at the start of this gen, EA was the most hated devs , they release unfinished game after a unfinished game and then have zero support for it or even patch it up.

they also used to milk it with DLC , and think they own the industry.

now however they Have Changed , They Have Changed (lol metaphors) , for a start after the bad and crappy Need for Speed games, they tried doing stuff little different.

Mirror's Edge was very refreshing ,colorful and different. 

Dead Space was very Atmospheric, dark and new (no gravity and all).

Battlefield had a unique engine that changed multiplayer games alot.

Mass Effect popularized character interaction with its interactive chat.

Rockband brought the Drum kits to music games

Burnout had unique "Jump in and play" multiplayer games with missions. (that used in SKATE later on)

and upcoming games like  The Sabotuer where the world literarly change colors as it gets better.

also RAGE were it combined Racing to shooting.

how they toke Brutal Legend after being sued by activison

but with all these it wouldn't matter if they don't listen to feedback right? , EA does that too, you can see the difference in these games

Fifa 2009 --> Fifa 2010

Skate ---> Skate 2

Battlefield Bad Company --> Bad Company 2

and so on.

while others like -cough- Activision -cough- who just release the same old game and add a number to it (EA used to be like this)

HOWEVER , things like Dante's Inferno and Mass Effect 2's obvious "Sex Sells" crap still is a negative on EA's side. but just a minor negative.

So hats off to EA and boooooooo to Activison.

My Spidey Sense tells me that no one cares

I like BioWare and Visceral from EA, and that's about it really. Looking forward to Mass Effect 2 and Dante's Inferno.

LOL, I feel the exact same as you. EA has really been awesome this gen. My personal favourite from them is Rock Band 2 right now.
On a tangent, I'm never buying another Guitar Hero game. Or anything by Activision (except Diablo III) until they lose the attitude.

i don't boycott devs because of the attitude. Valve for example

but when you buy a game from a crappy dev you feel robbed, and the game feels just like the old one and nothing new.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=92331

there is also more proof

And now they're losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

When you're a company the size of EA or Activision, it's in your best interest to be an industry whore. EA strayed away from that, and now they're hurting. Activision is embracing that, and now they're doing wonderfully.

I never really hated EA but I agree with you, they are a lot better now. Dead space rocked, and they're making an effort to make their series better. Also you forgot about NHL where there last 2 games have been close to AAA on meta.

Activision fucking sucks now I hate them. They put out like 3 guitar hero games every year and yearly Cods. Now I'll go on record saying i effing love Modern Warfare, but I hate the treyarch version. They need to stop making cod yearly before people get sick of it and let IW make one every 2-3 years.

they lost millions because they milked their games way too much , that people stopped caring about them.

same thing happened to Guitar Hero.

I agree, EA has been better over the last year than it has been for all its other years combined. Sadly they seem to be paying for that since they aren't making money.

Now activision is the retarded company and people are just throwing money at them.

Just shows how stupid consumers are and that most of them don't know good games from bad games if they got hit in the face with them.