Why does EA still exist?

[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by road doggy dogg I am perfectly content with villainizing them. I am merely the consumer, I don't owe them anything. Companies should be held accountable for the garbage they put out. crossrine

"Should be" isn't the same as reality, however. That explains Bethesda to a T. They got shit all over for a poor man's Team Fortress that they marketed as a cross between CoD and Mirror's Edge (and wasn't anywhere as near as good as any of the three) and WET (a game I personally loved, but it was really an unfinished firesale aquisiton from Sierra they just packaged up and pushed out the door AS IS), but they got Fallout and Elder Scrolls money to bail them out of such errs.

EA has a more ironclad, global licence to print money in FIFA and Madden. Gone are the days where they were the little company trying to make games better than the big boys. They've grown up in to the big boys what want to make as much profit from games while doing as little as possible to said games. I really think this is why they went after the sports exclusivity with such fervor... 2K was eating into their Madden cash cow, AND forcing them to do something besides update the roster annually.

With companies like this, "messing up" a franchise like SimCity isn't sink or swim, so they have nothing invested in it exept the potiential for another hot commodity. If it doesn't work out, "oh well". They can try again with another property.