Interesting to see this topic up here. A couple of days ago I was so incredibly annoyed with that shitty excuse of a company I nearly posted a rant on it. I hate EA, I really do. ALL of their games seem to have stupid bugs in it that may or not make the game unplayable at random times.
It started some time back, when a buddy bought me Red Alert 3 for my birthday. Aside from the retarded 5-installs-only-system that doesn't give EA any credit, there were bugs. A lot of them. At times we would be playing the game and either his or my game would simply crash to the desktop. Yay. At other times we would try to start or load a mission, and could click the start/load button as normal, but nothing would happen if we did. At times the match would crash during loading.
It continued with Battleforge, a 'free2play' game where you download the game for free but need to pay for specific 'points' that are used as in-game currency. Aside from the COUNTLESS amounts of gameplay bugs that ruin the game (for example, you're able to accidently block the paths of specific NPCs moving towards specific locations; the NPC will simply get stuck and no matter what you do, the map will be completely uncompletable and you'll have to start again), there's also the fact that it seems to crash at random moments. And I'm not the only person to which that has happened - I've met several people with the same problems. It's said that this is a video card/PC problem, but if it is, then tell me why Battleforge (and RA3) are the only games on my PC crashing while other graphically similar games like Assassin's Creed, Empire - Total War and even World of Warcraft never crash?
After Battleforge I went to Warhammer online: Age of Reckoning. I downloaded the trial, played for a couple of hours, and got stuck. That's right, I got stuck. Say about WoW what you want, but in nearly 5 years of playing I don't think I've ever gotten stuck - unless you count the time where I purposefully applied some nifty wall-climbing and sought out the edge of the world and jumped over it. And even then I had the option to ressurect near a graveyard. The unstuck command naturally didn't work and I had to contact a GM to unstuck me. What I'll give them is that the GM replied in 10 minutes. Lateron though, I got a bug where I couldn't see interactable objects which had to be resolved by rebooting my PC. Oh, and before I forget it; interactable objects which are coincidentally also bugged, as their animations go at approximatly 0,4 FPS. And no, it's not my pc; everything else in the game runs as smooth as a rocket on roller blades.
Eventually, I did buy the game because it was only 10 euros as part of an action, and now that I've really started to play it and work on my interface more and more bugs start popping up. At random times my influence bar (sort of experience) will disappear, and only relogging will cause it to come back. Keybinds don't work well; Page Down works normally, so does control+Page Down, but shift+Page Down simply isn't registered at all. Lag sometimes allows me to use two abilities in one global cooldown even though I'm on <100 ms. The updater randomly doesn't work.
And then I'm not even mentioning the fact that I couldn't even browse and post on the forums while waiting for my game to arrive due to the retarded fact that you need to have an in-game character to post there. And I haven't even started about what they did to Simcity, how they cockblocked Dungeon Keeper 3, what they did to Westwood and other similar things.
From all the games I've played in my life I've noticed that all developers have some recurring elements. From what I've noticed, Blizzard games appear to mostly be completely bugless, Ubisoft games often show signs of sloppy programming and translation errors, Microsoft games tend to go for looks but do often at least have a playable depth. EA games tend to be unplayable and buggy. So no. I do not love EA. I won't go as far as to say I'm never again buying anything that has the slightest bit to do with them, but I'm not far from that point and all it takes is a little more errors compared to a few more flawless Blizzard, Ubisoft, Microsoft or what-have-you games, and they'll no longer have my money anymore. And get my finger instead.
TL;DR - No, I don't love EA, it sucks, and I hate it.
