Lately I seen a lot of articles that has put a lot of hate towards EA, but really I want to know why?
I believe that there are a lot worse companies out there and in this article I will be naming some companies and listing some games.
The biggest game out there is the Call Of Duty series, (yes I have played them) and from my point of view it's just the same rubbish every year, the multiplayer is broken, the whole game is just a copy & paste theme and there noting really new or exciting in there.
It's not just the Call Of Duty games that have I have issues with.
The walking dead survival instinct is another game, it's buggy as hell and the combat is weak and its had so much hype it's just well crap. (I know this because I have experienced the game first hand and I did not enjoy it.)
Their customer support isn't any better either, when you go onto Activision support and explain you got a problem with the game or some sort of other issue as soon you done explaining to them, they decide to mark your case as resolved (even though it clearly hasn't. I had plenty of cases of this.)
Furthermore they have hardly improved there graphics or physics engine for years now (as you can see from there games.)
That’s not the only company what has screwed up in some way just look at Capcom and look at some of their recent games for example DMC remake and RE both was ruined in various ways.
RE was ruined by the franchise becoming an action game when it started out as a brilliant horror survival (the last decent survival horror in my opinion being RE:CVX.) The DMC remake was just a poor effort it didn't feel like I was playing DMC anymore but instead just a cheap copy.
konami has also had it fair share of fuck ups with games for example Silent Hill homecoming was yet again more action instead of survival horror and Metal Gear Solid Rising was over the top, it took away the element of stealth and it became more like Ninja Gaiden.
For my final example look at Dead Island Riptide (made by Techland) and how little things have changed from the first one, the combat is still sluggish, the missions are still boring and repetitive and it does not feel like a survival horror.
I not saying EA is the best but it’s not the worst, yes I understand they made some bad choices so have other companies. I also understand that EA have ruined some of their own game franchises like when Need For Speed went from illegal street racing to track racing, or dead space 3 being too much action.
I just saying just think about all the other game companies out there what have done bad ideas to their games and haven't fixed it and don't judge EA so radically.
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Ok, first of all this isn't really long enough to be in the blog section. It reads like something that should be in the forum section.
As for the content, this just sounds like you had a CoD problem that Activision didn't solve to your satisfaction and so now you hate them. EA is a FAR worse company. Activision may release the same crap every year, but given that that garbage sells around 12 million units every time and has become a billion dollar franchise, that's just good business sense.
Activision haven't used online passes, for any of their games. EA are among the biggest users of it. EA also LOVE day 1 DLC. EA buys out smaller dev companies and ruins them. EA's influence ruins sequels and potentially franchises by making developers go the "accessibility" route (Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 2&3 are considered worse than the original games).
EA are incredibly anti-consumer. They push microtransactions (yes, even the kind that are Pay-to-Win microtransactions), and they neglected to learn the lesson that Ubisoft had to learn the hard way that always-online DRM (and no matter what Peter Moore says, it is DRM) is wrong, is not something anyone wants, and will be fought (at least by those who can fight it) until it's removed.
EA are arrogant and believe none of their anti-consumer practices are wrong because they make millions off of casuals who don't know any better. They state outright that, because of these millions, obviously they are doing something people love and want to support knowing full well what kind of people they are talking about.
There is a reason EA earned the "Worst Company in America" title from The Consumerist twice, and it's not because they are a better company than Activision. They may not have DESERVED that title (there are many more deserving companies), but they certainly did everything they could that people felt was anti-consumer enough to EARN that title.
Simcity.
It's an example of what EA stands for.
Spending a lot of money for nothing.
Other publishers are also heading into a direction that they are forcing gamers to spend on things they don't want.If the product is fine people will buy.But to leave out choice only aggravates.And from what I can see EA is king of aggravating people.
Disappointment in a game will start this snowball of feelings effect and then we get the hate. quoting yoda "fear is the path to the darkside." "fear leads to anger." "anger leads to Hate." Hate leads to suffering." and so you have manifested hate by feeling it and speaking about your hate of EA. I love EA for the great games they make and a amazing company it is!!! :)
Because they don't care about their customers. Case in point, I decided to upgrade my BF3 to the premium and got it cheap online. Only trouble the code doesn't work. Good job EA...
The problem with EA is that they never lead. As the biggest company in the industry, you would think that they would try and lead the industry. They do not do this. They follow the most recent trend and try and steal sales from a game that already exists. Look at how many military shooters they've published in the last few years to try and compete with COD. Look at how many MMO's they've published to try and compete with WOW. Look at how many games they've shoved too much action into that clearly didn't need it (DA2, ME3, Dead Space 3).
That's the problem with EA. They have so many great IPs, but they ruin them by trying to appeal to an audience that doesn't care about that IP. You can't make a Dead Space game that's not a survival horror to try and appeal to an action genre.
Create your own creations, make them successful.
That's the problem with EA.