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[NeonFlux117]

Sorry bro, I don't watch anime. I have a girlfriend, a job and friends. 

 

 

lol, JK. 

[bEVEsthda]

It's still pretty laughable since companies like Bank of America have legitimately ruined some of their customer's lives. For the purposes of threads on a gaming site yeah EA is terrible, but worst company in America? Not even close.

 

The only real reason to vote for EA is because they actually gave a damn about being given the award. BoA would just laugh and continue on.

 

But BoA has many satisfied customers.

And BoA didn't exactly ruin those customers' lives. Circumstances and the finance crash did. Blaming the bank, when the bank moves responsibly to protect others' assets, completely according to the rules of the deal, which those ruined customers signed, is just a gut reaction. ...Just like attacking the repo man when he comes to take your car.

Left-wing people never seem capable of getting this, but you know - it's other people's money.

 

The fact that EA actually won that award is fascinating, because it shows off where things are going. I'm thinking about who's on the internet and what's important to them. And EA doesn't seem to have so many satisfied customers among them.

 

No, it's not laughable. It's quite refreshing that people are actually collectively getting something through, about their discontent.

Personally, I'm the kind of guy who tends to not complain about the food in a restaurant. I just leave and then tell everyone that it stinks. At the most I tell the waitress I won't be back.

I do that because I'm convinced an incompetent chef can't take criticism right. On the contrary, I risk that he wipes the toilet with my steak, ****** in my soup or spits in my salad.

But there are many restaurants. There aren't many game publishers and the only one that hasn't started to stink yet is Bethesda. I do think even that is beginning to become smelly though.

[The Devlish Redhead]

Actually this guy runs EA

 

I give you Nimrod The Cat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Or maybe she does...

 

 

[SnipedArm]

you're not a true son of EA!

[Akrabra]

 There aren't many game publishers and the only one that hasn't started to stink yet is Bethesda. I do think even that is beginning to become smelly though.

I wish Bethesda Softworks had bought up Bioware. Imagine everything that Bethesda game studios could teach Bioware about open world game design and Bioware could teach them about story. It would have been the golden age of RPG's!

[KingTony]

You're a fool if you think EA is "true evil." Stalin was true evil. Mao was true evil. Hitler was true evil. EA is shady as hell to be sure, but not by any means are they true evil.

[Dio Demon]

I wish Bethesda Softworks had bought up Bioware. Imagine everything that Bethesda game studios could teach Bioware about open world game design and Bioware could teach them about story. It would have been the golden age of RPG's!

How to fix bugs?

[Akrabra]

How to fix bugs?

You don't need to fix bugs when you have a modding community doing it for you

[Dio Demon]

You don't need to fix bugs when you have a modding community doing it for you

They should at least pay the modders for fixing their game XD

[Il Divo]

Naw, money is all that matters in a job or career. If you're getting paid a lot of money then you can handle all the other BS that goes with working along other humans.

 

 

Then Battlefield would finally be free and perhaps go to a real developer and not scrub DICE. 

 

We would have pre EA owned BioWare- you know the good BioWare, that gave us ME1, Kotor, Jade Empire, ME2 (was already in alpha when EA acquired BW), Baldurs Gate. The great bioware, not the EA shill it has become. 

 

Maybe Sim City would be good again.....

 

I seem to recall Bioware inevitably hitting bankruptcy making all those "great games" (btw, I'd personally exclude ME1 and BG from the list, which I thought were garbage).

 

Not really the best way to encourage companies to continue along those lines.  

[DarkKnightHolmes]

I'll try to care more. /s

[Obadiah]

Interesting article in the OP, if a bit old. Here's a link to a gamespot article on the lawsuit settlement:
http://www.gamespot....t/1100-6135106/

[NeonFlux117]

I seem to recall Bioware inevitably hitting bankruptcy making all those "great games" (btw, I'd personally exclude ME1 and BG from the list, which I thought were garbage).

 

Not really the best way to encourage companies to continue along those lines.  

 

Nope, you lost all legitimacy with this line-

 

"I personally exclude ME1 and BG from that list, which I thought were garbage"

 

 

[Br3admax]

I wish Bethesda Softworks had bought up Bioware. Imagine everything that Bethesda game studios could teach Bioware about open world game design and Bioware could teach them about story. It would have been the golden age of RPG's!

Bethesda, having already sold their soul, could never buy BioWare. But considering BioWare has been retelling one story since the 90s, I'd much rather Zenimax take Obsidian, entrer New Vegas.

[Draining Dragon]

In other news, Blizzard just released "World of Warcraft."

I have a feeling that game is going to define an entire genre.

[Garryydde]

In other news, Blizzard just released "World of Warcraft."

I have a feeling that game is going to define an entire genre.

I doubt it, I'll give it 2 years at most before it's a ghost town there. People are gonna want Warcraft IV instead.

[Beerfish]

Original complaint valid?  Yes.  Many many many many worse companies and worse situations?  Yes.  Many many many companies that outsource to other countries and totally take advantage of people?  Lots.

 

Game making is a tough business, people don't realize it at times.

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

I doubt it, I'll give it 2 years at most before it's a ghost town there. People are gonna want Warcraft IV instead.

>There will never be a Warcraft 4 because of WoW and DotA

[Farangbaa]

Kurt Cobain is dead

[Farangbaa]

No one ever mentions Pol Pot.

Or God

[Il Divo]

Nope, you lost all legitimacy with this line-

 

"I personally exclude ME1 and BG from that list, which I thought were garbage"

 

 

 

That's alright. It's clear you don't have any actual point to make, beyond expressing nostalgia.

 

[In Exile]

Nope, you lost all legitimacy with this line-

 

"I personally exclude ME1 and BG from that list, which I thought were garbage"

 

Whatever you think about his personal tastes, it's just a fact that Bioware was in very rough financial shape prior to it being picked up by EA (well, technically first being picked up by whatever hedge fund grabbed it post-KoTOR/JE, and then flipped it to EA).

 

Bioware already was in financial difficulty long before EA came into the picture. 

[Il Divo]

Whatever you think about his personal tastes, it's just a fact that Bioware was in very rough financial shape prior to it being picked up by EA (well, technically first being picked up by whatever hedge fund grabbed it post-KoTOR/JE, and then flipped it to EA).

 

Bioware already was in financial difficulty long before EA came into the picture. 

 

Essentially this. Nothing inherently wrong with loving pre-EA Bioware games, even if I find many of them lackluster.

 

But it's the same basic problem which we see when people rip EA-Bioware apart and praise Obsidian in the same breath: the former currently has the ability to sustain itself, where as prior to PoE Obsidian was about to hit bankruptcy, essentially Black Isle 2.0.

[Valkyrja]

EA may be evil but they're doing something right.

 

If you had bought in around ME3's release you would have quadrupled your money.