{"id":52080,"date":"2013-03-20T15:31:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=52080"},"modified":"2013-03-20T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T13:33:11","slug":"ea-nominated-for-worst-company-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/52080-ea-nominated-for-worst-company-in-america","title":{"rendered":"EA nominated for &#8220;Worst Company in America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Arts has been nominated for the Worst Company in America award at the 2013 annual Consumerist awards.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the running for the not-so-desirable award is PayPal, Bank of America, AT&amp;T, Ticket Master, and Comcast.<\/p>\n<p>The nominees are put onto a versus-style ladder match, with each company advancing if they get the most votes.<\/p>\n<p>EA\u2019s first nominee-opponent is ABInBev, an investment company that specialises in beer brands.<\/p>\n<p>If EA makes it to the next round, the game company will then have to face off against either Google or Facebook, depending on who wins that fight.<\/p>\n<p>Head over to the Consumerist website to find out more on the awards.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/03\/18\/here-are-your-contestants-for-the-2013-worst-company-in-america-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\">Consumerist\u00a0<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More EA news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52017-ea-ceo-quits.html\">EA CEO quits<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/52004-free-game-for-simcity-players-maxis-gives-details.html\">Free game for SimCity players, Maxis gives details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/51969-battlefield-4-teased-reveal-incoming.html\">Battlefield 4 teased, reveal incoming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/51505-ea-retracts-microtransactions-for-all-our-games-statement.html\">EA retracts \u201cmicrotransactions for all our games\u201d statement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/51909-dead-space-3-review-pc.html\">Dead Space 3 review (PC)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA in the running for an award no one wants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":49031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,9366,9365,175,813,9364,3258],"class_list":["post-52080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-company-awards","tag-consumerist","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-worst-company","tag-worst-company-in-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52081,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52080\/revisions\/52081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}