Electronic Arts (EA GAMES) are a capitalistic and corrupt company

lordgangler (56)in #sports • 7 years ago (edited)

If I said gaming industry was huge nowadays, it would be an understatement.
When video gaming started coming out in 70's and 80's , there were only few who could afford consoles or computers, in 2017, there is almost noone who hasn't at least tried to play some simple game on a smart phone, or grab a nintendo/playstation controller to play Mario Bros.

Video game advertisement has therefore risen along with the popularity of gaming itself, and there is no company more determined/annoying to enforce their video games on us as EA GAMES.
In this case, more accurately, EA SPORTS.

I reference my neutrality by stating my fanboy love for Ea Games back in the days, when money could buy quality, but it all changed.

It's late 90's, EA have already established themselves as one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, but what follows was an even bigger splash.
With release of games like FIFA 98, NEED FOR SPEED, NBA LIVE, EA hit the bulls-eye. How wouldn't they have?! , sports for most humans , especially kids, is almost like air, so their so called brilliance at the time, was more luck than anything.

The asian market hasn't really broken into Europe, so noone really knew what the competition was, and most just kept settled on the game compaines they already knew were "good".
I was one of them, playing FIFA98, a game with which I was obssesed, until FIFA 2004 came out, cause 98's successors just weren't all that better, If even !
Then something happened the very year FIFA 2004 came out, something that blew my mind.
And that thing was KONAMI.
Releasing their version of Football game for the first time on a PC, Pro Evolution Soccer 3, it was an eye opener for many.

And ever since then, the two companies have been involved in a heavy battle for dominance of the Best Footy Game on the planet.
But the difference between the two was that Konami was battling with their skills and creativity, while EA did it using their money, lots and lots of money, outbuying Konami for licences, trying to make all other game developers absolete, EA used the American Way to run bussiness, bigger is better.

Fooling millions of gamers who couldn't tell offside from a throw in, using rigid methods of advertisement, they targeted mostly the "stupid population", therefore, the majority.

While FIFA money could make more money, we couldn't say the same for their other sports game that was rivaled, NBA LIVE.
A laughing stock of a game, NBA LIVE 2009, sold only 4,000 copies in total, while their rival, NBA2K9, made by 2K games, sold 10 million in the first week alone.
So where's the catch, EA ?
Why didn't you just outbuy 2K games, try to make them obsolete, guess they couldn't.
The overlook of the timeline of what they did and how they did it, one can only conclude EA games are dirty, corrupt company, who underpays their workers, makes them work longer than it's legally allowed, makes video games with minimum requirements 5x higher than their rivals make, to push the computer capitalistic narrative and earn money.
They also:
-Force Multiplayer For Broader Appeal

Rehash IPs To Cash-In
Origin Forum Bans Can Ban You If They Wish, so all the games you bought from them become useless
Make people buy footy cards and characters to play in a game if they want to be successful
Make Fifa Games (that's one of my own)
Advertise their games in illegal ways, even go as far as to endanger people on streets
-Make people think cars don't smash when hitting the wall at 350km/h