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DainBramaged

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Thu Apr 11, 2013, 07:05 PM Apr 2013

there was hope that the video game giant would get the message

EA Named ‘Worst Company in America’ Again


EA has been named the “Worst Company in America” by Consumerist for the second year in a row. The publisher beat Bank of America with 78% of the vote to claim the title, which Consumerist refers to as the Golden Poo.

“Following last year’s surprise Worst Company In America victory by Electronic Arts, there was hope that the video game giant would get the message,” Consumerist posted. “Stop treating your customers like human piggy banks, and don’t put out so many incomplete and/or broken games with the intent of getting your customers to pay extra for what they should have received in the first place. And yet, here we are again, with EA becoming the first company to ever win a second Golden Poo from Consumerist readers.”

Last week, EA COO Peter Moore commented on the poll, asking “Are we really the ‘Worst Company in America?’ I’ll be the first to admit that we’ve made plenty of mistakes. These include server shut downs too early, games that didn’t meet expectations, missteps on new pricing models and most recently, severely fumbling the launch of SimCity. We owe gamers better performance than this.” Despite that, he noted that other complaints about the company “just don’t hold water.”

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/09/ea-named-worst-company-in-america-again


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there was hope that the video game giant would get the message (Original Post) DainBramaged Apr 2013 OP
Pull your head out of your ass flying rabbit Apr 2013 #1
This is why he gets paid those big bucks.... Katashi_itto Apr 2013 #2
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