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This article is almost a year old, but I only just saw it now, so here it is, anyway. (Does it really matter if I post "old" [in Internet time, anyway] shit, whether or not I acknowledge it as "old"? And really, how "old" is "too old," in Internet reckoning?)
I don't give a shit about Battlefront or FIFA games or whatever, which seems to be all the article talks about, but apply the same points to The Sims or Dragon Age or Mass Effect and it's still relevant.
"...a company that's one of the largest and most influential in the industry."
That is something they mention in the article a couple of times, but it isn't one of the bullet points for why EA sucks. I would say the fact that EA is "one of the largest and most influential" is, itself, a bad thing, and that is because, when combined with all the other points, you have all the other big game publishers in the industry rushing to copycat EA's horseshit, which is just a cycle of shit that feeds on itself endlessly, because then EA can just say "well, everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn't we?" even though, 9 times out of 10, they were the first to implement the bullshit.
Also, the article doesn't mention all the formerly great game studios that EA killed (or are currently in the process of killing) as a reason for why they are bad guys.
And obviously, as should be expected, there are EA apologists/fanboys/rep management drones down in the comments under the article, because of course they are.
I don't give a shit about Battlefront or FIFA games or whatever, which seems to be all the article talks about, but apply the same points to The Sims or Dragon Age or Mass Effect and it's still relevant.
"...a company that's one of the largest and most influential in the industry."
That is something they mention in the article a couple of times, but it isn't one of the bullet points for why EA sucks. I would say the fact that EA is "one of the largest and most influential" is, itself, a bad thing, and that is because, when combined with all the other points, you have all the other big game publishers in the industry rushing to copycat EA's horseshit, which is just a cycle of shit that feeds on itself endlessly, because then EA can just say "well, everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn't we?" even though, 9 times out of 10, they were the first to implement the bullshit.
Also, the article doesn't mention all the formerly great game studios that EA killed (or are currently in the process of killing) as a reason for why they are bad guys.
And obviously, as should be expected, there are EA apologists/fanboys/rep management drones down in the comments under the article, because of course they are.
