Comments on: Consumerist’s Worst Company in America award goes to EA

By: Youngnova

Youngnova — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:40:00 +0000

Umm…what does murdering someone have to do with anything?

All people want is for EA to step their game up and stop doing all the sneaky stuff to try to get over on people.

Stop trying to make this something it’s not. EA need to get their sh!t together plain and simple.
But you wouldn’t agree with me cause you’re an obvious fan boy and you will buy EA games no matter what…

thus adding to the problem cause there’s no need for EA to make better games cause people like you will buy whatever they put out. It is what it is…a fool is born every second and you are a prime example of this :p

By: mike scammon

mike scammon — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:49:00 +0000

So gamers are more mad about EA’s customer service than BofA and other financial institutions ruining peoples’ lives? Oh, yeah the victims of BofA no longer have a home, so no internet.

By: mike scammon

mike scammon — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:49:00 +0000

So gamers are more mad about EA’s customer service than BofA and other financial institutions ruining peoples’ lives? Oh, yeah the victims of BofA no longer have a home, so no internet.

By: natalee

natalee — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:57:00 +0000

I think bank of America or Wells Fargo funded this.

By: h3d

h3d — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:41:00 +0000

Robert, the video game industry is actually growing, especially with the mobile sector. Sure, the giants are shedding some employees, but some of those come back as independant contractors or move around.

Do you know what happened to Dustin Bowder, one of the designers from Westwood Pacific that was let go after EA “murdered” Westwood? He really did’t do much…I mean all he’s done since was become lead designer on Starcraft 2.

By: h3d

h3d — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:36:00 +0000

But EA isn’t your 400 lb obese aunt, and if it was, you wouldn’t want to “kill off” your aunt because you’re annoyed that she’s 400 lbs and nor can you take the responsibility to stop taking here to all-you-can-eat buffets every Friday for the “Over-300″ club. So, unless you want to murder your 400 lb aunt, you just made a terrible comparison.

By: h3d

h3d — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:32:00 +0000

If that was true, then EA wouldn’t be there as a company. You must admit that even the devil must be good at being the devil to be a good devil.

By: h3d

h3d — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:31:00 +0000

/V/ does. Go figure why the only year that EA was in this, they had more than 3 times the votes than ever before. Votes, not people, as there were also posts on /v/ showing posters how to game the Consumerists poll and vote more than once per round.

By: h3d

h3d — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:28:00 +0000

The simple fact is that it’s not a contest about shining a limelight on a bad company that most people beyond gamers don’t bother with, it’s called Worst Company in America. Not to say EA doesn’t deserve a golden poo, but if the criteria is to be the worst company in America, then there is no way, shape or form that EA compares to the lives ruined by Bank of America, BP, or even Haliburton.

Consumerist, please change the title of your March Madness rip-off contest, please.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:10:00 +0000

EA ruins whatever it touches.

By: Liarsinthemedia

Liarsinthemedia — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:55:00 +0000

So you can not worry about your obese 400 pound Aunt because there are 800 pound obese people. You try again dude. Not but two weeks ago I refused to buy EA sport game for the family calling them the worst company. I think this article highlights what many of us know.

By: Jon Gee

Jon Gee — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:45:00 +0000

Until people start voting with their dollars nothing will change.

By: Simmer

Simmer — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:24:00 +0000

Good, Now EA HAS to pay attention to all of their fans complaining about how disappointed they are Instead of completely ignoring their dedicated fans and milking them of all their money and offering them very little in return.

Honestly? The Sims 3 = Major Bugs, Major Glitches and Mods need to be installed in order to fix this.

And they definitely lack creative ability.

The Sims 2 is much better than the Sims 3.

The Sims 3 is a major rip and the only reason people (including myself) continue to buy it is out of loyalty and dedication to the game.

But of course, EA doesn’t care. Because people still buy their games and they can keep selling them.

By: Robert Ward

Robert Ward — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:14:00 +0000

Very little. In fact, probably nothing at all.

By: Robert Ward

Robert Ward — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:13:00 +0000

Yes, that’s exactly it. Jobs are simply lying around in the STREET for anyone who needs one to pick up. I know I have to beat new job offers off with a sharp stick! Don’t you?

By: Thomas Yang

Thomas Yang — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:38:00 +0000

Frederick, EA is a game producer, and the writer is trying to compare it to another game producer instead of Apple, Google (EA is huge itself in game industry). It doesn’t make sense when you’re comparing it to Apple? which produce ipod,ipad,iphone,mac?! or google which owns youtube,android,search engine?!

By: Seriously

Seriously — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:23:00 +0000

265 words? how much do you get paid for that kind of in-depth journalism?

By: Jov

Jov — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 06:06:00 +0000

there’s a simple solution for a job you don’t like: find another.

By: Lockmandan

Lockmandan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:56:00 +0000

I have hated ea for a long time they put codes in their game packages that you have to use to be able to play the games online. So if you buy a used game at gamestop or some other retailer that sells used games then you have to purchase a code from ea so that you can play the used game you just bought online. Its a total ripoff.

By: pepee63

pepee63 — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 05:54:00 +0000

If you ever have played xbox games live, you soon realize that ea and dice are complete mongrels. They never have enough servers for people to play on even though they make games especially for online play. In fact there are no servers at all for the Australian market. Playing battlefield is hopeless due to all the lag that we have to put up with playing on American servers. Ea, you deserved this. What is it with American companies. They suck

By: Jov

Jov — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:33:00 +0000

who cares??

By: Petevs

Petevs — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:30:00 +0000

I live a mile from E.A. and have since I went to high school in Burlingame. They’re just flat out notorious and the culture was established by Trip. SLAVE LABOR

By: Frederick

Frederick — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:52:00 +0000

“The Consumerist noted that even though EA is a huge conglomerate and has a ‘“too big to fail’ mentality, it is never criticized by the government or regulators, or the mainstream media in the same way that giant banks or retail companies are.”

Apple’s market cap is 580 billion. Google’s is 200 billion. Yahoo’s is 18 billion.
In contrast, EA has a puny market cap of around 5.5 billion.

MAYBE THAT”S WHY IT”S NEVER CRITICIZED: IT”S NOT HUGE ENOUGH.

Try again guys.