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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You used to pretty much be able to count on getting a pretty decent game if you say the old cube - sphere - tetrahedron logo printed on the box. As a publisher they delivered both original and home ports with games like MULE, Mail Order Monsters, Marble Madness, Skate or Die (in-house developed), Bard's Tale, Populous, Shadow of the Beast, The Immortal, Syndicate, lots of titles I remember fondly from the 80s. 90s had Road Rash, Cyberia, Need for Speed, and of course the decent Sim City games.
Of course, they often didn't have exclusive rights so sometimes you'd see different platforms have different publishers for the same game, but even if EA pushed out a game for a platform I didn't own, I generally paid attention to the title.
Today? Your post is the last time I thought about them in a long time.