Beyond the woke shit they do EA has been an anti-consumer dumpster fire for as long as I've been aware of them (about 12 years now). I was (and still am) a huge Sims 3 player, and there's all kinds of unethical shit they did with that over a decade ago even if it doesn't hold a candle to the shit they do now. They also destroyed the SimCity franchise by sabotaging SimCity 2013 and then scapegoating Maxis so they would have an excuse to destroy it. I played SimCity 4 which was decent, and SimCity 2000 was released before Maxis was bought out. For those of you who are older or have been following this stuff longer than I have, was EA ever a good company or have they been scamming their customers from the beginning?
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BF 1942 and the original Bard's Tale were good. But one of those is 22 years old and the other is 39. I'm sure there are some other pre 2010 EA games that were fun, I just don't remember them
Looking up the list, I can add the Ultima Series, Command and Conquer, Dungeon Keeper, Mirror's Edge, Might and Magic, and Black and White.
Looking through the lists, it seems they stopped making good games sometime around 2007-9.
2007 was when John Riccitiello took over, so it's pretty likely that he is responsible for its downfall. He is one of those nomadic CEOs that jumps from megacorp to megacorp.
In the BF1942 era, the issue was CD checks. I remember having to go to gamecopyworld to download no-cd cracks for games that I had paid for because the cd check lagged or sometimes didn't work at all.