Xbox and EA Deal - Worth it? Whats next?

[S.T.A.G.E.]

theprof00 said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

EA is pretty much carrying Microsoft right now. Microsoft knew who to pay and almost screwed over gamers to do it. Sony has proven to EA that the deal wasnt worth it. MS must've paid them over a billion for everything though.

As well as MS is carrying EA. I dunno if you've heard, but EA is consistently named "Worst company in America".

They've had numerous flops...TONS of backlash over policies and broken games.

Battlefield 4
Simcity
Sims
Fuse (insomniacs last game before tanking)
Dead Space
Fifa (which actually sold the exact same game 2 years in a row, which changes only to the roster)
Star Wars TORtanic
Spore
They destroyed SSX

They are probably the worst dev and publisher around aside from Crapcom.

They had 65 iOS games this year and announced they didn't make any profit.

Just wow.

EDIT: And what was it they said? "according to internal sales estimates, we decided to go with the xb1". I agree consumerist. Worst company indeed.

EA has carried Microsoft through the launch. Microsoft paid up and thats all there is to it. Microsoft cant compete with Sony in europe and they had no games ready.Timed exclusivity on  Plants vs Zombies, exclusivity of Titanfall, Fifa exclusive items and madden exclusive items? I mean seriously Microsoft is purely dependent. EA doesn't need them, but they wont turn down money, especially when they expected Microsoft to beat Sony and that didnt happen. EA bet on the wrong horse.