EA, facing off against the likes of PayPal, Bank of America and Facebook, has been voted the “worst company in America”.
A couple of days ago there were eight remaining companies in a slightly bizarre ‘competition’, with the Consumerist calling them a “rogues gallery of bad businesses from a variety of industries”.
After more than a quarter of a million votes, though, EA eventually ‘won’ through.
“After years of being ignored and relegated to steerage, game-players have voted to send a message to Electronic Arts and the gaming business as a whole: Stop treating your loyal customers like crap,” said the site.
EA beat Bank of America in the final 64% to 36%.
Presumably people didn’t like Battlefield 3’s ending. I don’t know, I can’t keep up with all this stuff anymore. I’m too old. Pass me my Kempston.
yogh_wayne
“Worst Company” according to an online poll… sure. That’s so meaningless that I won’t even bother to comment. Oh, wait…
3shirts
These people are pathetic. They want to moan and tell off EA and vote for them in this poll but they don’t actually have the self restraint or moral strength to take the only action that would actually bother EA, boycott their games.
If you hate EA so much, don’t buy any EA games. Oh but then you’d miss out on the games you like… Grow up. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. You want to send EA a message? Boycott their games. You wanna play EA games? Shut up whining and buy them.
Awayze
EA or Activision??
I’d say EA due to the fact they have one good game, Dead Space and they ruined NFS Underground series. They also force online passes so I agree EA is the worst company in America. They release utter trash every year.
Forrest_01
I cannot agree with this i am afraid, as EA have brought some wonderful titles to market over the life of the PS3. You gave a good example of one, but there are many others such as;
Alice: Madness Returns
Army of Two (Original plus The 40th Day)
Battlefield (BC/BC2/BF3)
Crysis 2
Dante’s Inferno
FIFA (plyus many other sports titles)
Mirrors Edge
NFS (you may not enjoy them now, but many do)
SSX
…& probably plenty of others that i just cannot think of right now. Utter trash? I think not.
Plus the online pass thing is kind of a moot point as many many games now have online passes (most in fact). I don’t like ’em, but it seems that they are here to stay.
Also, as we are talking about games releases (which i don’t think the article is actually referring to, but whatever), what do Activision do these days apart from CoD & Spiderman?? I’m actually struggling to think of anything really.
GTRsannin
And how many games would never have made their way to consoles if EA wasn’t involved so i wouldn’t say it’s that bad either
Shadow_lawless
Just another prime example of why democracy doesn’t really work, when most people’s votes purely rely on what’s been in the media most recently. How the hell can a games company be the most hated. No “slave” labour no ridiculous life sucking bonus’, no war profiteering ect evt
The Lone Steven
Whilst i have a mild dislike of EA atm due to their recent pratices, i don’t feel that they deserve the title of worst company in America.
I’m sure that there are plenty of companies out in America that deserve the title.
Foxhound_Solid
Kin Nell…