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kupomogli on 15 December 2013
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I don't. I think there are a lot of sheep out there that say as such just because everyone else does.

Yes, EA releases a sports games every year, so do a lot of other publishers. 2K, Sony, THQ used to until they went bankrupt, etc. Activision releases a Call of Duty every year, Ubisoft releases an Assassin's Creed every year, etc.

Yes, EA purchases smaller developers and then has later closed the studio itself down, so do a lot of other publishers. Nintendo doesn't name their teams, but they hired a lot of people to work on Kid Icarus Uprising and as soon as the game was done, they laid off everyone. Sony has shut down more of the developers they've bought or formed in the past two years than EA has in the past 10.

Most of the time EA creates high quality games. Even their low budget titles are apparently of high quality. Plants vs Zombies. I've never played so I don't know but hear good things about it. Sometimes they develop cheap cash ins though. Movie tie in games, like Rango the Video Game. Activision and Ubisoft have a ridiculous amount of shovelware they push out. Here are a few from Activision. The Walking Dead Survival Instinct, Battleship, 007 games which aren't exactly shovelware as they're okay, but they're super low budget, etc. Ubisoft has Spartacus Legends, the Imagine series, etc. Type in "imagine" on Gamefaqs search and see the long list of shovelware that comes up. One page and you'll only see 3DS and DS.

Then let's look at times they've screwed up on developing a game. SimCity. They fucked up, yeah. How many days has it been for them to get the issue resolved? Two. Since then the game has been working fine. Everyone who purchased it day one got to choose a free game as well on Origin. Some of them were older games, but Dead Space 3 and Need for Speed Most Wanted were brand new at the time.

Same scenario as above, but many other publishers and developers don't get the games working properly for many months if at all. Do these developers give you anything free, digital or otherwise? No. Sending a civil message to Tecmo Koei about Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus being unplayable a couple stages in not only doesn't receive a refund, it doesn't even receive a reply.

Everyone bitches about EA, but they're just like the majority of others. There are other developers that I think are far more deserving of all the hate.