Games publisher Electronic Arts wants to repair its bad reputation

[reedOsama]

am i the only one on here who think EA is actually doing alright? their games are ok (not great but not sucky either) and Origin has not been a problem for me, to be very honest. i think they are doing pretty good!

I think they're alright too... even if their business practices are a bit dodge and even if they're the worst game publisher in the world, I definitely don't think they're the worst company in the USA.

I actually accredit most of EA's current bad rep to fans being butt-hurt over the Mass Effect 3 ending (I too am one of those fans and my proverbial butt is bruised and asshole stretched ) but I blame the Bioware writers (I'm not even sure who to blame... that ending just makes me sad because I freekin love that game)

[Clive Woofer]

EA has been unpopular long before ME3 was even out, so it's definitely not that. Have you considered that maybe it's the fact that EA have a history of buying out developers and franchises and then ruining them or running them into the ground? Ask yourself, where's Pandemic, or Bullfrog, or Westwood Studios? What happened to PopCap after they got acquired by EA? You know, those guys responsible for such great little time-wasters like Heavy Weapon Deluxe, Bookworm, Peggle or Zuma? Oh, they're busy churning out rubbish mobile and hidden object games now.

Ask yourself, what happened to Command and Conquer, Syndicate, Medal of Honor, the Ultima series or the Wing Commander series? Where's Kingdoms of Amalur now?

And that's not even touching on their bad business practices, such as releasing broken games that are unplayable weeks after release, then refusing to issue refunds if you were unfortunate enough to buy it on their Origin platform (yes, I'm talking about SimCity. I'm one of the people who burned my fingers there), not to mention their endless streams of Day 1 DLC, buggy games, shutting down multiplayer servers for active MP games and a host of other anti-consumer business practices.

The hate for EA runs deeper than just the ME3 ending. They've established themselves as a company that simply doesn't care about the gaming community or the gaming industry and will go to any lengths in the pursuit of money. A cancer to the gaming industry, if you will. And now that they've realised just how badly they've messed up and how many people they alienated they suddenly want to come grovelling to win back the gaming community's favor? Pfft.

[okuhle94]

EA really screwed me over big time with Need For Speed: Rivals [PC]. Biggest mistake I have done was pre-ordering this half done crap! After buying this game, I finally understood why people hate on EA. They have not even fixed Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2012!!

If EA wants the hate to end, fix up all your games, stop selling half done games. I really want to buy another EA game, but I won't because I have just been getting below average games.

EA has good games, thats no lie, but they seem to make a game, sell enough, and move on to the next game

[hideinlight]

Sell the franchises they shelved...
Nox and Dungeon Keeper for one.

[Weasley]

EA really screwed me over big time with Need For Speed: Rivals [PC]. Biggest mistake I have done was pre-ordering this half done crap! After buying this game, I finally understood why people hate on EA. They have not even fixed Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2012!!

If EA wants the hate to end, fix up all your games, stop selling half done games. I really want to buy another EA game, but I won't because I have just been getting below average games.

EA has good games, thats no lie, but they seem to make a game, sell enough, and move on to the next game

thanks i nearly bought Rivals.

[oltman]

EA really screwed me over big time with Need For Speed: Rivals [PC]. Biggest mistake I have done was pre-ordering this half done crap! After buying this game, I finally understood why people hate on EA. They have not even fixed Need For Speed: Most Wanted 2012!!

If EA wants the hate to end, fix up all your games, stop selling half done games. I really want to buy another EA game, but I won't because I have just been getting below average games.

EA has good games, thats no lie, but they seem to make a game, sell enough, and move on to the next game

i thought EA now allows you to return a game if you did not like it? as long as its within 7 days of first play? its on Origin...

[S1ght]

Origin...I can understand that it's still early in it's development compared to Steam (which also sucked when it came out) but it's progressing way too slowly when they can already see what works for Steam users. Not to mention that I now have to have 2 separate applications to manage different games, 3 if you count Ubisoft have that UPlay thing.

While I'd love to have everything on Steam, a monopoly is never good is it?

Then as everyone pointed out, their games that get released always seem like they've got big issues at launch >.< And then you get the fails like what they did to the Command and Conquer franchise >.<

[okuhle94]

thanks i nearly bought Rivals.

I am glad that I have saved one person from wasting their money on this crap!! Do not buy it, until EA fixes this crap properly!!

i thought EA now allows you to return a game if you did not like it? as long as its within 7 days of first play? its on Origin...

Ya, but I thought you can only return it if you buy it online through Origin....

I got my game from BT Games....

EA.....needs to fix its shit now!!!

[chan0o]

Step 1: Allow your new games to be sold on Steam, using Steam DRM none of this Origin crap.
Step 2: Allow my pre 2008 retail games to be loaded/registered onto Origin so I can download and play them when I want.
Step 3: Don't release games that are not ready or finished We don't like buggy crap
Step 4: Don't kill off IP with crap no-one wants (Syndicate for example)

I am sure there are loads more but for me above would make me look at your games again, till then "Up yours"

Heed his words, EA!
At least let us choose which DRM method we want!