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[OdanUrr]

renjility wrote...

EpicBoot2daFace wrote...

renjility wrote...

DinoSteve wrote...

wow just wow, maybe EA just start thinking about cleaning itself up.

"We can do better!" 

Yeah, they can do better. But they won't.

I especially like the part where he says the Origin is a great succes and a good competitor for Steam. 

Steam needs some competition, if only to keep them honest.

[streamlock]

How do you rate a company 'best' or 'worst'? Is it profitability, or lack there of? Positive/Negative effects on society? How they treat there workers? Or customers?

How would you rate the best and worst country? Millions, if not billions might put North Korea, the U.S., or some regime in Africa as worst. I live in the U.S. and certainly don't perceive it as so.

That is what people who go off on a rant about "Oh, they didn't put thousands of people out of a home or take there money blah blah blah" don't understand. You say to have perspective, but inherently lack it.

It is all about perception, particularly to the audience taking the pole/doing the voting.

Most of them have no experience with Foxcon (beyond using their devices that are branded something else). Or were personally given a balloon mortgage from a poorly run bank or mortgage company.

What they do have experience in, the inter-webs being the inter-webs is interactive entertainment. They have seen EA buy out talented developers and run them into the ground (by the way, putting people out of a job). Made promises on a product that did not deliver (the feeling of being stole from). Or read the articles on a gaming site about EA ruining workers personal lives by overworking and refusing to pay them.

Or to put it another way, to ruin thier hobbies, something they love and enjoy. (Ruin is probably to strong of a word here, but you get the point)

If you took a vocal poll at a retirement home of who the worst company in the world is, they might say whatever investment company frak'd them out of their penchant or retirement funds.

I am not so vain as to tell the old people at the retirement home that they are wrong and don't have perspective.

I will not tell a group of people on the internet that perceives one of the joys they take in life (gaming), a activity that they love torn asunder by (insert company here) they are wrong and don't have perspective. Or are stupid, or heartless.

Like them, the worst companies to me are the ones that have negatively effected me and people closest to me, real or imagined.  That is my perspective.

Modifié par streamlock, 09 avril 2013 - 06:07 .

[Overdosing]

I don't know if this poll should be taken seriously, but here's my piece on it:

This is one of the most upsetting things that I have ever seen in the gaming community. EA didn't even get noticed by the Consumerist until the year they won their first Golden Poo award. EA is now just being a **** smear, and is currently creating more smears in the gaming community.

I can't begin to wonder how they manage to beat out Bank of America, a company that has been known to ruin people's lives, charge people more incidentally for house mortgages, having bad customer service, leaving out family loss as a factor for anything, and making bad business decisions such as buying out failing subsidiaries that make them lose money.

Now, I understand that EA doesn't have as much of an effect on personal lives as Bank of America, but I have two reasons for why EA is considerably a bad company in a nationwide view. For one thing, I don't believe that Bank of America doesn't ruin as many lives as people claim they ruin. They might just have services that are jus bad or not up-to-par with what customers want. Secondly, the Consumerist is an online-based poll organization, and many Internet users are considerably gamers.

And what I noticed is that there's just that one game every year that triggers EA to be put in the top spot.

In last year's case, it was Mass Effect 3. The day-one DLC, the fact that the multiplayer was implemented and directly affected the single player, miscellaneous things, the rushed development, and especially the ending killed it for EA. People considered it as a loved series essentially torn apart by EA's involvement.

In this year's case, it's SimCity. Before the game was released, it was critically acclaimed, prompting people to pre-order or just order it. As soon as the game was released to the general public, the always-online DRM kicked in and everything ****ed up. Glitches galore. Not being able to log in. No refunds. And people wasted their money being mislead. Now, the question stands as to whether people should pre-order games.

These aren't the only games and problems, but these are just things that do pertain to this issue.

And Peter Moore can go and blame Madden fans and anti-LGBT fans, as well as others for this crisis. Just so he and EA know, how they go about continuing as a company depends on the consumers.  If consumers become and realize this, one of two things will happen: either they have better business practices and listen to fans more, therefore earning more respect and money, or they can continue winning this award, lose fans, lose money, and eventually go bankrupt and defunct like THQ.

That's just the reality of it, I hope. One of these two things should happen.

Modifié par Overdosing, 09 avril 2013 - 06:09 .

[k177sh0t]

Congratulations!!

[Ridwan]

Despite all the crap I wrote about EA, I hope they do learn from all of this and change their ways.

[Maverick827]

M25105 wrote...

Despite all the crap I wrote about EA, I hope they do learn from all of this and change their ways.

EA, like most intelligent people, know to disregard this particular poll.

What ways do they need to change?  I'm not saying I don't believe there are any, I just forsee yours are full of pedantic opinions-assumed-to-be-truths.

[Jonathan28]

EA aren't going to change one bit, Project $10 isn't going anywhere, micro transactions aren't going anywhere, day one DLC isn't going anywhere. It's just going to be the same as it has always been.

People have to understand that EA wouldn't do these things if they didn't make them money, they aren't going to get rid of them out of the goodness of their heart, the shareholders would lynch them. 

Modifié par Jonathan28, 09 avril 2013 - 06:34 .

[Ridwan]

Maverick827 wrote...

M25105 wrote...

Despite all the crap I wrote about EA, I hope they do learn from all of this and change their ways.

EA, like most intelligent people, know to disregard this particular poll.

What ways do they need to change?  I'm not saying I don't believe there are any, I just forsee yours are full of pedantic opinions-assumed-to-be-truths.

Ever the drone, aren't you?

[Maverick827]

M25105 wrote...

Ever the drone, aren't you?

"I have no actual argument, so I'll just call you a drone because I'm so narrow-minded that I cannot even comprehend anyone not hating EA."

[Dutchess]

[quote]OdanUrr wrote...

I especially like the part where he says the Origin is a great succes and a good competitor for Steam. [/quote]

Steam needs some competition, if only to keep them honest.
[/quote]

That may be true, but pounding on your chest that Origin is a success while using this forced sign-up method rings a bit hollow... then again, you were forced to use Steam for Skyrim as well, so I guess that's not only EA doing this kind of thing.

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

penny-arcade.com/report/article/ea-earned-hatred-with-poor-games-lack-of-vision-and-contempt-for-the-audien

Modifié par DinoSteve, 09 avril 2013 - 06:47 .

[felipejiraya]

I really don't think they deserve this award since there are other companies doing much more harm to the USA than EA who's just a entertainment company.

But nonetheless my complaints about this I hope EA understands the message and starts to rebuild themselves for this next generation.

[hoorayforicecream]

This sums up my opinion of the results.

[Dave of Canada]

Maverick827 wrote...

EA, like most intelligent people, know to disregard this particular poll.

Then they should stop responding to it.

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

Neofelis Nebulosa wrote...

DinoSteve wrote...

consumerist.com/2013/04/09/ea-makes-worst-company-in-america-history-wins-title-for-second-year-in-a-row/

You realized that very link is already in the OP, right?

it wasn't the link I meant to post.

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

Filament wrote...

Proving once again that gamers are whiny obnoxious entitled brats, lol, I don't envy EA having to cater to us children, maybe they should just get out and sell insurance.

or,  or they could just be a bad company

[Ridwan]

Maverick827 wrote...

M25105 wrote...

Ever the drone, aren't you?

"I have no actual argument, so I'll just call you a drone because I'm so narrow-minded that I cannot even comprehend anyone not hating EA."

Keep droning.

http://greendatacent...earn-from-them/

Modifié par M25105, 09 avril 2013 - 07:08 .

[wafflez]

LOL

As for BoA, I think the people who lost their homes have more important things to do than vote on an online poll. Us gamers on the other hand...

[Mr.House]

BoA would win if the poll was only for people who live in the USA, that's not the case. Anyone can vote. Thus people who live outside the states are not affected by BoA and will vote for the company they hate.

[Freskione2]

I'm sure there are worse companies but EA does make it hard to love them.

[AresKeith]

Good Good

EA sucks