IGN : Why Do People Hate EA?

Why do people hate EA? When I say 'people,' I mean 'some people,' some of the time -- a minority. And when I say 'hate' I mean mostly the writing of mean things on the internet.

This brand, this company, this group of people, creates some of the best and biggest games in the world with an average Metacritic rating that's high and rising. It is profitable, but not outrageously so, and is under-valued by the stock market.

So how has it managed to create enough ill-will to be voted the worst company in America? And even if it wasnt, even if we put that down to a temporary 'Mass Effect ending' negative blip that everyone has already forgotten about, there's no doubt that 'EA Hate' is a thing.

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IGN

I wasn't too much of an EA hater (disliked them though), but the tipping point was the moment I read blogs warning about their anti consumer Origin EULA (granting EA the ability to obtain any personal information / content from your computer and installing a web proxy client just to play their games), I started boycotting them from that moment till today (last game I bought was Crysis 2 on steam)

P.S. As usual, apologies if old.

i'll just leave this here

-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.

You can't spell ignorance without ign :roll: ...

I can't believe this is a serious question. If IGN lacks at least that much critical thinking then it's no wonder their site is in that state it's in: reviews that hand out 10s like candy and troll bait articles like this one.

Seeing as IGN just likes to make shock articles with no real value, and how much they love Mass Effect, I'm not gonna bother reading that.

BTW all Origin does is scan your PC for Origin games already installed. It doesn't do anything else outside of that.

i'll just leave this here

-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.

Krelian-co

Excellent points, I really wish whomever wrote that article at IGN and executives at EA read what you wrote.

I remember also reports of people losing their digitally purchased games if they got banned on their forums for silly reasons.

i'll just leave this here

-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.

Krelian-co

They make crappy games.

Their online games always run like ass because their servers suck.

They love day one DLC, which is something I despise.

They have juvenile marketing approaches, such as making fun of CoD (then copying it) and having those "your mom will hate it" Dead Space 2 ads. Anyone buying a game because their mom will hate it is basically too stupid to take seriously, thus any fan of EA falls into that category.

God. They can't be that stupid can they? This is why so called gaming journalism sucks. Why the f*ck am I telling you why they suck? You should already know and be telling ME why they suck. But you can't because it would ruin your chance to be the first to review the Battlefield:"Bend over and take it hard" special edition or some other tripe they are trying to push out the door.

It's not like EA hasn't blatantly shown how much they disregard their customers or shown that they are categorically the posterchild for how corporate greed can ruin the creative process.

i'll just leave this here

-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.

Krelian-co

Yeah, I saw that awesome YouTube Video Too :lol: You should have posted it with this.

They just ruined Dead space, now i hate them ever more

EA makes some of the worst games. They should be sued for false advertising BF3 PC footage and claiming it to be console footage. They ran Madden into the ground. The Syndicate reboot sucked. Need For Speed has sucked for years. They killed Burnout. They charge $60 for Tiger Woods and then sell you the courses for $40 extra. They introduced online passes. What is there to like about EA?JohnnyCageMK

I totally agree. Mass Effect 2 and 3, and Dragon Age 2 were terrible.

Brilliant journalism! I mean, what better way to get an honest answer as to why gamers hate EA than by asking EA instead of gamers?

/s

They just ruined Dead space, now i hate them ever more

Zurrur

Yea im very afraid for Dead space 3. Im not going to lie even though alot of people hate EA they have published stuff I enjoy.

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They just ruined Dead space, now i hate them ever more

finalfantasy94

Yea im very afraid for Dead space 3. Im not going to lie even though alot of people hate EA they have published stuff I enjoy.

Yep, me too. Loved the 1st one, the second was ok, this one looks the RE5 all over again, and I hated RE5.

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i'll just leave this here

-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.

dream431ca

Yeah, I saw that awesome YouTube Video Too :lol: You should have posted it with this.

for those who want to see a video about Ea

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

Its funny how EA sucked last gen but at the start of this gen they became pretty good. They had Mass Effect, Mirrors Edge, Burnout, Crysis, Dragons Age, Brutal Legend, Dead Space, Rock Band and other games that, but soon returned to their greedy ****

Brilliant journalism! I mean, what better way to get an honest answer as to why gamers hate EA than by asking EA instead of gamers?

/s

Mozuckint

Another article made for the sole purpose of getting hits. Anyone who knows what's what can't possibly be stupid enough to not see why, even if they disagree.

[QUOTE="Mozuckint"]

Brilliant journalism! I mean, what better way to get an honest answer as to why gamers hate EA than by asking EA instead of gamers?

/s

heretrix

[QUOTE="heretrix"]

[QUOTE="Mozuckint"]

Brilliant journalism! I mean, what better way to get an honest answer as to why gamers hate EA than by asking EA instead of gamers?

/s

Mozuckint

Ahhh IGN never fails to amuse me with their intelligence.

I hate EA for these reasons:

They made Dice and Bioware rush BF3 and ME3, resulting with lag on BF3 and a s***** ending on ME3

They killed Westwood

They made movie based games even worse by carbon copying COD

Day one DLC can go f*** itself

They invented the online pass to force people to buy the games new

They made a s*** port of the Orange Box on the PS3 (which I don't care since I have the 360 version)

Rumors say that EA pays off people to troll on the internet to bash on the competitors

All of this would make Activision tolerable.

Cause they killed my mother and raped my father

bastards...

God. They can't be that stupid can they? This is why so called gaming journalism sucks. Why the f*ck am I telling you why they suck? You should already know and be telling ME why they suck. But you can't because it would ruin your chance to be the first to review the Battlefield:"Bend over and take it hard" special edition or some other tripe they are trying to push out the door.

heretrix

They can have that edition, I don't think I'd want to play it anyways... :P

i'll just leave this here

-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.

Krelian-co

This pretty much and this and this.

i'll just leave this here

-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.

Krelian-co

i'll just leave this here

-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.

Krelian-co

Here´s your answer, IGN.

Probably the same reason people hate IGN, they suck. I bet they're just sucking up to EA because of Diana Allers one of their staff is a character in Mass Effect 3. What a pointless waste of disc space. If only they gave us the option to throw her out the airlock.

Well of course it's hard for them to understand it. How much money in advertisement and other indirect forms have they received from them?

Is this reason enough to hate EA?

i'll just leave this here

-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.

Krelian-co

Though some of this is somewhat opinion or maybe more on a case by case basis, the bolded points are very true, and far too numerous. I understand that a company wants to make money, but EA goes off the deep end. I also want to add:

- Terrible marketing that devalues and belittles opponents or uses cheap and immature shock tactics that hold back the industry (such as the whole BF vs CoD thing that blew up in their face, or the whole Dante's Inferno fake protest and MoH Taliban controversy, both of which also blew up in their face)

- Failing to bring Battlefield 1943 to PS3 BF3 players until people made a fuss, despite their promises of doing so at E3 (though that could fit into one of your points about not delivering content I suppose)

- Poorly run servers and underpolished, quickly released titles that tend to fall under hype as a result (such as the server issues they have in, well, almost every game they put out and BF3 coming out with a brand new engine and having a host of issues on PC lacking VOIP and Battlerecorder as initially promised because of trying to get it out before the holidays and releasing on a new engine without the testing necessary, as well as Origin failing to download properly half the time when it came out)

Personally they aren't like, pure evil. More then anything I think EA is just incompetent and not organized well, which is how they can have some fantastic games get marketed terribly or have hugely inflated budgets they shouldn't need, as well as a much too greedy (but I guess, legal) DLC and DD policies that spits in the face of gamers by being a bit too aggressive or protective in some respects, but not malicious or made to spite gamers as much as they do so inadvertently.

[QUOTE="Krelian-co"]

i'll just leave this here

-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.

Vesica_Prime

This pretty much and this

[QUOTE="Krelian-co"]

i'll just leave this here

-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.

Vesica_Prime

This pretty much and this and this.

wow, thanks for the links.

EA haters are just dumb, they arn't hurting anyone, they arn't forcing you to buy their games, if you want to get mad at a big business get mad at the banks or the investment firms, those shysters almost destroyed the world economy and costed millions of people their jobs and their homes.

I dislike many EA policies, I hate their online passes and their day 1 DLC. But on the internet people over exaggerate things and is a stage for the a very small minority. No one in real life really "hates" EA.

I think they are a pretty good company that makes good games. They just have some bad decisions like all companies do, but there are far worst. When it comes to gaming I consider MS to be the worst.

Despite people having valid reasons for hating EA they are one of the few big publishers left willing to take a gamble. Sure they have their usual cash cows but they take risks when it comes to publishing games.

Off the top of my head -

1. Brutal legend

2. Mirror's Edge

3. CNC4

4. Syndicate

5. Kingdoms of Amalur

6. Dante's Inferno

7. Crysis

8. Spore

9. Army of Two

10. TOR

Among others..

I don't think they're that bad. Plenty of people hate on them for making origin, but valve did the exact same thing.

i'll just leave this here

-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.

Krelian-co

this

You can't spell ignorance without ign :roll: ...

N30F3N1X

and this.

i'll just leave this here

-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.

Krelian-co

and lol@ IGN for even making this article after what happened with mass effect 3

Don't blame EA for lackluster games blame casual gamers who accept this crap. I mean at the end of the day EA makes good games, yes they have milked some ganes just like any other company but it is you the gamer that decides if it is good or not. If it is bad then don't buy it but if you have millions purchasing it you can't hate on EA.

EA makes some of the worst games. They should be sued for false advertising BF3 PC footage and claiming it to be console footage. They ran Madden into the ground. The Syndicate reboot sucked. Need For Speed has sucked for years. They killed Burnout. They charge $60 for Tiger Woods and then sell you the courses for $40 extra. They introduced online passes. What is there to like about EA?JohnnyCageMK

This they are simply greedy bastards.