Yeah, I love the contradictory logic people are using to avoid admitting that they really don't give a shit about social issues compared to video games.
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EA up for Worst Company in America for 2nd year in a row
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Yeah, I love the contradictory logic people are using to avoid admitting that they really don't give a shit about social issues compared to video games.
AstroNut325
Member
And this is why the judicial branch of government isn't a democracy
THANK GOD!
I'm becoming more anti-democracy by the day because of GAF and Fox News.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
lol wut? Please. Because an internet poll for the golden poo really reflects someone's stance on social issues. smh.
Nope.
I don't think EA is worse than BoA, but EA deserves this award. All the time people avoid voting for independent candidates because they don't believe that there vote would matter.
I'm okay with people voting in with a different criterion on a poll silly enough to award a steaming pile of shit to the losing company. EA deserves to be mocked. BoA executives deserve to be in prison.
This sums it up right here. Nobody but gamers cares about video games and in all honesty they don't matter in the slightest. BoA has done a lot more to actually hurt people. They deserve something a little more serious than a "Golden Poo Award," so who cares if EA gets that particular honor?
I'm still a little surprised, though, since last year's "win" was very clearly based on gamers being upset about Mass Effect 3's ending.
RedNumberFive
Banned
If only we had banded together... we could have solved the financial crisis with our votes...
They can hopefully make Dead Space 4 a non rushed game, no DLC/microtransactions and co-op and bring back the save station system.
Simcity, probably.
I EA wants to stop "winning" this, they'll have to stop releasing products that players, especially those that like single player games, will object to just before the poll.
You mean go back in time before Reagan was elected and before every subsequent President and body of legislation approved of deregulation.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Where are those from EA?
Object? Didn't they buy it in record numbers?
We're going to fix EA now though. That's why I voted for them.
Did you see the letter!
What is there to learn from a mockery of an internet poll? They shouldn't even bother to dignify this with a response.
Indeed. People losing homes and more or less lives but lets all cry and complain because we didn't like the ending to what more or less comes down to a toy. I weep for the future of this country/world.
Opposed to crying about a web poll that means nothing? I weep for the future of this country/world?
EmCeeGramr
Member
yeah, if bank of america got a fake poop from the internet they'd really stop and rethink their inhuman policies
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
If only we all had voted for BoA we could have gotten those people back into their homes.
Yes, and then found out that what they bought and what they expected it to be did not line up. To have a big outrage you need a lot of people actually playing the game, too. Just like Mass Effect 3 sold well and then was complained about due to that ending, so was Simcity bought by many who then couldn't play due to the online DRM and saw features disappear as well as the simulation break down in critical areas, notably traffic.
ElfArmy177
Member
Bunch of children... Its really pathetic how most people don't even know why they voted EA. Your ending wasn't what you wanted, yet the rest of the game that cost millions to make was intact. SimCity was broken for a little while, yet you got a free game and its fully functional now.
EA may be the most well known in the gaming community, and also the most talked about.. But the most evil? Really? Seeing as most gamers are under the age of 25 though it doesn't surprise me.
I'm sure it means nothing, but when they get mocked for it and change their strategy, you really think no one is gonna get laid off to "improve their image" to a bunch of kids that really don't care that much?
EA may be the most well known in the gaming community, and also the most talked about.. But the most evil? Really? Seeing as most gamers are under the age of 25 though it doesn't surprise me.
I'm sure it means nothing, but when they get mocked for it and change their strategy, you really think no one is gonna get laid off to "improve their image" to a bunch of kids that really don't care that much?
Internet poll it may be, to be deemed the worst company in America by votes of consumers online for the 2nd year in a row looks bad to any company, especially when you are competing with other major companies in the US. I wouldn't be surprised if Bloomberg and the rest picked up the news and let people know.
JetSetRadio
Banned
EA is awesome.
They let me enjoy Skate and Mirror's Edge this gen. Those are the only EA games I bought though.
They let me enjoy Skate and Mirror's Edge this gen. Those are the only EA games I bought though.
Platinumstorm
Member
The Sim City moderators seem to be in full force after EA's prestigious win. Ironically they are allowing personal attacks on Moore and Bradshaw, but locking any thread that attacks EA.
Here are a couple of fun comments from a mod:
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9431335.page
Ethice
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9431366.page
Ethice:
The game is still broken, btw.
Here are a couple of fun comments from a mod:
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9431335.page
Ethice
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9431366.page
Ethice:
The game is still broken, btw.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Yep. I remember someone in this thread saying EA wouldn't respond to them winning this time. Welp, he was wrong.
EmCeeGramr
Member
You have literally no idea what you're talking about in any way.
Actually the average age for a gamer today in 2013 is 35 according to research, gaming is much more of an adult industry today than it used to be, probably because of the sums of money involved.
As for EA, they have the worst practices in the industry imo BUT....they do make good games imo.
SniperHunter
Banned
is this serious? This company has given us: Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Bad Company, Battlefield 3, Crysis, Need For Speed and an endless amount of good sports games....worst company in America? What a joke!
Wait, so the sims are actually sims in Simcity? Because at launch, despite what EA advertised, the people in the game were just pathfinding. They leave one house go to a job, and return to a DIFFERENT house with a different family and no one seems upset about that in-game. It's a problem. There are all sorts of other very problematic artifacts caused by the pathfinding instead of a real simulation in this game.
So that's fixed? If so, bravo. But, I'm very skeptical it has been fixed since it's at the core of the game design (which EA must have known and still advertised the game as one where you could zoom in to a single sim and watch their lives when they HAVE no "life" because they just wander from place to place at different times).
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Sim City was broken for a LITTLE WHILE? Yea, ok. Check out the OT and tell me that. And how nice that EA offered a free game but refused to grant refunds. And who is worse in gaming for consumers than EA? Not even Activision can touch EA.
And change their strategy being a negative? Yes, because their current strategy was paying off so well that they closed studios, requested their CEO to resign, and are nickling amd diming everyone. Yea, good show.
ElfArmy177
Member
you really don't think ea is gonna do something to improve its image that may relate to people losing their jobs? Since people say they are the "most evil company in America" even more so than banks or comcast, you really think it wont be reported on at all?
ElfArmy177
Member
age wise, I stand corrected. Just looked it up.
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
EA already responded with Peter Moore and it was a 'ead we're not gonna change shit'. And what would EA do in response to this that would cost jobs? Please do tell.
Should probably note that the vote isn't for "Most Evil", but for "Worst". I mean EA wouldn't stand a chance in Most Evil, I'd imagine, there are much better candidates for that.
But "Worst" as in "Does not deliver the goods or services in a quality matching the expectations of the consumers"? Yeah, about that... I can see EA being nominated on that category. I mean a bank being scummy is sort of within expectations for banks, as sad as that may sound, and some bullshit is definitely expected when dealing with them.
When it comes to entertainment, people don't want bullshit. They want entertainment, they want stuff that just works and can amuse them somehow. They don't want to buy a product that tells them that for some reason they can't use it until <parameter:string> time has elapsed. They want to use it now, and if they can't the product is clearly defective. You don't have nearly as much leeway when it comes to people's leisure time.
So, EA is the "worst" because they bring bullshit into what should be the bullshit free zone. At least that's how I'd imagine it has gone. Could be wrong, but it seems likely.
But "Worst" as in "Does not deliver the goods or services in a quality matching the expectations of the consumers"? Yeah, about that... I can see EA being nominated on that category. I mean a bank being scummy is sort of within expectations for banks, as sad as that may sound, and some bullshit is definitely expected when dealing with them.
When it comes to entertainment, people don't want bullshit. They want entertainment, they want stuff that just works and can amuse them somehow. They don't want to buy a product that tells them that for some reason they can't use it until <parameter:string> time has elapsed. They want to use it now, and if they can't the product is clearly defective. You don't have nearly as much leeway when it comes to people's leisure time.
So, EA is the "worst" because they bring bullshit into what should be the bullshit free zone. At least that's how I'd imagine it has gone. Could be wrong, but it seems likely.
ZeroGravity
Member
Any decent business in this position would look at the results, see that people continue to vote them worse than companies who do far more harmful damage in the world, and understand that there's probably a legitimate reason for that and see it as a chance to change for the better.
EA won't do that, of course.
EA won't do that, of course.
Seriously? What, just because they won on the next page, everyone can no longer read? Let me say it again for you guys.
So chill out bros, this isn't a morality poll, this is a consumer satisfaction poll, and guess what, I consume EA's products, not BoA's. Same with the most of the rest of you.
So chill out bros, this isn't a morality poll, this is a consumer satisfaction poll, and guess what, I consume EA's products, not BoA's. Same with the most of the rest of you.
That's not really what a hypocrite is, though.
Do you want people protesting in the streets over this or something?
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
But voting for BoA on an internet poll surely shows they're the fighters for freedom, social justice and equality.
hey am I forgetting anything or is the EA stuff mostly about Mass Effect 3's DLC, ending, and the Sim City situation? do they do shitty things to their employees or is it just laughable game release stuff?
i don't see much reason to care about this poll but EA winning sure does make it and consumerist's readers look like a joke
i don't see much reason to care about this poll but EA winning sure does make it and consumerist's readers look like a joke
ElfArmy177
Member
Man I don't know, I just really love gaming and all this negativity that spews from the gaming community about their own hobby is terrible. EA makes some great games and sure they don't always work as expected, but they fix it. Just like they fixed the mass effect ending for people or gave out a free game for sim city.
All people do is complain about gaming now, its very rarely positive comments or news. I'd like to protect my hobby not announce how evil and horrible it is to the world.
I'm sure negative press will lose some sales for ea, just like negative press lost sales on SimCity. Granted sim sim city deserved that at first. Negative press or lost sales are never good for developers.
VibratingDonkey
Member
I don't know if this award would ever actually have a remote impact on anything anyway, but EA winning makes it absolutely meaningless guaranteed.
Or, perhaps, EA is the only company out of these who would give the faintest of a shit about it.
partyphone
Banned
the free to play garbage in Dead Space 3 is pretty bad.
also there's the thing where Peter Moore said people voting for EA are homophobes. which certainly didn't help their case.
ElRenoRaven
Member
I'll be damned. EA did what no other company ever has. They repeated as worst company in America. Congrats EA.
EmCeeGramr
Member
According to the Consumerist, nearly all of the stuff they got in favor of EA was about their practices of buying out and destroying smaller companies, the SimCity fiasco, and microtransactions. Absolutely none of it was (like EA wants to pretend) about Mass Effect 3's ending or LGBT characters.
If I ran EA, the lesson I would take away from this - once I was done laughing at it - was to keep in mind when the voting would happen. I would then do anything that might upset gamers a week in advance of the voting.
This would ensure that they'd all forget about it completely by the time the poll opened.
This would ensure that they'd all forget about it completely by the time the poll opened.