EA Achievement Unlocked: Two years of Poo

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

EA gets the turd for worst company in US history. Again.

One would think winning such a dubious award the first time would've been a wake up call. One would also think that getting it a second time would make for a oh fuck, we done goofed! Time to, y'know, do something about it instead bantering catch phrases and conference room buzzwords!

But it seems that stupidity carries a lot of momentum. Virtual Shackles does a mighty fine job of tearing them a new logic hole .

[Loyal]

Just gonna drop this here.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Learned nothing and still wearing the shitcap with pride!

stay classy, ea.

[Ramary]

Originally Posted by Grandmaster_Skweeb

Learned nothing and still wearing the shitcap with pride!

stay classy, ea.

It is fake, yo.

[Sifright]

Originally Posted by Ramary

It is fake, yo.

Ahem.

[Locke cole]

Whoever did write that has a real point. How in the world can you call EA the worst company? Worst video game company, probably so. But worst company, period?

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Locke cole

Whoever did write that has a real point. How in the world can you call EA the worst company? Worst video game company, probably so. But worst company, period?

It's less that they're the worst, and more that other companies that are terrible are expected to be terrible. People are resigned to it. Financial institutions that fuck over billions is just a thing that most people can't even get angry about anymore.

Meanwhile, EA produces video games. They're in the business of making people happy. That's, literally, what their job is. Keeping us happy and entertained.

Thus when EA is 'terrible' by fucking up our entertainment, it's not something we're just resigned to. It's something that actually CAN piss us off, because we don't really expect it (though we really should by now).

. . . Or to put it more succinctly, it's an issue of expectations more than objective terribleness. Kinda like if you normally get straight As and get a B or C your parents are pissed at you, while if you get straight Cs, and get a B they're happy as hell.

We expect Ds and Cs out of financial institutions and chemical corporations and. . . well most businesses. Out of Video Game companies we expect a little better, and when we don't get it, it's frustrating.

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Krylo

It's less that they're the worst, and more that other companies that are terrible are expected to be terrible. People are resigned to it. Financial institutions that fuck over billions is just a thing that most people can't even get angry about anymore.

Meanwhile, EA produces video games. They're in the business of making people happy. That's, literally, what their job is. Keeping us happy and entertained.

Thus when EA is 'terrible' by fucking up our entertainment, it's not something we're just resigned to. It's something that actually CAN piss us off, because we don't really expect it (though we really should by now).

. . . Or to put it more succinctly, it's an issue of expectations more than objective terribleness. Kinda like if you normally get straight As and get a B or C your parents are pissed at you, while if you get straight Cs, and get a B they're happy as hell.

We expect Ds and Cs out of financial institutions and chemical corporations and. . . well most businesses. Out of Video Game companies we expect a little better, and when we don't get it, it's frustrating.

I see the logic here, but still sad that we care more about a company failing to entertain us than one impeding our standard of living, supporting slave labor, violating worker rights, or lessening our planets ability to support life.

I mean if EA personally destroyed the entire video game industry I still couldn't call it the worst company.

[Ramary]

It doesn't really matter, 4chan just raided it (again). People being mad about some other company not getting a poop statue is kinda hilarious though. Admittedly I kinda like that they win, because just how horrible they are is not really mainstream knowledge yet, while everyone knows Bank of America etc are terrible, and again, it is a internet poll with a poop statue, it is gonna matter jack.

The best part is that EA is the only company that ever cared about "winning" this thing.

[Bells]

a few days prior to this they released this actual statement

http://www.ea.com/news/we-can-do-better

Take it for what~s worth. Don't know if they knew of their "win" before hand though.