EA - Proving Their Name Still Means Evil Asshats.
Wow, EA, euphemistically known to the world as “Electronic Arts,” have sunk to an all time low lately. First, in case you missed it, BattleField 2142 for the PC has spyware in it. You should stop whatever you are doing right now and go sign the online petition boycotting EA for this. Gamers can not sit on their hands on this one, otherwise gaming as we know it on the PC is forever ruined. I love the burnout games, but I’m not buying another EA game until they remove this spyware and apologize for it. Oh man, I would have been soooo pissed if I’d pre-ordered BF2142 only to find it was spyware infested.
In other news, on Xbox Live Marketplace, EA games are starting to charge you for the cheat codes normally built into games for free for, oh, I don’t know, the last two point five decades I would say. EA has changed Godfather for the Xbox 360 to make you an offer you can’t refuse. Now if you want to be able to get money cheats or item cheats, instead of some code to enter, you have to buy them for real money on XBLA. Wee! So now EA just needs to make sure the difficulty is made hard enough to bump up those XBLM cheat sales, dontchaknow! Casual gamer shmasual gamer, EA wants to get PAID, digg.
At this point I would honestly not be too surprised to read that the execs at EA eat young children with fava beans and a nice Chianti.