EA Voted As "Worst Company In America," Responds With List Of Worse Companies

Yeah...the voting public is stupid.

Simple as that.

Yes, that is true, but they voted for EA anyway.

Yeah because what matters is not that we are bad, it's that there are others worse than us!

I wonder if the guy running this poll thing was a hardcore gamer and just hated EA.

Calling a bunch of other corporations terrible rather than actually defending themselves seems REALLY unprofessional to me.

Yeah, this statement makes sense when you consider the times EA has tried to defend itself-oh wait that didn't turn out well, it just made the angry basement dwelling neckbeards lash out more. Remember, on the internet, you aren't allowed to defend yourself.

Just because there are whiny people on the internet doesn't mean it's suddenly better to resort to schoolyard tactics.

Three of those companies presided over the two worst global crises in the last 5 years. The other one sells cigarettes. I'm pretty sure EA was less trying to insult those companies and more make a point about the validity of the list.

I understand their response. Theres no point in defending themselves when they have already lost (won?) and it's not like anything they respond with will change people's minds. Also they are right, there are far worse companies than EA. And finally getting this vote is not the type of thing that will make them change anyway so what do they care? They're crying all the way to the bank. A medium that is more professional and less biased would have a greater effect, I don't know why anyone thinks EA would even take this seriously

Your comment made me think how stupid this list is, and how misplaced our judgements are. Instead of voting for a company that ruined thousands of families with the recent financial crisis, or the company that, due to neglecting proper maintenance protocol, dumped so much oil into the water that it ruined a lot of the swampland along the southern edge of the US. Nope, none of those were selected top-spot... just a company that makes video games. Video games. Worst company.... and we wonder why people think us gamers are ignorant of reality and personal priorities?

This is really unclear. EA is the worst company in what context? Worst company to work for? Worst company to do business with? Worst company in general (wouldn't that be vague). Also, what are the criteria? Was it a vote/poll? That's what the article suggests, and if so, how and where was this poll conducted? Who was polled? If it's everyone, why should we CARE what corporation the ignorant masses thinks is worst? That just means it's the least popular company in America... whoopty ****ing do. And if it was a poll of someone other than everyone... who? What's the sample size?

I'm hoping someone can give me answers, but frankly, this sounds like a lot of hot air, headline grabbing, not even close to scientific or of any importance whatsoever kind of polls. So why bother answering it EA?

Yeah I asked (some of) these on the previous post with the brackets. I don't think anybody knows, thus making it kinda pointless.

I guessing there are a lot of gamers that are pretty pissed about that Origin thing.

It's like when I worked in customer service, we had "satisfaction surveys" for customers to take. 90% of the time they'd take them when they were angry to express their dissatisfaction. 9% of people just hang up, 1% of people would **** up the survey and still give you a low score. Then I'd get in trouble. Glad I don't work there no mo'

I believe this quote from source 1 sums it up nicely.

"To those who might sneer at something as "non-essential" as a video game company winning the Worst Company In America vote: It's that exact kind of attitude that allows people to ignore the complaints as companies like EA to nickel and dime consumers to death."

the problem with this quote is that the words "to death" are used figuratively whereas "to death" can be used literally when describing the actions of other companies that could have been voted for. Im as against getting ****ed over as a gamer as anyone but comparing the consequences of EAs choices to BPs just makes gamers look like pale agoraphobes, swinging their little gavels and sucking on their thumbs and jerking off while talking about superior draw distance.

I don't know about you, but that ain't me.

I'm not saying other companies on the list aren't as deserving of it. Since you've used BP as an example, I'll work with that. If you dislike BP you can easily use a competitors brand of gas. If you dislike EA and boycott them, then you'll find your alternatives are rather scarce. They've effectively made it to where you HAVE to do business with them by systematically stomping out the competition and acquiring successful IPs to exploit the market. Just because their business practice doesn't physically hurt anyone/anything, doesn't make it is any less wrong.

Besides, even if BP won the award (which they did last year) would anything change? I highly doubt it. The fact is, these companies will continue to make money and laugh themselves all the way to the bank until people actually DO something about it and by do I mean more than vote on a website to give them a golden poo statue.

Please tell me they actually win a golden poo statue

Yep, they do.

The internet voting demographic is skewed by an enormous margin of gamers. EA may not be the worst company in the US, but they're the most annoying VG publisher of them all. They buy out and SQUANDER everything they buy. They would have fallen to ruin faster than Flagship Studios if it wasn't for Madden.

While true, the consistent thing with EA is that the first title in a new IP or game series is going to be amazing, the sequels... not so much.

It looks like somebody still wants their free EA review copies mailed to their door.