EA again in running for Consumerist's Worst Company In America title

guys there is no such thing as bad publicity

you know i think they actualy like the title, why else would they do what they do

Suck it!!!

Some journalists think it is absurd that EA won the worst company award. I don't. We all know Bank of America is evil. We all already know they had a massive hand in trashing the economy because of greed and lobbying for deregulation and falsifying hundreds and thousands of documents and breaking the law a thousand times with everyone else's money etc, etc, etc.

We all already knew all of this, but many people might not know about EA. They might not know about the aggressively anti-consumer business practices that EA partakes. They might not know about the Online Pass, the manipulative DLC (like making you buy the "real" ending), and the manipulative micro transactions. They might not know about the dirty DRM that harms legitimate customers, but does nothing to those pirating the game.

People might not know how EA is consistently harming the industry through unending greed, that milks customers to the bone for features and and items that used to come with games. It would be like movie studios selling you half of a movie for full price, then selling you the rest of the movie as DLC, and then selling you the option to pause or rewind as a micro transaction.

we really need to help ea win this award, they deserve no less

I wish we could nominate Canadian companies like Shaw Cable.

So...how do you vote? Who gets to vote? Where do you vote?

I'm thinking that might have been helpful information.

EA, the strew that broke the gamer's back.

They are definitely going to get it this year after the SimCity fiasco.

EA is a good company if they release another Battlefield Bad company

I vote for EA. Hope it wins. lol.

LOLOLOL Apple HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

will we see the fall of this fail company in the upcoming years? Hope so, too many good titles are being ruined, better sell them off to better companies..

if only the Consumerist would put down Windows 8 on their sh*t list

how can Comcast not be number one on any list of worst companies?

EA, Apple, Ticketmaster, Wal-Mart, and Bank of America....I want to see the rest worst companies. EA hopefully will improve now with the CEO leaving.

Both EA and Ubisoft need to work on customer relations and how they treat their customers and fans.

They need to look at companies that have good will and fan loyalty, like Cd Projekt Red (The witcher developer) and others.

Treating your customers BETTER then criminals is a first step.

Stop accusing every pc players as a pirate and trying to shoehorn DRM (that will be hacked within a week usually) into games and allow your LEGIT paying customers to have a BETTER experience then a pirate (who doesn't have to deal with the DRM/red tape to play the games).

When you buy a game it should be EASY to instlal/play and offer reasons for people to support your company , because the game is good.

The Witcher is a prime example of this. They offer the games DRM free, even allowed people who bought the games from other stores to input their cd key onto gog.com and get the game on there sot hey could download it if they ever lose their cds or just want to have it there.

Also they upgrade teh games over time, adding new voicework, art assests, new content, etc (the enhanced editions) and turn around and give this away FREE to anyone who's bought the game.

That's the kind of company people like to support and give loyalty to, because they treat customers with RESPECT and give them incentives to support them. In turnt he players treat them with respect.

NEW -ALWAYS ONLINE DRM BASED ON SERVERS- IS COMING FOR ALL GAMES

Thanks for ruining BioWare EA , show your developers a little respect and let them sort out issues before a forced launch and maybe you'll start to turn things around.

Perfect timing for EA. Last year they were in the heat of the Mass Effect 3 ending and everyone hated them, now they are in the heat of the Sim City server issue and everyone hates them again. If this was Worst Company in America March Madness, I would put my money on EA winning (well, in this case losing) the entire thing.

hmmm wonder if this will change anything?.....

my guess is no...

i wonder what they did with the trophy, throw it away or kept it?

EA doesn't deserve the "Golden Poo" award... It deserves the "Platinum" one...

Yes not something new to us.

After Bank of America's suspected involvement in the LIBOR scandal, if they don't get named "worst company" then clearly the people casting the votes are idiots. EA still sucks, though.

R.I.P. EA

Music to my ears.

A source of pride for EA head honchos to be named the worst company in America no doubt.

It seems that EA is a strong contender to repeat this year.

thanks to EA haters, Bank of America will again lose its legitimate award.

Yay!

It would awesome if gamer's could divert this energy to shit that actually matters rather than putting all their effort in a poll to suggest a company that charges for optional content in games is worse than companies that destroy the environment or get fined hundreds of millions for criminal negligence that led to people actually dying.

Take a look at the bracket...there are some real shitty companies on it. That being said...EA should repeat.

Well done EA. Keep up the pattern. Please, dont learn from your mistakes.

It couldn't happen to a nicer group of assholes.

Shares drop, another worst company title. This makes me happy.

Makes me wanna play civilization V , pick roman empire and call my self "Emperor electronicArts" , obviously I'll fail hard since Iv'e never played civilizationV, the lesson is: "When you'r in rome act as roman, when you'r in 2013 there is no rome and FU EA"

Though I dislike EA as much as many ppl does, I feel Wal-Mart is more deserving of the Poo Award more.

When game companies hire non-gamers/non-game makers to run their corporation and issue company-wide directives, gamers suffer.

Mr. Riccitiello was not qualified (in terms of a love and passion for the industry) to run Electronic Arts. That much is clear - and EA's brand name is in the toilet.

They have my vote!

I hate EA as much as the next guy if not more, but honestly Walmart should win this award every year.

Considering that Consumerist readers are among the most entitled people on the planet and that their "worst company award" is conducted in an entirely unscientific manner, the title means about as much as what the trophy represents.