Why does Activision/Call of Duty get all the hate, yet EA doesn't?

[Something Amyss]

Wait, when did EA stop getting hate?

Or is this another one of those threads built around a faulty premise?

 

[-Dragmire-]

Actually since ea seems to be determined to fuck up the launch of battlefield 3 on the pc, activision has been getting much less hate lately, kotick seems to have learned to shut his gob and ea is trying really really hard to make gamers who pay attention, hate it.

That's true, been a while since people picked up torches and pitchforks against Kotick, I guess EA's hogging the hate spotlight.

*edit* missing words...I'm tired.

 

[Elsarild]

They get an awefull lot of hate, but it seems to come in bursts where Activision just gets kind of a constant stream of hate.

 

[Cat of Doom]

I've been thinking about this for a while, and I still wounder why. EA hires people to act like Religious extremist to boycott Dante's Inferno, Medal of Honor's censorship, Dead Space 2 commercial(we should be luck that Fox New is stupid and attacked Bulletstorm instead, or we would fucked), the whole "Battlefield 3's gonna take down Modern Warfare 3" statement they made at E3 after Activison said they wanted to have, and don't get me started on that Battlefield commercial slogan. Why does EA keep doing this and get away with this? But does activision get hate? Yes, there was the whole "2010 employee firings and departures", but that's just one thing they've done wrong, and yet EA has so much more. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy a lot of the games they publish, like Mass Effect and Bulletstorm, Those little "Marketing acts" and the statements just prove that they're acting like a bunch of 13 year old boys with the mindset of a 7 year old. What do you guys think.

Your fucking kidding right, EA gets so much undeserved shit on this site its unbelievable. I work for EA and just mentioning that to a hardcore game nerd gets them chucking theoretical shit in my eyes.

wow, that must be pretty cool working there, You're probably sick of games by now though, (I mean as an example, lets say my favourite food is, say, pizza, but eventually I'd get sick of it if I started working in that Pizzaria across the road full time)

Not really games are my passion, but I don't work on games, I work in marketing. This however, causes people to believe I am responsible for the dead space adverts and the dantes inferno situation, which gets annoying. I'v only been working their a year. The team i'm part of works mainly with criterion games.