Thursday, April 5th 2012
EA is Consumerist's Worst Company in America for 2012
EA bagged another "achievement", Consumerist's Golden Poo Award for "worst company in America" for 2012. EA managed to beat Bank of America in getting there. Considering BoA has real potential to strip people of their savings, one can understand just how much of an effort EA put in winning this. Some might argue that EA and the video-games industry are too trivial compared to BoA and the finance industry, but this is exactly the argument that allows people to "ignore the complaints as companies like EA to nickel and dime consumers to death," according to Consumerist's consensus. People are particularly distraught with EA's practice of sandbagging game content and later selling it as DLCs that augment the main game, for a fee. Consumerist's "worst company in America" is an annual user-choice award given to companies with the worst business practices.
EA took the pains to respond to its achievement, by taunting The Consumerist for its choice of nominations for people to vote on, in a statement given to Kotaku.
Sources:
The Consumerist, Kotaku
EA took the pains to respond to its achievement, by taunting The Consumerist for its choice of nominations for people to vote on, in a statement given to Kotaku.
We're sure that British Petroleum, AIG, Philip Morris, and Halliburton are all relieved they weren't nominated this year. We're going to continue making award-winning games and services played by more than 300 million people worldwide.
58 Comments on EA is Consumerist's Worst Company in America for 2012
ubisoft is hands down the worst videogame company imo.
EA is destroying a hobby that whether you ignorant or not is being taken down the shitter by their actions either directly or indirectly. They deserve to be smeared with their own sauce.
EA the worst company in the world...
It's no wonder the world is so fucked when people actually choose something as trivial as a game company as the worlds worst...
I can't help but feel this brings down the world IQ by 30 points or so...
Congrats to all those that agree...Your making the world a dumber place.
Seriously EA is worse than companies that make bio/chem weapons?....
Wow just fucking wow.
Additionally if it had been Halliburton instead, it'd not mean much would it? It'd just be another crack at them.
This award has seized the opportunity to say to EA that they may not kill people, but they ruin the day of more people than any other company in the world, by a large margin.