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EA responds, and then really responds to their award
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: TheCollyWolly on 10 Apr 2013, 19:30 ---It really sucks that EA continues to be one gigantic collective asshole of a corporation. I love the new SimCity, and frankly a good 75% of my console games are EA, too.
There's a grain of truth in that letter, too. Yeah, EA treats their customers like shit pretty frequently. But at least they're not, you know, starting wars in 3rd world countries or clearcutting an entire rainforest.
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I cannot resist appending "Yet" or "That we know of" to that last statement.
ackblom12:
Ok, despite essentially bookmarking the thread I totally forgot about it. I'm also not Kat, so it's not like I've been preparing an essay with well thought out arguments and conclusions here, so I don't really have an excuse. :P
Alright, so the problem I have here is that EA is basically using the obvious absurdity of beating out companies like Bank of America for that award to completely avoid acknowledging why the gaming community has such disdain for them, as both a publisher and developer. I have no doubt they've gotten hate mail for including LGBT romances in games (though even compared to the already kind of boring and borderline creepy hetero romance options, they are subpar) that is not why they're assholes. They're assholes for taking any and all business practices such as Free 2 Play, DRM, acquiring established development houses, social features, near required multiplayer and various other things and turning them into a goddamn circus of "what not to do" and then managing to increase how shit it is with every iteration. They're about as close to the perfect example of being Anti-Consumer as a game company can possibly get and they think we should be thankful for it.
Also as far as I know, they're work conditions have not gotten any better since the big debacle surrounding it a few years ago.
jwhouk:
Remember when they were "Electronic Arts"? They had such promise back then.
ackblom12:
Except when they didn't. This isn't anything new is the problem. They have short periods of brilliance, like a few years ago when they took a lot of chances on new IPs alike Dead Space, Mirror's Edge and the like. Before that? They were known for buying established development houses, gutting them and then shitting all over the franchises they had acquired. Remember Bullfrog? Westwood Studios? Origin Systems? Maxis? If they didn't shit all over it, they ignored it and just refused to do anything with it.
Blyss:
Bullfrog and Westwood I remember fondly. Some pretty awesome titles came out of those studios.
:meh:
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