Major companies who have pissed you off to the point of no return.

[shootthebandit]

Sky: simply because they are so damn expensive and you get 2 or 3 decent channels out of the thousand they want you to pay atleast £40 a month for. If you want sports (the only reason to have sky) its another 20 odd quid on top of that. People wonder why torrents of tv series and illegal livestreams of football are so common. Well heres your fucking answer

Ill stick to my freeview and just be a year behind everyone else

 

[Lovely Mixture]

Yeah and if you had read his twitter he also said:

Why's it selfish? I design stuff I actually want as a gamer rather than sell stuff to gamers for money.

That just makes it worse to me actually, it's false dichotomy.

You're assuming it's just a business for us If it were, we'd be a much larger company than who we are today.

Cool deflection

So, Yeah, it sucks that they don't support an entire system, because he doesn't play on it very much, but it mostly shows that this guy and his company are making their stuff, because they like it not because they want to make large amounts of money.

Of course they could just take their Xbox 360 stuff, rename the buttons and change the software and connection and sell it as a ps 3 controller, but they don't do that because they are not just out to make money.

I personally really like that kind of business, we have so few businesses in the gaming industry that actually care about gaming, let's not drive away the few we have.

And? It's still stupid reasoning, it's a bad practice to make products solely around your perception.

He designs the peripherals, because when he plays his games he thinks about what kind of peripheral would improve his enjoyment right now and that's why he designs them. So that's pretty much the reason why he doesn't support PS 3.

That's why they have suggestion boxes, surveys, focus groups, etc. Input from people OTHER than the CEO.

He doesn't play much on it, so he doesn't get ideas what kind of peripheral would make the ps 3 gaming experience more enjoyable for him.

And yet other companies have released their products for both consoles. Perhaps the "gaming experience" is no different on either side?



To clarify, I'm not criticizing him for ignoring the PS3. I'm criticizing practice of close-minded CEOs running their business based on arbitrary reasons. If he was ignoring the 360 in favor of the PS3 I would be saying the same thing.


Apple refused to support flash for a long time, still won't allow custom iOS apps unless they are approved by the apple store (ie. the reason jailbreaking exists)

Blizzard didn't think there would be a sizeable amount of people who would want to play Diablo III online.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Personally, I'm not a fan of Apple of Valve. Sadly, as a predominately PC gamer these days, Steam is a necessary evil in many cases and, as such, Valve at least gets a cut. And when it comes to apple, I'm stuck with their terrible phone for another year.

For the most part though, I'm relatively forgiving of various evil maneuvers because I can sympathize with the position and can understand where it comes from. I may not be a fan of Microsoft but I begrudgingly accept their existence as both necessary and useful across their product line.

 

[ComandaKool]

Gearbox Studios. After the colossal mess that was Colonial Marines I don't think i'll be able to ever trust the bastards again, them and Sega the publishers who rushed out the incomplete game in the first place.

I'm just lucky I got my money($160NZ)back via the seven day trial period.

 

[Hero of Lime]

I'm pretty kind to big corporations so I won't go out of my to boycott or avoid them. Apple is the glaring exception. I find their fake "we are with the people" so annoying and misleading. They want to turn a profit just like every other big company, yet their biggest supporters think they are in it for some kind of humanitarian reason.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Microsoft, they abuse their customer base and then expect them to buy the Xbone 180 and windows 8. Coupled with my +10 arrogance I get from apple products and I just cant use their systems.

 

[Mid Boss]

I have a very low tolerance for stupidity, greed, and arrogance. So, that being said, here we go...

EA: .... Do I freaking need to say anything about this one? Seriously.

Microsoft: No, I haven't forgiven them.

Walmart: Walmarts don't give the wages, or hours, workers need to survive. They also kill any stores around them and give their store managers bonuses for having the fewest workers possible. That's why it takes 15 minutes for you to find any help and everyone who works there looks exhausted and pissed. What makes things worse is all this accumulates to the average loss of 1.6 million dollars in tax revenue for each Walmart since so many people now must seek government assistance to survive.

Fox: They are the EA of television.

Fox News: I'm not a bigot, racist, homophobe, xenophobe, sexist, and I'm not rich thus they have nothing to say that I agree with.

The Koch Brothers: Ass holes richer than god, they do nothing to hide that they hold the middle and lower classes in complete contempt. Overwhelming wealth and political power and they blatantly hate your fucking guts.

 

[CriticalMiss]

For me it is Amazon. They have been dodging tax in the UK (apparently along with most other major companies) and have pissed me off when I used to use them. I was selling some stuff through them, old books and the like, when they started demanding I return the money because someone was asking for refunds. Apparently you need to get proof of delivery for something or they are pretty much guaranteed a refund, but getting recorded delivery sometimes costs more than the item is worth! They couldn't give a shit about that so now I refuse to use them.

I also dislike Starbucks (tax dodgers again) but I have never bought anything from them as I don't drink overpriced coffee. Oh and EA and Activision, naturally.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Oh you know the usual suspects of EA and Microsoft.
Microsoft seems to have it's priorities all fucked up. Why would you put more effort into appeasing game publishers than pleasing your consumer base? Game publishers don't ensure your profit margin, your consumer base does. WTF Microsoft.
Yeah, I know they backtracked on a lot of the anti-consumer bullshit, but the fact that they even considered it in the first place blows my mind.

EA - Do I really need to explain this one? Like Microsoft their ideas on how to deal with their customers are fucked up and their PR is somewhat akin to a septic tank.

 

[The_Tron]

Oh you know the usual suspects of EA and Microsoft.
Microsoft seems to have it's priorities all fucked up. Why would you put more effort into appeasing game publishers than pleasing your consumer base? Game publishers don't ensure your profit margin, your consumer base does. WTF Microsoft.
Yeah, I know they backtracked on a lot of the anti-consumer bullshit, but the fact that they even considered it in the first place blows my mind.

EA - Do I really need to explain this one? Like Microsoft their ideas on how to deal with their customers are fucked up and their PR is somewhat akin to a septic tank.

To be honest the worst part about the whole ordeal with microsoft is that they are fully prepared to re implement the bullshit policies that were initially in place for the Xbox one in a patch. So who says once they reach a certain sales quota that the won't just say "you know what fuck all of y'all who were against us before, now we can do what we want and there isn't a thing you can do to stop us. Only online for you, Ridiculous DRM for you too, want to share your disc based game. Go fuck yourself, binding that copy to your Xbox live account."

While I've never dealt with microsoft outside of a pc perspective, there's no way I'd be willing to trust them enough for a 500$ investment. I still remain skeptical about the ps4 (both utilize AMD hardware which I listed in my original post for good reasons I believe). I feel I also need to add an update about my perspective of apple. I forgot how I already own a 4th generation video ipod and how invasive and annoying their software is about it. No I don't want to update my entire windows operating system to run your bullshit on my non apple system. Awesome, you're intentionally slowing down my entire system because I refuse to get more apple produced software. Well fuck yourself you turtle neck wearing creeps. Go back to worshiping a dead hypocrite instead of giving acknowledgement to the man who gave birth to the modern computer.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Oh you know the usual suspects of EA and Microsoft.
Microsoft seems to have it's priorities all fucked up. Why would you put more effort into appeasing game publishers than pleasing your consumer base? Game publishers don't ensure your profit margin, your consumer base does. WTF Microsoft.
Yeah, I know they backtracked on a lot of the anti-consumer bullshit, but the fact that they even considered it in the first place blows my mind.

EA - Do I really need to explain this one? Like Microsoft their ideas on how to deal with their customers are fucked up and their PR is somewhat akin to a septic tank.

To be honest the worst part about the whole ordeal with microsoft is that they are fully prepared to re implement the bullshit policies that were initially in place for the Xbox one in a patch. So who says once they reach a certain sales quota that the won't just say "you know what fuck all of y'all who were against us before, now we can do what we want and there isn't a thing you can do to stop us. Only online for you, Ridiculous DRM for you too, want to share your disc based game. Go fuck yourself, binding that copy to your Xbox live account."

While I've never dealt with microsoft outside of a pc perspective, there's no way I'd be willing to trust them enough for a 500$ investment. I still remain skeptical about the ps4 (both utilize AMD hardware which I listed in my original post for good reasons I believe). I feel I also need to add an update about my perspective of apple. I forgot how I already own a 4th generation video ipod and how invasive and annoying their software is about it. No I don't want to update my entire windows operating system to run your bullshit on my non apple system. Awesome, you're intentionally slowing down my entire system because I refuse to get more apple produced software. Well fuck yourself you turtle neck wearing creeps. Go back to worshiping a dead hypocrite instead of giving acknowledgement to the man who gave birth to the modern computer.

Which is partially why their backtrack isn't enough for me to change my mind about them. If they're willing to do it once, they'll be willing to do it again.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

The only company that's really just beyond redemption for me is Apple.

Sure there's the relentless air of "we're better than everyone else" nonsense that infects their brand to it's core and as I frequently find out is completely undeserved( I've never seen a more inappropriately named service than the Mac Store "genius.")

But I let that slide to a certain extent, every company is ultimately trying to prove that they're better than the competition.

No what bothers me is the crushing weight of their proprietary software and policies. I get the appeal of iTunes, I do.
But I still think it's a customer unfriendly piece of garbage. Last time I looked there was nothing that iTunes could do that a reasonably savvy user couldn't do just as well with other less restrictive services.

Also anything produced by "Abso Lutely" because Tim and Eric are cancer of the comedy.

 

[viranimus]

Hey, ive been accused of spewing vile and venom as if I was trying to keep from swallowing it myself. I have been majorly pissed off by many companies to varying degrees. Some I simply wont buy from, others I will go out of my way whenever they come up to remind people just how vile and toxic they are.

However, despite my wonderful endless reservoir of loathing, I have no point of no return as any company who willingly owns up to their errors and corrects the problem that infuriated me I can move beyond my grudge and accept them with open arms, without animosity or judgement, almost as if it never happened.

Problem is too few are willing to even acknowledge that they made mistakes, much less actually admit their error and begin repairing it.

Hatred is a wonderful thing. It can burn inside you and fan flames of ambition. It can give you the resolve to take a hit yourself if you know that it is going to be shared with someone most deserving of it. In evil there is a truth and even beauty beyond compare.

However burning ones bridges, in order to blindly hang onto a grudge even after it has been corrected is pointless and counterproductive. To have such an irreversible breaking point is ineffectual. If you can be so rigid and inflexible then you might as well distance yourself completely from not only want sparked your rage, but all things because to dwell and fixate on such ire for one thing will become all consuming like a wild fire out of control and eventually spread needing less and less rationalization to kindle a flame ending in either setting you or the entire world on fire and last I checked it has been quite a while since we had an old fashioned fire storm.


So anger, hate, loathing, resentment, all forms of dark response. Do not fear them. Use them. But you must always be vigilant in controlling their use so you can effectively use them, instead of them using you.

In other less sinister and more sagacious words...

Discontent is the first step of progress of any man or nation - Venerable Fortune Cookie

 

[Abomination]

Living in New Zealand the companies here are essentially forced to adhere to certain standards of employment, and goods and services. So I don't have any company I really hate.

However, I do get to experience overseas companies via digital distribution and EA would be one I despite the present practices of (namely regional pricing, in fact I despite any company from having regional pricing and I make use of friends in the States to bypass said practices).

Fox News is another one that I deem completely toxic. The fact they had the gall to use "Fair and Balanced" as their slogan for awhile was just insulting.

Any tabloid magazine or shows like E! because I believe their products to be incredibly vile. Journalism at its worst.

 

[Callate]

Monsanto. Patenting life, strong-arming farmers, selling poison, driving misled customers in India to suicide... "Scum of the Earth" really doesn't begin to cover it.

I'm not enamored of EA, and I refuse to buy their products on principle, but honestly, they haven't done a whole lot to make me over-the-top angry in the last few months. And they pulled back on the online passes, so, that's good.

Wal-Mart. Union-busting, employee-mistreating, local-business-destroying schmucks, allegedly costing tax-payers $900,000+ per store per year through their lousy pay and benefits.

But their prices are soooo reasonable!

An improperly pressurized American Airlines flight once contributed to my sister getting an ear infection and our having to drive home through several states, and Hawaiian Airlines just seems to treat their customers like crap, but... There just aren't always a lot of options for flights these days, so it's hard to just out-and-out boycott an airline.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

Yaaaaaaaaaaayyy, Apple band wagon! *leaps into the wagon* o3o

Had a Macbook Pro at some point and loved it, except for the lack of game compatibility. Then I had all sorts of iPods, and eventually the iPhone and hated how out of date it got in 2 years (I'd probably only get 25% of the iOS 7 update >.> Glad I got my HTC One) and then my Classic crashed and died and I'm not shipping out $250 for a new one when I got a 32GB MP3 Player for $75. Yeah, no more Apple for me, ever

 

[frizzlebyte]

There's no company that can't bring me back.

I'd agree with this. As long as a company can turn around and own up to their mistakes, and help right some of those previous wrongs, I'm willing to do business with most people.

Microsoft is one of the closest I'm tempted to completely run away from, due to the attitude the company has toward its customers, but if they can prove (during their next console cycle, 'cause this one is pretty much forfeit) that they care enough about their customers to listen to their demands and make a console that doesn't have a constantly listening mic and constantly watching camera, I'm willing to work with them. And their software (games, OSes, etc.) is pretty good, so I don't have as much of a beef with them over those aspects.

And I have to agree with the OP, McDonalds has made me sick more than once, so I've vowed to never try that again. Sad thing is, I actually like their burgers and fries.

 

[Zeles]

*Sigh* Blizzard.
If feels like because of the humungous player base WoW has, and because lore fans are in the minority (as far as I know), the lore has been shoved to the side in place of raids. I left for good when they added F***ing pandas as a playable race. F***ing. Pandas. They had an ENTIRE UNIVERSE to explore- and they went with pandas.

Never going back there.
Not to mention what they did to Illidan and Kael'thas...
And what I've been heard they've done to Jania...

*Sigh*