EA declared "Worst Company in America"

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EA declared "Worst Company in America"

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http://consumerist.com/2012/04/congratu ... -2012.html

Now if you ask me, a better name for this would be "Most Disliked Company"... but still, if you ask me, EA just doesn't care.
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Meh, reading the criticism of EA Games on Wikipedia, I kind of have to agree with what this article says, but I never ever really play any games made by EA, so I wouldn't know any of the problems that it causes people.
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Really? EA is hated more than the oil companies that are raking in zillions with people paying $4+ per gallon at the same time proving oil is not getting scarce? I'm curious what the train of thought was for choosing *worst company in America*

That being said, I don't play any games made by EA anyways so not sure what caused them to be all mad at Electronic Arts
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Aw man i remember when this was FIRST announced while i was on livestream watching videogame streams when someone posted what happened. Ea's stocks plummeted like a rock.
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I stopped liking EA in the 90s. I miss their old games.
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Yeah, I E-mailed their support group saying that I lost my CD key for a game, complete with photo proof that I have physical copies of the game...

They said "Sorry, we don't send out CD keys."

After that, it was like "fuck you too EA."
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Hell march once said "EA SUCK! BIG COCK!" which is true.

Through EA rarely make game, they just publish game more than making them
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Heh, companied like EA are the reason of why pirates don't feel any guilt when they UP their games at warez sites. Their ``Once we have your cash, you're not worth our time´´ policy is what has angered plenty o' ppl.
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I looked at some of the criticism for EA, and came to this conclusion: EA got arrogant and forgot why they were there in the first place, you tick off the customer, you lose business, and then...no more company (a local store did that, they changed things around, ticked off the customers who were like *why did you change something that wasn't broken?! and after about a year after this *nessacary change* the company went kaput)
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The treachery continues... Apparently now EA is laying off 500-1000 people and denying it! http://startupgrind.com/2012/04/exclusi ... employees/
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EA: The VG company equivelent to Fox News.
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Flare wrote:EA: The VG company equivelent to Fox News.
*High five*

I agree with this statement
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The Sky Devourer wrote:
Flare wrote:EA: The VG company equivelent to Fox News.
*High five*

I agree with this statement
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Flare wrote:EA: The VG company equivelent to Fox News.
EA defended Mass Effect agains Faux News that one time.

But yeah, I see this from the perspective of a Command and Conquer fan. They made irreversible changes to C&C. They killed Westwood, Origin, Bullfrog and others I may not know.
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I like the fact that its voted the worst company in America when its a UK company and Britain should be the judge of that :P. But let me say EA to me was a good company in the past with the Command and Conquer Game series, however today I will agree about being a bad gaming company. But its not the worst lets look at Square Enix all their new games from 2010 have to me being bad, unimpressive, not be loyal to their game series or be imaginative. *sighs* Ok rant over.
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I'm not suprised, in all honestly. Hell I hate EA as well. And hello everyone.
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EA's cash grab Origin ticks me off to no end... Sigh, why the hell did they have to buy Bioware?... (Unless Bioware was in trouble... but still)
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if EA where to go under.......that may leave a huge oppertunity for some third party developers......
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The rise of Rockstar, Tripwire, Valve and ETC.
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From seeing How EA what they did to the Ultima series in particular making Ultima 8 and 9, I have only one thing for the company to do.....


.....BURN IN THE FIRES OF DAMNATION!!!!
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