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The sure fire way to open a blog, huh? 
As pretty much everyone and their Sierra Mist bottle can tell you, EA managed to beat Bank of America, a horrible bank that generally can be blamed not only for foreclosure but also for all the mosquitoes from the stagnant foreclosed pool water, in a mass public voting poll for the worst possible company of the moment.
Many have freaked out, and tried to say that BoA should have won, even though BoA would've just shrugged if it had won, seeing as everyone has already called them out on their asshattery.
EA, on the other hand? Get the hell off of my planet. Your desk. Everything. Box. Out the front. Go to the sun. Now.
If you haven't realized it by now, EA is a magnificent repeat of everything that drove Atari into a spiraling nosedive crash into a remote forest- buying everything, hemmorhaging money for what is virtual flair, unnecessary add-ons, you name it.
For our first example: Star Wars: the Old Republic. What promised to be an awesome as high hell sequel to KotOR and KotOR II has turned out to be a gaming equivalent of not only the Titanic, but the Titanic strapped to five Hindenburgs all on the bottom of a fast-falling Roswell UFO. In the buying everything category, EA swooped in and bought Bioware for no real reason or use up until this game. For the money hemmorhaging, just look at the marketing and obvious reviewer buyouts. I mean, not only did they think people would spring for another WoW clone, but they also managed to get Adam Sessler to gust positivity for this game. Adam Sessler. And for everything else, just look at the toxic mess- banning people for dancing in non-dance zones (wat das), banning accounts without allowing access to the payment options, the characters are all pretty much head model and skin swaps, Hamburger Helper (no need to explain that), banning for accessing "high-level zones" at lower levels because they were too lazy to block them off for lower leveled players, goddammit I sound like a broken record repeating all of this.
The second: The Sims 3. This game not only feels, but looks like Will Wright wasn't allowed to help this game out. The whole "go beyond a single house space" idea was good at first, but that's just turned out to be awkward (unless you manage to pull off living homeless in the park and fire station), all of these add-ons that fix bugs but introduce new ones (on purpose, no doubt), pay-to-decorate all over the place, and- ugh- Origin.
And don't even mention Mass Effect 3. Everyone knows that. That's just turned into an awkward black hole of debates overall. Not even gonna lie.
So, let's face it- the company that gave us the awesomeness of Road Rash has turned into a horrible company that rips off buyers, ensnares companies and proceeds to wreck their IPs, and, overall, is just really, really bad. At least Activision can recognize when they're going too far. EA just seems to think their disco age won't end
So, let's all just call EA the "Combine" now, since they're content on taking over others and being robots about it.
-Enig
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