EA: y'all are just homophobes

Koki on 6/4/2012 at 17:13

EA recently got voted (http://consumerist.com/2012/04/congratulations-ea-you-are-the-worst-company-in-america-for-2012.html) The worst company in America by The Consumerist.

And now (http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/04/05/ea-in-full-damage-control-mode-points-to-anti-gay-hate-mail/) David Hollingsworth (...)'s implying that this was due to the inclusion of gay characters in several of EA's titles, most notably those at BioWare.

That's... so amazingly beautiful. A serious contender for troll of the year, I say.

Jason Moyer on 6/4/2012 at 19:39

It wouldn't actually surprise me, given the increased ability to spout their mindless herd-opinions that the internet has given to people.

Hay spoor haz teh drm, let's all giv it 0 on mc cuz weer actisivts.

CCCToad on 7/4/2012 at 00:09

So its because of....gay haters?

Not horrible DLC, or bug ridden releases, or rushed sequels, or atrocious DRM schemes, or anything of the sort

EvaUnit02 on 7/4/2012 at 00:30

LOL, the whole anti-gay hate mail news and being voted the worst company in America are completely separate current events. They just happened to break at almost the same time.

The latter voting was basically hijacked by a mass-campaign of degenerates from 4Chan, NeoGAF and maybe the Something Awful forums and Reddit as well. Those would've almost entirely been about being butthurt over on-disc DLC, Mass Effect 3's ending, buying and raping of studios, online passes, DRM, etc.

It's ridiculous to even fathom that EA is worse than Bank of America.

Jason Moyer on 7/4/2012 at 00:58

Or Activision-Blizzard for that matter. Or Ubisoft.

Personally, I think EA over the past 5 or so years has probably become the most consumer-friendly mainstream publisher around, unless there's someone obvious that I'm missing. Maybe it would be a tie between EA/2K/Squeidos/Valve.

EvaUnit02 on 7/4/2012 at 03:45

From Ashes and Warden's Keep say hi. Day 1 DLC initially only bundled with their core games if you bought particular Collector's or Deluxe editions.

wonderfield on 8/4/2012 at 00:43

Quote Posted by Jason Moyer

Personally, I think EA over the past 5 or so years has probably become the most consumer-friendly mainstream publisher around, unless there's someone obvious that I'm missing.

Bethesda Softworks/Zenimax Media. That's one publisher that actually tends to be pretty sensible about what they're doing. They get things wrong, but no organization has a perfect track record.

Koki on 8/4/2012 at 06:18

There's a difference between "no perfect track record" and "We're not even going to try and fix bugs in our games other than core/engine ones".

Bjossi on 8/4/2012 at 20:24

Quote Posted by Koki

"We're not even going to try and fix bugs in our games other than core/engine ones".

I wish, they never fixed Dead Space's serious engine issues.

EvaUnit02 on 8/4/2012 at 20:51

Pssst, Koki was talking about Zenimax published games. Dead Space = EA.