EA or Activision? Pick your Brand War allegiance!

[end_boss]

Well, not sure if I have the answer for this one myself. But let's say that for whatever theoretical reason, it came down to ONLY these two brands, and you had to pick one or the other. No double spies; not choosing one or the other means... um... death? I guess? I know a lot of you will hate both brands, so you gotta choose the lesser of two evils.

For me, on one hand, Activision has absorbed my favourite old company, Sierra On-Line, and has allowed Sarien.net to continue, so that scores lots of points. EA has absorbed another one of my favourites, Origin Systems, and dragged it through the ground. Minus points.

There are probably pros and cons to either side (which I hope to hear throughout the course of the thread). Tentatively I think I'm leaning more towards the Activision side for now, but I can still potentially be swayed.

So, draw the battle line here. Which side are you on?

EDIT: I admit that I went in on this somewhere on the fence, maybe leaning towards Activision entirely because of Sarien.net. However, after reading some of the responses and judging the valid points, I am swinging back over to EA.

 

[Exort]

I rather choose a pile of dirt.
Ok, activision because the thing on the Sierra Fan site got back and running

Edit: i meant this http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107406-Sierra-Fan-Site-Bounces-Back-From-Activisions-Cease-and-Desist

 

[deonte9109]

I guess Ill choose death/exile because I have love/hate relationships with both publishers and choosing one side would be impossible.

 

[blue spartan 11]

EA. They seem to be the lesser jerks lately.

 

[DevilWolf47]

EA, or more specifically BioWare.

 

[Worgen]

Im gonna go with ea since I dont really like most of activisions new shit, cod never grabbed me like bad company 2...well a cod since 4 and even with the sierra thing activision just seems like kind of an asshole company, not to mention they are too big

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

I feel dirty for even saying this but EA. Only because it owns Bioware. Otherwise it's like choosing if you prefer Adolf Hitler or Pol Pot.

 

[voetballeeuw]

I'll agree with the majority that have posted so far, EA for me as well. Mass Effect and Bad Company, sign me up.

 

[mornal]

EA. Done more good, at least as of late. They also gave us project ten dollar which (esp. with BFBC2) has been better than Activisions habit of charging 15 bucks for 3 maps.

 

[Jelly ^.^]

Democrat/Republican

Labor/Liberal

Labour/Conservative

SDP/CDP

Microsoft/Sony

Nintendo/Sony

Nintendo/SEGA

LucasArts/Sierra

Duality is stupid when both choices are equally shit or equally good.

It always has been

It always will be.

 

[MAUSZX]

I recently take a look at my games, and most of them are from EA. SO EA

 

[Slickmcgee]

Well Activision has...um....hmmmmm...COD? no....BFBC2 is better....ummmm...guitar hero? no.....whored out....um....they got Blizzard.

And EA has bioware, the dead space franchise, Bulletstorm, BFBC2, crysis and more. Even if some of that is just distributor, they help get much more and better games out there.

So EA

 

[lovest harding]

EA.
I really can't think of any IP Activision has their hand in that I really love.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

I choose secret option 3. Valve!

 

[jpoon]

Neither, fuck both of the douchebag corporations. Activision, I would probably put a fart closer to the top of my shit-list.

 

[Bat Vader]

I would have to pick EA. That is mainly because they own my favorite developer Bioware. EA seems to be acting better than how they were acting a couple of years ago.

 

[WaReloaded]

Activision, but more specifically, Blizzard.

 

[Roxor]

I think I'd probably side with EA. At least they've actually published something of interest in the last few years (namely Mass Effect and Spore). I can't think of anything of interest published by Activision in the last five years.

 

[Mimssy]

I'm cool with EA.

 

[Sovereignty]

EA... Cause I doubt I'd be able to function without my favorite sports games.

But who owns KOEI?