PC gamers only have theirselves to blame, they could have made a stand with the release of daiablo3.

Shame does not factor in to the bottom line profit margins.

I am an honest gamer. I always buy new games, I never buy used. I feel penalized, and I absolutely refuse to pay for a game that must always be connected to the Internet. EA there is no excuse for this...very MAD AT YOU EA!!!

They should fix the server issues. We knew about the always online thing, but we expected a working game.

Until western governments actually take a look at the games market and start regulating controls, we're going to keep getting abused as consumers.
Games which give us 1/4 of the game and allow the rest through some form of store (the sims 3) should be labelled clearly on the front.
Games which require an always online connection should be outright banned unless it can be proven that online play is an absolute necessity of the game (MMO's).

We as consumers need to stop buying games which utilise such draconian DLC methods. I can tolerate steam myself (as I'm sure most of us can), but we must punish companies for doing this to us.

Companies have seen a new market develop - the casual, pay-for-content style monetisation of the consumer where freemium is popular and they think they're going to drag the single AAA game, pay once market with them. We have to keep supporting companies which provide the games we want if we're going to retain the latter market which we've enjoyed for years.

This game should be call SimCity online. This way consumers know it's a online game.

Doesn't "forced" already mean against one's will to do so?

EA where good franchises go to die.

I can't think of a game/studio that EA improved on YOY, sold better, and received high ratings on.

NBA Live- NBA Live was a quality game during the SNES/PS1 era. But ever since it's PS2 debut(And 2K entering the NBA world), the series has been average/mediocre/awful. The Live 18 demo is another example of EA needs to get it together, or leave it alone.

Madden- 2004 was the last good one. 2K5 was the last great NFL game. Madden used to be a must have but the games have been unimpressive during the PS3/PS4 era.

WCW- I know they were working on a PS2 game (was cancelled because of the WWF acquiring WCW) but WCW Mayhem was a solid 1st attempt. But instead of EA building on that, the next game was just backstage.

Def Jam- Def Jam Vendetta was just Revenge/No Mercy but with rappers making up the roster. I was hoping the sequal would be a big improvement over those previous games but instead we got just Street fighting. It was OK not impressive. The 360/PS3 entry was nothing special.

NBA Street- 1 and 2 were good. 3 and home court were average.

Fight Night- Sorry UFC fans, Fight Night is a better series. So it's a shame EA will release a UFC 3 before Fight Night makes its PS4/Xone debut.

MVP- 2K doesn't have the exclusive 3rd party license anymore, I say bring back MVP Baseball instead of NBA Live.

Def Jam

No skate or dead space? Those would be my number 1 and 2. Such a great list though, how did you limit yourself to 7?

pga golf

SSX and Burnout are the ones that sting me the most.

the first burnout game was actually better than any EA made. not to say EAs were terrible. just different and less polished

Command and Conquer...Red Alert 3 was fine...but then they messed up CNC4 and then that free to play debacle, before ending the series???

Come on those were the best RTS games ever(In my opinion...)

Anybody play the newer medal of honors? They were awesome! Online play were hard as shit but the main games were epic.

EA ruined Need for Speed to the core. what we have now empty shell of it with slap on title .

If Fight Night can be here because of inactivity so can Road Rash, I want a AAA Road Rash for this gen.

Warhammer Online too

Dead Space is the one to me. 1 was so damn awesome, 2 was a small step backward because it lost some of the scare factor and 3 was sort of a reboot, Clarke was still there the gun thing was out of space, scare was gone, loner feeling was gone. I'm mean, it could have been a Dead Space dance game ala Kinect Star Wars and disappointment would not have been bigger.

And Dante's Inferno also.

EA = Extraordinary A$$holes