[Pat]

QUOTE (oysterbarron @ Saturday, Apr 7 2012, 00:35)

It boils down to the facts pat as a company expands and get larger like EA has over the years then in order to keep it afloat it needs to increase profits. EA obviously has to ensure it gross enough from games and hardware in order to keep on trading.

Except right now their stocks are losing value by the day because of the new business tactics they're attempting. They're losing profits, not gaining. Do you legitimately think that if they start charging more for their games than every other publisher, that it will pull them out of the hole? All it will serve to do is bury them deeper.

They're ignoring their customers, and any shred of business sense will tell you that this is the fastest way to kill a corporation. Nevermind the outrageous treatment of employees, nevermind the greedy tactics used to maximize profit, nevermind production costs - if they do not listen to their customers, they will lose their support. They are already losing their support. If it continues, they will die. It happens all the time in the business world, and you're a fool if you legitimately think EA is immune to it.

[oysterbarron]

I didnt say they were immune im well aware how business works. Sending a message to ea and making there share price wobble isnt they way to go about it. Even if they do go broke they will just rebrand themselves like mostly every other company does when they get into difficulty. And the same company with the same business practice will be born just under a different name. Your not forcing the deamon to change its ways your just forcing it to change face! The share holders are happy if there making money in actual fact i blame them for not making them change there ways before as public opinion of ea has been waining for a while now but they were obviously happy to let the money roll in while it was still good.

[mikkenugent]

Atari is pretty sh*tty too, if you ever played Ghostbusters the video game you know exactly what I mean. Can't even get every achievement/trophy due to server glitches, also promised dlc that never saw the light of day.

[illegal_luggage]

I don't mind if EA goes under. The loss of jobs will be sad but at least they won't milk off idiots any longer.

[GTAvanja]

QUOTE (Pat @ Saturday, Apr 7 2012, 08:05)

QUOTE (oysterbarron @ Saturday, Apr 7 2012, 00:35) It boils down to the facts pat as a company expands and get larger like EA has over the years then in order to keep it afloat it needs to increase profits. EA obviously has to ensure it gross enough from games and hardware in order to keep on trading. Except right now their stocks are losing value by the day because of the new business tactics they're attempting. They're losing profits, not gaining. Do you legitimately think that if they start charging more for their games than every other publisher, that it will pull them out of the hole? All it will serve to do is bury them deeper. They're ignoring their customers, and any shred of business sense will tell you that this is the fastest way to kill a corporation. Nevermind the outrageous treatment of employees, nevermind the greedy tactics used to maximize profit, nevermind production costs - if they do not listen to their customers, they will lose their support. They are already losing their support. If it continues, they will die. It happens all the time in the business world, and you're a fool if you legitimately think EA is immune to it.

I hope they die soon. It would set a really good example to other companies about what happens when such a giant decides that it's OK to ignore customers. And if Bioware has to go down in flames with EA, so be it. They've made their decision when they sold out.

[acmilano]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-04-...nline-universes

http://kotaku.com/5903724/ea-declares-ever...erse-of-its-own

That's it,i had enough of the games,anyone wants to play some chess.

[GTAvanja]

I fail to see anything bad about that. Time will tell I guess. It is EA after all. Skepticism is encouraged.

[acmilano]

QUOTE

EA demonstrated a move in this direction earlier this year with Mass Effect 3, not only adding the "galactic readiness" online multiplayer element into the game but also pairing it with Facebook apps and iOS apps and games that could influence the single-player campaign's readiness level.

Thanks to that never got 'good' ending in ME3,not even Modern Warfare 3 force you to do so i will ignore EA from now on.

[Pat]

QUOTE (acmilano @ Friday, Apr 20 2012, 15:18)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-04-...nline-universes http://kotaku.com/5903724/ea-declares-ever...erse-of-its-own That's it,i had enough of the games,anyone wants to play some chess.

Meanwhile, their stocks have now dropped to fourteen dollars per share. They need something a lot better than that to pull them out of the hole at this point.

My personal suggestion would be a competent PR manager.

[Street Mix]

2 Years ago they canceled a Bourne game in favor to this crap "remake" Syndicate.

[UtricularEwe001]

QUOTE (Street Mix @ Friday, Apr 20 2012, 21:09)

2 Years ago they canceled a Bourne game in favor to this crap "remake" Syndicate.

and it was a massive flop

[locolow2011]

Hmm... In my opinion BofA deserved that "award" because they screwed with a lot of people, EA didn't do sh*t to me, the last game i bought from them was FIFA '09 in 2008, it was so sh*t that i never bought an EA game again, but after that they haven't done anything bad to me, so as sh*t as they may be, they are not that sh*t IMO.

[acmilano]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/...fers-to-buy-ea/

I dont know if this is a true but at least EA wont try to buy T2 again if they are in trouble.

[GTAvanja]

A large corporation being bought by a larger one is not a good idea IMO. No matter how evil EA is. I don't want to see Bioware making free MMORPG's for the rest of my life.