re: EA named the worst company in America...again

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Following last year’s surprise Worst Company In America victory by Electronic Arts, there was hope that the video game giant would get the message: Stop treating your customers like human piggy banks, and don’t put out so many incomplete and/or broken games with the intent of getting your customers to pay extra for what they should have received in the first place. And yet, here we are again, with EA becoming the first company to ever win a second Golden Poo from Consumerist readers.

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After an astounding number of votes, Consumerist readers once again chose EA over Bank of America, with the video game company taking nearly 78% of the vote.

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I mean... yeah..EA isn't committing medical fraud or tax evasion. but cmon. this shite is funny


wow the actual Consumerist article rips into EA worse than I ever could

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“This is the same poll that last year judged us as worse than companies responsible for the biggest oil spill in history,” writes Moore. He’s obviously referencing the 2011 champ BP, except BP wasn’t even in the bracket last year. In response to Moore’s statement, we’d like to take a moment to explain that our “Worst Company in America” contest exists within the context of this website, which is about consumers and their relationship to the marketplace and to businesses.

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Their Chief Operating Officer is a complete dick.

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Here’s our question to Peter Moore: If your entire industry is engaged in the production of something so trivial as to not warrant inclusion in a contest that features a poop trophy, why do you even work in it?

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This is how I picture EA after getting the news of this

Pretty much...

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tehchampion140

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maybe people should stop gobbling up their next iteration of last year's shite instead of voting in pointless polls...ya know send a real message.

I guess since a lot of people say they don't buy a lot of EA's games if they know what's coming, then they don't feel butthurt by EA. But when they frick with my baby, Battlefield 3 or 4, then it's time to light the torches and set fire to this mothafricka.

They make fricking video games. How they won over Bank of America shows how ignorant people really are. Consumers are more concerned with video games?! Really?? C'mon, man...

Its a billion dollar industry and they are providing a product.

If it's just video games, why are you even on this forum? Because you obviously care about...video games.

go read the consumerist article and maybe ud understand.

you spend all day posting on a video game forum and not Money Talk.. why? its just video games?

Devious has a point about priorities, though. I guess his comment is more of a commentary on the American public.

My interests and activities at work are completely irrelevant to determining the worst company in America.

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The worst in America, in fact.

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Truthfully there are companies that are much worse for America and have done so much damage to our economy over the years that should win hands down.

The dirty little truth is that of course a tech company or a consumer company is going to win the consumerist pole every year because people have first hand bad experiences with them and that's how short sighted the average person is.

What the general public is too dumb to realize is that even though they might be emotionally attached to their ME3 ending, there are real people and small businesses suffering because of large corporations exploiting things like sub prime lending then taking billions in TARP funds to bail themselves out from their own poor business decisions. That is way far more detrimental to us as a whole but I doubt that many people who voted in this poll are aware enough to take any of that into account.

But go on and keep thinking that EA not making a video game the way you think it should be is worse than a 10% unemployment rate or home forclosure rates up 47% vs a year ago.