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Following last year’s surprise Worst Company In America victory by Electronic Arts, there was hope that the video game giant would get the message: Stop treating your customers like human piggy banks, and don’t put out so many incomplete and/or broken games with the intent of getting your customers to pay extra for what they should have received in the first place. And yet, here we are again, with EA becoming the first company to ever win a second Golden Poo from Consumerist readers.


After an astounding number of votes, Consumerist readers once again chose EA over Bank of America, with the video game company taking nearly 78% of the vote.


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Microtransactions seemingly worse than mortgage fraud as EA is named Worst Company in America (again)

 

EA first toppled some lightweights like accused privacy-violator and
social network king Facebook, as well as spotty mobile service provider
AT&T. It then took on one of the titans of anti-consumer policy,
Ticketmaster, whose monopoly on the concert and event industry has
inflated prices for decades. In the championship round, though,
Electronic Arts surprisingly beat down Bank of America. Since the 2008
economic crash, Bank of America has been accused of many nefarious
dealings, including “brazen” mortgage fraud.


Defrauding the federal government and homeowners by doling out impossible-to-back loans is apparently not as damning as forcing SimCity players to maintain a constant Internet connection though, as EA handily beat out Bank of America.


 

When we live in an era marked by massive oil spills, faulty foreclosures
by bad banks, and rampant consolidation in the airline and telecom
industry, what does it say about EA’s business practices that so many
people have — for the second year in a row — come out to hand it the
title of Worst Company In America?


Still doesn't make EA the worst company in America. All it does it tell
us is 1.) gamers reaaaaaaaaally care about gaming and 2.) gamers spend
too much time on the internet. If you wanted to draw a Venn diagram,
there'd be plenty of overlap between people who read The Consumerist and people who hate EA: Young, tech-savvy gamers whose hobby is being "threatened" by a gaming corporation.


http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2013-04/ea-isnt-worst-company-america
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