Who here has decided to boycott EA?

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#1 Shielder7
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From buying up and shutting down developers, to forcing multiplayer in all their single player games, to on disc DLC, to online passes, to locking out single player content, to their war on used games, to their outright ignorant statements, to implementing micro-transaction in all their 60$ games, to adding DRM to the extent that it breaks games I can't be the only one fed up with this Bull **** company.

IMO EA is a shining example of everything that's what's wrong with the Games industry, so just to get a count who here has had enough?

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#2 BrunoBRS
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nintendo has, it seems.
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#3 lundy86_4  Online
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Nope.

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#4 psymon100
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I don't know about Boycott, but, I don't have much need for expensive games day one. I'll get Dead Space 3 on PC when it's inexpensive. 

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#5 silversix_
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it won't change anything, they don't give a fk about you or some one boycotting. I sure will be buying BF4.
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#6 BPoole96
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I rarely even buy EA games anyway. I did buy Crysis 3 but the only other series they have that I am interested in is battlefield
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#7 megaspiderweb09
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I cannot Boycott EA as a whole, what i can do however is limit my patronage of some of their franchises. Also boycotting EA isnt helping the industry to be honest cause at the end of the day its gamers that suffer. I just think of the developers behind the game and ignore the EA label on it

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#8 GD1551
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I can't, I hate their practices and I'm actually not found of many of their games but I like the games bioware put out.

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#9 Jack-Burton
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EA and Activison will always want to lube up and bend over the consumer, as will many other companies. I won't boycott them but I don't buy that much from either anymore.
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#11 Floppy_Jim
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Nah, I'm good. I did skip Dead Space & Crysis 3 because I didn't want to play the same sh!t all over again moreso than an anti EA thing.
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#12 lx_theo
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Where's the option to not care about any of the stuff people whine about and only buy games I want?

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#13 AmazonTreeBoa
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I definitely limit how many of their games I buy. Skipped BF3 and ME3. I will pick up ME3 when I can get it for around $5 on Amazon.
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#14 lostrib
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But battlefield 4 is coming...

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#15 Mozuckint
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I have no problem not buying their new games.

GOG has too strong a call for some older ones though, so they'll still get money from me in that regard.

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#16 JohnF111
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Where's the "I don't care, if EA give me games i want I'll buy them because I play games, not companies".
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#17 WilliamRLBaker
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I've been boycotting capcom, ea and activision for a while now, I never buy their games I'll rent em but I wont give them my money.

what took you so long shielder? you seem to be a major alarmist to me yet I boycotted EA before you did...

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#18 Mrmedia01
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Won't BoyCott. Sure EA can be dumb a lot of the time but if they make a great game or publish one worth buying in the future, I am buying it. Don't care who makes the great game as long as it's worthy of a purchase.

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#19 kuraimen
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We need to boycott the biggest evil in gaming today: M$. And then tackle the lesser evils like EA and Activision.
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#20 KungfuKitten
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I'm only buying BF from them I think...
If they mess up BF then I won't buy that anymore.

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#21 JohnF111
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We need to boycott the biggest evil in gaming today: M$. And then tackle the lesser evils like EA and Activision.kuraimen
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#22 DJ-Lafleur
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No. I've never really focused much on EA in the first place.

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#23 fernandmondego_
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From buying up and shutting down developers, to forcing multiplayer in all their single player games, to on disc DLC, to online passes, to locking out single player content, to their war on used games, to their outright ignorant statements, to implementing micro-transaction in all their 60$ games, to adding DRM to the extent that it breaks games I can't be the only one fed up with this Bull **** company.

IMO EA is a shining example of everything that's what's wrong with the Games industry, so just to get a count who here has had enough?

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I think sheep will, though they really have no choice.
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#24 Ly_the_Fairy
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I havent' bought a game of theirs in quite a long time.

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#25 whiskeystrike
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I don't actively boycott their games I just don't usually buy their titles.

I did get last year's Need for Speed which was a flub...

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#26 Krelian-co
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i try my hardest not to buy their games.

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#27 LadyBlue
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Not me. It's a game to game thing for me. If you keep making good games, I'll keep buying them. It's that simple.

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#28 OldSnakePS3
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ill wait for their games to be in the $20 range 

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#29 freedomfreak
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I don't do that kind of stuff. Taking a stand, all that. It's cool if you're in Braveheart. Not so much when you're a gamer.
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#30 Shielder7
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I've been boycotting capcom, ea and activision for a while now, I never buy their games I'll rent em but I wont give them my money.

what took you so long shielder? you seem to be a major alarmist to me yet I boycotted EA before you did...

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I believe in 2ed chances, but EA is on their 13th chance, they're obviously not learning and don't care and never will. The last EA game I bought was ME 2, now I haven't been boycotting them that long they just haven't come out with anything I've wanted to play. It wouldn't matter now anyway I wouldn't buy it or if I really wanted it I'd make sure to buy it used.
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nintendo has, it seems.BrunoBRS
That, or it's the other way around.
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#32 Jack-Burton
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We need to boycott the biggest evil in gaming today: M$. And then tackle the lesser evils like EA and Activision.kuraimen
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#33 Shielder7
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We need to boycott the biggest evil in gaming today: M$. And then tackle the lesser evils like EA and Activision.kuraimen
MS has a long way to go before they catch up to EA, EA MS are supposed to be buddy buddy now anyway
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#34 Wiimotefan
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I don't even remember the last EA game I bought.  Nothing to do with boycotting (these never work with game companies as far as I know), I'm just not too interested in their games.

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#35 LaytonsCat
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I'm not boycotting EA that will do nothing. That does not mean I am happy with what they have been doing, but theres not really anything I can do about it

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#36 CanYouDiglt
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Until Bioware is on their own again I can not.
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#37 princeofshapeir
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Boycotting vidyas is such a pointless form of social activism. If a game is worth buying to me, I'll buy it. The publisher doesn't matter.
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#38 crippledmachine
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Not boycotting, but I rarely buy their games.

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#39 kuraimen
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[QUOTE="kuraimen"]We need to boycott the biggest evil in gaming today: M$. And then tackle the lesser evils like EA and Activision.Shielder7
MS has a long way to go before they catch up to EA, EA MS are supposed to be buddy buddy now anyway

It's part of how evil they are to make you think they are not so evil but they're the evilest.
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#40 princeofshapeir
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[QUOTE="Shielder7"][QUOTE="kuraimen"]We need to boycott the biggest evil in gaming today: M$. And then tackle the lesser evils like EA and Activision.kuraimen
MS has a long way to go before they catch up to EA, EA MS are supposed to be buddy buddy now anyway

It's part of how evil they are to make you think they are not so evil but they're the evilest.

At least their online service isn't susceptible to 14 year old script kiddies :\
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#41 kuraimen
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[QUOTE="kuraimen"][QUOTE="Shielder7"] MS has a long way to go before they catch up to EA, EA MS are supposed to be buddy buddy now anywayprinceofshapeir
It's part of how evil they are to make you think they are not so evil but they're the evilest.

At least their online service isn't susceptible to 14 year old script kiddies :\

Those script kiddies got into the Pentagon too. They never even tried it with Live because it was not really a challenge.

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#42 JohnF111
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[QUOTE="princeofshapeir"][QUOTE="kuraimen"][QUOTE="Shielder7"] MS has a long way to go before they catch up to EA, EA MS are supposed to be buddy buddy now anyway

It's part of how evil they are to make you think they are not so evil but they're the evilest.

At least their online service wasn't susceptible to 14 year old script kiddies :\

Fixed.
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#43 Pug-Nasty
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Organic boycott.  I just don't buy bad games, and EA makes bad games.

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#44 RyanShazam
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I just bought SimCity for $12.
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#45 kuraimen
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I just bought SimCity for $12.RyanShazam

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#46 RyanShazam
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[QUOTE="RyanShazam"]I just bought SimCity for $12.kuraimen

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Haha! Sounds like they patched most of the problems already.
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#47 Shielder7
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[QUOTE="Shielder7"][QUOTE="kuraimen"]We need to boycott the biggest evil in gaming today: M$. And then tackle the lesser evils like EA and Activision.kuraimen
MS has a long way to go before they catch up to EA, EA MS are supposed to be buddy buddy now anyway

It's part of how evil they are to make you think they are not so evil but they're the evilest.

Besides gutting RARE and focusing on Casuals MS hasn't done much to piss me off, EA is so evil they don't even try and hide it.
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#48 rjdofu
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Hate EA but Boycotting is stupid
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#49 psymon100
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[QUOTE="kuraimen"]

[QUOTE="RyanShazam"]I just bought SimCity for $12.RyanShazam

 

Haha! Sounds like they patched most of the problems already.

Ryan, where did you get that from?

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#50 RyanShazam
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[QUOTE="RyanShazam"][QUOTE="kuraimen"]

 

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Haha! Sounds like they patched most of the problems already.

Ryan, where did you get that from?

Amazon gave me some free credit so that's what I used :) Let me know if you end of getting it. Would love some people to play with.