we should direct more of our hate towards M$ instead, they are far more evil.

Like half the games that are coming out are published by EA. Of course, that's not to say that all EA games are bad. I personally loved Battlefield: Bad Company, as well as many other EA games.

I have heard, however, of their shady business tactics and tendency to buy out any developer they set their eyes on. I don't necessarily hate EA, but I am certainly fearful of the company's size and behavior.

If DeadSpace is a really good game, then I will lift my "crap-embargo" on EA.

Battlefield: Bad Company , Burnout Paradise, & Mirror's Edge don't count because they didn't develop them.

No its not time , they deserve our scorn , they have been before the 2k thing that fueled the fire .
Even right now they are screwing naive half life fans on ps3...
While i see it as half customers fault for even believing an EA internal studio would port a valve game properly , they still are crooks .

EA is that guys who used to do sports game ... if you hated them you could avoid their sports (and other genres) games , or buy other franchises .
But it sure wasnt enough for their world domination plans , they had to kill any chance of competition in sports games , with only soccer (and ping pong) surviving so far ...
They had to forcefully insert themselves in the lives of those who wanted nothing to do with them , buying every studios and fan favorites they can .

people will mention their future and curent good games ... well great for them of out of a dozen , 2 titles shines .. isnt that why they keep buy known studios anyway ?
Has EA even really positively affected Mirror's Edge developement ? Or Mercenaries 2's one ? Is there even a chance for EA to mess with a bioware game anyway when right now they are so popular ?

Shouldnt credits goes instead to Bioware , Valve , ID , Pandemic , Dice , Westwood , Harmonix for their games , while the "TRUE" EA franchises looks like crap , saves Dead Space ?

Isnt one of the first effect of EA's Dice ownership to have them develop FIVE battlefield games at the same time ?
Isnt Ea one of the first to push pointless and scammy DLC such as weapons and cars , only a step away from the oblivion horse paintjob ?

Wastn it Ea that recently close the Def jam, final Fight studio in chicago , while claiming they are gentle giants and dont slay little devs ?

I find rather odd that we get now weekly propangada about how EA has changed or isnt greedy and evil . THis reek , in a conspiration theory way , a bit of sci fi movies and game corps , telling you on big giant screens how they want our happiness .

Imo , given how big EA has gotten , its impossible to avoid them as a video games fan even if you want . Doesnt mean i have to be happy about it , and happily feed upon their cyclic " we are creative now" they feed us each time they feel the scorn and hatred .

Then I will stop hating you.

Wow, I actually created an account here just to put a fanboy in his place. /shiver Anywho, on with the show:
First of all, the “hate” for EA iant unfounded, it has a long and sorted history. Granted, at this point, it is passe. I will try to bullet point this so you can easily understand.
-EA lost a settlement for poor work conditions from their employees
-EA has monopolized the NFL licence (blame NFL as well)
-EA has a habbit of buying smaller companies (that were in direct competition) and then disolving them or assimilating them into their larger fold to create less inspired titles
-EA releases yearly sports titles that have the same (sometimes game-breaking) bugs year after year proving they re-release the same product yearly with a new cover
-EA also has a habbit of ditching properties that dont generate excessive profit, Sims online, Earth & Beyond, Motor City Online. All titles that were self-sustaining according to their subscription numbers, but obviously not gushing enough profit to bother with.

The scary part of it all, I used to personal boycott EA, untill every major game I was interested in eventually became a part of the EA empire (Warhammer Online, Rock Band). Hopefully the new president or CEO or whatever that just took over, will change things for the better, but habbits are hard to break.

The ps3 version of the orange box would like to have a word with him.

Thats exactly the problem ... many respond in the spur of the moment to simply boycott ea titles if you dont like them ... but with their sport money alone they buy everyone .

The only place without EA are japanese titles , and it wont remain that way ...
Truly boycotting Ea means giving up on video games , or falling into the arms of twins entities such as Activision or ubi soft

fock EA they Eat Ass

I will have to buy some EA games, because they bought Criterion and are publishing Pandemics Mercenaries 2.

But with the PS3 Orange Box debacle and T2 take over in mind, I don't exactly love that company. The aren't as bad as MS, but they need to improve their ways to win me over...

I have one good reason to hate EA. ORANGE BOX PORT! (one of the worst ports I've seen, they could have delayed it by all means, but they want the money now so they kicked out the door)

This is a stupid post.

EA is not a horrible publisher, true. They do have good titles that come out but what makes EA horrible is their ethic.

What happens when EA buys up it's competitors? It eliminates room for growth and the ability for the gamer to have a choice. Take a look at Football games.

Madden was top of the charts every year and was on top of its game. Every year, Madden came out with a top notch installment of its football franchise. They had games like 989 Sport's NFL Gameday, or 2k Sports' NFL games nipping at their heels which drove them to better their product. Then comes along a little game called NFL 2k5 by 2k Sports. This game was the closest thing EVER to come close to unseatting Madden. So what does EA do? They buy the NFL exclusive Liscence thus eliminating it's competition.

Where did it go from there? While Madden is not a "horrible" game by most standards, it's quality has dipped severely. Now you see Madden released with ridiculous bugs and glitches that should have been caught from day 1. Why, you may ask, does EA release a flawed product? Because they have no worries. They have eliminated their competion which means they can release a severely bugged game because they know there is no competition.

Look at EA's methods. If they see a company that is in their way of domination, they acquire the company to eliminate the threat.

True, EA doesn't release HORRIBLE games, but it is creating a Monopoly that is unfair to all of us.

Do your research before you post something like this. Somebody must be content in their world of EA racing games. EA is turning into a corporate monster, hell-bent on destroying the free gaming world for its own financial gain. Would you want EA to buy up most of the popular companies then monopolize the console market by tring to release their own console just to play their games?

People have a reason to hate Britney Spears. She is a horrible talent taking advantage of over-publicizing just the way most EA games are.

Is the Ps3 version of Orange Box fixed yet? No? Then not, is not time to stop hating on EA

Fvck EA. Buying out dev's and exclusives rights to certain licenses to widdle the competition is the main reason I hate EA. They have bought the NFL and certain NCAA license and have done nothing with those licenses except minor improvements while still charging the consumer $60.

In the last 3 years EA has done nothing but buy Dev's and ruin franchises. The only games that I will give them credit for is Skate, Burnout:paradise, fight night:round 3, and Spore (but mainly because of Will Wright). thats it, 4 games in 3 years, but considering they put out like 8-12 titles a year on average the good to crap game ratio is awful.

If EA wants to earn me back as a loyal consumer heres a list of what can be done.

1. Stop nickel and diming me over trivial in-game content that should already be in the game or be given away for free as a thank you to the consumers. (like cars for need for speed)

2. Do something with the exclusive licenses you have. Ever since the deal with the NFL and NCAA went through I have not bought any of your sports title (mainly football) because they are no different now then they were back in '04. So why spend money on the same title for the last 4 years. you lack of creativity with the licenses has led to a lack of my wallet opening for you products.

3. Stop with your takeovers and buy outs. We all know you have money and lots of it. let it be. Why spend money on buying out T2 when that money can be used on develop new IP's. I rather EA take a chance and somewhat succeed with a new IP (like Dead Space) then be massively successful with a new GTA (and then taking out your main sports competition in the process).

those are my main gripes and thats what has me wanting EA to fail huge. Maybe I'm a little bitter but I despise gaming companies that make it no secret that Money is bigger then the games themselves and nobody (at least to me) makes that more apparent than EA.

I like the britney analogy, I hate britney because her music is bollocks, I hate EA cause their games are bollocks.

I've already preordered Mirror's Edge, Dead Space, and Call of Duty World at War. World at war is suppose to look even MORE detailed than modern warfare.

buy is "need for speed" since hot pursuit2 and underground nfs has been going down hill. if my favorite racing game sucks now I can imagine
madden and others might suck too.

I don't care if the game isn't dev'd by EA. If EA slaps their logo on it, I don't buy it.

BTW It intrigues me how PS3 boys hate on MS for some of the same reasons, if not similar...yet turn the other cheek when it comes to EA.

I don't understand how people buy the same sports games for $60 EACH YEAR when the major changes are mostly roster or uniforms. And those that buy the Nascar series EACH YEAR...should be shot.

Just read their Jobs section on their website. They openly brag about not requiring ANY experience for them to hire you. They even have on-site training for all the n00bs they hire. Explains quite a bit about their games.

They are like a big corporation outsourcing cheap labor, but locally, and it shows. They hire the dumbest, most uneducated people just breaking into the industry, and they can pay them CHEAP because of it.

in fact the games OF EA are bad implemented, my PC run Doom3, HL2 and FarCry at 60 FPS but can't run Battlefiled 1 (i said 1!) with more than 4 bots...

the only part of EA that have a little better implementation is Maxis, the rest is crap, i will not even talk about NFSP or will get drepressed...

I think the author fails to realize games published by a company don't count as that company's game. Smaller developers just need a publisher to get the game out there and absorb some of the cost. Also, most of the IPs and game developers the author mentions, EA bought them because the bad reputation for lack of innovation and creativity.

For every Madden and Burnout we usually get a Mirrors Edge or Black.

i think i played almost every EA title since the old megadrive days.
Never liked any of their games really. Everything they offer is too generic aimed at making fast money. Well with this hate thing, keep in mind EA is only the publisher in most cases. But i wouldnt miss them if they would be gone. They seem like the MacDonalds of videogaming.
But hey, no one forces u to go to macD :)

tell EA stop hatin on ps3,and every game we get is just trash/sh!t,if ps3 hardware's to hard to make a game on, then do make a game for it. so i say lick my gooch EA.....there i said it.rat basturds should get shived in the kidneys.

The Orange Box on PS3 is a piece of crap. Madden 09 (the new one) is riddled with bugs. No, it's not time to start hating EA.

Btw, games published by them don't count.

I don't know why this author assumes that anyone will care ea is just trying to make money. Its like ea is his slutty Prostitute mother and he is leaping to her defense. Why shouldn't we be able to dislike a company that doesn't cater to our taste. There are lots of comapanies out there that do. ea releases games like team fortress on the ps3 that are barely even playable and then wont even patch it so people can play. Monopoly is a fun board game but not so much fun in real life.

I thinnk we should step up the hate if those glitches are true.. Think im going to hold off on madden this year until i hear from gamers.. Not dealing with another year of glitches..

In Madden 08, onside kick every kick off, pick the patriots, send randy moss deep, you'll win every game. Its so annoying.

It's all about profits and appeasing rich shareholders to them - all about the money. They are actively trying to buy/bribe new assets to the company instead of creating them themselves.

They're far out of touch with what the average consumer wants, and both depend on monopolies to sell most of their products.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau