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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Like many companies back before the Internet became a big popular thing used by many they had hits and misses depending on what you liked and how you interfaced with it.
They were a grand company (As were Codemasters, BioWare, Maxis and others before they got grouped together) but lost their way with gamers like me around the mid-90's - mid-2000's. Once SecuROM was put in Spore in 2008 I dropped them altogether as a reliable company and haven't touched them since.
But they have grown, as has the userbase, since then and that's all fine. I'd rather play indie games or games which don't require me to know the rules of how to purchase and play prior to playing a game.
I bought GTA 4 legit and then pirated a copy to play it without the Games for Windows nonsense which was forced on. EA never had anything I wanted to play and so I've not done that with them but I can guess others could do similar to what I did just to bypass the rubbish that legitimate customers play with which pirated copies don't have on them.