If they don't fuck up with games like Battlefront III ( they will most likely fuck up though), then my respect for them will go up by 0.0000001%.

I think they will never recover, all the Nintendo Fans (myself included) already have a problem with them for promising "great support" and abandoning ship very quickly. They usually make 2 or 3 moves on the right direction and then they mess up big time so the people has not forgot yet, and become the focus of the hate again.

EA is hated yet their games sell millions. I think they are happy where they are, making money off the hypocrisy of gamers.

As long as people pay they'll do whatever they want (that's legal). Why change policies that obviously pays off?

It's the company that is hated, not the games themselves (in most cases)

I dislike EA but I still want to play The Sims, so what do you want me to do? There's only one option..

Because their policies aren't the only ones that pay off, maybe? Also, it might earn money but that doesn't make a policy good.

Piracy? Seems to be the best of both worlds.

That'll prevent me from using some functions, for example the Sims 3 Online Store. So I don't count that.

No, they just added ADVERTISING to battlefield 4, not product placement, they already had that... the games serves you publicity in the menus! this is horrible... next step we will have commercial breaks between levels and online matches? Wait for the Doritos ads guys! or xb1 adverts on the PS4 version? that would be funny!

Ah, then its the struggle between the nature of principle, and the baser human instinct for pleasure. Pleasure always wins