EA is proud to be the worst company of America

The cake is a lie!

Paypal has a much worse track record. I think avoiding fees is rather easy with BofA if you read the damn terms and follow the guidelines. Paypal on the other hand acts like its a full fledged bank when clearly it is not and they have the power to just take your money with no legal ramifications. PP will lock accounts for random reasons in an effort to take the money, so accounts that go about their business for years and have 30 dollars or 30k dollars are at the same risk to be locked. The person with 30 dollars in their account probably wont fight PP for 6 months to get their money back though.

Thats still no excuse for BofA and their bullshit though.

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Why would they want to lose the anti-Live userbase?

Why? Op takes the final comment out of context and then takes it to mean that they are proud to be voted worst company which is not at all what was said.

EA is a publisher, nor a creator anymore. Much like someone that owns a factory claims the credit for "making" a car when they didnt design it, market it, or piece it together. They did however decide to change it to suit their own needs, IE profit, by replacing the Brazilian Rosewood dash with particle board, carbon fiber body with aluminum foil, the plush calf leather with some kind of shag carpet, and the engine is made from lead.

Stick with the creators?

EA bought Maxis 16 years ago. SimCity 4 was released 10 years ago. The "creators" of SimCity are long gone. EA owns the rights, and they have a group of employees that they call Maxis making games. And the combination of EA and EA Maxis have a vision that is fairly counter to SimCity's history.

Actually, fan loyalty to the creators is one of the major reasons that so many people hate EA. No other publisher has done so much to ruin so many franchises and damage actual game developers. They've been doing that consistently for quite a while now.

It's probably because though many companies are bad, EA has a great tendency to piss off people who love to use the internet. Innanetragegooooooooooo!

I remember have seen a story about a guy who contacted support for problem with SimCity and he got BANNED..
Too bad im on the phone and it is a little difficult to search but you can search..

The difference is, that EA somehow manages to piss people off with literally every new release.

Ruined franchises: (in no particular order)
Need for Speed
Command & Conquer
Sim City
Mass Effect
Medal of Honor

I used to love the franchises listed above, but recent games are just plain garbage.

Well, its one thing to make a mistake or a couple of mistakes. EA isnt making mistakes, they are making a blatant drive choke gamers to death on their bullshit. In the past, they helped prop up franchises now they tend to buy up a dev company or franchise and drive it into the ground. They are not learning. Fuck, even Ubisoft has learned, just a little, to backtrack on their mistakes. EA is going full steam ahead against the wishes of its Dev teams and their customers. Not only are they introducing worse things into the market, they are building on top of these ideas even more, and because they are such a huge publisher, smaller ones are tempted to follow them. This is the concern and why EA is hated.

That doesn't sound like a troll comment for me. But you are right..

omg, 1942. I remember the Midway fighters and charging Omaha. Those were the days.

It would be better if not for EA.

Spore is a perfect example of wasted potential. It's like a tech demo of what the actual gameplay would be.