IGN : Why Do People 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

I hate corporates, if i had a studio i'd try to go independent all the way.

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

N30F3N1X

[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.

BloodScarlet

I hate corporates, if i had a studio i'd try to go independent all the way.

you can't say that, if i had a small studi and Ea comes with a really big fat check saying they want to buy it id certainly think about it, creating games for the love of it is great but they also have to make a living and being bought by a big company in a market so competitive is tempting

for me....

DLC,Online pass, and shutting down servers before their time.

which is why I don't buy EA games till they are 20 dollar goty editions, the same with capcom and activision.

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

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

N30F3N1X

strangely the fifa ip's been going from strength to strength this gen :P i wouldnt say all of EA are bad, criterio and the studio that makes Fifa seem to be on the ball when it comes to listening and doing stuff when it comes to y'know the actual gameplay.

I will tell you why:

Because they killed a lot of originality of the industry. See some citations from wiki regarding Dungeon Keeper 3, a sequel to one of my most favourite game franchises of all time:

The innovative nature of the Dungeon Keeper series proved to be incompatible with EA's business model after the company acquired the rights, as the project showed to be a higher risk than EA's other titles that were based on films that were popular at the time. However, like most of the studios EA has bought and closed,[8]EA holds onto the rights to the games but won't continue to develop the franchise.

The projects that provoked Dungeon Keeper 3's cancellation were EA's Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings games.[1] Though there are no plans for developing any new Dungeon Keeper games at the moment, the Bullfrog statement points out that this is always a possibility for the future.

src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Keeper_3

They basically murdered it - bought the franchise and keep it so that noone else can develop it and then cancel it and never touch it again. Bastards! And Dungeon Keeper is not the only franchise with such fate.

They basically murdered it - bought the franchise and keep it so that noone else can develop it and then cancel it and never touch it again. Bastards! And Dungeon Keeper is not the only franchise with such fate.

BlbecekBobecek

The Bayern Munich of video games lul.

:lol:

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..

GD1551

Was pretty cool of them publishing Shadows of the Damned when it was known that Suda51 games just dont sell. SotD is awesome

Also Alice Madness Returns is pretty cool

:lol:

Hexagon_777

/thread :lol:

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

:lol:

Hexagon_777

:lol:

It's funny how IGN is hated as much as EA.

I never had a problem with EA until Origin. Just wanna play the game not log into other crap.

Better question: Why do people reward IGN for their click-whoring?

IGN in a nutshell folks

Because there's no more 2k football and Madden has been trash for years

:lol:

Hexagon_777

IGN in a nutshell folks

Shinobishyguy

Was pretty cool of them publishing Shadows of the Damned when it was known that Suda51 games just dont sell. SotD is awesome

Also Alice Madness Returns is pretty cool

4dr1el

Yeah that's pretty much the only redeeming aspect of EA these days. They are still willing to take risks on games.

You can write a book on all the things EA does thats anti-consumer/Anti-Developer, but just recently.

-Stated that Dead Space was to scary, so they are going away from that.

-Added multiplayer/Co-op, cover system, making it more of a shooter, to appeal to a bigger audience.

-Said that Dead Space needs 5 million sales to survive.

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.

Eponique

Personally I felt my faith in DICE when I pre-ordered Bad Company 2 was rewarded by me being deceived, shafted and then continually lied to as EA PR kept boasting about how free the five maps they were withholding were going to be.

That's basically where my trust issues with EA really began. And ever since, EA has consistenlyproven distrust and caution to be an apt approach when dealing with them. And so I continue being wary of anything EA does.

In case my point isn't clear here; EA intentionally neglects to mention significant information about their product, relying on brand loyalty and expectations to fill in the blanks. Users get to discover that expectations built up by years of following the series suddenly don't match up with reality, and things like a multiplayer shooter launching with five maps per mode, or 40% of the teams in a football game being unlicensed. It's about as close as you can get to false advertising without it actually being illegal. Or well, with Tiger Woods it probably was illegal since EA was giving refunds to customers who contacted them.

And that's one reason.
Perhaps some people are a bit misguided or overblown in their criticism, but there is plenty of justification for disliking the way this company does business. IGN should be questioning EA about their many and blatant anti-consumer practices and policies, instead they're defending them.

As Jim Sterling says, asking EA why people hate EA probably isn't the smartest idea if you want to actually find out why people hate EA. which does not seem to have been the agenda with this article.

dafuq?

:lol:

Hexagon_777

Get on my level. :P

IGN in a nutshell folks

Shinobishyguy

I hate colin so much.

You can write a book on all the things EA does thats anti-consumer/Anti-Developer, but just recently.

-Stated that Dead Space was to scary, so they are going away from that.

-Added multiplayer/Co-op, cover system, making it more of a shooter, to appeal to a bigger audience.

-Said that Dead Space needs 5 million sales to survive.

crimsonman1245

I dislike them strongly for what they did to BioWareCleanPlayer

whatever do you mean ?

[QUOTE="CleanPlayer"]I dislike them strongly for what they did to BioWareSagem28

whatever do you mean ?

Oh please, Bioware was the worst last gen, BEFORE they were acquired by EA.dracolich55

Leave SW forever.

Why? For all the reasons already posted. Battlefield 3 has to be some of the worst $50 bucks I've ever spent. Hyped to hell and back. Looks fancy, plays like crap. YoshiYogurt

[QUOTE="dracolich55"]

Oh please, Bioware was the worst last gen, BEFORE they were acquired by EA.Sagem28

Leave SW forever.

[QUOTE="Sagem28"]

[QUOTE="dracolich55"]

Oh please, Bioware was the worst last gen, BEFORE they were acquired by EA.dracolich55

Leave SW forever.

I agree

People act like BioWare were gods beyond gaming before EA aquired them when in fact they were always average

[QUOTE="dracolich55"][QUOTE="Sagem28"]

Leave SW forever.

4dr1el

I agree

People act like BioWare were gods beyond gaming before EA aquired them when in fact they were always average

Care to state what games were good or excellent compared to KotOR and BG then? I hate comments like this where people say 'XX popular company's average/crap' seemingly just to annoy people and never state why they thought they were average or who made better games.

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.

Eponique

QFT

[QUOTE="dracolich55"][QUOTE="Sagem28"]

Leave SW forever.

4dr1el

I agree

People act like BioWare were gods beyond gaming before EA aquired them when in fact they were always average

pre EA: kotor series, baldurs gate series, neverwinter nights, jade empire, maess effect 1 and dragon age origins....

and now they do dragon age 2, TORtanic, and mass effect 3.

So yes they were pretty good if not amazin before they were bought by EA, now the best they can do is mediocre.

[QUOTE="4dr1el"]

[QUOTE="dracolich55"] We got DA:O this gen, the closest thing to Baldurs Gate this hen on the market. ME1 and ME2 were good, as well. Me3 was still a good game, the ending was bad but the game was still enjoyable. In fact, DA2 has been there only "below standards" game this gen and even then I enjoyed it quite a bit. Last gen the only good game was KOTOR, other than that we had some "Never-winter Night" garbage. Winning.Krelian-co

I agree

People act like BioWare were gods beyond gaming before EA aquired them when in fact they were always average

pre EA: kotor series, baldurs gate series, neverwinter nights, jade empire, maess effect 1 and dragon age origins....

and now they do dragon age 2, TORtanic, and mass effect 3.

So yes they were pretty good if not amazin before they were bought by EA, now the best they can do is mediocre.

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

[QUOTE="Krelian-co"]

[QUOTE="4dr1el"]

I agree

People act like BioWare were gods beyond gaming before EA aquired them when in fact they were always average

dracolich55

pre EA: kotor series, baldurs gate series, neverwinter nights, jade empire, maess effect 1 and dragon age origins....

and now they do dragon age 2, TORtanic, and mass effect 3.

So yes they were pretty good if not amazin before they were bought by EA, now the best they can do is mediocre.

they had been working on dragon age years before they were bought by EA, it was released when they were bought yes, but they worked in it like 3 years before it. ME 1 > ME 2, although ME 2 is still pretty good but i guess thats opinion, lets say ME 2 is a great game, that would make 1 great game of all the games released under EA, when before they were constantly releasing quality.

nwn and jade empire are great games rofl, and kotor and baldurs gate too. me 3 is mediocre, even if it has some great moments, it has some very terrible design flaws

so tell me, what great games has bioware released besides ME 2 since they were bought by EA? and compare that number with the ones pre EA

Bioware never put out turds as bad as ToR, ME2/3, Or DAO2 before this gen.

Lol at the CoD-Kiddies saying baldurs gate1/2/tob, kotor, and nwn weren't good.

[QUOTE="dracolich55"][QUOTE="Krelian-co"]

pre EA: kotor series, baldurs gate series, neverwinter nights, jade empire, maess effect 1 and dragon age origins....

and now they do dragon age 2, TORtanic, and mass effect 3.

So yes they were pretty good if not amazin before they were bought by EA, now the best they can do is mediocre.

Krelian-co

they had been working on dragon age years before they were bought by EA, it was released when they were bought yes, but they worked in it like 3 years before it. ME 1 > ME 2, although ME 2 is still pretty good but i guess thats opinion, lets say ME 2 is a great game, that would make 1 great game of all the games released under EA, when before they were constantly releasing quality.

nwn and jade empire are great games rofl, and kotor and baldurs gate too. me 3 is mediocre, even if it has some great moments, it has some very terrible design flaws

so tell me, what great games has bioware released besides ME 2 since they were bought by EA? and compare that number with the ones pre EA