*GameFaqs Poll* Most hated Videogame company Right now.

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omgwtfbbq said:

ok, Sony deserves the hate for the reasons many people have mentioned. (Rootkits, Exploding Batteries, Lik-Sang, Arrogance, AllIWantForXMas, etc). It doesn't matter if it's Sony/BMG or SCEA or whatever, it's still Sony and all comes under the Sony brand. If the management allows Sony/BMG to install rootkits on people's computers and then helps cover it up ("most people don't even know what a rootkit is, why should they care?") then they will allow other unsightly and illegal horrors on their other products. Companies that do these sorts of things should be punished, but instead they're given a slight slap on the wrist and people still come here saying that "Sony has never let them down".

Most people here know Microsoft's shady business practices (anti-trust lawsuits, patent FUD, Halloween documents, etc), and for the same reason they should be avoided. They get the same deal as Sony, I'm sorry. Even if it's an unrelated division, it's still impossible to trust them. Their gaming division doesn't seem to be as bad as Sony's but I still try to avoid their products as much as possible (unfortunately, it's slightly harder for them as for Sony)

Nintendo has also screwed up, most famously for their crappy treatment of third-party developers, and they were punished for it, third party developers left them in droves on the release of the PlayStation.

It would be good for everyone if consumers started punishing companies who treat them like shit in the same way third party developers punished Nintendo for treating them like shit. Otherwise companies like MS and Sony will keep doing the same thing over and over because they know people will just sit back and accept it.

 Rootkits were a horible idea but everything else that you mentioned is not really a sore point. The batteries were made a certain way (to maximise life) and the companies who purchased them knew of the increased risk. Do you know that you are more likely to get struck by lightning than to have had one of those batteries explode on you?

We had a full blown discussion about lik sang. Sony was in their full rights and lik sang was doing something wrong...... otherwise the courts would not have ruled in sony's favor. Arrogance has been attributed to hyperbole and confidence. Sony reps know what they have coming down the pipe (features like home) and it adds to how they speak. If you watch any of the phil harrison interviews I find them far from arrogant. And a failed viral marketing campaign shows how evil sony is? They hired a company.... the company sucks.... sony had to take the blame. You do know major corporations hire different advertisment companies to market their stuff right?

 Any arguement made against Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are pretty damn weak. How does it affect you? Nothing that has gone down (except for MS) has affected me but I am not going to avoid their quality products for mistakes they have made... many of which didn't even affect me.

 

This deserved hatred.... is nothing more than weak reasoning to support fanboyism and FUD.