EA-stories of how they screwed you over

[Jimmybobjr]

I'm usually on okay terms with EA - as bad as they are, at least they're not ActiVision.

Then Generals 2 was announced. This shows two things:

1) The C&C series is now a Zombie Series that has well and truely run past it's course.

2) EA really, really don't care for world events. Given (from what I understand of the world stage right now) the Americans have just pulled out of Afghanistan and we're all doing Mop Up Operations in Libya.

To quote a great man - "There is no middle finger big enough!".

1) Generals was a off-shoot of the actiualy command and conquer series, and had very little to do with red alert or Tiberium

2) Generals and Zero Hour were brilliant RTS's

3) Generals 2 Is running on FrostBite, and that means its going to be (At Least) nice to look at

4) There are never enough RTS games, especially this year (There were like... 3 or something) and any new additions will be great

5) Generals was never set in the real world, and was really more of a satire of the real world (America acting like big arse macho men who all thought they were Rambo, China being overly agressive in foerign policy - Nukes anyone? - and the GLA being zealous fanatics that were mostly insane) And werent even set in the modern day- They were in the near future. Does America have huge Friggin orbital lasers? Nope. In Generals they do.

 

[brainslurper]

Me? I have never ever had a single problem with EA, or anything EA has done. Personally, i dont see why people hate EA.

They think it makes them look cool on the internet.

One of the main things that EA gets flak for is buying a company and then closing them when that company loses both profit and the ability to make games that aren't mediocre.

What makes me laugh is that THQ, Activision, Take-Two, and just about every other major publisher has done the same thing.

People just don't like seeing a business act like a business, and some people suffer from what I personally call 'Che Guevera syndrome'. If it's a corporation they express their disdain on the internet while they keep buying corporation product.

It's kind of like the guy wearing the Che Guevera shirt who talks about how great he was.

We all know one.

But we don't have the heart to tell him that when he bought the shirt, he spat on every idea that Che had.

Really cool bro. Have you ever used origin? That would explain your un-hate for EA.

I actually have.

It works fine.

Worked fine for my friend who bought TOR off it as well.

Are you trying to tell me that because you don't like Origin that's reason enough for me to hate EA? That's a pretty lackluster point.

Are you and your friend using the same origin as the rest of the internet?
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/naxfo/add_me_to_the_list_of_the_victims_of_origin/

 

[Mojo]

Me? I have never ever had a single problem with EA, or anything EA has done. Personally, i dont see why people hate EA.

They think it makes them look cool on the internet.

One of the main things that EA gets flak for is buying a company and then closing them when that company loses both profit and the ability to make games that aren't mediocre.

What makes me laugh is that THQ, Activision, Take-Two, and just about every other major publisher has done the same thing.

People just don't like seeing a business act like a business, and some people suffer from what I personally call 'Che Guevera syndrome'. If it's a corporation they express their disdain on the internet while they keep buying corporation product.

It's kind of like the guy wearing the Che Guevera shirt who talks about how great he was.

We all know one.

But we don't have the heart to tell him that when he bought the shirt, he spat on every idea that Che had.

Really cool bro. Have you ever used origin? That would explain your un-hate for EA.

I actually have.

It works fine.

Worked fine for my friend who bought TOR off it as well.

Are you trying to tell me that because you don't like Origin that's reason enough for me to hate EA? That's a pretty lackluster point.

Are you and your friend using the same origin as the rest of the internet?
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/naxfo/add_me_to_the_list_of_the_victims_of_origin/

The poor support has noting to do with Origin.
The fact that his "back to karkand" did not work does, but Im shure that it got sorted out.
I read seval people hat broblems with BtK when is was released and that they had it fixed.
Im also using Origin for BF3 and Ive had 0 problems so far.
I even used the EA live chat once because I was not getting my veteran weapons for BC2.
They sorted that out in about 10min.
Im not a fan of EAs marketing nor do I agree with some of their business policies.
Fact is: DICE, Bioware and others make incredible games and I will not stop supporting these
developers because of their publisher.

 

[brainslurper]

Me? I have never ever had a single problem with EA, or anything EA has done. Personally, i dont see why people hate EA.

They think it makes them look cool on the internet.

One of the main things that EA gets flak for is buying a company and then closing them when that company loses both profit and the ability to make games that aren't mediocre.

What makes me laugh is that THQ, Activision, Take-Two, and just about every other major publisher has done the same thing.

People just don't like seeing a business act like a business, and some people suffer from what I personally call 'Che Guevera syndrome'. If it's a corporation they express their disdain on the internet while they keep buying corporation product.

It's kind of like the guy wearing the Che Guevera shirt who talks about how great he was.

We all know one.

But we don't have the heart to tell him that when he bought the shirt, he spat on every idea that Che had.

Really cool bro. Have you ever used origin? That would explain your un-hate for EA.

I actually have.

It works fine.

Worked fine for my friend who bought TOR off it as well.

Are you trying to tell me that because you don't like Origin that's reason enough for me to hate EA? That's a pretty lackluster point.

Are you and your friend using the same origin as the rest of the internet?
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/naxfo/add_me_to_the_list_of_the_victims_of_origin/

The poor support has noting to do with Origin.
The fact that his "back to karkand" did not work does, but Im shure that it got sorted out.
I read seval people hat broblems with BtK when is was released and that they had it fixed.
Im also using Origin for BF3 and Ive had 0 problems so far.
I even used the EA live chat once because I was not getting my veteran weapons for BC2.
They sorted that out in about 10min.
Im not a fan of EAs marketing nor do I agree with some of their business policies.
Fact is: DICE, Bioware and others make incredible games and I will not stop supporting these
developers because of their publisher.

I wouldn't stop buying some of my favorite games because I didn't like their publisher. I would stop buying my favorite games because they require me to use origin. So poor origin support has nothing to do with origin. Okay. That makes sense. That makes about as much sense as EA banning people (permanently locking all their origin games) because someone used their name in a post with a bunch of profanities. It makes about as much sense as Liara's personality in mass effect 2, and banning someone for saying e-peen.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

EA is just one of those companies that had to take something that was doing great and make a profit out of it(steam). What they did was make something that on the surface is good but once they make a mistake(my story) they simply don't know how to fix it and still won't take blame.

 

[CaptainKoala]

Just go on Reddit and search 'Origin' and click the first 20 links.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

Me? I have never ever had a single problem with EA, or anything EA has done. Personally, i dont see why people hate EA.

They think it makes them look cool on the internet.

One of the main things that EA gets flak for is buying a company and then closing them when that company loses both profit and the ability to make games that aren't mediocre.

What makes me laugh is that THQ, Activision, Take-Two, and just about every other major publisher has done the same thing.

People just don't like seeing a business act like a business, and some people suffer from what I personally call 'Che Guevera syndrome'. If it's a corporation they express their disdain on the internet while they keep buying corporation product.

It's kind of like the guy wearing the Che Guevera shirt who talks about how great he was.

We all know one.

But we don't have the heart to tell him that when he bought the shirt, he spat on every idea that Che had.

Really cool bro. Have you ever used origin? That would explain your un-hate for EA.

I actually have.

It works fine.

Worked fine for my friend who bought TOR off it as well.

Are you trying to tell me that because you don't like Origin that's reason enough for me to hate EA? That's a pretty lackluster point.

Are you and your friend using the same origin as the rest of the internet?
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/naxfo/add_me_to_the_list_of_the_victims_of_origin/

Again.

Yes.

How is that link supposed to convince me of Origin's shortcomings when it's just a whole bunch of unfortunate people repeatedly[/c] replying to one thread?

Especially, as I already explained, when Origin is working just fine for myself, AND my friend.
Hell, I'm going to be using Origin to purchase TOR.

People need to get off this, 'it's cool to hate EA' spat. They're just like any other video game corporation. People get mad at EA for anything but let Bethesda release bug filled games without flack. It's kind of sad really.

 

[Cat of Doom]

Recently I got into the early access of SWTOR and have gotten relativity far, so to ensure my data inst lost once the game comes out I needed to merge my orgin account with my swtor account(which are different emails).I had a customer service person do it for me so nothing would go wrong, it took 20 minutes and there was no warnings.

the next day now I have 2 broken accounts and can't play battlefield 3 on pc. I contacted customer service and know it turns out that all of my since release online stats are forever gone, I have to re-install the game and they are sorry. How do they compensate me for my wated time and data, a bunch of crap coupons I refuse to use at their store, because their store is sad compared to steam.

If Bioware didn't have SWTOR coming out for pc and orgin required I would delete all my orgin account data get a damn refund for my BF3 and be done with ea for pc, but sadly I can't.

Lets hear your how Bioware screwed me stories.

Well they gave me a brilliant job, and a nice fat Christmas bonus, so.....em.... I had to work new years day last year, so couldn't drink too much on new years eve. The Bastards. As for Bioware, well lets just say i'm not going to badmouth my (hopefully) future bosses.

making a sequel to kotor 400 years after everything happened! seriously, wtf?

That was Obsidion btw... but yeah WTF

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

/snip

Curious to where you do work, technical support, programming, marketing?
Are you contracted through a secondary company, which is normal for most of these businesses?
Where are you located?

I'm on the market for a new job at the moment and have a decent resume in the technical support field. I have worked for Logitech, contracted through a third party, on one of their harder campaigns before it was outsourced to people who have no fucking clue what they where doing. That move, I would bet was done by the third party company looking to make more money off the Logitech campaign, without caring how bad customer service will suffer.

However I like Logitech customer service policies so much that I will still shrill for them.

Not kidding there: I have worked for several campaigns and had to deal a lot with other companies technical support structure and I have yet to find one better then Logitech. This is a company that has policies allowing us to 'upgrade' customers at a whim and ship them free stuff with only the bare minimal of technical support to find out what went wrong. Hell, if we do require you to ship the product back to us, which isn't common, Logitech will even pay for the cost of shipping!

But then, maybe that was just me knowing how to bend every rule to make customers happy in ways that won't get me in shit that has tainted my view of their policies and there was wind of some policy changes coming that we wouldn't be happy about... maybe I got out when it was still good.

 

[solemnwar]

I have never been screwed over by EA.

... well, DA:O's expansion pack, Awakening, was about 1/4 the length of the original game and yet was sold at the same price.

That's about all I got.

 

[brainslurper]

Me? I have never ever had a single problem with EA, or anything EA has done. Personally, i dont see why people hate EA.

They think it makes them look cool on the internet.

One of the main things that EA gets flak for is buying a company and then closing them when that company loses both profit and the ability to make games that aren't mediocre.

What makes me laugh is that THQ, Activision, Take-Two, and just about every other major publisher has done the same thing.

People just don't like seeing a business act like a business, and some people suffer from what I personally call 'Che Guevera syndrome'. If it's a corporation they express their disdain on the internet while they keep buying corporation product.

It's kind of like the guy wearing the Che Guevera shirt who talks about how great he was.

We all know one.

But we don't have the heart to tell him that when he bought the shirt, he spat on every idea that Che had.

Really cool bro. Have you ever used origin? That would explain your un-hate for EA.

I actually have.

It works fine.

Worked fine for my friend who bought TOR off it as well.

Are you trying to tell me that because you don't like Origin that's reason enough for me to hate EA? That's a pretty lackluster point.

Are you and your friend using the same origin as the rest of the internet?
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/naxfo/add_me_to_the_list_of_the_victims_of_origin/

Again.

Yes.

How is that link supposed to convince me of Origin's shortcomings when it's just a whole bunch of unfortunate people repeatedly[/c] replying to one thread?

Especially, as I already explained, when Origin is working just fine for myself, AND my friend.
Hell, I'm going to be using Origin to purchase TOR.

People need to get off this, 'it's cool to hate EA' spat. They're just like any other video game corporation. People get mad at EA for anything but let Bethesda release bug filled games without flack. It's kind of sad really.

Looking around at this thread, and the rest of the internet, you and your friend seem to be the only ones genuinely satisfied with origin. EA is a publisher. I don't blame them for the quality of their games, but if I did, it would involve lots of caps lock and profanities about the butchering of liara's character in ME2, the rat quicktime event in battlefield 3 (flashlights blinding you in daytime, WTF?), and the entirety of DA2. I hate them because they are a shitty company, completely out of touch from their community and only interested in profits.

 

[brainslurper]

Me? I have never ever had a single problem with EA, or anything EA has done. Personally, i dont see why people hate EA.

They think it makes them look cool on the internet.

One of the main things that EA gets flak for is buying a company and then closing them when that company loses both profit and the ability to make games that aren't mediocre.

What makes me laugh is that THQ, Activision, Take-Two, and just about every other major publisher has done the same thing.

People just don't like seeing a business act like a business, and some people suffer from what I personally call 'Che Guevera syndrome'. If it's a corporation they express their disdain on the internet while they keep buying corporation product.

It's kind of like the guy wearing the Che Guevera shirt who talks about how great he was.

We all know one.

But we don't have the heart to tell him that when he bought the shirt, he spat on every idea that Che had.

Really cool bro. Have you ever used origin? That would explain your un-hate for EA.

I actually have.

It works fine.

Worked fine for my friend who bought TOR off it as well.

Are you trying to tell me that because you don't like Origin that's reason enough for me to hate EA? That's a pretty lackluster point.

Are you and your friend using the same origin as the rest of the internet?
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/naxfo/add_me_to_the_list_of_the_victims_of_origin/

Again.

Yes.

How is that link supposed to convince me of Origin's shortcomings when it's just a whole bunch of unfortunate people repeatedly[/c] replying to one thread?

Especially, as I already explained, when Origin is working just fine for myself, AND my friend.
Hell, I'm going to be using Origin to purchase TOR.

People need to get off this, 'it's cool to hate EA' spat. They're just like any other video game corporation. People get mad at EA for anything but let Bethesda release bug filled games without flack. It's kind of sad really.

Looking around at this thread, and the rest of the internet, you and your friend seem to be the only ones genuinely satisfied with origin. EA is a publisher. I don't blame them for the quality of their games, but if I did, it would involve lots of caps lock and profanities about the butchering of liara's character in ME2, the rat quicktime event in battlefield 3 (flashlights blinding you in daytime, WTF?), and the entirety of DA2. I hate them because they are a shitty company, completely out of touch from their community and only interested in profits.

I would look again. There are more posts telling the people spraying hate to bugger off than there are "horror" stories.

If there is any company that isn't "only interested in profits", then they exist in magical fairy land. ALL COMPANIES CARE ABOUT PROFITS NUMBER ONE. Whether this is Bioware, Valve, EA, Activision, IBM, Microsoft, Sony, or Burger F***ing King, all companies care profits number one.

OT: Only problem I've had with EA is that the NBA Live series has gone way downhill. I liked that series about 7 years ago.

Okay, first of all, I suppose nonprofits only exist in magical fairy land. Most companies intend to make a profit, and that is their goal, but some companies put the satisfaction of their community over their profits.

 

[natster43]

Them using Online Pass. My brother bought Dead Space 2 new, but because we use different hard drives, I would have to pay extra to play online. No EA, I will not give you more money, and if I ever buy a Dead Space game now, it will probably be used.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

Recently I got into the early access of SWTOR and have gotten relativity far, so to ensure my data inst lost once the game comes out I needed to merge my orgin account with my swtor account(which are different emails).I had a customer service person do it for me so nothing would go wrong, it took 20 minutes and there was no warnings.

the next day now I have 2 broken accounts and can't play battlefield 3 on pc. I contacted customer service and know it turns out that all of my since release online stats are forever gone, I have to re-install the game and they are sorry. How do they compensate me for my wated time and data, a bunch of crap coupons I refuse to use at their store, because their store is sad compared to steam.

If Bioware didn't have SWTOR coming out for pc and orgin required I would delete all my orgin account data get a damn refund for my BF3 and be done with ea for pc, but sadly I can't.

Lets hear your how Bioware screwed me stories.

Um... dude... SWTOR does not in any shape or form require Origin. I played Early Access and kept my characters when the game came out, and I don't even have an Origin account. You can BUY the game over Origin, but you don't need it once purchased.

Whoever told you otherwise was lying to you. When EA announced their Origin service, BioWare made a point of saying that while customers could pre-order or purchase the game over Origin, Origin would not be required to run it.

The only characters that were lost were beta test characters. And they got deleted no matter what you linked your account to.

Also, you say that their store is sad compared to Steam. That's pretty harsh, since Steam is pretty much useless as it is. If Steam is the digital equivalant of garbage, Origin must be the digital equivalant of... what's worse than garbage? Kim Kardashian.

EA has never screwed me over. Some of my favorite games come from EA, and I'm sure that some of my favorite games in the future will come from EA. I never judge games based on their publisher. I judge them on their own merits, and by the reputation of their developer. Why pre-order SWTOR? Because not only does BioWare have a habit of releasing excellent games every time, they have made the single greatest game of all time (Baldur's Gate I and II).

If I buy a game that comes with almost nazi-like DRM, I always think "Is this game worth the DRM it comes with?"

9 times out of 10, the answer is no. Hell, I don't even tolerate games requiring Steam to run. But I have never gotten excited about games before launch before. Most of my favorite games are found years after release in the used rack of the EB (at least before they stopped accepting trade-ins on PC games). The only real exception that wasn't a handheld title I either borrowed or asked for as a gift is The Old Republic, which I wanted almost as soon as it was announced.

I now know that you don't really need it, but I was told by SWOTR.com I did. all well I just can't play battfield 3 anymore, SWTOR is great so ill be fine.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

EA swallowed up Maxis and turned it into the Sims only. Damn I liked that company.

Also:

It was many a year ago, the release of Spore was imminent. I followed it like crazy, the game looked amazing. However, one thing stuck out about it in the things I've read, the DRM. I foolishly ignored it. "It won't be that bad, that'd just be insane!" I said.

When I finally bought it and took it home, I attempted to install it. This is where it all went horribly wrong. It would not install. It apparently needed to connect to the internet. I had flaky dial-up, so that prospect was horrifying to me. Still, "whatever", I thought. I'll just do this quickly. There is no quick with dial-up. Over and over I tried to connect and install, and the game kept refusing to do so. Eventually it just gave up, and said I used up all my "install privileges". I was dumbfounded. Install privileges? The fuck are those? Well, I eventually managed to contact EA support, told them of the issue, and they said all this was to protect from people pirating their game, and that if I wanted to attempt to install again, I would have to buy another copy of Spore.

Yeah, no, FUCK you EA. I spent $50 on a game I really anticipated, then the game wouldn't install and ended up breaking itself because it couldn't verify that it was the legit copy. And on top of all this, apparently at one point Spore forced SecuROM on my PC, without even telling me. This SecuROM would stay, and never leave. It kept coming back, no matter how much I removed it. EA had forced malware on my PC, with Spore, because they think I, a kid with fucking DIAL-UP, would pirate the game. Even though I bought it.

Eventually, my friend lent me his pirated copy of Spore. It was alright, but the whole event just soured me on it and EA.

Then there was this other time, pretty recently in fact, where I tried to buy the ME2 arrival DLC. I had a pre-paid credit card, I've used ones like this one to buy DLC from EA before. Well for some reason this one wouldn't go through. I figured alright, fine, things change. So I went and tried to buy something from GoG, only to find I couldn't because for some reason my credit card lost some funds.

Turned out every time I tried to buy the Arrival DLC with the pre-paid card, EA charged $1 for every attemt (about $3 in all). They said they couldn't charge the card, then charged the card, EVEN WHEN THEY SAID I WOULD NOT BE CHARGED FOR THE FAILED ATTEMT TO BUY THE DLC.

Yeah, fuck EA.

Shit like this doesn't inspire confidence in a company.

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

Me? I have never ever had a single problem with EA, or anything EA has done. Personally, i dont see why people hate EA.

They think it makes them look cool on the internet.

One of the main things that EA gets flak for is buying a company and then closing them when that company loses both profit and the ability to make games that aren't mediocre.

What makes me laugh is that THQ, Activision, Take-Two, and just about every other major publisher has done the same thing.

People just don't like seeing a business act like a business, and some people suffer from what I personally call 'Che Guevera syndrome'. If it's a corporation they express their disdain on the internet while they keep buying corporation product.

It's kind of like the guy wearing the Che Guevera shirt who talks about how great he was.

We all know one.

But we don't have the heart to tell him that when he bought the shirt, he spat on every idea that Che had.

Really cool bro. Have you ever used origin? That would explain your un-hate for EA.

I actually have.

It works fine.

Worked fine for my friend who bought TOR off it as well.

Are you trying to tell me that because you don't like Origin that's reason enough for me to hate EA? That's a pretty lackluster point.

Are you and your friend using the same origin as the rest of the internet?
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/naxfo/add_me_to_the_list_of_the_victims_of_origin/

Again.

Yes.

How is that link supposed to convince me of Origin's shortcomings when it's just a whole bunch of unfortunate people repeatedly[/c] replying to one thread?

Especially, as I already explained, when Origin is working just fine for myself, AND my friend.
Hell, I'm going to be using Origin to purchase TOR.

People need to get off this, 'it's cool to hate EA' spat. They're just like any other video game corporation. People get mad at EA for anything but let Bethesda release bug filled games without flack. It's kind of sad really.

Looking around at this thread, and the rest of the internet, you and your friend seem to be the only ones genuinely satisfied with origin. EA is a publisher. I don't blame them for the quality of their games, but if I did, it would involve lots of caps lock and profanities about the butchering of liara's character in ME2, the rat quicktime event in battlefield 3 (flashlights blinding you in daytime, WTF?), and the entirety of DA2. I hate them because they are a shitty company, completely out of touch from their community and only interested in profits.

Which goes back to my point, the point which you decided to respond to in the first place.

EA isn't the only company that is only interested in profits. Every company is only interested in profits. EA just doesn't do the PR nice guy stuff that other companies do.

With all of the near broken Bethesda published/developed games that have come out, people still love them.

With the fact that Obsidian has never released a game that hasn't had major bugs (Alpha Protocol, New Vegas), everyone seems to be fine with that company.

Nintendo's constant rehashing of games that people who can't stop living in the past keep buying. Also for not getting with the times when it comes to online console gaming.

Microsoft being the only console manufacturer that charges for online.

Activision essentially milking Guitar Hero to literal death, milking COD, and producing next to nothing original.

Here in Canada, The Witcher Enhanced Edition didn't come with the required CD Key (affected me personally). I didn't go and make a forum post about how much CD Projeckt sucks. I went to customer care and got a new CD key.

Ubisoft's asinine DRM and milking of Assassin's Creed.

With all of what other companies do listed above, people still give EA flak over any other company over the most miniscule complaints.
For example:
"Origin scans my PC"
Windows Updates do that as well. And to be honest what are you worried about? They use to info on your PC and sell it to advertiser, just like Facebook, MySpace, and any other social media site.

Valve got freaking hacked and told everyone that their credit info was in danger.

Not a peep of negativity.

If Origin got hacked it would have been EA's fault in the eyes of everyone, and instead of being rational and just changing their passwords, people would be setting up a class action lawsuit.

And sadly what the OP is really complaining about is the compensation. Compensation EA didn't have to give out. OP is mad because they dared to give him coupons for Origin because he had to re-install a video game and make new characters for an MMO. Whoop dee freaking do, what a tragedy.

It's kind of a pathetic thing to complain about on the internet in a forum overall. At least I'm glad that, judging from the other posts here, I'm not the only person who thought that hating EA stopped being cool 5 years ago.

 

[Woodsey]

If Bioware didn't have SWTOR coming out for pc and orgin required

Origin isn't required, even if you buy it on Origin.