You act as if EA bought the companies just to destroy them. Bioware and Pandemic are still around and still developing games. In fact, they may be able to put out an even greater number of games since EA will publish their games and possibly fund development. Of course you could claim that the developers will make worse games under EA's ownership, but how likely is that?

Besides, to everyone reading this thread, saying you hate a company is one of the most idiotic things ever. What, do you hate the CEO, Director of Human Resources, and the thousands of employees? Or do you hate some abstract vision of the company you created by buying a couple bad products?

And in reality, all of the people who say they hate EA's games probably own at least a couple of them. One company or another has to dominate the third party market, it might as well be EA. Besides, Activision will quickly reveal themselves to be the new slime of the industry, so watch out for some exciting developments.

People are answering this question based on how EA acted a few years back, and back then it was very likely. Westwood Studios is the most prominent example, but there were plenty more companies that got lobotomized after EA acquired them, as even Riticello admitted in '06. No, I can understand why people might feel as ssj12 and others do.

That said, EA genuinely has improved recently. It's probably just the shock of no longer being number one, but they've cleaned up their act quite a bit recently. I actually like them now, and am interested in many of their games, which is a statement I could not have made three years ago. Sure, it's easy to hate the collosus who's still gobbling up studios, but the results have been okay so far, so those companies no longer are guaranteed to wither and die under EA's management.

no. If you think that is idiotic, you probably haven't read the tabloids, or news.

Spore shouldn't really be included in any argument for EA, since the Maxis developers basically operate separate from EA as much as they're allowed to...I'm guessing Will Wright would not consider himself an "EA man."

I will hate them no matter what. Their games suck on all platforms and all genres.

True, but that's kinda the point: the "new" EA is much more hands-off than it used to be. Hell, I can't think of too many times they've interfered with their "client developers" recently. I'm, not saying they don't happen: I am saying they happen less than they used to, less even than many other third-parties.

I think EA is a great company, they make many good games, the problem is they whore out most series and have too many franchises for their own good.

EA has an always will suck. They might make a good game every once in a while, but their past actions are unforgivable.

I don't hate them as much as before since Sim city was announced.

If this were last gen, I'd agree that EA sucks but this gen they've been a completely different company.....at least for Wii owners.

Godfather, Madden with online (the '09 edition should really kick ass), Boom Blox, MoH Heroes 2 with 32 player online.....