The Official "I Loathe EA" Thread - Hosted by Mizzou B-ball fan

[Sun Tzu]

This thread is for all of those people who despise EA and want to rant about how their games aren't fun regardless of whether or not you have actually played them so the rest of us in the "impressions" threads who actually own/are playing the game can have a productive discussion.

Disclaimer - Flaming people in this thread will result in your user ID being automatically changed to your real life first name.

[BrianD]

What happens if I want to flame people in this thread? Does that mean someone will drop the 'D' off of my username? I'm not sure I could take that.

[cartman]

But if the EA game helps sell more PS3s, then it is obviously a necessary evil.

[MJ4H]

ea sports sucks

[Big Fo]

EA often brings the suck but NCAA 09 is good. I wonder if Madden will make them two for two this year.

[KWhit]

Originally Posted by Big Fo

EA often brings the suck but NCAA 09 is good.

Well, good isn't really the word I would use for it. I'd call it an extremely fun, buggy mess.

I really hope they correct the buggy mess part of it.

[CraigSca]

Can't we move this thread to it's own forum?

[kingnebwsu]

David Hayter would gruffly say, "E.A. Sports. If it's in the game, they'll fuck it up. Rated T for Terrible."

That's all I got

[Galaxy]

Bump in honor of MBBF.

[molson]

I liked when the ambulance would run over half the team to get to the QB.

[Dr. Sak]

BOOM POW!

[Galaxy]

Originally Posted by molson

I liked when the ambulance would run over half the team to get to the QB.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_138p6uzhUk

[molson]

Thank you sir. Blocked at work, but I will have that on a loop when I get home.

I'll also need to look for the hockey player's head cracked open on the ice.

I loved my Sega Genesis.

[Logan]

Originally Posted by molson

Thank you sir. Blocked at work, but I will have that on a loop when I get home.

I'll also need to look for the hockey player's head cracked open on the ice.

I loved my Sega Genesis.

I'm gonna make Gretzky's head bleed for Superfan #99 over here...

[Sgran]

I had mixed feelings until they stopped releasing games on PC. Now I'm just hurt.

[fantom1979]

As a solo franchise player, there is a lot to be disappointed with NCAA and Madden. I can imagine that the online stuff is fun, but I could fire up two player Tecmo Super Bowl and have a blast.

[Bad-example]

When I gave up video gaming in favor of computers about a decade ago, EA became pretty much irrelevant to me.

[fantom1979]

Originally Posted by Bad-example

When I gave up video gaming in favor of computers about a decade ago, EA became pretty much irrelevant to me.

I guess you don't play any of these games: Simcity, Sims, Battlefield, Command and Conquer, Medal of Honor, Most Sid Meier games (not Civ though), or the upcoming Spore

EA has a pretty good hold on PC games as well.

[Bad-example]

Played SimCity and sons a bunch, might play Spore. None of the others interest me.

[saldana]

i am firmly in the EA SUCKS camp after reading how chopped up and dumbed down all the sports games are for Wii this year....as someone that only has one system, to have them give me a shell of a game that is supposed to be designed for "everyone" is a load of shit...i am part of everyone, and i want the full bells and whistles version.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by BrianD

What happens if I want to flame people in this thread? Does that mean someone will drop the 'D' off of my username? I'm not sure I could take that.

SI

[Buccaneer]

EA is a necessary evil, like most near-monopolies are. EA Sports sucks though.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Buccaneer

EA is a necessary evil, like most near-monopolies are. EA Sports sucks though.

Really, Bucc? I know we're in the wrong thread for this- but near-monopolies are a necessary evil? I'd love to start another thread about it but I have such limited time with moving in a couple of weeks, but my brief summary:

I've always thought the biggest inefficiency in capitalism that is never accounted for in theory and never talked about is that "perfect capitalism" is not the end game but appears in practice to be a brief transitional period. And once it is achieved, whoever comes out ahead in that dogfight gains a monopoly or, at the very least, is part of an oligopoly. Which, of course, isn't inherently bad. But, as businesses are want to do, they take advantage of the huge entry barriers to the industry and then create gross market inefficiency.

(oh, and this fact is always glossed over by people who love "unbridled capitalism" or deregulation or market forces in everything)

SI

[Buccaneer]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

Really, Bucc? I know we're in the wrong thread for this- but near-monopolies are a necessary evil? I'd love to start another thread about it but I have such limited time with moving in a couple of weeks, but my brief summary:

I've always thought the biggest inefficiency in capitalism that is never accounted for in theory and never talked about is that "perfect capitalism" is not the end game but appears in practice to be a brief transitional period. And once it is achieved, whoever comes out ahead in that dogfight gains a monopoly or, at the very least, is part of an oligopoly. Which, of course, isn't inherently bad. But, as businesses are want to do, they take advantage of the huge entry barriers to the industry and then create gross market inefficiency.

SI

I understand your response, it should have been expected, esp. for astute posters like you. I was actually thinking on very different plane, not equating monopolies with being necessary, but in knowing that in the world of limited number of PC games, most of them seem to come from EA. If one would desire to play PC windows (which I only do), then it becomes necessary to look towards EA. Makes sense?

By the way, as one who is a fervent believer in entreprenuership, I would take a more radical view on the consolidation of enterprise and ideas, but I do very much understand what you wrote as one of my key areas of study is the history of change, esp. as it applies to technology and innovations, with ever-present centralization and de-centralization movements.