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EA has been voted the “worst company in America” by readers of The Consumerist.
Contenders included Apple, GameStop, WallMart, Sony and PayPal, but the final round ended up with a face-off between EA and Bank of America. EA took the crown with over 64 per cent of the vote.
It seems EA has angered its customers with post-launch DLC, buying small developers and releasing unfinished buggy games.
EA doesn’t, however, seem too bothered.
Corporate comms chief John Reseburg told Kotaku: “We’re sure that British Petroleum, AIG, Philip Morris, and Halliburton are all relieved they weren’t nominated this year.
“We’re going to continue making award-winning games and services played by more than 300 million people worldwide.”
And EA’s PopCap has come out in defence of its owner. The “business of games is hard”, PopCap co-founder John Vechey said in a blog post, and “the art of games is harder”.
“Everyone makes mistakes. Yup. EA does not have a perfect past. It’s made HR mistakes. It’s made huge game design screw ups. It’s messed up studios, marketing campaigns and beloved franchises (sometimes all at once). It will do so again. There is no perfect company, and I won’t promise perfection from PopCap.”
Let’s just say, it’s a good job VideoGamer.com isn’t based in the US. Martin, Emily, and TomP are chained to their desks and Neon didn’t even make it through the gauntlet on the path leading to the office.
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