Electronic Arts - Why They're Hated
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- Electronic Arts is a video game developer that happens to be one of the most hated companies out there. This video attempts to explain that hatred.
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I could tell you why EA is hated, but first you'll need to get the Comments Pack for $9.99
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*sweats profusely* oh shit... that’s hits a little too close to home *wheezing noises*
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holy shit that's so original and funny I hope you're a comedian you should go on tour
@@zac-1 why are you so salty about it?
If *DISNEY* tells you to stop, you know you're a terrible company.
Yeah, because Disney is an evil company, so true.
@@DeadmonarchCoilfang they make good movies but they need to stop murdering companies
@@atommidas2002 *looks at the star wars sequels..*
@@thearbiter3351 …Pixar makes good movies
I just think about this a lot,do you think Walt would of liked the direction that Disney is going right now?
In the 6 months that I worked for EA (on the launch of EA Sportsworld), I found 297 bugs. They fixed one. ONE. Their corporate philosophy was that if a found bug wasn't something that would prevent them from selling the game, it was likely irrelevant. Whether or not it had a negative impact on the player's experience was not even a consideration.
Can i ask when you found the bug did they just say they'll work on it but just fix the one
@@ru_gamerandotaku2431 All they said with each bug is just report it and they'll figure out later what to do with the reports.
@@larrywalsh9939 so basically it's like "tell us if there are bugs and we'll probably maybe not fix it" like that....??
@@ru_gamerandotaku2431 EXACTLY like that
@@larrywalsh9939 or package the bug repair as a dlc for 49.99 lol
"It's not gambling, it's surprise mechanics!"
"It's not raining, it's God watering his plants!"
"It's not raining, it's Zeus taking a piss"
"It's not snowing, it's God's dandruff"
It's not mist, just god sweating from armpits
“It’s not windy, it’s God trying to practice whistling!”
@@uselesssoundtracks4626 "It's not a tornado, it's God's blender messing up our air currents"
"It's not a tsunami, God just spilled his water"
"It's not the sound of thunder, it's God testing out his new gaming speakers"
Q: Why is EA hated?
A: Pay2Win.
More like pay to play.
@@carterreynolds9049 ...a shit ton of video games are pay to play
To make things worse, EA purchased Codemasters. Rip F1 and Dirt series.
Pay2Play not Pay2win at all ...... or maybe we can say Pay2Play and Pa2WIn at the same time
@@Waddle_Dee_With_Internet Gonna Ruin it 🤐
play to win not pay to win. Remember this, people
Sadly EA took the L.
@@gutsFunnyman more like took the £
They have changed Star Wars BF a lot and I haven’t spent a thing
I don’t really think there a bad I like the games but that’s it
Heaven 17 Vibes here ;)
An interesting point is that the company began these practices shortly after Trip Hawkins was largely separated from EA.
EA destroying Maxis and The Sims is what cemented my hatred for them. It used to be one of the most satisfying games to play, now the latest game was stripped of features that were in Sims 3, the last game, and put behind a paywall. If it was a feature complete game, I wouldn't mind buying them, but it isn't. Sims 4 is bare bones next to SIms 3 and selling DLC packs for the DLC expansions is where I draw the line. I wonder what the founder has to say about the state of the company and it's business ethics today.
I would have loved for The Company Man to mention all this. I clicked on the video hoping he would, but alas.
I've actually tried to find out if Will Wright has said anything about Sims publically but I don't think he has since at least the beginning/middle of Sims 3. I think he knows they're fucked.
uh. SimCity used to be one of my favorite franchises, then they released a broken SimCity game and made it online-only and then when it flopped, Drowned Maxis in a bathtub
I always wait for the 80% off sales, not worth it to buy Sims 4 expansions at current rates, its a ripoff
Trip Hawkins is very disturbed by the whole thing and upset. There is that video by softdrinks on The Decline of EA Sports,
Let’s be honest, if you’re watching, you already know why EA’s so hated lol
BFV was just the last nail
I didn't know, so this vid was very enlightening.
@Dave-K ^^
Nope and I didnt read the comments so it was a surprise
I haven't played EA FIFA & NBA titles for past 3 years. Got tired of the P2W mentality, damn farkers EA.
*"You can't spell STEAL without EA"* - Sun Tzu
*"This is true"* - Sun Tzu
They EAt other companies
Who tf id Sun Tzu
*"I agree.."* - Sun Tzu
@@denisdemarcus1 A Chinese general, military strategist, writer and philosopher
Some good friends of mine worked for EA. One of them was a lead on a big title, just bought a house down the street from HQ, and had twins on the way. When the game did not sell to expectation, EA fired most everyone on the project (like somehow it was the employee's fault), and my friend with a new mortgage and family was now unemployed. Fortunately, he got lucky and was hired by 343 and went on to make Halo games up in Washington state. Some of his other peers weren't as lucky. Now I never buy an EA game new.
I'm not defending EA, but that unfortunate situation can happen to literally anyone in any industry.
Companies like EA and Activision are great examples of how absolutely trash a company can be when they get too big.
And Rockstar
EA has always been trash. Even when it was just 2 guys and 200K in borrowed money. As a publisher, they've always been predatory.
And Capcom.
@@Rgoid And Nintendo
@@afloofyvixen9514 Rockstar made gta: I AM A JOKE TO YOU
With EA games, getting DLCs to furnish your home in the Sims can cost as much as furnishing your home in real life
But with DLCs you at least know for sure what you get, unlike lootboxes
@@markdebruyn1212 that doesn't justify them
😭😂
with that logic any dlc for any game ever can be used to furnish your house. expansion packs in the sims are more than just a couple of built items. its worlds, clothing, hair, furniture, gameplay, etc.
@@peterberning ...No? The punchline is that their DLCs are ridiculously overpriced and they make pretty much everything a purchasable DLC even from day one release. Thus, this joke is made.
Because you know you're evil when Disney calls you out.
Good god
That’s like satin calling out Facebook
LOL so true
Lol
when a company that defends concentration camps shames you u might as well quit
Bull Frog was a huge loss to the industry. Words cannot express how hyped I was for Dungeon Keeper 3 back in the day. Luckily those devs got back together to develop a spiritual successor called "War for the Overworld"
Syndicate......
Theme Hospital
When I worked at the EA Burnaby studio it was awful. Every year they'd hire hordes of QA Testers, but we were classified as contractors, not employees. They actually seemed to treat employees rather well, but there were really only two categories of people in that building: Employees and Scum. I've never worked anywhere else where I felt so disrespected.
Didn't you sign a non-disclosure agreement just before you started working for them?
@@ScarFail Yes. But I do believe nothing I just said in that statement could in any way be defined as a 'trade secret' or 'intellectual property'. It's also no secret that EA is now garbage.
Bro imagine making the same game every year and making billions
You can get away with a lot if your core audience are people who don't like to be informed about the products they buy from you.
I think you misspelled "billions" haha
@@tjnelson8397 crap your right
プレイヤーは今日です🍜
@Jay Bee yea imagine
Why EA is hated:
1: they’re evil to small developers
2: you need to buy the reason 2 package to see this reason.
3: they’re evil to their employees
Take here 7.99$ and give reason no. 2 lol
I got so pissed when I didn't get every DLC installed for the Mass Effect trilogy on Steam and had to buy the games again on Origin. They need to be sued for this scam.
They use ctrl+c and ctrl+v a bit too much
What's microtransactions? Never seen that in any EA game.
4. EA ma-
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I was an art director on the Nox game that we put out with EA back in 2000.
The main difference, I would say, that happened to Westwood Studios after the EA take over is that the laughter kinda stopped…. it’s like, it wasn’t okay to laugh anymore. Everything kinda became gray.
Thanks for number 3. I didn't know about it, but I'd be genuinely surprised if every company with more than 100 employees didn't have this same issue. As a labor activist, I see it all the time. It's absolutely wild to me that we are STILL fighting the exact same struggle that the Haymarket Riots were about. The literal reason we have Labor Day as a holiday (and most of the rest of the world too, though they celebrate it on May 1), and we still have the same issues as back then regarding a good work-life balance.
EA: Why they’re hated.
Activision.. begins sweating profusely.
gamefreak:oh shi*
@darrell holland the sales beg to differ
2K should be sweating harder...
Konami: "You're all so adorable. Amateurs."
Check out Act Man torching Blizzard
EA is so shady, even Disney is like "dude, stop"
Disney coping and writing different so it doesn't look like Disney copied!🤯🤣
Disney giving EA the exclusive rights to make Star Wars games: A match made in hell.
it's funny how Disney was worried about how SW would sell when they've done nothing but burn SW to the ground for going on 6 years.....Duck Fisney!
Disney : "Hey EA, I know we need the money and all but can you do it a bit quietly from now on?"
EA : "oh, ok... quietly, yes, sure."
next day ~
EA bombing the whole gaming market with overpriced game + micro-transaction + recycling previous installment to cut budget + liquidate another competitor's company
EA + Disney = end of the world
What they did to Bioware is unforgivable. They also tried to halt the first Fallout game back in the 90s. They're evil.
And people think Microsoft ruins the companies they buy…EA giving Microsoft some competition in that area.
Bioware did things to themselves too though. Mass Effect series was brilliant and now they can't live up to it.
@@E_Chap all of Bioware's issues were due to EA. Back after KOTOR struck gold, one of EA's exec's engaged is a slowplay hostile takeover of Bioware, which concluded in that exec becoming BW's CEO, merging them with EA, and revolting BW's original founders so much, they left the gaming industry completely.
There was a time about 10 years ago when I loved them. They released so many great games. Dead Space 2, Alice Madness Returns, SSX, Mass Effect 2, Shadows of the Damned. They were just on a roll.
Old EA: "It's in the game"
"Challenge everything"
The current EA: "it's in the wallet"
"Rename everything"
No
@@dh4444 Yes
ye
Actualy Old EA : here all the games for simpletons any EA release was a big meh....
@@dh4444 Yes
EA only exists because my brother keeps buying every """new""" year of Fifa
Tell him to switch to pes
Pes lite is free to try. It also is a little more skill based.
@@9nxt @Phoenix-King 77 lol he wouldn't care, just keeps throwing more money at EA
A friend of mine buys every new version.
AND IT PISSES ME OF!!!!!!
For Americans, replace FIFA with Madden.
For Canadians, replace FIFA with NHL.
Incredibly short video for the topic, i imagine you could have done a whole series on this!
This is the video that introduced me to your amazing channel back in 2021 :)
Glad you found it.
@@companyman114 me too :)
The sims 4 + DLC now costs $750 and is still missing features from previous games. Thanks EA!
At least put in cars. Sims 3 was better for me
@@microwave8931 as you can tell by my name I love cars 😢 I just download lorysims cars
Yeah. The sims 4 already costs 40 dollars just for the base game and each expansion pack is another $40, game packs are $20, and stuff packs are $10. Mind you, There are 10 expansions(they've been pumping these out every few months) 9 game packs and 17 stuff packs. You get a few mediocre create a sim items and build items with rarely any gameplay if any added in these packs. The base game was rushed by EA so now if we want interesting gameplay, we have to pay hundreds on packs for items that should've already been included in the base game. I've spent around 300 on packs and I don't even have 1/3rd of them, and the game is still boring because the lack of material included in each pack, so now I just download loads of mods and custom content for my game. Modders literally carry the game and I believe EA knows that. They pump out cheap quality packs for modders to fix all of the content in them for free. The sims 5 should've been out by now and the players have been waiting for a new game for years, but the sims team insists that the sims 4 has room to expand for more packs, the ones with items and gameplay that are rushed to put out that players don't use more than two times.
@@earthy-oi5wh modders are the best
Whatttt
"Electronic Arts - Why They're Hated"
Well, it's in the game.
..... after 50 micro payments
"It's in the game"... of capitalism.
@@negirno Capitalism is the reason why many companies have no competition, the reason why 78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, and why thousands of people get layoffs because rich elite decide to maximize profits by providing paying unfair poor wages and giving our jobs to China for cheap labor in sweatshops, the reason everything is made in China. Capitalism exploits the poor and middle class while the rich get richer. The reason why USA is the only 1st world country with no free healthcare and no free college. The reason why Luxotica owns 80% of all eyeglass, meaning cheap and expensive sunglasses are made by the same material, by the same factory, made by the same people, just different prices and brand names. Capitalism is the reason so many food go to waste, why animals get abused in farm factories due to mass production. EA is a just part of the whole problem, they don't care about their employees or their customers, ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS PROFIT.
EA $port$
It's in ur wallet
@@Cod4Wii America has no free college OR healthcare because there's too large a population.
its amazing how a company can be so disconnected from its customer base
Back in the day a lot of simmers hated The Sims 3 Store cause it was so expensive but it did have some cool worlds like Hidden Springs and Lunar Lakes and it also added roller coasters,carosals and gondela boats. A world from the store was like $20 to download.
When DISNEY takes issue with how you're doing things..."it's time to stop."
That's normal. Disney Institute, my freind.
They made battlefront 1 and 2 and killed them both early they had more players for 2 then any other game at any one given time and still managed to fuck up and killed it to work on a new battlefield which didn't go over well the last 2 games instincts tell me starwars is the better option
Remember "Pharma Bro"? He was highly criticised and disliked by both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. You know your business ideas are a bit too far, if both parties don't like you
Disney takes issue with everything now though. They're not any better.
@@TheRibbonRed Disney is basically the multimedia equivalent of EA. Though their slogan is more of "check-out our portfolio" (which, as a Star Wars fan, is like them waving your friend's head around on a stick after killing him brutally).
Bethesda: "Write That Down! Write That Down!"
Eat your cereal
Perhaps not under MS's leadership.
You could do a whole entire episode on that schmuck who other people call Todd Howard.
I live an hour from them,I need to pull up one of these days.
Things will prob get better now that Microsoft bought zenimax
I would watch a 2 hour video on this. I would watch a 1 hour video anything company man tbh. His videos are so good but so short!
I was there and was hooked. We used to trade at recess at school everyday. All week was about waiting for 9.50am on Sunday morning, when the show aired in Norway.
Fun fact: EA actually secretly stands for Evil Assholes. But their CEO thought Electronic Arts would sound better so he came up with the whole story about how game developers are artists.
Yeah scam artists
@@Mario-xh1lq haha!😂😂😂 that’s a good one.😂😂😂 oh,damn. That’s true.
@@regalcartoon3952 thanks lol
Sounds legit
Under rated comment
You know a company is shady and greedy when Disney is the one telling them to dial it down a bit and calm down.
probably so Disney can buy them and sell crappy, worthless merch
@@MariOmor1 lol no even disney can't buy them
@@radpeashooter5493 Disney: “You underestimate my power”
@@radpeashooter5493 are you impplying EA has more money and influence than Disney ?? Because lol no
This a hundred percent.
Awesome 👍 thank you for the great work Sir
Awesome video. I loved how you threw that "EA SPORTS" slogan at the end 🤣
Classic
Just a fun fact: EA was also about to buy Valve Software, the makers of Half Life, for $1 Billion Dollars. But Valve declined and the founder, Gabe Newell, says "Valve would prefer to "disintegrate" than ever sell out."
they're the makers of steam, aren't they?
@@maryrizka5419 yes
Well, Valve doesn't make many games, anyway, they live off of Steam. They had the VR game, Alex, and maybe in ten years HL3. They can afford to not make games, EA can't, so Gabe's comment about "selling out" is kind of dishonest in its own way, since Valve has kind of sold out to its own success with its electronic storefront (that has its own problems, and the worst refund policy in the industry).
D Roe I call Bullshit steam’s refund policy is one of the best, especially compared to other Pc storefronts and consoles.
They would’ve brought back the L4D franchise & fkd it up. That’s why that shit is still a classic till the day. Fuck EA!!
if EA sold cars, they would charge you a premium for the rest of the body parts
If EA was a restaurant, they would price you extra for the condiments and they would rush food every day.
If EA owned real life sports leagues, you would have to pay extra to watch the playoffs and the Super Bowl would cost as much as a Pay Per View boxing or UFC fight
More like they would charge you more for the engine or transmission, something necessary to use the car.
If EA sold gasoline, they would extra for being able to using a savings card and for being able to wash your car windows. Double charge for oil-spill-free service.
Hint: When the EA 'won' Worst Company of 2012 award, the EA executives complained that BP should have won for their recent oil spill.
Nah man
They will charge you to just to see the car!
and to drive it, fork out for loot boxes for a chance!
great video, happens to be my first and it was a damn good one.
you gotta do Epic Games sometime, they are also very much hated.
EA just made me hate them even more now with their decision to prevent American McGee from making his next Alice game, while also refusing to sell the IP back to him, because the IP was too valuable. If the IP is that valuable, why don't you let the games ACTUAL CREATOR to continue his franchise. I can't with these big game corporations anymore, I just can't.
I agree!
If anyone ever asks why EA is hated just hand them the base game of The Sims 4 and tell them to have fun.
dudeeeeeeeeee yeaaaaaa. It's freaking trash that you have to spend $750 just to add to the bland ass base game that already cost $60 o; luckily, I don't like all the packs and I get them on sale, so it isn't quite $750, but I shouldn't even have to do that in the first place i:
Reynalda Contreras Compare Sims 4 base game to Sims 3 base game. They’re miles apart.
Trueeeeee
lol
that's what you get for being a fan of The Sims.
“For ONLY $59.99 you can become an unpaid tester and bug finder for our half-finished game we plan on not finishing!” 😂
And then pay 120.00 dollars for the only part we actually put effort in
And that is pushing the bar
Im getting very GameFreak vibes over here...
@@acerowoodberry1236 nope not even close to that ea is on a league of their own
They don’t even listen to our feedback ( ufc 4 )
thats the whole gaming industry now aside from a few devs
Speaking as a dedicated RR3 player it is a real shame that a company with a lot of very skilled "artists" and experienced gamers playing their games disrespect these two components that makes them the success that they are today. ☹️😭
As a gamer from the early 1980s it's not hard to know. I remember when I looked for games with the EA on the label. I avoided them right after they added DRM locks. They constantly stopped working and you had to re-register your game.
Can I just say, Electronic Arts is the single most clever name I’ve ever seen. Like it’s just.......too good
Company is shit, but the name is dope
@@anthonywhite6784 wasted creative name
Ea sports it’s in the game
A name that had good intentions behind it that was ruined by greedy company higher-ups.
Now it’s Electronic Ass. Sad, because they own so many dope franchises just waiting for another chance. Look at what happened with C&C remastered and tell me that isn’t great.
EA also killed Maxis, SimCity’s creator. And then, they killed SimCity with its online-only mode, tiny maps, crazy AI and very limited mod options. Hurray for Cities : Skylines !
Came to the comments looking for this. Maxis was the studio that fed my love for video games growing up. Sure, games on Nintendo and PlayStation were fun. I played plenty of platformers, shoot em ups, racing games... But after a while I lost interest.
But with Maxis' games, they just sucked me in. I spent endless hours trying to figure out optimal city designs in SimCity then driving around them in Streets of SimCity. I built tower after tower in SimTower chasing five stars and keeping the tenants happy by maintaining an efficient and convenient floor plan. I made it my mission to make those insufferable homeowners miserable in SimAnt. Of course, I spent hours and hours in The Sims meticulously designing a house and building a family, only to torture them in the most cruel ways I could imagine. You did it too, don't lie to yourself.
Seeing how much Maxis titles have been diluted while chasing the almighty dollar saddens me deeply. I'm sure a ton of people watching this video feel the same way when they think about how the games that inspired so much creativity, have been turned into shadows of their former selves.
i loved playing sim city 2000 growing up and i hated the online only version of the newest sim city that i played. having an online play being available is fine but sim city should be available to play offline
@@a2d And Sim Earth! I spent hours and hours of my childhood playing these games and they killed them all. I'm sure it's bound to happen over the course of many years that a company will mess up a game or 2, but EA should stand for Electronic Assassins at this point! And these developers that are taking EA's money knowing what is likely to happen need to think about that before they accept the check.
Technically, Maxis still exists, but EA gutted them so bad they might as well be considered dead. Maxis Emeryville, the division of Maxis that developed the SimCity series, was shut down in 2015, most likely due to the failure of SimCity 2013. The main company still exists, but they seem to only exist to keep making DLC for The Sims 4, making the game even more expensive than it should be.
Sim City 4! never forget, in my opinion the absolute peak of the SimCity series.
EA: "Hello. I like money!"
Interviewer: "What inspired you to make another Battlefront II?"
EA: "Money."
They ruined a number of amazing smaller developers and game franchises - notably, as you mentioned, Origin and Bullfrog. Funnily enough, there's a great dig at EA when you reach the end of Ultima IX - you have to destroy three items to stop The Guardian (the antagonist since Ultima VII) which consists of a cube, a sphere, and a pyramid. That is how much Origin hated being part of EA. We would be on Ultima XV (or more) my now if they had not screwed it up.
To this day I just can’t get over the fact that there’s micro-transactions in a PAID game like why the hell did that became a common thing?
Soon it will become common in Tesla cars as well. The are following EA's footprints.
@@petrichor259 wait what?
It all started with MUT. They realized how popular MUT became because people liked the idea of making an OP team and playing with the goats. Well, they took that and tried to apply it with literally every other game they released
Consumers didn't react when they were first introduced and that gave a green light towards all other companies to start doing it too.
Blame COD: advance warfare
EA: Why does everyone hate us?
Also EA: Let's advertise our gambling mechanic in a children's magazine
Also EA: Let's continue to claim lootboxes are not gambling in European courts while being fined $500,000 per week for refusing to alter our games to comply with local laws.
In Belgium, the lootboxes of FIFA are banned because they are seen as gambling and can be bought by underage persons
@@chriswolf1089 you're right I wasn't sure because the need for speed ones aren't banned but I guess they're not real loodboxes then?
SOON...
You NEED to know that the starwars battlefront iconic characters actually took YEARS to unlock just ONE of them at launch.
I just gotta vent, there's this bug that thousands of people have posted about in the sims in regards to the weight system, and got banned for asking for help on the EA help forums.
*buys 60 dollar game *
The game: *would you like to enjoy playing?*
*yes ($30)* *no ($10)*
🤣🤣🤣
That sums it up well. Underrated comment.
@@jc.1191 i kinda sorta stole it from another comment hehe
@@diegamergg8599 lol. Most jokes are tho. I didn't see the other comment, and it brought me a laugh. 👍
Hey the 10$ should be 1000$ bcs ea Said NO -NO-
Ngl, “Electronic Arts” sounds like a class that everyone minored in, but no one remembers anything from.
😂 It does
Fr
So true
@@burnerfrenzy3392 har
Great video
Yall, WHAT IS THE END MUSIC FOR THERE VIDEOS!!!
I respect that he showed madden 08 for his example of EA’S biggest games.
what a bizarre overlap of scott and company man viewers
Redd Begen you won’t believe what else I watch
@@Eggzboss I only watch Family Matters clips
Madden 08 was also one of the last great madden games, but yeah, scott.
h e y a l l
EA didn't make the Sims, it was Maxis, EA just sold the game.
This is why people hate EA. They buy studios that do good struff, inject corporate BS until the game dies as a cheap McDonald's inspired franchise and force the creative people to leave.
Also, EA didn't "love" their studios to death and killed them because they where stupid. They strangled them under water after they had taken everything they wanted (IPs, programmers, brands, tech etc). It was just basic, corporate looting. They took what they wanted and killed a competitor.
That's why i'm concerned about a new alternative to the Sims. SIms 4 is missing alot of stuff from just the base game and the packs have less content, not to mention the last pack (Journey to Batuu) was the last thing Simmers wanted and that was half a$$ed.
Yesterday, Paralives a game in development that several simmers have been following released a game play trailer doing things simmers never thought possible.
@@greenliongirl07 I'm still playing Sims 3. I just don't see how Sims 4 is any better.
By comparison Sims 4 is The Sims (original) but with better graphics.
In Sims 3 I have a whole living town with my sims in it, they live, they have fun, they laugh, they cry... (they murder (in one save file) ) etc...
Why would a play something that is a lesser game with prettier graphics?
@@greenliongirl07 To be realistic, Paralives will probably die out a year it will be released. It just doesn't look spectacular to me. it looks more of a mobile game. I just want a likeable big company to make a life sim game, like Ubisoft. I just don't want people to be disappointed when Paralives released its not the expectations we wanted.
@@Vollification The only positive thing I can say about sims 4 that I can't say about sims 3, is it runs better on modern hardware.
@@deathdude360 My hardware runs modern games and I have no issues. I even run mods :/
Way to sum it up, but you would do well to consider a follow-up video where you go through the 1st DLC (Oblivions Horse Armor) the 2nd ever DLC, the 3rd ever DLC, and where it really went off the rails and every other company hopped on the DLC train. If you make it, I'll subscribe.
The video was the perfect length for the format but I would've watched more if the information was there. ^^Also I meant Microtransactions, which is technically different from free DLC ^^
I remember when they destroyed SSI and those brilliant strategy games, then they had a great division called Janes EA which was a partnership with Janes Defense to produce military sims, then EA had 3 bad games rushed early and incomplete and shut down the division in the early 2000s, and they had EA Kids with very popular kid friendly mystery and adventure games, which they just shut down out of nowhere back in the early 2000s. It seems the early 2000s was the real period they went bad.
They fired the creator of PvZ because he didn’t agree with their “Pay to Win” being in PvZ 2 :(
Just crack it it's too easy
He wasn't a 'good company man'. There's no place for integrity or principle at EA. It's anathema to their business model. Also, their CEO is a refurbished Thunderbirds puppet possessed by demons.
@@Perfidion not only that, they also fired some many other popcap employees ;-;
I am very thankful i play the FIRST game in my whole childhood than any sequels thats made for attention and money. Rip george and the others who got kicked by that awful company.
@@arlynnecumberbatch1056 I honestly would say pvz 2 would be better than the original if they didn’t add the level up feature
It has almost everything going for it, premium plants now can be gotten for free if you work for them
Of course there is still the other money cost plants but they definitely aren’t required
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@@grayiy5059 souls only
Great video thanks
OMG I spotted Hard Hat Mack and M.U.L.E. - two of my fav Commodore 64 games as a kid!
They're hated because they don't just want the money, they want *_ALL_* the money.
Also, what they did to PopCap, PvZ, and George Fan (among countless others) still stings to this day.
I know! They completely destroyed PvZ, especially with the garden warfare series when they made BFN, which now is very unpopular.
Sims😨😭
I actually managed to beat pvz2 without any micro transactions. it was a challenge, but I did it.
They made the PvZ models look horrible! Have you seen the PvZ3 zombies yet?! They’re downright ugly
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Those need for speed underground days man 🔥💯
Bravo on the of mice and men comparison
EA doesn’t try with their games, they just copy and paste them. Sometimes they forgot to change some of the titles from one year to the next. For example they forgot to switch some Madden 20 logos with some Madden 21 logos
That's just sports games which some retards buy every year. Tbh is Titanfall copy pasted?
It's just a sport game thing plus it's not only them that does it.(Ahem take two).
Not gonna even address the madden 08 vs madden 20, with madden 08 having more content?
Ben George take two changes the logos
@@santhoshsridhar5887 yet they still made 1.5 billion with them, in one year. Tbh ea is battlefield and sports games. You wont hear many people say ah yeah titanfall. And tbh there are so many people playing the sports games this might as well have been number 3. Its up there with the loot boxes
EA with the Sims: Heard you like DLC. So we put a DLC within a DLC. You're welcome.
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True
We are just excited for Paralives
$2000 of DLC is just... ridiculous.
Daily Reminder that the sims 4 community defends that by the way
People: I hate ea!
Also people: buys every new game and pays money for things they don’t need
youtube needs more content creators like U people without bias and professional sounding videos
EA when they made FIFA 2020:
*FIFA 2019*
*right click*
"Rename"
"FIFA 2019"
"FIFA 2020"
*enter*
Yup and people still buy it lol
and here comes fifa 21,and i've heard it's exactly the same
EA: “our legendary ai is so easy”
Employee(EE): let’s release ultimate difficulty
EA: it’s still easy and easily read
EE: let’s develop a better ai
EA: why don’t we make the player’s team like an idiot that’ll make our current ai looks harder. It’s cheaper than developing a new ai
Not completely true. They did add new micro transactions
@@rizkiabraham lol 😂😂 true
The problem is: People who hate EA are still buying their games.
It’s because the Love EA. Not because they think they’re great but because they love hating them.
I feel attacked lol...but seriously i just want to play football and thats the only way rn smh... #EndMaddenMonopoly
Sims community is slowly turning against them and it took them that many years to realize how much of turd EA is
Holo_ Graphic__ i only got madden 18 and I don’t feel like getting madden 19 or even 21 because they’re basically the same game with updated graphics so uhhh maybe stop buying the new ones every year or the new XFL said they might release a XFL video game and if it happens then buy that instead
I just can’t let go of battlefield, Star Wars, and plants vs zombies :(
Amazing! Now I have more reasons!
May I add also, DEADSPACE, by Viceral Studios. Yep, the studio dissolved too.
This isn't a witch-burning. It's a surprise bonfire.
LOL! Nice!
thank you grievous from 2003
No mention of EA's addiction to releasing the SAME game year after year with only modest improvements, if not making it worse? You missed some HUGE beats here.
This should have been number 4.
Activision does this often. Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, and Call of Duty
@@autopreneur And Pokemon, quite literally doing that "same game thing" almost every year as well. Only as of the 2021 Pokemon Direct they seemed to have moved to a new path.
@@autopreneur They're terrible too, so what's your point?
Exactly v
The release of Battlefront 2 was a rough one, but the game made a huge comeback, selling 9 million copies in just a year, but then EA killed the game. They cut funds, and now it is a dead game, killed in its prime. Sad. The thing is, you know your a loser when Disney is literally calling you out on your actions.
Is the Ultima 4 (the serie) same than Ultima Online?
When EA bought Origin, that's when i started to hate them.
Origin was running an MMO at the time called Ultima Online. Origin's staff members were very active in the game, you could call a GM and have someone speak face-to-face with you inside of 5-10 minutes. UO had 3 different levels of in game support, there were Counselors, GM's, and Dev's.
Counselors were veteran players who would volunteer, i think they were rewarded with free game time. But they would be the first responders to player questions. If the players problem went beyond simple questions or exceeded the permissions granted to them, they would then call up a GM who was a paid employee of Origin. If the problem was a technical issue that couldn't be solved with with the GM's power (usually programing errors) then a Dev would be called to respond to the issue. the Dev's were typically able to fix the problem on the spot.
Today's gaming staff doesn't opperate like this and it can take months to get a problem sorted out.
EA killed that...
afterwards if you had a problem you had to call customer service, and they'd connect you with some call center in India where the person you spoke with had a pre-written set of responses. Honestly i could have had a better conversation with a Bot. They took a a customer friendly game and turned it into a nightmare. I stopped playing about 6 months after their take over of Origin....a game i had played for years.
There was about 5 years where UO was, I'd argue, the best MMO that ever existed. Everything that rolled out while Origin had full control was just ... you could tell it all had passion from the devs in it. EA completely destroyed that.
Thanks for info, I use to play That game to...now I know why it went down . So loved that game
Damn, that’s some great customer service! :-D
1980's: Electronic Arts
Now: Electronic Arse
Because their games just aren't Arts anymore.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 is a piece of art. Audio, graphics, photogrammetry, immersion, sound design ans everything is art as much as someone's painting.
EA was never good in the first place
1980's EA: uses Capcom's Ultra label to release the awesome Skate or Die on NES
1990's EA: gobbles up studios and kills em
EA Now: lootboxes & greed
Rome wasn't built in a day and nor was games corrupted in a decade.....it took a couple decades but by george they did it......now where's the mad lads with the fire and pitchforks?? lolz
@@darthXreven I store some pitchforks near my house.
@Gice Rum true I hate ea for prices on Madden 18 I wanted to buy something but when I saw those prices I was like what the fuck
FA18 Interceptor is one of my all time favorite games in amiga, they have very good games in their list..😁
It all started back in the 90s with Ultima Online where they allowed the sales of accounts on Ebay which started the pay to win concept. EA realized that people don't like to do the work to win and would rather buy a win. That is when they started loot boxes and other DLC that allowed you to get items that others do not have.
EA: "Is Hated By Everyone"
In other news, the Ocean is Blue
Plague Doctor Productions the floor is made out of floor
You have eyes
Every 60 minutes, an hour passes.
Once a year, I celebrate my birthday
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes
EA: We rob people but we just call it gaming.
it’s not a robbery, it’s a “surprise withdrawal!”
Its not Gambling its a microTrans action, "a deal you can't refuse.".
Lmao literally everyone who plays Sims knows that this is so trueee
The business practices of companies like EA, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, and the rest of the AAA gaming industry had an interesting effect on my tastes in games.
Almost all my game purchases are indie games on Steam...and a significant majority are made by companies outside of the United States (yes, I know Ubisoft is headquartered in France, so it's not purely an American publisher problem)...
...they're making amazing indie games in places like Poland (Medieval Dynasty), Czechia (the Truck Simulator games), and South Korea (Motor Town: Behind the Wheel.)
Although there is one great indie game made in the next town over from where I live...Stardew Valley.
Trip Hawkins started EA, the 3DO video game system, developed a technology allowing more data to be embedded on DVDs code named the "M2" that he sold to Matsushita (Panasonic) and they developed the Blue Ray DVD, he then went on to start working on mobile games thinking they were the next greatest thing while smart phones were in their infancy.
The man was truly ahead of his time!
Every new EA game is flooded with Micro-transactions. You basically pay $60, then pay another $30 just to enjoy the game
That is such a bruh
its alot more then that lol. take a look at sims 4, base game costs 60$ and if you want everything the game has to offer its going to cost you another 750$ and it still doesnt have all the features of the previous game, and that number is of course still going up.
Not NFS Heat it only has 2, keys to the city (shows every jump and speed trap etc on the map) and the McLaren F1 that isnt even that good
Only $30?
More like - you pay 60 to access the game, them you pay 600 to play it
Sheesh, the fact you could put out a detailed account of EA's hatred and not even touch on the Madden/NFL 2K5 controversy speaks volumes.
Or FIFA loot box players. Or the horrible micro remake of Dungeon Keeper. Or what they did to Sim City. :D
Was really hoping to hear Westwood, my favorite EA studio. I grew up playing Command and Conquer. It was the biggest spit I got in the face when they released Command and Conquer R- [redacted]. The remaster was great, I loved it. But far from redemption. Hoping to see RA2 remake one day, or Generals 2. A part of me died when EA killed the series and made a cheap spin off mobile game off of it
I remember being excited when C&C4 was coming out. Bought it and a graphics card. Such a waste to buy the game, went back to generals
I've actually heard some really good things about the way they treat their employees (perhaps as a result of the class action suit), but #1 and #2 are absolutely true and unacceptable. I doubt I'll be playing any future EA titles any time soon unless EA changes their business practices.
Gamers: “ I hate Madden 20. You suck. I hate your games”
EA: “We have just released the new Madden 21
Gamers: “Shut up and take my money”
True
I stopped this year
I did that with nhl 21 thinking it would be better.
@@jacobwilliams109 isn’t that as bad as madden lol. Like compare those games to any 2k game. Lol
@The Green Room Hermit I never said it was good💀
"why EA is the most hated company? "
"You have to buy 1000 packages to unlock the reason"
@just dont wow stolen
@just dont within a month 1Million air units sold out
@just dont stolen :/ ig you're jealous it got likes
@@huilie2442 yes it got like zero likes
@@iamfromindia4971 idk i see 1
long live my NBA street vol.II still kicking with 4 controllers on O.G. xboz
@ 3:20, damn, I wanted to see if he was gonna make it.