EA (Electronic Arts)

[VagabondMage]

You're going to be hard-pressed to find someone who has something positive to say about EA. The most you can really say is that they've bought out a good few companies that may make some relatively decent games. That's just before said companies shrivel up and die due to EA's business practices, of course.

 

[FireNinja1]

I don't like them period. They flooded the Wii U with their crappy My Sims games that got worse and watered down for every single installement. My Sims, My Sims Kingdom were okay. However, after that, they started to forget the main thing that people loved about my sims. THE CUSTOMIZATION. The only game I liked after the Kingdom was agents.

Also, I think the only thing EA is popular for are The Sims, Sim City and EA Sports games. However, they don't really introduce that much new with those IPs in my opinion. Each installment seems to basically fix problems other than innovate.

Agreed. My Sims Racing was downright horrible. So was the Planes one or whatever it was called.

 

[Kailani]

They release the most horrible Sims games for Mac. I mean I love them, but I can't even play them because they're so jam-packed full of bugs and errors its unbelievable. And then they completely ignore the their customers on Mac saying its our fault the game isn't working because we scratched the disk or something. Absolutely ridiculous.

 

[Blu Rose]

Well, my brothers and I loved the MySims series...

 

[MayorCake]

I like The Sims franchise, but the prices for the expansion packs + the stuff packs + the base game + store content = over $400 bucks. If the average expansion pack costs, say, $30 bucks, all eleven expansion packs just cost you $330 bucks.

They're good at making money. That's a fact. Especially considering they have thousands of fans who would buy anything from their The Sims 3 Store all while paying for their every game.

 

[DJStarstryker]

The only video games I have that have the EA logo are ones EA published, not developed. Those games turned out pretty good, so... *shrug* I don't think I've played an EA developed game since the SNES/Sega Genesis days.

 

[chillv]

Well, my brothers and I loved the MySims series...

The My Sims series isn't bad, but as they released more installments in the series, they took away the main thing that made My Sims or any sims game popular, the customization. My Sims basically allowed kids to unleash thier imagination and change almost anything they wanted to. However, as they released more installments, they took that away. Sure, they allowed some customization, but it feel watered down.

My Sims is not a bad series. In fact, it is a great series and has a lot of potential. However, EA has took that potential and let it go to waste.

What they are doing is like giving a kid some art supllies and doing the following "in order":

1. Giving them a blank pieces of paper allowing them to draw whatever they want
2. Taking some of the art suplies and the blank pieces to and giving them a coloring book slightly limiting their imagination.
3. Taking the coloring book away and giving them another coloring book with everything but one or two objects colored in already
4. Taking that away and giving them a sticker book with pages with missing objects in them and giving them limited variations of stickers to fill in those gaps in those pages.

You get what I mean?

 

[woody]

i think all game companies that get big end up sucking. for lots of various reasons as mentioned. when a game has too many people involved it gets butchered one way or another.

the best games are made by small companies where the original game vision remains intact from start to finish.

my friend used to work at EA, he said it was a sweatshop.

 

[reyy]

I only like the sims 3. All the other games are terrible, period.

- - - Post Merge - - -

Oh, and the original mysims. I loved feeding deer!

 

[Moonlitnite]

The reason why these games cost so much is because it took a lot of time and effort into making them. It's not easy to make a game. It takes hundreds of people, doing different projects to make the whole thing. Plus, the saying, "You get what you paid for" comes into play.

 

[Pixlplume]

Going back to the Sims 3, it is a very successful franchise, but they implement the same formula for the Sims franchise over and over again. It does work. Having expansion packs withhold certain features is brilliant on their parts because people continue to buy them. I myself fall victim to wanting the Seasons in the game... but with Sims 4, $70 for the base game? Are you insane?

Having said that, the expansion packs, store content, and worlds aren't required, it just adds something new. There's always free content which players make (mods), and nowadays, there's free store content (although Sims 4 is coming)

I think what bothers me most about the Sims 4 are the worlds they create for the store. The latest world, Roaring Heights is $20 US. That's almost the same amount as the actual base game and expansion packs. Their gold edition is slightly cheaper than most gold worlds (Sunlit Tides Gold for $50), but still...

Oh and stuff packs. No thank you.

 

[Loveablegal]

i only played the sims but i agree on the money thing too much money.

 

[XTheLancerX]

Only thing about them that I like is the way Origin looks when you are selecting a game how it shows that card like display of each game haha. Everything else about them is stupid. 90% DLC Games that are overpriced. That pretty much describes them in full...

 

[Tenyu]

Terrible! Never before have I seen a company I used to hold in such good esteem suffer such a precipitous decline. Their stuff used to be edgy and quirky. Now it's all, "Please spend an exorbitant sum on this sponsored product themed stuff pack, or else!" and "We're gonna saturate your game with ads for tacky add-ons so that it operates even slower than ever before!"

It's really tragic.

EDIT: Thought I should add - they have the least prompt, most unhelpful customer service I've ever had the displeasure of dealing with. They really don't give a hoot about us.

 

[Alienfish]

They suck, but most third party stuff that requires an account for like one game sucks.

 

[ForgottenT]

I bought BattleField 4, I installed it, and it?s complete bull****, it?s filled with glitches, bugs and hit detection is horrible, even though my ping is around 30.
It?s pretty much unplayable, so I looked it up on google and found out that EA pushed Dice to release the game UNFINISHED because EA wanted to beat Call of Duty to release...
EA sucks.

 

[Julum]

I liked The Sims and the Mass Effect games. I hate everything else. And apparently the reason Mass Effect 3's ending sucked is because EA rushed Bioware to finish the game in 2 years, instead of the normal 3 years, like Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2.

 

[chillv]

The reason why these games cost so much is because it took a lot of time and effort into making them. It's not easy to make a game. It takes hundreds of people, doing different projects to make the whole thing. Plus, the saying, "You get what you paid for" comes into play.

There are better games that cost just as much and have way more effort put in them. *someone puts me at gun point* I mean... your right, these games do take a lot of time and effort and people need to understand that!

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[Pathetic]

The sims is a great game. I hate the company, though. I only really like the Sims which I don't exactly play because I have WAY too much custom content.

 

[Levi]

I really like The Sims, still play the games but the money is a bit too high. I don't bother to buy all the extension packs :/
I try to find them online lol