Game related news : EA named worst company in America

[Maguscreed]

While I seriously doubt this surprises anyone that has dealt with EA directly. The article actually raised a few things I was unaware of, so I thought I would share.
EA named ‘Worst Company in America’ even as it makes peace with its audience

 

[Richardc269]

An interesting article. I wish I was one of the people voting EA the worst company. I'd do it in a millisecond!

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Maguscreed]

Well in all honesty there are companies that do far worse than just ignore their customers.

 

[smarteyeball]

I remember the good old days when EA was actually a good company. That was long ago. I now cringe at their logo.

and to gay players suffering from underrepresentation in video games

Suffering? ....Really?

Last time I checked I wasn't a 7 foot tall bad ass elite bullet soaker that healed instantly after pausing for a few seconds - so since I'm a typical human, does that mean I'm under-represented too?

As for those who are 'offended' by same-sex content: Grow up ffs. Playing a game with same-sex content isn't going to give you the gay.

 

[Maguscreed]

It's all part of 'the gay agenda' I'm sure.
Domenick Scudera: My Gay Lifestyle

 

[smarteyeball]

It's all part of 'the gay agenda' I'm sure.
Domenick Scudera: My Gay Lifestyle

:roflmao:

One gets the impression that he's making light of an enforced shoulder chip


Back on topic (sort of) in all seriousness, homosexuality doesn't bother me in the slightest unless the individual is a bore/annoying. My least favourite are the ultra confrontational ' fresh out of the closet' types. Right up there with there the over the top 'Yo Bro uber hetro alpha males with shit to prove'. *Yawn*. Just STFU and GTFO. Two polar opposite outlooks, yet both equally as tiresome.

However pandering to militant vocal minorities (regardless of minority/cause) does bother me.

Clearly not every individual defined as a sub-set of a particular minority has any form of an agenda, or has any interest in furthering their 'cause'.

But it's undeniable that some of the militant ones that have elements of support who have left humour behind and who do not speak for one and all pursue their agenda at every conceivable turn.

Depending on local vernacular, typically they are called Wan*ers/dickheads/f**ksticks, or less colloquially and less base known - annoying individuals.

Overall I'm pro-common sense/anti-pander.

EA cops flak for not enough gay charterers, yet cops flak for having gay content. No wonder we get diluted wishy-washy BS end results. The 'loudest' minority dictates the (largely rational yet uncaring) majorities outcome.

Any agenda aside, getting screwed as consumers is far more important than BS trivialities.

EA are a profit maximising, pro-unit sales distributor with scant regard to overall customer satisfaction. That's their biggest flaw. And the guilt right there is extremely justified.

They are the pimps of sub-standard quality deliverers in the game world.

 

[Maguscreed]

That's the modern business model though, you must constantly increase profits at all times.
This can very often only be achieved through shady practices.
Like releasing 9 versions of what is essentially the same smartphone over the course of several years just to introduce imaginary demand and continuing to drive a market that can not sustain this forever.

The entire system is based on continually printing up more and more money from thin air.
The insanity of it is doomed to fail on so many levels. Anyone with the least bit of commonsense should realize it can't be sustained indefinitely.

I want to take money out of the democratic system.
We could fix most of this overnight after that was done.
Parties need to be abolished to, allow people to run on their own merit, like it was intended.
The whole system is so rank with corruption in every little corner of it you would bother to look, I can't keep quiet about it anymore at this point.
Of course suggesting we return to the system actually outlined by the Constitution apparently makes me an extremist these days.

I think I'm more of a realist, if my computer starts misbehaving this badly, step 1, restart.
We need a reboot, hopefully we have some indication what to look out for on the next go.

..and keep in mind the financial side of it is only the tip of the iceberg.
Not even touching on the other obvious evils the 'anything for profit' machine gets us.
I don't know how a country that constantly screams about christian values stands for this in the first place.
Probably because they have all fallen for the idea that they can make people morally righteous through the law, you can't. Best you can do is live your life according to your beliefs and values and teach your children to do the same. Beyond that it's largely beyond your control, and the more you try to tell other people how to live the more they will resent you. It's all part of this ridiculous dichotomy that keeps everything exactly the same.

 

[BugMeister]

they call it corporate governance..
but most of them look the other way..
and just aim for profits, and more profits..


- it's always a razzle-dazzle medicine show at heart, though..

 

[AstaLaVista]

Well in all honesty there are companies that do far worse than just ignore their customers.

I know of one and I am not going to name any names but it rhymes with Ubisoft! :shock:

Shady and unfinish games are launched, huge patch that ruins more than it fixes on the same day, 3 months later... nobody wants to talk about the game anymore because we have to hype the following polished turd. R6 Vegas anyone?

Now, they are coming up with Shooters where you can miraculously see through walls and tag the enemy at will. But Wait, there is more, to make it even faster and easier for you to win, we will give you a Camo where nobody will be able to see you. Oh and don't forget kids, the more intel and diamonds you find, we will rank you up so fast you will be UBER General in no time!

 

[Maguscreed]

Well my specific thought was companies that use power and influence to manipulate democracy, the prices of goods and services, or destroy the environment, profiteer off death and destruction and for that very reason aim to see it continue.

Monsanto , Halliburton
stuff like that.

 

[James7679]

I have severely mixed feelings about all of this. First, if I owned a company that produced something where a great deal of creativity goes into making said product, nobody is going to tell me what "needs" to be done to said product to make it acceptable. I do not agree with the term "P.C." It just breeds a society of thin skinned, weak, ignorant people, who can't think or stand up for themselves or their own beliefs. The single largest problem with society today is that people always look to someone else to make decisions. It's so much easier to pass the buck than to actually fail at something.

Then theres this. What should a consumer do when a company or companies regularly sell products that are, for all intents and purposes, defective? I don't think that government regulation is the answer. The more the government controls our lives, the more subject to their agenda we become. A consumer has to take responsibility for their actions. I bought a crappy product, knowing full well the companie's history of releasing crap. That's my fault and their gain.

I completely agree with you magus, we do need to make LARGE efforts to move back to the govt our constitution outlines and our founding fathers intended.

 

[EzioAuditore]

Well in all honesty there are companies that do far worse than just ignore their customers.

I know of one and I am not going to name any names but it rhymes with Ubisoft! :shock:

Shady and unfinish games are launched, huge patch that ruins more than it fixes on the same day, 3 months later... nobody wants to talk about the game anymore because we have to hype the following polished turd. R6 Vegas anyone?

Now, they are coming up with Shooters where you can miraculously see through walls and tag the enemy at will. But Wait, there is more, to make it even faster and easier for you to win, we will give you a Camo where nobody will be able to see you. Oh and don't forget kids, the more intel and diamonds you find, we will rank you up so fast you will be UBER General in no time!

Don't forget Origin. This thing really really pissed me off...
And those huge patches with no resume support suck-up all the damn bandwidth and you never know when that s**t origin will malfunction forcing you to redownload the whole thing again...

 

[Richardc269]

Pretty much. EA bought Bioware quite a while ago. At least 3 or so years ago at the most. After that, Bioware went straight into the much used toilet that hasn't been flushed and has turds floating around in it from not being flushed for 6 years, and the bowl of the toilet (with the dirty, disgusting water) is EA.

Bioware has basically been added to the dirty toilet bowl, along with Sierra, and a bunch of other companies. And now the toilet bowl is pretty much filled to the top with dirty water, and floatin' disgusting arsehole turds. That's how bad EA games is. Which is why I completely refuse to buy anymore of their stupid games.




No, it's not ridiculous. EA is a piece of shit company filled with dumbass assholes who just care about getting their profits from teens, and their stupid anti-piracy faggotry bullshit that doesn't work.

I put the article link at a place called DLP.net, and we've been talking about it over there, as well. Above my post is what sums up what I think about EA. EA has pretty much gone to total crap around 2006, and started caring more about money and anti-piracy than anything else.

(Apologizing to anyone who's offended by cuss words, they're pretty loose in terms of cussing over there).

 

[Maguscreed]

The real problem is outside of simcity and the sims.
EA doesn't actually produce anything at all.
EVERYTHING else is by outside studios that get one hit then EA comes in, buys them out and forces them to start kicking out ever suckier sequels on a ever reducing timeline.
Some of the names people recognize
like bioware and dice.
Other studios are consumed before they even really become known.

They are the gaming version of the mpaa and the riaa.
They don't actually produce anything, they take ownership of other people's work using laws that honestly make absolutely no sense to me. In fact I have a really hard time understanding, what... if anything at all they actually do other than lobby for ever more draconian copyright laws.

 

[Richardc269]

The real problem is outside of simcity and the sims.
EA doesn't actually produce anything at all.
EVERYTHING else is by outside studios that get one hit then EA comes in, buys them out and forces them to start kicking out ever suckier sequels on a ever reducing timeline.
Some of the names people recognize
like bioware and dice.
Other studios are consumed before they even really become known.

They are the gaming version of the mpaa and the riaa.
They don't actually produce anything, they take ownership of other people's work using laws that honestly make absolutely no sense to me. In fact I have a really hard time understanding, what... if anything at all they actually do other than lobby for ever more draconian copyright laws.

lol Oh, I know EA doesn't make the games. That's what Bioware, Dice, etc do for them. EA is just a management company that tells the game creators what to do. And EA has HORRIBLE management. They don't listen to their customers, etc. They also make them rush their games to the point that they're not very playable sometimes (the creators of Skyrim actually didn't acknowledge that Skyrim had bugs when it first came out, and then they retracted that and said "bug fixes were coming"). So yeah...EA can gtfo please.

 

[Maguscreed]

Activision is really not any better.
Fortunately they aren't very big in the pc market though, and I don't currently own a console.

 

[Richardc269]

Activision is really not any better.
Fortunately they aren't very big in the pc market though, and I don't currently own a console.

You're right. I haven't really heard about any big games by them recently.

There's a couple German PC game companies that are somewhat similar to EA that don't listen to their customers either. A company called "SCS" that created the "18 Wheels of Steel" PC game series.

1C is the same way. They created a game called "Freight Tycoon", and they never even touched the bugs to the game other than putting out a loading issue with Vista and 7. Really fricken annoying. I stopped buying their games, too.

But I still say EA is the worst out of all of them.