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It’s Time to Stop Hating on EA

July 20, 2008 in Blog comments 14

The article, written by EndSights.com's Aram Kuredjian, argues that gamers are unduly and unfairly attacking EA because of their sports franchises, pointing out the great games they have published in recent years like Rock Band, Orange Box, and upcoming games like Spore, Sims 3, and Dragon Age: Origins.

Some people just want to seem like rebels. Whether it’s a supposed boycott of a company, or merely hating a company for the sake of hating it (of course the excuse is usually because that said company is “evil”), some people just need to hate something to love… well, something else.
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    chautemoc* Jul 20, 08
    Haha, I think there are many many good reasons to hate EA..

    And publishing is entirely different than developing (which is what folks are bashing when they go after EA, typically)..and should only have to do with them offering up money for the game, which basically makes them unrelated to the game itself and just an 'investor'..though I think they've likely breached what their level of involvement should be there at times, too..
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    Cruxis Mana Jul 20, 08
    I'll stop hating them when they develop a decent game.
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    lord of vice city Jul 20, 08
    published orange box? they done nothing more then port it to ps3

    and they done a piss-poor job at that, its more broken then a goodamn smashed bottle


    the reason why we hate is because EA is the hollywood of video games
    they make them for money
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      Slumpy monkey Jul 20, 08
      LMFAO!!! Are you telling me that every other developer DOESN'T develop games for money?! Please.......

      I do think that alot of people just jump on the "Hate EA" Bandwagon, Without them we may not have had such awesome games like Spore or The Sims. There Fifa sport games are good.
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        lord of vice city Jul 20, 08
        no, i didnt specially say that, but yes, many high end developers do push out for money


        but none quite so much as EA, i mean christ, they need some originality with some quality
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          Donnelly Jul 20, 08
          No major video games company would exist if they weren't turning a profit.
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    iLLmatic Jul 20, 08
    It's never time to stop hating on EA. What have they done for me?

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    pointing out the great games they have published in recent years like Rock Band, Orange Box, and upcoming games like Spore, Sims 3, and Dragon Age: Origins.
    Keyword: published. The majority of what EA develops is half assed. The majority of games with their name on them are from companies they bought and use as their code monkeys. God forbid if the Take-Two acquisition goes through, then I will REALLY have reason to justify my disdain for EA.
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    chautemoc* Jul 20, 08
    On the money thing: there's a difference between making games purely for money and making games because you love them, with another motivation being you would like to make a living from your love so as to support yourself and family, and in turn, be able to do more of what you love. The second thing results in passionately made, great games. The first? Not so much.
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    S v R 2010 Jul 20, 08
    EA make some pretty good games, but some are also really crap. I really enjoyed their LOTR series. But then they also make some pretty crap games. I don't mind them tbh.
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    DarkLordAkuma Jul 20, 08
    I personally hate EA for their shocking lack of support for their games, prime example command and conquer 3 Kanes Wrath. The game only recently had its first patch 3 months after the release of the game, they released the patch which STILL hasnt fixed De-sync problems.

    Its as if they made KW and said "lets work on RA3 now and forget about Kanes Wrath"

    People also bash EA for their incredibly stupid anti-customer protection.... uhhh i mean anti-piracy protection. Cmon people arent just going argueing for the sake of argueing, they are paying customers pissed off with the quality of service that this company provides.
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    Armed Rebel Jul 20, 08
    EA has as many good games as they do shitty Games. In fact, I'd say they have more good games than bad ones.

    The gripes with EA have more to do with the type of things DarkLordAkuma mentioned.
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    Mnmfan Jul 21, 08
    I hate EA because none of their games work online for me. Fight Night, Skate, Bad Company and Team Fortress 2 have never been able to connect to the EA servers for me.
    Screw EA.
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      Coi Cki Jul 21, 08
      Same for me. It just sucks that EA can't make their online games work "out of the box" regardless of the type of the connections people have.
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    Koloth Jul 21, 08
    You know you can't blame EA for every game that comes out with their logo on it though. Many of them are only published by EA and developed by one of their subsidiaries.

    On the other hand The horrendous support for their games as well as their online systems is plenty of reason to hate them. Because for as many good games as they put out they also fail to even try to fix the problems in games that are potentially good or even potentially better if but for one small thing. And it isn't as if they don't have the time or man power. It is really that they just don't care.

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