EA Repeats As 'Worst Company In America' 346
An anonymous reader writes "Electronic Arts has successfully defended its title as the 'Worst Company In America.' Consumerist finished its annual tournament for bad companies, pitting notorious companies against each other in a single-elimination bracket where readers vote on which is worse. EA won last year, and today Consumerist announced the results of this year's final vote. EA was voted worse than Bank of America by 78% of participants. 'A made a royal mess of the SimCity release by failing to foresee that the people who would buy the game — and who would, per the game's design, be required to connect to the EA servers — might actually want to play at some point in the week after making their purchase. But that's just the latest in EA's long history of annoying its customer base with bad support.' Of course, EA saw this coming, and its CEO pre-emptively responded last Friday. Of course, many of his explanations and promises rang hollow for gamers who are sick of the company's practices: 'Until EA stops sucking the blood out of games in order to make uninspiring sequels, or at least until they begin caring about how much gamers hate their lack of respect for our money and intelligence, this is going to continue. We don't hate them because we're homophobes, we hate them because they destroy companies we love. We hate them because they release poor games. We hate them because they claim our hate doesn't matter as long as we give them our money.'"
Re:Sadly, it doesn't matter... (Score:5, Funny)
Given the size of the SimCity maps today, you could see it from at least 20 maps away.
Re:Simple (Score:2, Funny)
I wouldn't be surprised. With some good lobbying on their part, they could probably convince the government that if EA went under, the USA would be engulfed in chaos and destruction and a hostile alien race would obliterate what's left of our species, after which God would declare his grand experiment a failure and recycle our universe to create a MyLittlePony(tm)verse.
But I think the congress will be more than happy to help them out, seeing how SimCity seems to be the main source of their knowledge on how to manage a large population: Need a new power plant? Put it smack-down in the middle of the city and plant 5 trees next to it. Done. No more pollution, everyone's happy.