ea EA's response to being named the Worst Company in America

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EA's response to being named the Worst Company in America

Source: Anon News Twitter

https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/322520080934137856/photo/1

[Argi]

Whatever this letter is, it has a good point. There ARE much worse companies - nerds will be sad. I'm not saying EA is fine because they aren't but they are FAR FAR from the worst. I mean, seriously.

Consumerist's polls are useless.

[Growled Member]

And this is why you are voted as the worst company. You guys are complete DA's.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

wow, way to come off as arrogant pricks

edit: is this actually a real response from EA? because I see the Dorkly logo in the corner

[articuno1au]

As if that's EAs answer -_-

Not that they aren't douche bags.

[Crisp]

So EA just admitted they do make terrible games, and then pointed the finger at other worse off companies...

And YOU people still buy their games... hahahah

[Max Norris]

Fake, but a good on-point response nonetheless. There are companies that are much worse.

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wow, way to come off as arrogant pricks

edit: is this actually a real response from EA? because I see the Dorkly logo in the corner

I don't know, I thought so at first but replies on their twitter page are saying it might not be

[ShareShiz]

Anon is so 2010 -_-

[Draconian Guppy]

did they just admit their support for simcity was bad? selfownage!

[Gnome]

It's a nice reminder of how petty and retarded people can be. Personally, I thought it was pretty funny.

[spaceelf]

did they just admit their support for simcity was bad? selfownage!

No, they didn't. See the satire site logo in the corner?

sheesh.

[neufuse Veteran]

EA was voted worst company because of it's public relations..... unfortunately the oil companies have great public relations, EA on the other hand.... no... this isn't a look at the companies ethics, its a look at how people perceive them

[Pupik]

This is their actual response: http://www.ea.com/news/we-can-do-better

[Draconian Guppy]

No, they didn't. See the satire site logo in the corner?

sheesh.

Oh the noes I missed it sorry :p :(

[Sandor]

EA - the purest dung. The steam rising from it is Activision.

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@Mods - This can be moved to Jokes/Funny Stuff section in light of the reply not being from EA

[n_K]

This is their actual response: http://www.ea.com/ne...e-can-do-better

Lol, I read that, got to the 'simcity not about drm' and stopped reading, they still can't admit it... And that is why for the past... I don't even know how long, 10 years now? I haven't bought an EA game.

[compl3x]

See the "Dorkly" in the bottom right hand corner? Dead give-away it isn't real.

[Doli]

See the "Dorkly" in the bottom right hand corner? Dead give-away it isn't real.

Yup. I really like their game videos.

http://www.dorkly.com/

"Dorkly is videogame comedy"

[MikeChipshop Member]

Erm... it appears some people thought this was real :/

It may not be real but what it is, is damn spot on.

[FloatingFatMan]

Parody response aside, I'm really not surprised they got voted as the worst company, they are (at least in the video game world). In fact, them having the Star Wars MMO franchise via Bioware is a perfect bit of irony really, as you won't find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy elsewhere in the videogame industry. ;)

[dead.cell]

I think "gamers" today don't enjoy themselves anymore. They just sit around bitching about how every game they DON'T play sucks, and then even the ones they DO, they're somehow not getting enough. I'm not saying there aren't ever valid arguments, but half the garbage that gets posted just makes me want to avoid MMOs and multiplayer games altogether, if only to live in comfort for the fact that I won't have to hear one of these whiny asshats ranting on about how a game they spent $30 on "sucked" after logging hundreds of hours to it.

Don't get me wrong, I'll be the first to stand up when a company does something rotten. However, for EA to sit atop the throne, crowned as the worst company, I can't but feel this is just BS first-world problems.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

The thing is, this is not a "general public" vote... The people who voted for EA are not likely to be non-gamers, the people who took part in such a poll and voted EA are going to be gamers and those who care - basically EA's audience.

They genuinely cannot even understand their own audience anymore. And their response (not the image posted but their actual response) was in no way likely to help the situation.

[REM2000]

it's a fake as no company would say their products are mediocre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner) However i am surprised at the amount of backlash for EA, i didn't think they did anything more 'evil' than other large gaming companies such as Activision and Ubisoft. I enjoy quite a few games from EA and never let that sway me when purchasing games, if i did i don't think i would buy games from anyone apart from Nintendo and Valve.

I went ahead and brought simcity, i actually really like it. It's not Simcity 2000/3000 but it is a good simulation game. It takes a different approach of instead of building cities you build regions, something which was kind of predicted in SC4.

Don't get me wrong i don't like DRM and would love to be able to play Simcity offline, i do believe the whole we need the cloud to power this game is a farce, i think that the majority of the always online culture is that they wanted the game to be very social which is really evident from the region setups, so i think the cloud stuff was a way to ensure this feature was added and used.

As for the multitude of add-ons and micro-purchases, i don't really care, as long as they are not needed to complete the game or play the game in it's true sense, i treat DLC, Micro-purchases as i do in forum topics i don't like on the internet, i don't comment, i don't buy em, i simply ignore them.

As for the quote, it depends on who has voted them the worst company and the context they did it in. If we over generalize then all companies are 'good' apart from Exxon and BP, this allows 'good' companies to slip in standards, just because there are worse companies doesn't mean that all companies can be pulled in when they perform badly. If the consumerist was comparing consumer electronics companies then they have every right to say that EA is the worst if voted by judges/public. If they were talking of all companies then of course EA is far from the worst, there are plenty of 'evil' companies out there, including the BP's, Exxonn's and most of all the pharma's and banks.