EA is NOT a bad company

No, it's a growing response to it. We can only hope it catches on like wildfire and doesn't get extinguished by big business boots.Bigboi500

EA is a bad company and you're a bad poster shadowmoses.

[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"] Also for the record: Dragon Age 2 was a lot better than Dragon Age Origins.ShadowMoses900

A different opinion counts as trolling? Only in SW....

Dragon Age 2 was a huge improvemnet, the combat was actually fun and it had a more solid story line. Dragon Age Origins was just boring.

[QUOTE="Shielder7"][QUOTE="Bigboi500"]No, it's a growing response to it. We can only hope it catches on like wildfire and doesn't get extinguished by big business boots.

Rocker6

Really?

I find him to be one of the more reasonable posters on this board, and well, he presented his case far better than you did.

[QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]

[QUOTE="mems_1224"] you're trying way too hard to troll bro. mems_1224

A different opinion counts as trolling? Only in SW....

Dragon Age 2 was a huge improvemnet, the combat was actually fun and it had a more solid story line. Dragon Age Origins was just boring.

EA is a bad company.clyde46

I hear he wears a white cowboy hat. :PBigboi500

[QUOTE="Bigboi500"]I hear he wears a white cowboy hat. :PZeviander

Really?

I find him to be one of the more reasonable posters on this board, and well, he presented his case far better than you did.

Rocker6

I'm pretty surprised you find mr flip flop to be one of the more reasonable posters.

EA is a bad company.clyde46

They are a good company which is the problem and exactly why they are bad.

EA is a wasteland for talented developers.  

They are like a blackhole.  They destroy everything in their path.  

Fizzman

EA is a bad company.clyde46

[QUOTE="Fizzman"]

EA is a wasteland for talented developers.  

They are like a blackhole.  They destroy everything in their path.  

jessejay420

The only developer who "died" under Activision (to my knowledge) was Infinity Ward.

Activision is just a really greedy company, at least they haven't destroyed any series they touch outside of Call of Duty and Guitar Hero.

-EA

-Good Video Game Company

Choose one, even though you have poor game taste like you do with game journalism taste.

EA use to be a good company. Then it became the Evil Empire. After that it became cool again with BF 1942 and free maps, DLC, etc. Now I guess it's back to being a bad company even though others do the same if not worst like Activision. 

[QUOTE="clyde46"]EA is a bad company.mems_1224

fish

[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="clyde46"]EA is a bad company.OB-47

fish

<')))))))))))))))-<

EA is the worst! Burn them down! :twisted:

Shadow dude I think your awesome but you are so wrong here, EA is a terrible company and here are reasons why.

• They started the whole Online Pass thing
• On Disc DLC
• They were voted worst company in America
• They started this whole evil Mircrotransaction thing
• They are greedy bastards

lol shadowmosses retreated back to system wars after the shelling he took in OTDroidPhysX

We just kicked his ass out again in this thread.
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/29350048/when-did-consoles-make-the-transition-from-innovation-to-gimmicks?page=1

Watch out, he might be crawling back to OT now. :lol:

They're douche bags, but they publish some damn good games so I don't really have much of a problem with them.

[QUOTE="DroidPhysX"]lol shadowmosses retreated back to system wars after the shelling he took in OTMozartXVI

We just kicked his ass out again in this thread.
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/29350048/when-did-consoles-make-the-transition-from-innovation-to-gimmicks?page=1

Watch out, he might be crawling back to OT now. :lol:

the problem with EA is their "machine". They are capable of making good games, but they are always looking for greatness. That usually means going out and buying a creative company. That company will make one or two good games, but will eventually fall into EA's machine. That machine is all about turning a video game, a work of art, into a more profitable and replicable product. They are to games what paint-by-numbers is to painting.

They will pour money into projects, but the effect is consistently the same. They take devs with beautiful creative fire and smother that fire with burdensome demands. This pattern has went from the 90s to today. You might be tempted to say that of course a company wants to make profitable products, but when dealing with artistic industries you just can't let that run your thinking. EA's legacy is a graveyard of devs. Not very profitable in the end.

IF EA goes under the whole gaming industry is over, over!!!!!! :o

And it would be all you little whining fanboys fault! :evil:

I often see people hate on EA (well on the internet at least, take that for what it is) and I don't understand why. I do disagree with a couple of their business practices, such as online passes and Day 1 DLC, but overall they do far more positive things for the industry. For instance they brought Mass Effect over to the PS3, without EA we PS3 guys wouldn't have gotten such an awesome series to play. And they continue to publish quality games, the "hate" they receive makes no sense.

So what is the rational behind the EA haters? I'm glad they exist and as long as they keep making great games they get my money. Also for the record: Dragon Age 2 was a lot better than Dragon Age Origins.

ShadowMoses900

My troll senses are tingling

Besides the pay to win online models in every one of their online games, the online passes, them being responsible for the biggest blunder in gaming history (SWTOR) forcing rushed release dates on their devs and blaming them when the game fails, destroying the MoH series, turning the battlefield series into CoD 2.0 with yearly releases, destroying every game/series they touch (ME, Dragon Age, Dead Space, MOH) the list goes on, the overpriced DLC and the other things I missed....nah EA is definitely not a bad company at all.

EA has ruined franchise after franchise with trying to please every gamer out there. Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Dead Space have all suffered the wrath of EA executives. EA wants Facebook, Twitter and multiplayer in every EA game at the sacrifice of quality. EA is bad and you should feel bad for supporting one of the most rotten companies in the game industry today.

If EA is bad, then what is Activision? :o

My issue with EA is that they stopped putting their games on Steam and I like having my games as organized as possible. So Steam and retail for my PC gaming. I have yet to buy Mass Effect 3 and Battlefield 3 because it forces me to use origin. If they start putting their games on Steam again, then I will care to buy their games again. Or at least stop forcing me to use origin even when I buy a retail copy.AmazonTreeBoa

That is one thing I don't get about gamers who complain about EA. I don't see Valve making their games on other services. 

EA owns DAOC but Mark Jacobs is making Camelot unchained !!

Make it happen!!

 http://citystateentertainment.com/camelotunchained/

[QUOTE="AmazonTreeBoa"]My issue with EA is that they stopped putting their games on Steam and I like having my games as organized as possible. So Steam and retail for my PC gaming. I have yet to buy Mass Effect 3 and Battlefield 3 because it forces me to use origin. If they start putting their games on Steam again, then I will care to buy their games again. Or at least stop forcing me to use origin even when I buy a retail copy.xhawk27

That is one thing I don't get about gamers who complain about EA. I don't see Valve making their games on other services. 

I often see people hate on EA (well on the internet at least, take that for what it is) and I don't understand why. I do disagree with a couple of their business practices, such as online passes and Day 1 DLC, but overall they do far more positive things for the industry. For instance they brought Mass Effect over to the PS3, without EA we PS3 guys wouldn't have gotten such an awesome series to play. And they continue to publish quality games, the "hate" they receive makes no sense.

So what is the rational behind the EA haters? I'm glad they exist and as long as they keep making great games they get my money. Also for the record: Dragon Age 2 was a lot better than Dragon Age Origins.

ShadowMoses900

Reasons why I hate EA:

1. EA's goal isn't to publish good games, but to monopolize the industry

2. EA's business philosophy isn't to promote good game development, but to buy up developers who make good games, and in turn, causing that company to end up not making good games. Example: 1 year development time for Dragon Age 2. Other once good studios like Bullfrog and Westwood have all fell victim to this.

3. EA got rid of Ensemble Studios (The Age of Empires dudes) because they only knew how to make RTS games

4. EA is jealous of Steam, therefore tried to compete with it using Origins. We ended up losing out because the industry is now further segregated

Taken from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LE0ycgkBQ

-This is for buying out some of the best game companies and turning them to mediocrity.
-This is for having some of the worst customer service in the gaming industry.
-This is for deliberately holding back game content for the sole purpose of making customers pay more for it later as DLC.
-This is for strictly enforcing copyrights on content that you did not even create.
-This is for taking the Need for Speed franchise and completely ruining it.
-This is for supporting the S.O.P.A.
-This is for overworking some of your employees with no benefeits, demolishing any creative talent they have.
-This is for making terms of use that allow you to backstab your customers any time you see fit.
-This is for releasing the same things every year, an increasingly large number being the only difference.
-This is for forcing your customers to stay online to even play several games you publish at all.
-This is for backstabbing Valve, preventing the developers you publish for from releasing their games via Steam for the sole purpose of promoting your own platform.
-This is for overhyping your games and not delivering the content you promised.
-This is for increasing the funding of media review organizations to get better reviews of your games.
-This is for monopolizing the entire gaming industry and crushing all that oppose you.

Many do hate them because it DID bring Mass Effect series to the PS3... tun tun TUUUN

Nah, but seriously online passes are bullsh*t beyond bullsh*t

I think many hate them because it DID bring Mass Effect series to the PS3... tun tun TUUUN

Nah, but seriously online passes are bullsh*t beyond bullsh*t

Vatusus

Doesn't matter, it rakes in the cash which is what a company's top priority is: money.

[QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]

I often see people hate on EA (well on the internet at least, take that for what it is) and I don't understand why. I do disagree with a couple of their business practices, such as online passes and Day 1 DLC, but overall they do far more positive things for the industry. For instance they brought Mass Effect over to the PS3, without EA we PS3 guys wouldn't have gotten such an awesome series to play. And they continue to publish quality games, the "hate" they receive makes no sense.

So what is the rational behind the EA haters? I'm glad they exist and as long as they keep making great games they get my money. Also for the record: Dragon Age 2 was a lot better than Dragon Age Origins.

jhcho2

Reasons why I hate EA:

1. EA's goal isn't to publish good games, but to monopolize the industry

If they were, they would be trying to buy out Activision and Ubisoft to become the dominant publisher.Learn what monopolise means and look at Ms and Internet explorer in the EU antitrust case THATS attempting to monopolise.

2. EA's business philosophy isn't to promote good game development, but to buy up developers who make good games, and in turn, causing that company to end up not making good games. Example: 1 year development time for Dragon Age 2. Other once good studios like Bullfrog and Westwood have all fell victim to this.

Ea like any other big company evolve and change, look at HMV its closing a load of stores in the UK because it needs to adapt to be profitable.Ea's essentially doing the same its simple buisness 101 and gamers dont seem to get the fact they are catering to market trends and whats making them money and like any good company their aim is to make money not good games not anything the only people they need to answer to is shareholders much like Capcom,Acti or any other major corporation out there now.

At the same time Ea's made some crackers this gen like Battlefield 3,NFS Hot Pursuit,Burnout Paradise,Skate 1,2 and 3 as well as being a publishing partner for Rock band..And all those franchises including Skate which was launched this gen are still in Ea's playbook but skates on hiatus after fan response to 3 and how people wanted bigger changes.

3. EA got rid of Ensemble Studios (The Age of Empires dudes) because they only knew how to make RTS games

That was Microsoft....not EA big boo boo.

4. EA is jealous of Steam, therefore tried to compete with it using Origins. We ended up losing out because the industry is now further segregated

Or like any big company wanted more control over their own product...i present to you all 3 consoles this gen and even WB i think pushing their Ultraviolet movie stuff over iTunes.

Honestly half this board needs out more if they think EA's a bad company by any stretch of the word...Halliburton and various others are far worse especially banks....