It is about time I were to explain myself about my hate of almost everything EA. I'm sure that there are many people out there which does share the same dislike for them.
EA is famous for their sporting titles mainly along with their racing games... Need for Speed if people can't think straight. They also distribute other titles, some series and what not.
But where the main pet peeve lies is their practices of stinking up the gaming playing field. Back in the day of fair and fun gaming for the masses, games produced by them were fair and decent to really enjoy. Gaming was great in the resurgent years known as the computer geekiness years which were the exclusive fun times for the selected. As capitalism has reigned supreme in the nower years, games start becoming repetitive, pirated and now in an attempt to pass blame and deny all responsibility for the law abiding citizens of the world, all peaceful means of communication to the company for a truce is quickly shot down with a whole batch of Friendly-fire or shooting the white flag carrier.
Many game studios which were indie and not apart of EA, they made killer smash hits and revolutionised the way everyone played games and without their contribution, games now wouldn't be as good as they would be now with the exception of where EA now comes in the equation.
As EA became bigger, feeling like they need to wave their big fat cheques and their huge egotistic endowments around like they own the world, bigger than Microsoft has been doing, they buy out their competitions as a friendly gesture of support, only to be shot down in a flaming ball of crap with a few shots to the back of the head for maximum damage and ruin the stallic name which the past companies have been, not being able to go into a blazing hail of glory, but to be taken out, executional style.
Bullfrog, one of my all time favourite publishers created a really glorious game called Theme Hospital and it was the whole toast to the whole of gaming geeks for its morbid humour, which has been a void yet to be filled... why? EA owns all rights and yet, destroyed the company from within.
I personally do have plans to create a resurgent of Theme Hospital and bring back joy in the world of gaming, but that's for another day.
Red Alert 3 in my opinion is the worst Red Alert ever released! Red Alert 2 was better in terms of gaming style and the number special units everyone can much around with. The same formula was tried in General, namely in the expansion pack, only to just create more problems with balancing issues. Either EA are hiring sub-par employees with an imagination as wide as a port within the power or they are really being thick and not playing testing their games.
On the point of hiring... I know someone who works for them and when they found out that there were going to be cuts within the studio, his total health dived like tomorrow, worrying, fretting and drinking excessively as the cuts were really major. EA is no stranger to job cuts as it happens very frequently, acting all emo, letting old bloody out with nice price tags only the let the cost of cheapness overtake everything. As for that person... he's still in the job, mainly because of their art and programming skills.
For years, before knowing about it, I've always said that I will not work for EA due to their blandness and their repetitive BS and lack for inspiration, always focusing on making as much money as possible and not really caring about the community of gamers and treating major concerns as just filthy insects that requires a good swatting.
Sure they are profitable, but all I see from EA is the possibility that they are going to be an Atari in a really extended phase of Warner Brother virus due to their size.
Not happy EA... This BS has gone far enough and if it doesn't clean up its act by crapping on everything, even the great and beautiful things in the world... who will there to pick up the pieces of the Stone Golem?
As businesses goes, a business will try to put a guarantee and will only then attempt to break it with a hidden loophole