts WIN.

http://consumerist.com/2013/04/09/e...-history-wins-title-for-second-year-in-a-row/

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E.A, you suck.

Peter Moore, well, LOL.
 
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78% of the votes, lol thanks to EA CEO himself for making us aware of the award and why they might 'deserve' it again :p:D

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Some claim there’s no room for Origin as a competitor to Steam. 45 million registered users are proving that wrong.
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insert "active" in between "million" and "registered"... Watch that 45 million number tumble.
 
Anyone ever considered the effect that a company like EA would have on the staff within small independent developers. Let's say someone like Bullfrog, they work their ass off for years, putting heart and soul into things from both passion for the games and a desire to earn big money..

Then they land the support of a huge corporate firm. Their salaries improve and that parents basement becomes a fancy apartment. They lose that drive, that thirst they once had. Not because of the forceful hand of the company now financing them, but through their own desire to keep the money flowing.

It's only now through steam and xbox live that indie games have a good source of income now. Games like Super meat boy, braid etc.

I'd say the little guys aren't as innocent when it comes to crap sequels than you might think. They want paychecks now and have the stability to just go "Meh that will do"
 
LOL XBLA developers arent that enthused by MS support of them neither, so I wouldnt use that as an example of avoiding working for large publishers like EA.

And yes Hedge, its obvious its not EA that ruin these developers, its all these developers that get starstruck and entitled once they get that chance to work for EA ;). EA are just really unlucky in who they decide to buy out I guess.

Though at end of the day those developers arent forced to sign their lives away to EA in the first place, so I agree they arent all that innocent, nor that naive...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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I only installed Origin because I wanted to play ME3. I have absolutely no intention of buying any other games through origin. At least I can buy games from a multitude of places (eg: GMG) and activate on Steam.
 
Hardily a surprise they win again. Especially given that statement there was going to be a large bandwagon vote.

Now, that aside they deserve ranking in that list still, the name is a bit of a misnomer, it's not really about who is truly the worst company. It's not about who's the most morally reprehensible, who's most likely to be in league with the devil, who caused the biggest damage to the economy or indeed even the planet, it, like the site itself is about the relationship between company and consumer (seemingly even EA themselves missed the point of this last year when their only defence after winning was essentially "We're worse than the guys who polluted the east coast with an oil spill? Ok whatever, neckbeards").

In that scope EA still deserve high ranking, if not the winning spot because while there are any number of companies that are lacking in their customers relations very few companies are as actively hostile or hold their own customers in such open contempt as EA show themselves to.
 
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I cant think they are worst company in the USA but serious EA have killed so many good game franchises and so many developer studios have been destroyed due to them.

Origin is not as good as Steam that is for sure, also steam is not aligned with one publisher. Its a games platform that has in many ways allowed the PC market to flourish once they realised that their prices were horrendous at the start.

The only other online platform I hate more is U play for needing 30 hours to download AS3, seriously 100kb's?

That he stated there just made me think that its same old at EA, I have to admit that I've paid for some games but I try to make sure I pay as little as possible to EA's coffers.
 
I don't know why they do any votes on the internet tbh, they're all rigged by the fools on 4chan and the like that have nothing better to do
 
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When are they going to do this? This is the first I've heard.
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They kind of already did it although they did not retroactively remove ALL prior releases.

Crysis 2 was removed from Steam (Returned later), Dragon Age 2 was removed before the release of the Legacy DLC and Alice: madness returns never even made it.

Since then, only a few Sims expansions have made it.
 
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They're actually encouraging people to vote for them...? What the actual ****? Does this annoy anyone alse beyond comprehension? Acceptance of the fact they're utterly terrible with a sense of pride?
 
The complaints against us last year were our support of SOPA (not true), and that they didn’t like the ending to Mass Effect 3.
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I'm fairly confident business people in the gaming industry are out of touch with reality.
 
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They kind of already did it although they did retroactively remove ALL prior releases.

Crysis 2 was removed from Steam (Returned later), Dragon Age 2 was removed before the release of the Legacy DLC and Alice: madness returns never even made it.

Since then, only a few Sims expansions have made it.
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/19680/

What you're saying is that almost all EA games are available on Steam and just a few are no longer purchasable. That doesn't mean the current customers can't download or play them.

Dragon Age 2 and Crysis 2 were removed from Steam Store due to the controversy of their new DLC model.
 
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The tallest trees catch the most wind.
That’s an expression I frequently use when asked to defend EA’s place in the gaming industry.
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The only reason a tree gets so tall is because it saps the life out from the smaller trees under it. The tallest tree clouds the smaller trees taking all the sunlight for itself. Customers are a lot like the sun. The sun cannot stop the tall tree from taking in all its sunlight. The only thing that can happen is the odd ray bypasses the big tree and goes to the smaller trees below it.

:p

I was thinking about this statement again. Maybe it was a ploy, I think EA wanted to be voted they wanted to stir things up. Its free publicity for them albeit bad. But still free.
 
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