So IGN decided to ask "why do people hate EA"

[johnnnny guitar]

So IGN thought that they would try and tackle the issue of people's hate of
EA being at an all time high.

I was just wondering what are your thoughts on IGN's article

EDIT-CEPTION:
Here's the link for people that can't download the image

http://au.ign.com/articles/2012/06/14/why-do-people-hate-ea

and here's the image for people who don't want to give traffic to IGN/Murdoch

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

I really don't like IGN, I mean, they are owned by the same people that owns FOX.

This article also reminded me a lot of something that I would hear on FOX news...
EDIT: It'd also be nice to know if the entire article is a quote from the guy, or if it is author speculation...
If it's a quote, then we're right, EA is owned by dicks
If it's author speculation, then he is terrible at his job.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

Don't link to nerdbait. It's precisely what they want and need to generate extra ad revenue

 

[Thoric485]

I'm having trouble reading this with a straight face past the point where they referred to "biggest" and "high Metacritic score" as some sort of valuable qualities, and to EA itself as "profitable, but not outrageously so", as if the company's welfare is what offends people, and not its practices.

Also searching for the words "Origin Systems", "Westwood", "Bullfrog", "Mythic" and "Pandemic" returns 0 results (though Peter Moore did refer to some developers as roadkill at the end, so I'm guessing that was it). And it's amusing how all the specific examples of EA fucking up, are juxtapositioned with generalities like "EA has done some very smart things with Origin". I myself can't recall any such things.

So in my mind I can safely conclude the person who wrote this is an idiot, a shill or both. Instead of telling the readers why people hate EA, he tells them why they should put up with EA.

Here's the whole thing in image form so as to not give him any article hits:

Spoiler

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I find it funny how he states that EA was voted the worst company in America because of nerd rage over the Mass Effect 3 ending, while in fact EA was voted the worst company in America BEFORE Mass Effect 3 was released.

 

[Ldude893]

DRM, bad customer service, releasing games that turn out to be unworkable, absorbing of good game developers just to hog their properties while picking bought dev companies to pieces, immature marketing that gives video gaming a bad public image, and Sim City Societies.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Oh IGN you worthless piece of shit, much like yourself EA deserves every bit of poo flung at them because neither you or them have any restrain when it comes to abusing peoples good will, then coming around and claiming you are doing nothing wrong.

So since you haven't been potty trained properly we have an obligation to smack you in the gob till you become a useful part of society or you go shit on someone else's carpet.

 

[felbot]

they sold me a product which didn't work, at all forcing me to pirate the game.
constantly berating other companies despite being no better.
and of course origin, i hate it.

 

[DragonStorm247]

My issue isn't really against EA specifically, it's just that I dislike publishers in general.

 

[rob_simple]

I think the 'if you don't like it, don't buy it' ideal stills holds up in the above scenario because, as I've pointed out several times, all of the games mentioned in the example are sequels; if you like the series then you already have a previous installment in your collection.

It's like when people rage over a company changing the format of a game like Dead Space 3 (without even having played it): if you don't like the new direction the developer is taking, then you still have two perfectly good games that you clearly already like to play; let the rest of us who aren't so close-minded try something new and also, if it really is the wrong direction, let the sales dictate that.

Of course we all know that will never happen because, despite their constant bleating about boycotts on forums, fanboys will always buy every installment of their beloved franchise without fail.

 

[Sexy Devil]

I find it funny how he states that EA was voted the worst company in America because of nerd rage over the Mass Effect 3 ending, while in fact EA was voted the worst company in America BEFORE Mass Effect 3 was released.

Because there was no nerdrage going on over ME3 before ME3 was released...

The nerdrage was only about crap like Diana Allers dressing slutty and having a face deep in the uncanny valley, and James Vega looking like he's from Jersey Shore. You know, stuff that most of us don't care about but find it fun to make fun of.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I find it funny how he states that EA was voted the worst company in America because of nerd rage over the Mass Effect 3 ending, while in fact EA was voted the worst company in America BEFORE Mass Effect 3 was released.

Because there was no nerdrage going on over ME3 before ME3 was released...

There's nerd rage over ANY game (especially any sequel) before that game is released, but you don't suddenly see Bungie or Rockstar being called the worst company in America. The nerd rage that occurred before Mass Effect 3's release had absolutely nothing to do with it. In fact, on the scale of pre-release nerd rage it barely even registered.

 

[Clearing the Eye]

A combination of some bad business moves and mob mentality among vocal gamers (and the internet on a whole, even).

 

[dimensional]

Interesting article I liked the bit where he makes a few presumptive leaps to compare companies to dogs just to make some pointless analogy and then saying working at EA is better than working in a diamond mine, Id bloody well hope so jeez.

It seems they are still in denial though thinking the haters are few and actually a lot of people like them, well lets see how that belief works out for them.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Third: Really? Have you lived under a rock to disregard all this rage about the ME3 story spoiler or the leaked final scenes? The shitstorm before release was not small.

Actually, I only even heard about that well after I'd played the game. Then again, I don't exactly go out of my way to follow up spoilers on something I don't want spoiled.