Monday, October 15, 2007

EA Games Take Another PO Hit

I apologize for waiting this late to post, but the only way to get this thing to cooperate with me was to wait till I could use my dorm room computer. I forgot the password and needed the cookie to bail me out again. We were supposed to talk about something relevant to the material we've discussed so far in class and I have the perfect example. In my evaluative essay, I talked briefly about EA Games which has a few lawsuits and controversies to its name already. One of the more recent issues with the company was when an ISP associated with them edited their article on wikipedia which was an interesting coincidence since we discussed this specific action in class. As I reminder, they now have this on their article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_Games#Editing_of_Wikipedia. I don't see how much more owned you can get than having that right in the users face. Personally, as you can probably guess from the essay, I don't like this company since they make horrible games and eat up and subsequently destroy other developers. This is completely off-topic but I truly miss Rareware back in its hay-day. Unfortunately, when Nintendo sold the company to Microsoft, most of the senior staff decided to retire in protest. I don't even understand why you would sell the top third-party in the business to begin with.

2 comments:

idbrittain said...

What exactly did they edit. As long as they aren't lying is that actually bad? And not all of their games are bad. Battle for Middle Earth II was good. And they are the best producers of sports games.

Daniel said...

I don't really agree with you about their game quality. The only EA games I play are EA Sports games, and they pretty much own all the others, especially the football games