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[Atraiyu Wrynn]

cynicalsaint1 wrote...

*Sighs*
Really people?

One company directly contributed to tanking the US economy, and then got your tax dollars as a bail-out.

The other **** out DLC for video games.

If you voted for EA on this you are no longer entitled to have an opinion on anything.

The entire banking inducstry was responsible for the collapse, not just Bank of America.  Also in the banking industry, you have alternatives if you are unhappy with the service you get from BOA.

EA is encroaching on monopoly territory.  You have much more limited options in gaming.  From a consumer perspective I believe EA is worse.

[Fulgrim88]

Well, congratulations are in order

I do like the initial text though, especially the last part

Whether it's on a console, a PC, a smartphone or tablet, hundreds of millions of people play video games every day. Yet most mainstream media covers the industry the same way it treats adult dodge ball leagues and cat fashion shows (both noble ventures, but neither of them multi-billion dollar industries). And the only time you hear legislators discuss video games is when some politician decries them as the death knell for all things righteous in the world (hint: they're not). Now, after years of being ignored and relegated to steerage, game-players have voted to send a message to Electronic Arts and the gaming business as a whole: Stop treating your loyal customers like crap.

Of course I also like Cat Fashion Shows

[JulienJaden]

cynicalsaint1 wrote...

*Sighs*
Really people?

One company directly contributed to tanking the US economy, and then got your tax dollars as a bail-out.

The other **** out DLC for video games.

If you voted for EA on this you are no longer entitled to have an opinion on anything.

That's a problem of the system, not a single bank. The entire financial sector is a giant cesspool and getting rid of it entirely would be a blessing.

Which is why I didn't vote for BofA - They are the product of a corrupt system that encourages such actions. A single award doesn't do anything to them and it only names them, not all the other banks like them (on a smaller scale). For EA, however, this is new. This whole mess is new in scale. I want to see if it forces them to change their policy, fire somebody from the board of directors or something of the sort. That would certainly be interesting.

[Grasich]

Cuddieee wrote...

"Traditionally, the Poo has been delivered on its little red pillow. But this year, we'll give EA three different color options for its pillow, though in the end it's still the same old Poo."

For great justice.

beautiful.

[Kamuchi]

Cuddieee wrote...

"Traditionally, the Poo has been delivered on its little red pillow. But this year, we'll give EA three different color options for its pillow, though in the end it's still the same old Poo."

For great justice.

Briiiiliiiiaant 

[sumo390]

Cuddieee wrote...

"Traditionally, the Poo has been delivered on its little red pillow. But this year, we'll give EA three different color options for its pillow, though in the end it's still the same old Poo."

For great justice.

Lol, congrats EA

[Valk72]

I must say, they totally deserved it XD

[Cuddieee]

TommyServo wrote...

ZtalkerRM wrote...

You forget the day 1 DLC, use of stock photo's from internet, Dragon Age 2, Dragon age 2 DLC, Sims, kicking out Wright because you want to mil the Sims, charging insane amounts of money for some digital furniture in the Sims, should I go on? Just the first things that come to mind.

Oh yeah, Fifa 12. An unfinished product with the worst physics engine ever. Same for your Madden, I guess.

They fully deserve this, based on their consumer strategy of the last years. At a certain point, the people will snap, like what is happening in WOW right now. Losing millions of players.

I find it strange James Cameron didn't see John Riccitiello when he went down with his submarine. I mean...has EA sunken even lower then that?

I didn't forget. It just doesn't matter. Other game companies pull this garbage too.

No, what prompted this is Mass Effect 3's ending, and it's goddamn ridiculous.

Don't be naive. EA's garnered their reputation long before Mass Effect 3 came out. It helped, certainly, but it isn't the root of the problem. A massive conglomerate eats up smaller companies for their IPs, fires half their employees and then ruins said IP. Profits first, milk the consumers for all they can. BofA is terrible, to be sure, but don't act like EA won solely based off a few Mass Effect fans. 

[jcmuki]

JulienJaden wrote...

cynicalsaint1 wrote...

*Sighs*
Really people?

One company directly contributed to tanking the US economy, and then got your tax dollars as a bail-out.

The other **** out DLC for video games.

If you voted for EA on this you are no longer entitled to have an opinion on anything.

That's a problem of the system, not a single bank. The entire financial sector is a giant cesspool and getting rid of it entirely would be a blessing.

Which is why I didn't vote for BofA - They are the product of a corrupt system that encourages such actions. A single award doesn't do anything to them and it only names them, not all the other banks like them (on a smaller scale). For EA, however, this is new. This whole mess is new in scale. I want to see if it forces them to change their policy, fire somebody from the board of directors or something of the sort. That would certainly be interesting.

^^^^ this
the gaming industry has not become a cesspool like the banking industry, there is still time to change
and the award effects EA more than it does BofA

Modifié par jcmuki, 04 avril 2012 - 04:48 .

[Rockpopple]

JulienJaden wrote...

cynicalsaint1 wrote...

*Sighs*
Really people?

One company directly contributed to tanking the US economy, and then got your tax dollars as a bail-out.

The other **** out DLC for video games.

If you voted for EA on this you are no longer entitled to have an opinion on anything.

That's a problem of the system, not a single bank. The entire financial sector is a giant cesspool and getting rid of it entirely would be a blessing.

Which is why I didn't vote for BofA - They are the product of a corrupt system that encourages such actions. A single award doesn't do anything to them and it only names them, not all the other banks like them (on a smaller scale). For EA, however, this is new. This whole mess is new in scale. I want to see if it forces them to change their policy, fire somebody from the board of directors or something of the sort. That would certainly be interesting.

lol. You really don't know how corporations have worked since the 20th century, do you?

Here's a protip: Profit = bonuses. Internet polls taken by gamers = not even a moment's notice. You really think EA's gonna change anything because they were voted worst company in America if they're making money hand-over-fist?

Let's grow up a little, please.

[Goroxx]

I've been here on the forums since the beginning of the whole ME3 controversy. At the height of the uproar, there's like what, 50,000 people who "liked" the Retake ME3 facebook page, and roughly the same who answered negatively on the polls here on BSN.

Lets say every single one of them rushed out to this Consumerist site and because of their RRRRAAAGGE voted EA as the worst company (for the record, I've never noticed a large-scale campaign to urge people to vote in this poll.) That's still only ONE-FIFTH of the total number of people who voted in this poll.

So there's a whole lot more people out there who don't like EA than just the disappointed fans of ME3. So all the righteous "I can't believe you people voted EA over BoA" can just stop right now.

People expect banks to be evil (yes, BoA is the worst), but the point was made that they're heavily regulated with plenty of protections for consumers. We don't expect our entertainment companies to be evil; currently there are very few consumer protections for bad product from such companies, so people will voice their displeasure in the few avenues available.

Modifié par Goroxx, 04 avril 2012 - 04:49 .

[Humanoid_Typhoon]

Ares14916 wrote...

I think this is relevant, a corresponding forbes game blogger analysis:

http://www.forbes.co...erica-now-what/ 

Once again, he gets it right; a silly little self-voting internet poll won't do a damn thing to EA...the only way to punish them for their habit of butchering the medium of videogames is to starve them of our money.

I am not holding my breath though...

Forbes hits the nail on the head again, it is truly tragic how large EA and Activision are that nearly every AAA title comes through them, they are almost too big to fail but I hope they do someday soon, the folk at BW ought to up and leave and make a new company and get back to their old business model

BioWare: Make money to make games
EA: Make games to make money.

[Jadebaby]

Holy crap!... (Pun intended)

[Chaoswind]

JulienJaden wrote...

cynicalsaint1 wrote...

*Sighs*
Really people?

One company directly contributed to tanking the US economy, and then got your tax dollars as a bail-out.

The other **** out DLC for video games.

If you voted for EA on this you are no longer entitled to have an opinion on anything.

That's a problem of the system, not a single bank. The entire financial sector is a giant cesspool and getting rid of it entirely would be a blessing.

Which is why I didn't vote for BofA - They are the product of a corrupt system that encourages such actions. A single award doesn't do anything to them and it only names them, not all the other banks like them (on a smaller scale). For EA, however, this is new. This whole mess is new in scale. I want to see if it forces them to change their policy, fire somebody from the board of directors or something of the sort. That would certainly be interesting.

Exactly the Banking system has rules, the rules being broken and gamed have nothing to do with BofA, you can't blame a single bank for the faults of a system that doesn't work (Credit creation will be the doom of all economies).

[Sakanade]

Mims wrote...

I'm still shocked EA beat out Comcast.

I'm not even surprised anymore.

Comcast was bad, but not like this.

[NReed106]

Njald wrote...



Add in the ReaperHorn in the end there. FFFWWWHHHHOOOOOOMMMMP

Win

[luzburg]

well deserved

[DAMASCUS_MAXIMUS]

Ares14916 wrote...

I think this is relevant, a corresponding forbes game blogger analysis:

http://www.forbes.co...erica-now-what/ 

Once again, he gets it right; a silly little self-voting internet poll won't do a damn thing to EA...the only way to punish them for their habit of butchering the medium of videogames is to starve them of our money.

I am not holding my breath though...

Agreed, I doubt EA would care on the results of an internet poll.  But they would care on losing money, so hold on to your cash people!

[jcmuki]

Rockpopple wrote...

JulienJaden wrote...

cynicalsaint1 wrote...

*Sighs*
Really people?

One company directly contributed to tanking the US economy, and then got your tax dollars as a bail-out.

The other **** out DLC for video games.

If you voted for EA on this you are no longer entitled to have an opinion on anything.

That's a problem of the system, not a single bank. The entire financial sector is a giant cesspool and getting rid of it entirely would be a blessing.

Which is why I didn't vote for BofA - They are the product of a corrupt system that encourages such actions. A single award doesn't do anything to them and it only names them, not all the other banks like them (on a smaller scale). For EA, however, this is new. This whole mess is new in scale. I want to see if it forces them to change their policy, fire somebody from the board of directors or something of the sort. That would certainly be interesting.

lol. You really don't know how corporations have worked since the 20th century, do you?

Here's a protip: Profit = bonuses. Internet polls taken by gamers = not even a moment's notice. You really think EA's gonna change anything because they were voted worst company in America if they're making money hand-over-fist?

Let's grow up a little, please.

actually EA is not making huge profit, they are just about backing even
considering the about of money they put in games and adveristing they are not getting a huge profit in return

not making huge profit, not lossing money, just in the middle

[dfstone]

It really annoys me that EA refuses to put any of their games on Steam just so they can push that Origin crapware on PC gamers.

[Denvian]

 Really!?

Bank of America Vs. EA

Company that swindled millions of dollars out of people and was partially responsible for America's finacial colapse VS. game company that just sucks becuase they stiffle bioware!?

and EA gest 64% of the vote!!!

Now I am no fan of all the crap EA pulls but this is like comparing Osama bin Laden to martha stewart! 

Modifié par Denvian, 04 avril 2012 - 04:54 .

[Blind2Society]

Great comment on the article. Someone wrote....

"Traditionally, the Poo has been delivered on its little red pillow. But this year, we'll give EA three different color options for its pillow, though in the end it's still the same old Poo."


Why not send the poo first, then make them get the pillow as tangible DLC? Charge them for it, too!

-end of quote


Btw, I hate Evil Arts but I simply could not bring myself to vote for them over BoA. No way, no how.

Modifié par Blind2Society, 04 avril 2012 - 04:54 .

[EricHVela]

This is Consumeriest. Get a grip all you "BoA should have won because it's so much worse". It's for kicks and grins. Why is that so difficult to understand?

If you don't know whether to laugh or cry, always err towards laughing.

Modifié par ReggarBlane, 04 avril 2012 - 04:55 .

[Valk72]

BOFA is clearly incompetent, not EA. EA is intentionally screwing its consumer and actively trying to destroy the gaming industry.

[Sailears]

Njald wrote...



Add in the ReaperHorn in the end there. FFFWWWHHHHOOOOOOMMMMP

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