And read this, if you think i'm lying!

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/EA

EA is a monopoly based gaming company. They buy countless small-gaming companys and send a team to replace the people they fire. And usually after they take over the companys, they produce worse quality games than the original companys had created. They will pay attention to their newly created game for all of maybe one year and then leave it alone, reguardless of the fanbase and the request for patches for their glitchy games. This resulted in most people hating EA and their many franchises.

Indeed. Although I can't say "I hate EA" I do disagree with their approach to the industry. There was an article posted in the news section a while back about the poor treatment of their employees; overworked, underpaid, unrealistic expectations, and worst of all wasting young talent in dead-end dime-a-dozen games. Granted they claim to be moving away from their old ways, but it's more a matter of "time will tell..."

An what must people do that doesn't have internet (on their main PC).
It's the same reason I can't play Halflife 2 Even if would buy it.

well remember that ea is a business and the whole point is to make money for it's shareholders. This means that EA want to make as many projects as cheaply as possible as this will allow maximum profit. Of course they don't care much about customers after the first few months as they are not getting any more money out of us. Yes it sucks and they could do better but this is the way that they work

There are two competing models for large scale game publishing companies. One is EA and the other is Vivendi Games (Activision Blizzard / Activition Vivendi / Whatever you want to call it). EA takes a very involved managerial role in the development process where Vivendi tends to be more "hands off". Both companies have acquired several companies. EA tends to buy developers for the licenses and Vivendi buys developers for the studios themselves. This is why we're not talking about how Westwood is messing up C&C but instead talking about how Blizzard is developing Starcraft 2. There are advantages and disadvantages to both. EA's model is primarily one that pushes that bottom line - no matter who it angers or alienates (sometimes both their own programmers and hardcore fans). Under EA's management Starcraft Ghost would have never been canceled because the team working on it would have been moved onto one of EA's campuses shortly after being acquired and management would have made sure no code went to waste and that the project hit it's deadlines regardless of quality. As a programmer and game developer myself, I highly prefer the Vivendi approach because it keeps the atmosphere that has contributed to each company's success in place. EA's approach usually drives away talented programmers (like when the Westwood team formed Petroglyph). EA's management strategy is quite short sighted. While it works at milking a fan base, it does little to grow it or build confidence in their brand. Their monopolistic tendencies (like with the NFL licensed Madden series when they bought the exclusive rights to the NFL's likeness) not only squeezes out competition but leaves no reason for further innovation. If Valve had been purchased by EA instead of Vivendi, there would probably be no Steam. Honestly, I'm not sure what I would do without Steam. It's the way I get 80-90% of my new PC games. Oh, and I'm pretty sure we would have had at least twice as many editions of the Half Life series (and certainly not the quality games that they release today).

I'm not saying that EA doesn't make any good games and that all their games are half-assed due to poor working conditions for programmers and quality neglecting management but I am saying that EA Games that don't suffer from these issues are diamonds in the rough. I fear that a game like Spore will be as rushed as the next C&C (blue dirt and all).

Oh, and anyone who wants to film a "Leave EA Alone" video is more than welcome. ( is the original )

I think EA messed up the Command and Conquer games, if you look at it the mods for Zero Hour and Tiberian Wars, are better than the game. EA put no action just a little puff here and there and bad skinning on units. I'm surprised that EA didn't hire the people who make mods.

i can say that encyclopedia dramatica is actually correct.

it's the second time now in EA forums , i and many people folowing me started to get out of the ... and talk about EA destroying C&C , they deleted the topic and it was a sticky one lol.

Now recently another topic right for this was posted , the guy was so right it really looked like he copied my mind ... EA has ****loads of money , they don't care about C&C much ... for them its only a straight job and not something to be fun and interesting ...

Renegade 2 canceled
2004 RA3 canceled (mark skaggs left ... yea that beacuse ea)

Do you people even mind that EA Pacific was really under Westwood control (generals), then it was EALA for the ZH ... lead generals designer bowder went to blizzard .... but other team stayed to finish up the ZH. the real EA game is C&C3

what basicially makes it wierd is the stupid .relo .bin .imf .xml .manifest **** with no inis and the great system that Gen zh had
That's right sky demon , WE WANT GEN INI SYSTEM BACK , i said many times on officals too.

Who cares about stupid SDK i don't need that , i need ini system i can mod whatever , parameters became so much of them and GENERALLY ZH HAD LEFT IN EXTRA AN EXTRA OF CODE AND MATERIAL , this is quality , T H I S. i love generals ZH.

Look the GenZH modding forum on any fan site
Now look the modding forum on C&C3

day to night

EIDT; another one , these you see every day IN actual KW forum

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We all LOVE cnc, that's why we are on these forums...
so will buy the titles that include that brand name, so before i continue, don't say we are letting EA continue their strategy solely because we support it, EA just buys out our favourite game producers and make sequels using the same name...

I'm neither a fanboy of blizzard, nor a hater of EA... but this is where pc games are heading....

Look at the patterns:

Fifa.. 98/99/2000 etc and so on, EA makes tiny adjustments and sells a completely new game each year with a new soundtrack and makes massive profits from little work...

Battlefield 2 series: all the addons (the difference here is the addon players can play against the original game buyers and compete WITH the new features forcing everyone to buy the addon to remain equal in the game)...
This is like them bringing out an addon for RA3 with new superweapons and letting the buyers unleash them on people who could only afford the RA3 title.

The Sims/The Sims2... (THE BEST SELLING PC GAME) More addons than i can name.... Everyone forks out 10/15 quid for a few pieces of furniture while EA makes massive profits for little work.

Need for Speed series... Say no more...

All other EA sports titles...

I could go on and on...

I would be willing to put my house on the line to say.. EA are already cutting things from RA3/planning an expansion pack for us to pay extra for features which could have made it into the title.

EA.. is a soleley in this for the profit it seems, and not making customers happy.
It will continue to buyout game studios and exploit them until they are making more profit by upsetting customers, if the title is used in a series and we loved the original we are tempted to buy the sequel.

We will have no choice to go elsewhere for quality games as EA will have bought everyone out. They will have a monopoly on pc games soon enough, watch this space.

Originality is the casualty of this as the best selling games are just re-used and modified sequels..

Customer service will become nothing but WEB- BASED (probably located in india/ china for more money saving) copy and paste answers... Rather than the phone service we could expect from a HUGE corporation.

It doesn't look good, Unless companies can avoid selling out to EA, the vast majority of games will have the EA logo and poor customer service. Every game we play will be a sequel.. (c&c 2011 etc etc)....

Before people comment: DONT BUY EA GAMES, U SUPPORT THIS STRATEGY

I have no choice, they buyout my favourite game titles and exploit them.
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that is wrong , shareholder , why isn't there a single owner , founder ... where he can say what games and how games will be developed , now its a mass chaos there , one likes this , one needs this , then the other is prepared to sell everthing.

The shareholders are all about money they do not care if company produces "great" games or stinky shoes.

Krit, it can be seen at that angle.
In fact, it's the root of EA's problems.

I can only sit back and watch them as they dig the hole deeper and deeper to there own annihilation.
People will notice, and they will care. What goes around, comes around is what I can say here.

They can keep up this evil chain buying spree. The faster they burn great companies away, the harder they push there employees to perform and the more they agrivate gamers around the globe the faster there demise!
It certainly will be quite entertaining.

The great American "We own it all, we are supreme and no one messes with us" approach just aint gonna last.