Haha, I think there are many many good reasons to hate EA..

And publishing is entirely different than developing (which is what folks are bashing when they go after EA, typically)..and should only have to do with them offering up money for the game, which basically makes them unrelated to the game itself and just an 'investor'..though I think they've likely breached what their level of involvement should be there at times, too..

published orange box? they done nothing more then port it to ps3

and they done a piss-poor job at that, its more broken then a goodamn smashed bottle


the reason why we hate is because EA is the hollywood of video games
they make them for money

It's never time to stop hating on EA. What have they done for me?

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pointing out the great games they have published in recent years like Rock Band, Orange Box, and upcoming games like Spore, Sims 3, and Dragon Age: Origins.

Keyword: published. The majority of what EA develops is half assed. The majority of games with their name on them are from companies they bought and use as their code monkeys. God forbid if the Take-Two acquisition goes through, then I will REALLY have reason to justify my disdain for EA.

On the money thing: there's a difference between making games purely for money and making games because you love them, with another motivation being you would like to make a living from your love so as to support yourself and family, and in turn, be able to do more of what you love. The second thing results in passionately made, great games. The first? Not so much.

EA make some pretty good games, but some are also really crap. I really enjoyed their LOTR series. But then they also make some pretty crap games. I don't mind them tbh.

I personally hate EA for their shocking lack of support for their games, prime example command and conquer 3 Kanes Wrath. The game only recently had its first patch 3 months after the release of the game, they released the patch which STILL hasnt fixed De-sync problems.

Its as if they made KW and said "lets work on RA3 now and forget about Kanes Wrath"

People also bash EA for their incredibly stupid anti-customer protection.... uhhh i mean anti-piracy protection. Cmon people arent just going argueing for the sake of argueing, they are paying customers pissed off with the quality of service that this company provides.

EA has as many good games as they do shitty Games. In fact, I'd say they have more good games than bad ones.

The gripes with EA have more to do with the type of things DarkLordAkuma mentioned.

I hate EA because none of their games work online for me. Fight Night, Skate, Bad Company and Team Fortress 2 have never been able to connect to the EA servers for me.
Screw EA.

You know you can't blame EA for every game that comes out with their logo on it though. Many of them are only published by EA and developed by one of their subsidiaries.

On the other hand The horrendous support for their games as well as their online systems is plenty of reason to hate them. Because for as many good games as they put out they also fail to even try to fix the problems in games that are potentially good or even potentially better if but for one small thing. And it isn't as if they don't have the time or man power. It is really that they just don't care.