24f8ff No.14273277
>Electronic Arts, or EA, has been making highly successful video games for decades. EA has produced dozens of wildly successful franchises, including “The Sims,” “Battlefield,” and “Need for Speed,” and the annually-sold, fervently-purchased sports titles, Madden and FIFA. While it has helped shape the face of gaming, EA has also unfortunately earned a reputation as the industry’s evil empire. There are many examples of EA buying up smaller studios or operations for a specific game and then either stripping the game of its originality or running the studio into the ground.
>The company added to its infamy recently during the early release days of the latest installment of another of its big franchises, “Star Wars Battlefront II.” EA released an early access version of the game, and immediately drew widespread ire from gamers, who discovered that unlocking some of the more popular characters required over 40 hours of gameplay or spending hundreds on in-game purchases. The public outcry surrounding the perceived greed led the studio to temporarily suspend in-game purchases.
We all know they'll never learn their listen but its still funny to point and laugh every time EA fucks up.
52d27e No.14273294
>>14273277
You know they won an award for most hated twice right? This is a fucking step down for them.
0b8a26 No.14273296
>>14273277
Aren't they also the only company to be the number one most hated company twice in a row?
24f8ff No.14273304
bf6015 No.14273306
>5th
>Not 2nd
Disapointed after the fuck up that was starwars battlefront 2
d2243d No.14273316
>>14273277
>Thinking EA being 5th is a victory
>Being this new
5f052b No.14273329
I don't really care, but only because this pales in comparison to when they made a super passive aggressive press statement bitching about how they were voted worst.
cbd9c8 No.14273347
>>14273306
That's 5th most hated company in America, not 5th most hated vidya company. They're up there competing with Equifax, Comcast, Wells Fargo, and all the banks that caused the housing crisis.
EA is one of the shittiest companies that makes video games, but they are only barely competing with the big boys when it comes to fucking people over. They fuck over their customers; there's a handful of companies that manages to fuck over the entire country and get away with it.
24f8ff No.14273358
3dd37b No.14273371
>>14273277
>5th most hated
so they are getting better?
1f5d6b No.14273390
>>14273277
>>14273306
>>14273347
Should've posted for clarity, OP.
>America’s Most Hated Companies
>1. Equifax
>2. Fox Entertainment Group
>3. NFL
>4. University of Phoenix
>5. Electronic Arts
7efa32 No.14273395
>>14273294
They said I could become anything
So I became bulborb.
c5bb6d No.14273412
>no sauce
>forgetting they used to be most hated
the fuck happened?
eedc75 No.14273425
Activision is just as bad and doesn't have this much bad PR.
>formed by Ex Atari suits
>Pumps out tons of shovelware while hitting gold once or twice
>Buys and closes down a shitton of devs
>Get's big due to absolute kikery
>No longer takes risks
>Monetization up the ass and literally lying to fans
>Closed down Sierra
>Ruined Blizzard
>Ruined Tony Hawk
>Ruined Call of Duty
>Nearly killed ID Software
>Killed Spyro and Crash
>Killed Legacy of Kain
>Killed Troika
>Sitting on a shitton of IPs they don't use
>Funded Overcuck
c5bb6d No.14273434
ebe02e No.14273437
>>14273277
And as usual everybody will forget that in May when EA will throw several millions of dollars to feminists organizations via their charity Play to Give.
900a6e No.14273438
>>14273277
this is like 4 steps up from where they were previously so..
7b76ed No.14273450
>>14273425
>get’s
What did he mean by this?
f34be5 No.14273467
>>14273347
>They fuck over their customers; there's a handful of companies that manages to fuck over the entire country and get away with it.
Remember the time EA nearly singlehandedly bankrupted an entire state?
b6f51d No.14273474
f34be5 No.14273494
>>14273474
There was a specific original IP EA was going to come out with, forget what it was called but I think it was something fantasy-oriented, in which they used some kind of record-breaking budget for it, but then they canceled it and laid off the entire staff involved, and the waste of money from state grants, etc. was so high that it was considered unprecedented in that state's history and they sent in a specialist to investigate. Does nobody else remember what I'm talking about?
9bf0ea No.14273496
>>14273294
They would have won a third one in a row if the site didn't change their voting system. Wasn't it like some random hour of the day and voting is open for that hour and then it closes was how they did that? I know it was something dumb like that.
2a9c8f No.14273499
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>>14273296
>>14273347
They somehow beaten Bank of America and Apple.
b6f51d No.14273506
>>14273494
Oh, you mean Kingdoms of Amalur, I'm guessing? The single-player MMO? I remember that causing an issue with the Rhode Island government, I just hadn't realized it was an EA game.
63b43d No.14273511
>>14273390
>NFL
Not a burger, how come?
9a8a7d No.14273515
>>14273425
>>formed by Ex Atari suits
No, it was formed by ex Atari programmers who got sick of being treated like shit by management. Sure the company turned into crap later, but during the 2600 era they were very respected.
0b6978 No.14273524
>>14273511
They didn't stop playing the America anthem after Trump was elected and after that they didn't demand that all player kneel with that one black dude (who was then not re-hired after his contract expired).
f34be5 No.14273529
>>14273506
>The Sequel was in Pre-Development according to an inside developer, but the company filing for bankruptcy after a missed loan payment leaves the IP in the hands of the taxpayers of Rhode Island.[9] According to the 38 Studios Founder Curt Schilling, the governor of Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee, calling the game a failure caused a publisher to pull out of a 35 million-dollar deal that could have paid for a sequel.[10]
No, I think it was something different than this.
b6f51d No.14273540
>>14273511
They're endorsing their players in disrespecting the American flag and anthem, and have increasingly politicized every facet of their business.
Plus, they're gigantic fucking hypocrites, bringing up all this "protecting women" and "don't be racist" bullshit when like a quarter of their black players have beaten their wives, girlfriends, etc. and yet are still allowed to play.
fb2e2a No.14273547
>>14273511
Negros got too uppity about #blm bullshit to the point that they were throwing games. Most sports all fans don’t care about Mike Brown and the rest and just want to watch football. Managers realize that the monkey shines are losing them shekels, demand that player actually play the damn games, damage was already done and this was the season with the lowest ratings in the history of the NFL. The players had some support from the usual suspects, by just like how SJWs don’t play video games, they don’t watch football either.
c54d39 No.14273554
What about Exxon Mobil? Chevron? Monsanto? DowDupont? Fucking Walmart?
eedc75 No.14273557
>>14273515
>No, it was formed by ex Atari programmers who got sick of being treated like shit by management.
That's true they actually fought for developer rights, but that was the actual Activision, (((new))) Activision is nothing of the sort, though I was indeed wrong, they weren't Ex Atari, just an investement company led by Cocklick himself.
36b175 No.14273572
>>14273554
It would be antisemitic if they would be on that list.
c54d39 No.14273576
>>14273390
Goddamnit, all thos picks are fucking garbage? Americans are like women, always acting based on their feelings.
55b91f No.14273593
>>14273277
I want to impregnate Raven while being pounded and cummed inside by Starfires massive alien futa cock.
eedc75 No.14273627
>>14273576
That was almost a good post
b6f51d No.14273628
>>14273576
Equifax is entirely warranted. Thanks to their ineptitude and lies, literally like 98% current living American will have to worry about identity theft for the rest of their lives. The company's management should have all been thrown in fucking prison.
NFL has, as stated elsewhere in this thread, placed themselves at the forefront of many social issues when almost all of their fanbase either couldn't give half a shit or actively oppose the NFL's stance (this is what happens when you espouse extreme liberal bullshit and the majority of your audience is conservative).
As to University of Phoenix and FOX, though? I kind of agree, I don't really see how those two made the list.
3dd37b No.14273653
>>14273425
>Get's big due to absolute kikery
its a business not a charaty, goy
aa428d No.14273673
OP is a faggot, he didn't clarify that this time it was listed by a separate website doing their own research instead of a voted list by the Consumerist.
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2018/01/22/americas-most-hated-companies-5/2/
eaf13d No.14273763
>>14273425
you forgot to mention murdering the starcraft and diablo franchises and stripping what little good WoW had away from it oh yeah and last but not least not supporting cnc generals after only 3 patches, promptly murdering it in the crib.
ad766f No.14273799
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>>14273628
Can't believe Comcast isn't on the list. Holy fuck are they ever a bunch of slimy kikes.
0b2a80 No.14273808
Corporatism is such cancer, and it's unlikely to go away since the loudest voices bitching about it are fucking communists.
eedc75 No.14273814
>>14273763
> cnc generals
That's EA fucknugget and Blizzard going to shit already implies all of that.
2a1be9 No.14273914
>>14273437
>throw several millions of dollars to feminists organizations
Cronyism is how this regressive left cancer remains alive. They even hand out awards to one another for being cancerous. It's a blatant circlejerk of worthless lefties pretending their trash has value.
It's exactly how they ruined art. Takeover + Cronyism = this is now our vehicle for worthless trash and propaganda.
1f5ae8 No.14274012
>>14273799
Comcast was number 15 most hated, anon.
http://archive.is/wJEF7
cbd9c8 No.14274893
>>14273511
Everybody who replied to you of course jumped right on the politics, and ignored the main reason that people hate the NFL.
The politics are a reason, but they are secondary. The main reason that people hate the NFL is because football is a full-contact sport that causes head injuries (concussions especially, but also long-term incremental damage). These head injuries have lead to tons older ex-football players hitting Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and other degenerative brain issues at a much greater rate and far earlier than the general public. The NFL has spent decades not only ignoring this, but outright denying it and paying massive amounts of money for canned studies to conclude that there is no link, and refused to do anything to protect their players (ie. their employees) and just let it go on while dozens of more players got brain damage without any support or compensation.
There is a specific neurodegenerative disease called CTE that is found in 30% of people who have had head injuries. It causes aggression, reduced intelligence, and frequently leads to suicide or violence and murder. The Journal of the AMA did a study on dead former NFL players, and found that 110 out of 111 of the examined players had CTE. It's an issue in a lot of sports (Chris Benouit, who killed his family and then himself, had CTE. OJ Simpson likely has CTE.), but only the NFL has actively fought against getting their players help, and has pushed broken and biased studies to ensure their own employees would have no defense against being permanently brain damaged (and would believe it to be a myth so they wouldn't leave).
Politics is one thing, but this shit is far more nefarious.
e7b07e No.14274897
>>14273277
>5th most hated
Who were the 4 that somehow beat it?
3e6b05 No.14274917
>>14273593
thank you for your service
>>14273808
EA will never die until we can make normalfags stop loving sports. They could release a dozen more abject failures and still stay afloat from Madden Mobile microtransactions.
acef94 No.14275007
>>14274897
And what is this strange and bizarre concept called "Reading the thread" that I keep hearing about?
80b12e No.14275147
>>14274897
Read the bread my melanin enriched friend or look here >>14273390
684f3a No.14275182
>>14273593
Was this actually on the show? Because I swear I keep seeing all these bit-titty picks of Raven and Starfire everywhere.
Goddamit, Raven's so fucking hot.
>>14274893
That's a damn good reason to hate the company but is that a widespread reason?
I think that those results are somewhat recent, at least how known they currently are, so maybe not that many people actually know that.
Plus, it's not like football fans actually care that much for their players once they leave the team. The game itself is far more important and nobody properly remenbers a famous player (if he even becomes famous) after he stops playing.
Not saying those reasons aren't valid, but I don't believe that it's the main reason why people hate the NFL right now because I don't believe football fans are actually capable of that level of empathy.
acef94 No.14275236
>>14275182
It's just a good tumblr artist named Ravenravenraven
8e14af No.14275250
>>14275236
>tumblr
The implication being no nudes, then.
8e14af No.14275260
>>14275236
Ah, yep. I was right.
5dbd24 No.14275476
I was a big faggot as a kid and when I went to bed, I used to pretend my pillow was Raven and I'd snuggle it.
f62c33 No.14275493
>>14275476
Don't worry, other people have done way worse.
Some retardspeople would "literally" fuck their pillows.
c4fd1d No.14275555
>>14273412
>>14273371
>5th most hated
>not 1st
>all the other corporations pulling double-duty jewry
Fuck if I know why FOX Entertainment did, but considering that negligence at Equifax has put millions of people permanently at risk of identity theft, the news surrounding NFL players and coaches cheating and blatantly disrespecting the American flag and anthem, and University of Phoenix students owing a combined $35 BILLION in student loans, EA's horrible track record fits right in.
The optics are fucking unreal with these greedy fucks lately. Activision and Bethesda are almost as horrible, but they know not to cross certain fucking lines and pissing off their customers. Either that, or they know EA will fuck it up first, so they just let them walk point and take the first hit.
423e79 No.14275578
>>14275555
>That screencap
Pseudo-blogpost:
My dad used to work with a small company that never really got far enough to make it to this list. They were working on a device that would allow cross-platform play of games, something which we still almost never see today. EA led them on for a long time but then dropped out at the last minute and caused the whole project to collapse, along with the game they had been working on to test things out.
And there are likely countless others who have been lost in this way.
23c7b6 No.14275585
>>14275555
Nice quads, checked.
>Fuck if I know why FOX Entertainment did
I'm gonna go off on a limb here and assume it's mostly related to Baby Bush and politics in general.
489037 No.14275604
>>14275493
fuck you man it was the fleshlight of its' time
c4fd1d No.14275659
>>14275585
http://archive.is/qZGYh
Found the article. It looks like peoples' beef against Fox is just a bunch of the #MeToo stuff with Bill O'Reilly and Roger Ailes.
Keep in mind that those allegations put Fox at #2, Harvey Weinstein's company at #20. Also, some choice quotes.
<6. Foxconn Technology Group
>The company captured the world’s attention in the last decade with a series of employee suicides and suicide attempts that were apparently driven by poor working and living conditions on the company’s compound in Shenzhen, China. In what most considered to be a tone-deaf response to the suicides, which were mostly carried out by workers throwing themselves from the building where they worked, the company installed safety nets.
<10. Cigna
>Allegations of fraud do not help the company’s public image. In recent years, Cigna has been the subject of multiple lawsuits alleging the company artificially inflated medical costs, causing some customers to pay as much as 10 times the true cost of their medical services.
<11. Wells Fargo I have a WF account. Fuck these hook-nosed faggots.
>The company’s problems related to the scandal did not stop there. In mid-2017, the bank revealed that the fraud was more pervasive than initially thought, and that employees may have created as many as 3.5 million accounts, up from the 2.1 million reported in 2016.
>Compounding the public relations crisis, the bank was also found to have charged over half a million customers for car insurance they did not ask for and did not need. As many as 20,000 of those customers may have had their vehicles impounded for defaulting on the unnecessary insurance charges. Further, in October 2017 news broke that the bank charged over 100,000 customers late fees on mortgage payments when the delays were in fact the fault of the bank. Seriously, people like this literally ruin lives and they don't even make top 3. This country is diseased.
<16. Monsanto
>Monsanto is only 16th on this list. Seriously, what the shit is wrong with people?
16b4f5 No.14275698
>>14273277
Not defending EA or anything, they deserve all the hate they get but this is just a meme by now. Normies hate them, they bitch about them but then still buy their games.
25d212 No.14275727
>>14275698
Is the camera alright?
23c7b6 No.14275740
>>14275659
>As many as 20,000 of those customers may have had their vehicles impounded for defaulting on the unnecessary insurance charges. Further, in October 2017 news broke that the bank charged over 100,000 customers late fees on mortgage payments when the delays were in fact the fault of the bank.
>This country is diseased
Couldn't agree more, America is rotten to the core.
02d20b No.14275769
0d560f No.14275839
>>14274893
I have to agree with >>14275182
Your reason might be technically worse, but it's not nearly as likely to garner the emotional response of hatred from the public. Most people don't know and a lot of those that do won't really care or think about it much or for long.
Politics in either direction is much more able to generate hatred even if they aren't really doing anything of importance.
423e79 No.14275850
>>14275698
The fuck did that camera do to deserve that?
d260c7 No.14275855
>>14275698
This is not how you handle a camera you dumb useless THOT
36aa75 No.14275859
>>14275698
>$10,000 camera dropped in the ocean and covered in sand.
wew
3c6c00 No.14275910
>>14275659
>tfw Cigna health insurance through work
I wasn't planning on using it. Now I'm definitely never going to use it.
e7e374 No.14275965
>>14273763
nah, Blizzard killed themselves. They bought back enough shares to be autonomous shortly after Warcraft 3, whch was their last good game.
6081de No.14276030
>>14273496
Yes, they changed the voting to happen at random times and only for a brief time so the people who were pissed off at them and boosted them to 1st place previously couldn't figure out when to vote or weren't available. Only hardcore consumerist regulars could really take part in the poll.
c4fd1d No.14276189
>>14275740
Can you imagine if someone who publicly and unapologetically played video games ran for office with a reasonable platform and an actual will to make things better for the little people? Not like that batshit tranny Wu, but someone who wasn't literally insane? I bet he would make massive waves if he ran and spit in the face of the establishment in doing so. tfw 'literally who?' becomes campaign rhetoric instead of just a meme
Getting too far off topic, but it's a nice dream to roll into. Too many people know of or play video games, whether they're /v/irgins or filthy casuals to exclude that as the 'cool thing' nowadays. Bill Clinton on late night TV in the 90's playing saxophone made him seem young and cool.
3bec16 No.14276456
>>14275555
>that pic
I feel like this is missing a lot of stuff, even though I've never particularly followed EA's shenanigans.
fe1b8e No.14278795
>>14275182
>>NFL covering up dangerous head injuries
>is that a widespread reason?
I think so. I don't keep up with the NFL or sports shit and I've heard quite a bit about that shit. I imagine the NFL fans all know about it these days.
4baff3 No.14281740
>>14278795
>durr people slamming their heads against eachother can cause brain damage
AND SOMEHOW THIS IS FUCKING NEWS TO NFL FANS. god football breeds the most inept fucking morons
c6b107 No.14282273
>>14281740
>go into sport you know you're going to get brain damage from because you're bashing your fucking head into other peoples heads constantly
>somehow it's the NFL's fault when these millionaires are at fault for getting said brain damage
I don't get it. NFL covering this as false might be scummy but who the fuck thought constant football never gave you long term physical trauma? And who the fuck thought that when they chose a career in the NFL that you would be perfectly safe in the long term anyway?
2fe4dd No.14291999
>>14273593
But raven got manjaw in Injustice
9bb9d6 No.14293628
>>14274893
>It causes aggression, reduced intelligence, and frequently leads to suicide or violence and murder
So it makes them blacker?
852146 No.14293638
>>14275555
>came here to post this
>anon already has
Checkin them digits
eff36d No.14293648
>>14274893
fans don't give a shit about concussions and their repercussions and neither do most of the players, though.
fa7c61 No.14295940
>>14274893
I used to work out at a small gym in my town. One of the trainers there used to play for the NFL and had some minor head trauma because of it. He told me about all the stuff you mentioned, pretty fucked up
80789e No.14296090
b25ad8 No.14299338
>>14273390
Can someone explain as a non amerilard what the fuck Equifax and University of Phoenix is? I never heard about those. Also while Fox Entertainment Group is not good by any means i dont think they deserve 2th place or even be in the top 5. What did they do to get that high?
7ccd15 No.14299405
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>>14299338
Here's a video giving a quick rundown on how Equifax fucked up hard.
For Phoenix read this post.
>>14275555
b40b24 No.14299514
>>14299405
>those spoiler tags
neck yourself
0bd8d0 No.14301003
>>14273499
>They somehow beaten Bank of America and Apple.
But Sjws, normies, and hipsters love Apple.
aa6313 No.14303120
Wow, great. Forget about banks and companies that do actual damage and evil to people, let's claim a videogame publisher that sucks is one of the worst companies ever. Fucking mongoloids.
6e4e91 No.14303155
>>14273277
>While it has helped shape the face of gaming
>EA
>Helped shape the face of gaming
Do Americans actually believe this? Jesus christ.
6e4e91 No.14303195
>>14275555
>Screencap
All that and nothing on how they illegally acquired a Mega Drive devkit and reverse engineered it to blackmail Sega, crippling them and ensuring they were subject to EA and thus unable to stand on equal footing with Nintendo, inevitably leading to their dropping out of the hardware market.
004fcb No.14303242
>>14275659
I think it makes perfect sense that fox is there and not something like CNN. Fox has always been hated by the left of America, with Trump the right of America has grown to distrust the media more than ever. Those two things combined flung it higher than most in terms of most hated.
Remember Megyn Kelly was Fox.
19d5c8 No.14303341
>>14273395
I want a multiplayer focused pikmin game with large maps designed like the first two game's.
19d5c8 No.14303344
>>14303155
Anon, the face of gaming isn't the heart of gaming. The face of gaming is normalfags and normalfags keep EA in business.
6e4e91 No.14303355
>>14303344
Even by that definition, when you say the word "video game" to most Western normalfags, they're more likely to imagine Mario than Madden.
19d5c8 No.14303366
>>14303355
Sports are big and sportsfags eat that slop up.
6e4e91 No.14303371
>>14303366
Oh they absolutely make it financially successful, but if you're talking about the face as in the perception, the image people get when you say "video game" even in the West is still closer to a video game than a sportsball thing.
ac7e06 No.14303443
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71c06a No.14303769
>>14273277
THey'll double their efforts to be number one once again.
71c06a No.14303784
>>14274893
>CTE
> It causes aggression, reduced intelligence, and frequently leads to suicide or violence and murder
He'll kill Kumi, right?
f70a0a No.14303798
>>14303769
Wouldn't be surprised if SJWs were messing with Wilson's lighting because he's an evil straight male that's the CEO. woke af
8131c6 No.14303982
>>14299311
>cropping inaccurate information
725420 No.14318470
>>14293638
Futashit aside, there's nothing wrong with mods (as long as they're free).
7d1826 No.14318483
>>14273628
>Equifax is entirely warranted. Thanks to their ineptitude and lies, literally like 98% current living American will have to worry about identity theft for the rest of their lives. The company's management should have all been thrown in fucking prison.
98% is a bit high for the estimate of credit card-subscribing Americans. Of the Americans who have at least one Credit Card, there's roughly a 66-75% chance their card was under Equifax.
At any rate, they absolutely deserve it over EA, even if they're trying to pull some illegal gambling racket.
7ed0d0 No.14318491
>>14318483
No anon, you don't understand. They had data an almost EVERY American citizen, and millions of Canadian and UK citizens as well. Everything you do financially affects your credit score, you don't need a credit card. Home loans, student loans, etc. They have your data one way or another, and that data leaked.
f5bcf3 No.14318508
>>14303195
Care to explain anon?
06427e No.14319955