Jimquisition: Why Do People Hate EA?

[NinjaGASMask]

Episodes like this make me glad to have stumbled upon the Escapist, Jim Sterling with Moviebob, make this website seem like the NY Times of gamer magazines. Good episode Jim, I look forward to next week.

[I would like a Gravity Rush Shirt please! Also, Jim Sterling is the sexiest man alive!(Look I used real brackets! Not Parentheses )]

 

[Murmillos]

I've always had a distaste for Activision ever since they took very wrong choices in I'76, Battlezone and finally the Jedi Knight series.
The last Activison game I "bought" happened to be Skylanders, and I only say that in quotes, because the wife got it as a Christmas present for the kids.
I also suppose I also did give them money back in 2009 for the X360 COD:MW2 holiday bundle. Between 2005 and 2009, I was all into World of Warcraft (and the other occasional RPG game)

EA..
Lets see, you gave me Wing Commander, C&C Burnout, Need For Speed and The Sims; non which I no longer play -- because you either don't make them anymore, or just developed retarded bastardized versions.
You did get some money and trust back with DA and the ME series (hell, 2008 looked fucking fantastic for you guys...), but as history has shown, you can't be trusted with popular publishers. As you seem to enjoy fucking them over for a quick buck instead of building that strong developer/fan loyalty. Lets see, are there any games you are currently making that I'm still mildly interested in? DA3, perhaps. But after you allowed ME3 to be fucked over, do I even dare even want to see how DA3 will turn out? You dragged a burned and naked corpse game called DA2 thru the streets. What makes us think that you won't treat DA3 with the same vulgarity.

Looking at my Amazon wish list, I see games from Bethesda, Rockstar, 2K Games, Square Enix and Ubisoft (and PC gamers, I understand your frustrations with them).
I've supported a few KickStarters, I buy indie PC games from Steam, and I'm looking forward to CD Projekt 'Cyberpunk'.

So yea, I think its going to be easy not to care about what EA does any more, nor give them my money.

 

[Caliostro]

I don't always see eye to eye with Jim, but this has got to be the best Jimquisition ever. "Pedophile Stalin" line nearly killed me.

It's soo true though. I was just thinking the other day that after the shit PR streak Activision underwent a few years ago (cause Kotick couldn't simply shut the fuck up), how the hell did EA manage to being the spotlight of hatred again? Seriously, Activision has just kept doing what they always did, but worse... You could set a litter of puppies on fire and still not look as demonic as Activision, so the fact that EA managed to steal the hate machine spotlight back is actually fucking impressive.

Funny part is, out of the two, Kotick was the one that learned his lesson: just shut the fuck up. All Activision has done is be quiet and let EA hang themselves. EA are the ones that can't seem to help it... It's uncanny.

 

[thebakedpotato]

EDIT: Nah, it's about DRM, DLC, Forum Bannings, Pricing, Corporate Quotes, Franchising....

All the things you could never be apart of, have any control over, arm chair quarterback decide, shiet.

The real problem I have with EA is that they caught me with a cracked copy of the sims on my computer and murdered my family in front of me.

Hyperbolic statements and blatant lies aside, I have to disagree with the quoted. The role of the customer in the free market blah blah blah blah blah. Honestly I've seen folks say they don't buy EA games. Which is all folks can do to stop it in the end.

Gamers are an entitled bunch. And EA has done some slimy moves. But at the end of the day a lot of the folks who have invested emotionally into their franchises will come back for whatever offerings have been made. And that's why EA probably won't change.

 

[freakonaleash]

I never paid attention to when companies like activision and EA became so evil, but based on what you said they are pretty faiiilll.

[Me want shirt please, Jim is...sexy?]

 

[Kevin7557]

That really should be Activision's Slogan, At Least We're Not EA. Really if you need a reason to hate EA how about they still buy up companies and ruin them and/or they force them to act as mouth pieces to make excuses for the bullshit they just put out and for pissing off every customer they have. Then EA turns around and says gamers shouldn't complain and websites echo that sentiment because they are such whores and don't want to loose that sweet advertisement money or kickbacks that EA and other companies give them.

The most obvious of these offenses was Kingdom of Amalur, EA put out this advertisement piece saying the game had over 200 hours because their game testers took 8 days to complete the game entirely. Wow sounds impressive until you do the math and find out there isn't even 200 hours in 8 freaking days only 192 if I remember correctly and then if you bother to look up government statics on the average work day you get a number closer to 65-85 hours which low and behold was the exact amount of time people spent finishing the entire game. If that wasn't bad enough it took someone pointing out that there aren't 200 hours in 8 days for every website to shit their pants and delete that blatant lie and insert a generic quote from EA about the games length. I'm proud to have been that person btw.

[I would like a shirt and Jim is ultra sexy. I can only hope to produce the amount of sexy he puts out in one hour in a single year. He is the single reason I can't get ladies because they look at me and say sorry you are anything like Jim (which is unfair BS). I tried to make a Powerpoint presentation to demonstrate the level of sexiness Jim has but it overloaded PowerPoint, Microsoft of course refused to pay for the damages claiming that i should have known making a power point presentation about Jim's sexiness is like making a power point presentation about Chuck Noris's awesomeness and that current generation computers simply can't handle it.

Then again why does anyone need a Powerpoint Presentation to point out what everyone knows to begin with. It is like trying to point out we're alive or gravity makes us all its *****. Entirely self evident. So self evident they considered adding him to Rushmore in hopes that his Sexiness would rub off on all Americans but Rushmore doesn't have the density to support that much sexiness and would collapse causing landslides. Statue of Liberty was a great second option but same flaw, not strong enough frame to support the sheer amount of sexiness given off by Jim.

In all honesty in the future we will be reading poetic epics about Jim. Text books will be dedicated to attempting to achieve his level of sexiness and a religion will be founded upon his name because upon his death in less than 3 minutes as Jim doesn't do that three day lag bs, he rose into the heavens to make heaven more sexier.]

 

[Antari]

The only thing I hate more than EA. Is someone trying to defend them. No thanks on the shirt, its just a bit too, plain. Like alot of games these days. Get a nice hawaiian shirt going and I'll be excited. Besides which I'm about 250 miles north of the US so Region locks bite again. Your place in heaven is assured Jim, keep up the good fight!

 

[dbenoy]

You would think that EA would be cautious and sensitive to potential hacks, but when Origin sent me e-mails claiming that I changed my e-mail address, and I told them there could be a potential hack, the guy in the live chat was completely useless. He didn't even speak english. I saved the chat log here:

http://tmblr.co/ZCySHvM8a_fG

 

[Aggieknight]

Just wanted to say that that was my favorite Jimquisition ever. Great work.

Cheers.

 

[EXos]

He had me at Bullfrog... -sob- I miss dungeon keeper, I miss Them hospital.
Same with Westwood... I miss the true Command & Conquer (Anything after TS is dumbed down and SHIT!)

The only EA titles I've bought in the last years were... Well there were three and we're waiting for a better ending. 'Nuf said

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

I was wondering when we'd have a video completely dedicated to talking about EA. If you want to say everything about EA, we might need a trilogy.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

He had me at Bullfrog... -sob- I miss dungeon keeper, I miss Them hospital.
Same with Westwood... I miss the true Command & Conquer (Anything after TS is dumbed down and SHIT!)

The only EA titles I've bought in the last years were... Well there were three and we're waiting for a better ending. 'Nuf said

I miss Westwood too. It's enough to want me to punch everyone at EA in their faces. Companies getting sucked up by EA these days must just have a death wish. They know what they are getting themselves into.

 

[TJF588]

Those faces...dem LIPS!

But yeah, the kind of loops and hoops that EA and Bioware have saddled the latter with has been something with which I am familiar. My friend/to-be bro-in-law had two separate EA accounts (he figures to use a Hotmail address for anythign on Xbox, whereas his Origin account was Gmail), and we STILL haven't gotten everything transfered from the deactivated Hotmail one to the Gmail one. Not that I haven't tried, and not that EA's customer support hasn't tried. It just seems like the system is so tangled that they could give the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota a run for its money.

[I would like I Gravity Rush shirt, please, and Jim Sterling is sexy.]
(This posted despite me typically wearing a Medium, but I like GR/GD's aesthetic, so of course I'm interested in Jim-ruffled swag.)

 

[JoeyMousepadd]

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(Also I would like the shirt)

Forgot to add "Jim is sexy" hehe.
I'm also anticipating that whoever gets the shirt will find a small dog turd wrapped inside.

Or quite possibly a rather large human turd.

 

[samaugsch]

Well said. I'm amazed EA won't listen to all the complaints, and yet people will buy their games anyway... *SIGH*

Either that or they keep changing their target audience (hey, I think I just might've figured out their marketing strategy. Not that I'm saying that it's a good one).

 

[Rub3z]

Bravo Jim. Another good video all-around. I don't really know what else I could say about EA, aside from the fact that I actually had a good customer service experience from them once or twice. But then again, perhaps said customer service experience wouldn't have been needed in the first place if the product or issues in question I was forced into asking them about weren't totally daft. Such nonsense... :/

[I would like a Gravity Rush shirt please. Also, Jim is supremely, drippingly, entirely confusingly and profoundly sexy. For some ineffable reason.]

 

[gamegod25]

And that is precisely the reason why many of the big businesses like EA and activision are going to go bankrupt, because they are dinosaurs trying force old business models on an evolving market. Not only that but they seem to be actively trying to piss off consumers and not even care if they do.

If you want us to buy your game, give us an (good) incentive to by new! You want us to use your digital distribution service? Make the games cheaper! You want us to be loyal and want to give our money to you? Don't kick us in the balls and act like you were doing us a favor.

You want an example of a good company that treats its customers right? I've bought a bunch of Fantasy Flight board games have had a couple bum pieces mixed in or had the French instruction manual by mistake. And you know what happened, I sent them an email and within a week or so got the correct, brand new parts...FOR FREE! No charge for the pieces, no charge to cover shipping, nothing! Any hard feelings I might have had are more than assuaged by the fact that they treated me with respect,responded quickly, and (this might be hard to understand) a little damn generosity. I would happily buy from them again.

/end of rant

(PS I'd love to see Jim try to squeeze his man titties into that shirt xD )