Poll: The Fall of EA: Yay or Nay?

[Aris Khandr]

I personally don't put a serious lapse of judgement on the same level as say... Jeffrey Dahmer or Adolf Hitler or Stalin or Mugabi or Gheddafi or The Federal Reserve Bank, but I haven't been in your situation so; Who knows? In your shoes I might or might not feel the same way.

The fact that alcohol messes up your ability to drive isn't a mystery. No one gets to drinking age without realizing this. So if you go out drinking and don't make plans to get home safely, you're willfully choosing to put lives at risk. There's no justification for that.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

I think it would be going too far to say I want to see them out of business (ideally I'd like to see them see sense and go back on their worst decisions of late and salvage what little is left of their credibility, but somehow I don't see that happening anymore), I certainly don't think I'd shed any tears seeing them gone, but neither am I going to go dancing in the streets at the idea of many individuals losing their jobs just because they worked for a company that frustrated me no end.

On the other hand, I've always thought brand loyalty was stupid, so although a lot of the games I've liked over the years have come from EA, as far as I'm concerned the name means nothing to me. If EA were to go, I'd hope that the good IP's they owned would be taken on by other publishers; I'd hope that their more competent and talented employees would find new places to go in the industry; I'd hope that other publishers learn the right lessons from what happened, and I'd know that all their past games that I've liked haven't actually gone anywhere and I can still revisit them as many times as I want. Beyond that, all that's been lost is two letters, E and A, is that really such a big deal?

 

[Acton Hank]

anc[is]

If one of your parents died in an accident I doubt you would still be bitter after 6 months.

Really? Fucking really? You couldn't have thought of a better comparison? And 6 months is nothing, it's been a year and a half since DA2 and I'm still pissed Greg managed to convince me to pay full price for that piece of shit.

Damn man, your reaction is just proving my point; you're seriously still pissed after 18 months?

Also, Who the fuck is Greg?!

well, batman was still plenty bitter after only 8 month's

In honesty though, Dragon age had a lot of potential and had started hooking people in, but already is starting to fall apart. If you emotionally invested yourself in dragon age one, and found the sequel to be inferior and the third being left to a pack of idiots, you get to watch everything you know and love become warped in front of you...

remember the avatar the last airbender (blah it never happened blah Lake laogai), it's not that bad as of yet, but we are getting dangerously close

I don't know what you're talking about with the Batman example.

Yeah I remember the awful Airbender movie that's actually the reason I watched the Anime.

Did Dragon Age 2 somehow stop you form enjoying Origins? Does a bad sequel stop the original from being good? If you hate Dragon Age 2 then just ignore it; Play the first game, I'm sure everything you loved about it is still there.

The point is you act like someone is inflicting bad games on you, when in reality you are the ones choosing to be invested this much, there is nothing stopping you from not buying Dragon Age 3 and you know what? Dragon Age Origins will still be there, just the way you like it.

There is no reason for people to hold such anger and bitterness over something like this.

It's a franchise, sometimes they remain good, sometimes they go downhill, if they're good, then great; If it goes bad then move to something else.

 

[Phlakes]

They still publish really, really good games. I don't see why them not giving them to us the right way means they should stop altogether.

 

[Acton Hank]

I personally don't put a serious lapse of judgement on the same level as say... Jeffrey Dahmer or Adolf Hitler or Stalin or Mugabi or Gheddafi or The Federal Reserve Bank, but I haven't been in your situation so; Who knows? In your shoes I might or might not feel the same way.

The fact that alcohol messes up your ability to drive isn't a mystery. No one gets to drinking age without realizing this. So if you go out drinking and don't make plans to get home safely, you're willfully choosing to put lives at risk. There's no justification for that.

Sound logic but recklessness is not as evil as deliberately killing people or systematically destroying their lives for personal gain or pleasure, in my eyes.

I wasn't condoning drunk driving, I was merely pointing out that there are much worse things than that.

 

[Mikejames]

Only if there's a chance that Bioware would rise again from the ashes.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Yay, someone will fill the void so EA can burn for all I care.

this.

they reap what they sew, and what they sewed was arrogance and bullshit, it'll just be delicious for it to bite them square in the ass now.

granted, they bought out bioware, which made some of my favorite games, but that's in the past, so they can kindly fuck off if they think i'm going to buy their games anymore.

 

[Reaper195]

Fuck no. They've got a bunch of developers under their wings, so if EA goes down, so do they. I'd rather the people in charge of EA (About ten people, since that is actually how a corporation works) who actually make the decissions which end up being bullshit to be beaten to death, their bones ground down into a fine powder, and replaced by people that aren't idiots.

A massive majority of those working for EA actually have not one single ounce of sway over what the company does.

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Just bought the album today.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

The only bad thing about the demise of EA is all the awesome games that they will publish and we don't get to play if they "die".

 

[Ldude893]

I want them either dismantled with minimal lay-offs, or have a sensible change of leadership and direction.

 

[Signa]

"devil you know" my ass. There is no other company in the world, let alone a theoretical upstart that would have the balls to be so blatantly evil and still be interested in gaming. Oh, it certainly could happen, but I'd roll the dice on those odds every day of my life.

 

[Laser Priest]

I feel like when they do, they'll gut every company within them in the process. Granted, they've already done quite a bit of visible skewering to BioWare, my favourite developer still in their clutches. And there's no guarantee someone worse won't come in. The Dark Lord Bobby Kotick still exists, doesn't he?

Anyway, I doubt it would end well, but I would certainly enjoy it if we could get a good publisher instead.

Also, shit needs to go well for their employees.

Hell, let's just lock their corporate board in a box and replace them with people who don't breathe money and we might be getting somewhere.

 

[Thoric485]

Finally, a yes/no poll instead of one with seven options, two of which are the same and one is a joke

Anyway, I don't expect them to go away completely, just downsize and become a minor player, like Atari.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

I honestly don't want to see so many goddamn hardworking people lose their jobs in a single instance, no matter what it may or may not do for our industry.

 

[Monkey_Warfare]

If they die they stop buying good companies and running them into the ground right? I have reached the point where I check the publishers before I buy. If its Ubisoft (Painful DRM), Activision (stagnate and release overpriced maps and seem to have infected blizzard) or EA (main points are dumbing down of games, obnoxious DRM, ruining great studios etc) I won't buy it. If these three closed I would dance a merry jig on their respective graves.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

I dunno about you guys (and gals), but I know what I'll be doing when EA finally bites the big liquidation bullet.

 

[Sir Shockwave]

Yay. They will pay for their destruction of Bullfrog. And Westwood. And Maxis. And Mythic. And Origin. And Pandemic. And Criterion. And DICE. And likely soon Bioware. Yeah. They need to pay.

Did I forget any victims to mention on the obituary?

No, I think you got anyone.

Anyways, this. It's gotten to the point now where I make sure any EA games I buy use methods that result in EA either getting very little to none of my Money, as was the case with my Collectors Copy of ME3 (purchased from some random guy off eBay).

Otherwise, between this, Origin and their war on used games, EA should be killed with fire.

 

[mezorin]

They would definitely deserve it: what ever good will they were working towards garnering in the last several years went up in smoke with all the bullcrap in the last few years, and the money grab DLC. You have to piss off a lot of people to end up being a worse company than Bank of America, a bunch of fat cat government bail out parasites that put people out of their homes and almost made the United States of America collapse. But EA going down would take down a lot of IPs with it, and a lot of people working for them too. I'd also not get my BF3 DLCs I paid for, so I'd be pretty pissed off.

What I would RATHER see is EA smarten up, and focus on better consumer friendly practices as well as tightening their belts in how they make things. Rather than dumping 100 million dollars in a bloated project, then desperately nickel and diming all that money back, they should find ways to produce game that do not rely on everybody playing it to dump 150 dollars worth of DLC trinkets to break even. EA could learn a lot from Valve's business model of making fantastic games, and generating good customer will with their fan base, as EA's current model of treating customers as thieves, marks, and milk cows is obviously not doing them any good.

EA could also afford to dump a few IPs, or sell off some studios that are not working out well with them. If EA can't produce a decent Bullfrog or Origin title right now, maybe another publisher could? It could also give them a shot in the arm of on hand finances to jetison an IP that they have no intention on ever making a game for but other studios out there would love to do.