EA Repeats As 'Worst Company In America'

An anonymous reader writes "Electronic Arts has successfully defended its title as the 'Worst Company In America.' Consumerist finished its annual tournament for bad companies, pitting notorious companies against each other in a single-elimination bracket where readers vote on which is worse. EA won last year, and today Consumerist announced the results of this year's final vote. EA was voted worse than Bank of America by 78% of participants. 'A made a royal mess of the SimCity release by failing to foresee that the people who would buy the game — and who would, per the game's design, be required to connect to the EA servers — might actually want to play at some point in the week after making their purchase. But that's just the latest in EA's long history of annoying its customer base with bad support.' Of course, EA saw this coming, and its CEO pre-emptively responded last Friday. Of course, many of his explanations and promises rang hollow for gamers who are sick of the company's practices: 'Until EA stops sucking the blood out of games in order to make uninspiring sequels, or at least until they begin caring about how much gamers hate their lack of respect for our money and intelligence, this is going to continue. We don't hate them because we're homophobes, we hate them because they destroy companies we love. We hate them because they release poor games. We hate them because they claim our hate doesn't matter as long as we give them our money.'"

Comments

Re:Sense of proportion

[alen]

just buy food labeled as being non-gmo or something similar

Not so

[mosb1000]

The vast majority of people making up "the market" . . . probably cannot become informed in any meaningful way for any appreciable percentage of the product categories they participate in.

This is not true. At one point in time almost everyone was intimately aware of where products came from because they produced it themselves or knew the person who did. If we change the way we live to be closer to the source of the products we use, people would have a much better understanding of these products.

But that isn't necessary. Simply taking the effort to explain to our children how things work and how they are made, then giving them a more diverse array of job experience would be enough. However, we tend to portray these kind of issues a unimportant or low-brow and children get the impression that it's more important to follow popular culture and study liberal arts than gain a technical understanding of how the world works.