What would it take for EA to redeem themselves?

This year its about redemption. What does EA have to do to make up for some of their mistakes of the past?

If Spore is a major success will that improve your opinion of them at all? (They are publishing the game for those who dont know)

nothinjazzking2001

Powerful words there: "Nothin" - they are beyond saving in the eyes of this man.

Release BF3, in a widescreen-relatively bug free state. And provide users with free maps after release.

Spore won't do it, Sims 3 won't do it. Sure they will get they attention of many people but we have too remember that it's EA, a company that releases like over 30 games every year. Are 2 good games in over 4 years enough to make them "look" better? not really. To be better EA has to stop making tenths of games every year and the should focus on quality not quantity. I know they have the resources and staff, hell they buy almost any major game dev that is available, but resources and staff=/=good games. Where's the good old NFS that came every year but they had small staff and they were "closer"? Where's the good FIFA? Where are all their good shooters, adventure games, simulators, sports, social simulators (except Sims and Spore), car simulators, etc?

EA won't be beter, it can only get worse as time passes.

For me at least, Spore being good doesn't actually affect my personal ideas of EA at all, they aren't the ones developing it, Maxis is (which I know is an EA Developer) but the game being good or bad more stands on how well the developer did.

I don't actually find EA that bad, sure they do release their sports games ever year, and most of the time there aren't that many major enhancements, but each year, little by little you can see that they're constantly improving.