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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I can tell you the exact moment they went bad. Trip Hawkins started the company, and ran it fairly well until the 3DO. When the 3DO failed, Trip was kicked out but given a large enough parachute it didn't bother him too much. However, the People running EA started telling everyone that he wasn't the founding member. They kept claiming themselves. Up to that point the company had problems but could be respectful, and then lost all care except status after that.