GTP Alternative Cool Wall: 1982-present Electronic Arts, Inc.
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- HamiltonMP427
No they aren't and this has been covered in the various Porsche GT threads as to why.
Anyways, if you like greed and being the most backwards money grubbing gaming company in the industry and you aspire to be that type one day. This should be SZ to you. 👍
If you're an actual person that likes to be treated as a customer, like a complete game, doesn't like to see cheap yearly releases of a game you already own (other than the sports games that is)...this should be uncool or SU. Also if you don't like a group that pretty much black balls smaller devs that work with them if they don't comply...
Anything else probably is indifferent to both and will vote meh or what ever they feel. And that's basically how I see EA.
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*spits*
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- axletramp
The FIFA games from the 90s onwards were brilliant. Alone in the Dark, Dead Space and Black & White were pretty good in their day too. More recently I've enjoyed the Medal of Honor series and Need for Speed: Underground, although the rest of that series was pretty dull. Plant vs Zombies on the iphone was OK too. 
So all-in-all a bit of a mixed bag for me, so 'meh'.
So all-in-all a bit of a mixed bag for me, so 'meh'.
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- race_emhard
And the awful business practices, don't forget that.
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- Zenith113
Awful being relative. Yeah, EA screws over some developers, but that's hardly new and it's nowhere near as big of a deal as many on the internet would like to believe.
If many of the people here whining about EA knew about the business practices in the auto industry or in other forms of the entertainment industry, then EA would look completely tame by comparison.
They sell video games, people buy video games. You may not like those video games. Those video games may be crap, but EA is not Lord Business. They're not out stealing from the starving or lobbying congressmen into giving them monopolies.
EA sucks, but EA is not this evil mega-corporation that the narrow-viewed video game consumer market believes it is.
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- race_emhard
When a company seems to be more focused on quarterly sales figures than consumer satisfaction, regardless of the products they sell, that reputation is put on them.
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Probably one of the most hated company in gaming industry. Usually I don`t "hate" companies. And not everything coming from EA is BS. So it`s an "uncool" for me.
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EA is a tightly run ship.
What I mean is, they're a bunch of money-mongering capitalists that do, definitely, screw over developers and milk gamers for every cent they can.
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But, as @Zenith says, if you knew about auto industry practices... or business practices in any other industry... EA would seem rather ordinary, by comparison.
Car companies and dealers regularly screw over customers through cost-cutting, holding off recalls on deadly flaws in their cars, absurd and exploitative financing schemes and misleading advertising.
Then there's the political lobbying, screwing over partners and investors, stripping bought companies and discarding them, industrial espionage, environmental regulations violations (I'm not mentioning "Who Killed the Electric Car", because that one was down to market forces... no way is anyone going to keep on making $80-$100k cars to lease out for just $40k!) and etcetera.
Then you get to retail, where they screw both customers and manufacturers/suppliers in equal measure through hardball negotiation tactics, psy-war style pricing schemes and etcetera.
EA is not a nice company. They're actually a very cut-throat company. But they are far from the worst company in the Universe.
What I mean is, they're a bunch of money-mongering capitalists that do, definitely, screw over developers and milk gamers for every cent they can.
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But, as @Zenith says, if you knew about auto industry practices... or business practices in any other industry... EA would seem rather ordinary, by comparison.
Car companies and dealers regularly screw over customers through cost-cutting, holding off recalls on deadly flaws in their cars, absurd and exploitative financing schemes and misleading advertising.
Then there's the political lobbying, screwing over partners and investors, stripping bought companies and discarding them, industrial espionage, environmental regulations violations (I'm not mentioning "Who Killed the Electric Car", because that one was down to market forces... no way is anyone going to keep on making $80-$100k cars to lease out for just $40k!) and etcetera.
Then you get to retail, where they screw both customers and manufacturers/suppliers in equal measure through hardball negotiation tactics, psy-war style pricing schemes and etcetera.
EA is not a nice company. They're actually a very cut-throat company. But they are far from the worst company in the Universe.
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- Alabamamania
Well, they kind of jumpstarted the PC sim racing industry with one title. Although Papyrus made it.
After that, nothing they made with cars ever caught my eye nor attention; then again, I don't care who makes a game if it's interesting.
After that, nothing they made with cars ever caught my eye nor attention; then again, I don't care who makes a game if it's interesting.
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If high stakes was still their latest game (so EA of the late 90s) I'd say cool.
But EA now especially killing off the skate series, seriously uncool.
But EA now especially killing off the skate series, seriously uncool.
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- SVTlover
I voted meh.
I like some of the games they've made over the years, James Bond games, Burnout games, Mirrors Edge and Hot Wheels Turbo Racing, and some NFS titles have been gems.
I don't like their policy of paying for finished (extra) content although in the past i've been guilty of buying it.
I hate FIFA games now. They've become a symbol of 'yolo, do you even lift bro?' They churn out the same game every year with updated teams and morons keep buying it believing that it's different.
I like some of the games they've made over the years, James Bond games, Burnout games, Mirrors Edge and Hot Wheels Turbo Racing, and some NFS titles have been gems.
I don't like their policy of paying for finished (extra) content although in the past i've been guilty of buying it.
I hate FIFA games now. They've become a symbol of 'yolo, do you even lift bro?' They churn out the same game every year with updated teams and morons keep buying it believing that it's different.
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- GTP_TheCracker
I don't think i've knowingly played a single EA game, or seen one that's interested me. So business practices aside, they're uncool.
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- I_Grayson_Fox_I
I still play NFS IV High Stakes.
Shame australians got a unique version for their market and no other market got it.
Ours came with 2 more cars.
HSV GTS and Ford Falcon XR8
And a special hidden car.
The MHRT V8 Supercar from the 90's
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Businesses in which the main reason for operating is profit above all else. There are still many companies that are in it for production or performing a service, not JUST to rake in money. Most of these no one hears about because media outlets can't get the views they desire so badly, or there's no benefit for them do report it. Think about oilfield and/or natural gas companies, how many hundreds of them are there and how many would there be if money was the leading factor. The only reason EA can keep it up is because they aren't the only ones, people will buy it still, and no one is willing to stop them. A company has to make money to stick around, a person has to as well, but to put all effort into making profits at the expense of everything else is greed-driven.
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