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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They started to go wrong in the early 90s, once they got involved with console gaming and thanks to their experience with Madden NFL games that they published. Their business practices bent during the 90s to reflect those insights, and how they could cannibalize take over targets for IP and brain power. By the time they gobbled up companies like BioWare, they had long been evil, 100%, and the rest is history.
But there was a time during the 80s that they were actually quite a good company, from a gamer's perspective.