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EA Wins "Worst Company In America" Award

The website Consumerist recently held a tournament-style campaign where fans could vote for what they think is the worst company in America. Publisher Electronic Arts won.

EA beat out Bank of America for the honor in the final round of voting. "After more than 250,000 votes, Consumerist readers ultimately decided that the type of greed exhibited by EA, which is supposed to be making the world a more fun place, is worse than Bank of America's avarice, which some would argue is the entire point of operating a bank," the website said.

Consumerist began its "Worst Company in America" reader poll in 2007. Past winners include: RIAA, Countrywide Financial, AIG, Comcast, and BP.

“We’re sure that bank presidents, oil, tobacco and weapons companies are all relieved they weren’t on the list this year," EA said in a statement sent to Game Informer. "We’re going to continue making award-winning games and services played by more than 300 million people worldwide.”

Did EA get the short end of the stick here? Is there a worse video game publisher out there? Let us know in the comments below.

[Source: Consumerist]

Comments
  • cough... Activision... cough..

  • I would tend to disagree. Think of all the great games they've had made. Battlefield, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Dead Space, Need for Speed, Crysis, Command and Conquer, Left 4 Dead, SWTOR, and my personal favorites, Alice Madness Returns and Plants vs. Zombies.

    So the BF3 multiplayer is constantly buggy and kinda sucks atm. You know, you don't have to play it. Sounds like a bunch of whining just to whine.

    Also, SWTOR isn't the best for everyone. My friends play it and they have no problems and love it. Sure it's like wow, but I knew that before it came out, which is why I didn't buy it (plus the retarded monthly fee thing).

    The online pass thing is kinda lame I'll admit, but that's not gonna make me hate EA. Just means you have to buy everything full price to get the full experience. Sucks for players who buy used :/

    For you CoD fans, you've been buying the same game for years now (lol). I'd say that's a company that doesn't really care about their game or their customers. They just care about the profits.

    As for all the haters on the ME3 ending, they will prolly release a DLC for all you whiners to explain stuff so stfu and get over it.

    Whiners gonna whine. Haters gonna hate. Stop drinkin the Hatorade.

    Just my 2 cents. Keep up the good work on award winning games EA.
  • most likely because of mass effect 3 I'm assuming

  • Just goes to show the bigger you are the angrier people will get at you. I do honestly have to wonder if a good bit of this has to do with pissy fanboys and ME3 hating.
  • Mod

    To quote Phil Sebben, "Haha! Quadruple entendre!"

  • In my opinion Zynga should've won this award. EA's not perfect but DEFINITELY not the worst company in America.

  • Wait I have not heard of any particuarly greedy things done by EA.

    They make good games and do buisness.Buisness means you have to shut down studios sometimes but I don't know what in particular was greedy.

    To me greedy is what Activision does.

    Using only a couple games that rack in billions of dollars and then not putting any money into anything new.

    No new IPs or anything have really been given huge budgets from what i know.

  • How can they be so smug? A company with terrible practices is still a bad company, it doesn't matter what their product is.
  • No, EA is the worst. It's perfectly justified. Their constant nickle-and-dimming of its consumers, along with their shoddy business practices, makes EA the least-respected name in the industry. Rival Activision may be evil as well, but they're less evil to a certain extent. At least they realized when they were milking Guitar Hero down to its very last legs, while EA on the other hand continues to make *** Rock Band games that no one wants.
  • That's the first thing they ever earned.
  • Ok, maybe they are a little greedy. But you can't deny they publish good games.
  • To me EA seems like the silent evil company so I hate them less then Activision. But seriously though I wouldn't really complain about EA, they give tons of money to their developers which is why we always see top of the line graphics from games published by EA.

  • Congratulations??? :P

  • thank you /v/

  • wow

  • People are stupid then. If you genuinely believe EA is even in the top 25 worst companies in America you are a f-ing idiot and your life is so wrapped up in self centered super-consumerist bullsh1t you should probably read a newspaper once in a while. Just goes to show, people get more pissed about their videogames than companies that regularly degrade the quality of life for Americans and in some instances the entire world.
  • Activision. That's my vote. I don't like those scumbags.

  • EA is absolutely right in that statement. They may be the "worst company in America", but people still buy their stuff constantly.

  • EA made some video games you didn't like. Bank of America helped cause the worst economic recession since the Great Depression. Tell me, fellow gamers, are you really THAT upset about your sorry little online passes? Time to come back to the real world, everybody.
  • Take Origin off my Xbox Live!