45 points

No no no no no… EA cant do something cool and good for consumers, someone slipped with a decimal place.

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I’m convinced its a mistake, especially given that origin hasn’t dropped the price

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I got them for free on origin years ago. But either way, they’re old games.

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It’s still a much better experience when pirated, since there’s no DRM. Also, it’ll make you feel glad you didn’t pay for it when you learn they wasted the entire budget for C&C4 on a movie set and an “unbreakable” DRM that someone cracked within a few hours after the launch. They also killed the series with a very cheesy “and everyone lived happily ever after” with that one, and I never forgave them for it.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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-9 points

Old meme, EA hasn’t been half-bad for years. Ubisoft, ActiBlizz and Nintendo are the current worst.

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12 points

Bro, it’s a Corporation. Just when you trust them they WILL stab you in the back.

They WILL fuck up Mass Effect 4 somehow.

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12 points

All corpos are evil

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8 points

Did EA actually do anything to get better? From my point of view all they’ve done is stop getting worse—they’re still in the shitty hole they spent 2 decades digging

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7 points

Still waiting for actual updates to jedi survivor on PC

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1 point

Are the bounties still broken? I did something when I first played that locked out all the rest of those missions for me, so I was only able to do like the first three.

I will say I liked that hologram battle game quite a bit and I wish there were more opponents to go against.

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IDK, I usually don’t bother ranking companies if they’re below some level. EA requires their launcher on a lot of their games, and that alone puts them on the “terrible” list.

Nintendo at least makes good games with minimal BS, so I’m more likely to give them a pass than the others since they make mediocre games with a lot of BS to deal with.

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Paid cloud saves with no portable alternative is a lot of bs

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4 points

EA just canned a Mandalorian game for seemingly no reason. They still can’t Star Wars.

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1 point

Sounds like a license to print money to me. Stupid decision.

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I heard the remastered collection was half decent too, but it’s still too little too late. That company has done so much damage to the whole industry for so long that I just want to see it burn to the ground to release all those rights and licenses to those franchises to studios that actually mean well.

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2 points

Add Square to the list. They have had the absolute worst PC ports with zero updates.

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I get that corporations are all ultimately after your money and nothing else, but I’m curious why Nintendo is on here. As far as game companies, the only thing I really see from them that’s kind of ass is their hyperprotectiveness of their own IPs. It sucks, but I don’t need a battlepass to get the full experience of the next Mario game. Zelda doesn’t require an always online connection. Metroid Prime 4 is actually gonna be finished on release instead of just shipping it in a terrible state

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7 points

Nintendo is too litigous, and just successfully sued a switch emulator out of existence.

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Nintendo has the worst price policy out of all publishers. Their games never drop in pricing

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True, they were just so bad for so long that trashing them sort of became the default. I have to like, rewire my brain so I can treat them fairly.

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They’ve shown us who they are. They do not change.

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True enough I guess, I cant remember the last specific thing they did that pissed me off.

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Required an EA launcher.

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Keep the CDs though. Going all digital and being tied to DRM is never a good idea in the long run.

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While it’s nice that EA did something not predatory for once, GOG had a dirt cheap bundle over the summer.

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So, what studio is EA going to shut down to offset the good karma from doing this?

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