Do you purchase EA products? Is EA's image and product quality worsening?

You call the 800 number on the back of your credit/debit card to complain about an unusual charge or an insufficient funds fee. Since you are upset you let a swear word spew out at the unhelpful customer service on the line. Your credit/debit card is now banned and every product you purchased with that credit/debit card you can no longer access. Not to mention your bank's ATM machines have been replaced with inferior machines that are constantly broken and your credit/debit card can only work with their machines. Could you imagine if Bank of America was operated by EA?

EA defeats Bank of America as the worst company in America and joins previous winners of the Golden Poo award such British Petroleum, AIG, and Philip Morris: http://consumerist.com/2012/04/ea-responds-to-worst-company-win-by-name-dropping-past-worst-company-winners.html

The Consumerist is a blog that conducted a bracket survey, in the spirit of March Madness, which asked what company is the worst in America. The results were baffling given that EA, a game developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor with barely five billion dollars of assets was voted a worse company than Bank of America, a multinational bank with over two trillion dollars of assets. Bank of America is also responsible for sparking the ongoing Occupy movement which has encouraged hundreds millions of individuals from across the world to protest the bank while The Consumerist poll collected just over a mere quarter million votes.

So here we are almost a year after the introduction of Origin and over ten million installations and the same concerns and criticism remain un-responded to from EA. With the results of The Consumerist's survey and the release of The Old Republic and Mass Effect 3 we must ask ourselves if we should continue to purchase EA's products.

Is the internet an appropriate platform to protest a gaming company such as EA?

Will EA listen to their customers or continue to ban those who question the company's actions?

Are there any advantages to use EA's distribution platform Origin if the same exclusive titles were available on other distribution platforms?

Why is EA unsuccessfully attempting to line their pockets at the expense of the quality of their products?

And why are gamers still tolerating EA to this day?

I will do my best never to buy an EA or Capcom game again, unless I buy it used. Black_Knight_00

I will do my best never to buy an EA or Capcom game again, unless I buy it used. They both deserve to go out of business for their lack of respect for us gamers.Black_Knight_00

Absolutely 100% agree. Capcom has crossed the line with the locked-on-disc DLC crap TWICE. They can't wait to go all digital so we won't have a clue.
EA is just as evil with the crap they pull on their PGA games, and should literally be ashamed of their NFL product. These 2 companies may have ment something 15-20 yars ago, but they need to go now.

They don't bother me. Two out of the three games I purchased this year were published by EA (Kingdoms Of Amalur, Mass Effect 3) so much of the gaming public are just mindless buzzing hate drones that jump on the latest hatebandwagon and slather drool all over the place like the simpering apes they are. The best any reasonably intelligent hobby enthusiast can do is try to not get any of that drool on his shoes and stay the fvck away from close minded children. I am so godamn tired of the anti EA, anti COD people. One publishes lots of great games in a year, and the other is a yearly franchise like madden, except a shooter. Seriously who gives a fvck. EA worse than BoA? Are you kidding? Edit> On disc DLC? That doesnt matter either. Get over it.GodModeEnabled

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 was the last EA game I bought and while I enjoy it, I'm pretty sure that will be the last EA game I buy at full price.

They can take their online pass and shove it as far as I'm concerned.

Anyone know how they're doing financially? I'd be curious to know, they give all the signs of a company in trouble.

No one would argue that EA deserves it if you know what they do with the Tiger Woods games they put out annually.

Bank of America actually helped me get out of debt in a huge way. So I can't hate them.

Yes, I purchase any game I want to play, regardless of publisher.

I will not buy another EA title. TOR beinga WOW clone was the last straw. their DLC policies are just icing on the cake. I still have Paradox, THQ, CD Project Red, Bethesda, Valve, Gearbox etc. EA isin't required for me, my tastes in gaming have changed to a point were I can't pull myself to drool for BF or Mass Effect, or Command and Conquer, or Medal of Honour or anything EA makes, I'm not interested, and I don't want to install origin either (bad enough it turns out my ToR account IS an Origin account). I can live without EA.

I will not buy another EA title. TOR beinga WOW clone was the last straw. their DLC policies are just icing on the cake. I still have Paradox, THQ, CD Project Red, Bethesda, Valve, Gearbox etc. EA isin't required for me, my tastes in gaming have changed to a point were I can't pull myself to drool for BF or Mass Effect, or Command and Conquer, or Medal of Honour or anything EA makes, I'm not interested, and I don't want to install origin either (bad enough it turns out my ToR account IS an Origin account). I can live without EA.

lordreaven

I like FIFA. So, yeah. I buy EA games. I'm not interested in EA's image so long as it has games that I like.

Yet another person that thinks Origin is some sort of devil virus that will destroy everything a person stands for. These are usually the same people that don't realize the backlash of Steam when it was released for Half Life, and how people wanted Valve's heads.ArchonOver

I remember that. Steam was considered the digital Satan when it was first released.

Anyway, I'll continue to buy EA games that interest me, and that's that. They've released a lot of great games, and have given smaller titles like Mirror's Edge, Alice, and Shadows of the Damned a chance. The micro transactions, such as buying the unlocks for BF3 for over $50, and online passes are insulting but these are things the industry is guilty of, not EA alone.

Nope. BF3 was the last one I bought and I'm done with EA. As much as I want to play ME3, I'm not gonna get it. Not giving my money to them no more.trastamad03

EA sent me an e-mail today regarding an issue I had with Battlefield 3. They said they "Apollogized for the long and inexcusable length to e-mail me to see if I need help with the issue." You want to know what the horrible part is? I contacted customer support in November; it took them five months to e-mail me about the subject. Needless to say they are going to get a not so happy e-mail back from me.

Boycotting ME3, sold BF3 and am happy mass effect is over so I wont have to buy more EA games.

On a side note, started playing Bulletstorm and I hate myself for it but its the best FPS to come out in ages.

EA takes capitalism to the next level and stops caring about the consumers all together. GO away.

Yet another person that thinks Origin is some sort of devil virus that will destroy everything a person stands for. These are usually the same people that don't realize the backlash of Steam when it was released for Half Life, and how people wanted Valve's heads.ArchonOver

[QUOTE="lordreaven"]

I will not buy another EA title. TOR beinga WOW clone was the last straw. their DLC policies are just icing on the cake. I still have Paradox, THQ, CD Project Red, Bethesda, Valve, Gearbox etc. EA isin't required for me, my tastes in gaming have changed to a point were I can't pull myself to drool for BF or Mass Effect, or Command and Conquer, or Medal of Honour or anything EA makes, I'm not interested, and I don't want to install origin either (bad enough it turns out my ToR account IS an Origin account). I can live without EA.

driftingsilvia

Yet another person that thinks Origin is some sort of devil virus that will destroy everything a person stands for. These are usually the same people that don't realize the backlash of Steam when it was released for Half Life, and how people wanted Valve's heads.ArchonOver

:lol:

I have to agree. They used to publish some godawful games and yearly sports titles, then once the next generation came around they finally got the right developers. Battlefield started gaining traction and popularity, Dead Space helped keep big budget horror alive, Dragon Age became a new big hitter fantasy RPG franchise, Mass Effect 2 surpassed ME1 and held on to the promise of continuing story, etc.

Then I guess they started rushing their games, changing focus (Dead Space 2 more actiony, Dragon Age 2 more simplified, Battlefield 3 more CoDified, etc.), online passes, terrible marketing, etc. They just really ruined the good vibes they had, ironically though since they started losing cash once great games were being made I guess they figured being evil is what made them money.

I don't care about their reputation, if they have games I want to play I'm going to play them.meetroid8

why would i punish myself from playing a good game? :lol:

Nope. BF3 was the last one I bought and I'm done with EA. As much as I want to play ME3, I'm not gonna get it. Not giving my money to them no more.trastamad03

why would i punish myself from playing a good game? :lol:

campzor

[QUOTE="lordreaven"]

I will not buy another EA title. TOR beinga WOW clone was the last straw. their DLC policies are just icing on the cake. I still have Paradox, THQ, CD Project Red, Bethesda, Valve, Gearbox etc. EA isin't required for me, my tastes in gaming have changed to a point were I can't pull myself to drool for BF or Mass Effect, or Command and Conquer, or Medal of Honour or anything EA makes, I'm not interested, and I don't want to install origin either (bad enough it turns out my ToR account IS an Origin account). I can live without EA.

driftingsilvia

Is this serious, are you kidding me with this crap. My brain is exploding by the level of stupidity this thread represents. They make video games, oh no they want to make money how horrible. Yeah let me not get their amazing incredible games... wait no. You go ahead on a pointless crusade, I'll play some of the best games of the year.

dvader654

[QUOTE="campzor"]

why would i punish myself from playing a good game? :lol:

famicommander

The only EA games I own are

Skate 3

NHL11

Mass Effect games.

I brought Crysis 2 from Gamestop NEW. I have purchased plenty of EA products in the past and if Madden/college football is good I'll buy those too!

Is this serious, are you kidding me with this crap. My brain is exploding by the level of stupidity this thread represents. They make video games, oh no they want to make money how horrible. Yeah let me not get their amazing incredible games... wait no. You go ahead on a pointless crusade, I'll play some of the best games of the year.

dvader654

EA is performing at a negative operating income and their stock has steadily declined by more than 50% over the past few years. EA's aggregate review performance has shown a downward trend in quality over recent years. EA is also notorious for buying smaller development studios primarily for their intellectual property assets, and then producing drastically changed games of their franchises and rushing development into yearly reiterations that lack innovation.

Getting angry at them for trying to make money to me is dumb, why should they be forced to use others digital distribution?dvader654

I will do my best never to buy an EA or Capcom game again, unless I buy it used. They both deserve to go out of business for their lack of respect for us gamers.Black_Knight_00

Yes, I'm quite happy with EA and many of my favorite titles this gen are made by them. They're certainly not innocent when it comes to greedy business practices, but they're quite a ways down the list compared to a lot of other publishers.

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"][QUOTE="dvader654"]

Is this serious, are you kidding me with this crap. My brain is exploding by the level of stupidity this thread represents. They make video games, oh no they want to make money how horrible. Yeah let me not get their amazing incredible games... wait no. You go ahead on a pointless crusade, I'll play some of the best games of the year.

dvader654

I didn't buy a game made or published by EA between 1998 and 2008. I honestly think the have got better this gen and started to take more risks with new Ip's.