EA Wins Worst Company Of The Year twice in a row.

There is no fucking way that EA is worse than BoA or BP or a plethora of other shit companies in which the executives should be dragged into the middle of the street and shot publicly. However a part of me, granted it's a very small part but it's still a part, is kind of happy to see this happen to them yet again. Last year it was undeserved. This year there's a very tiny amount of justification.

But this is what happens when you piss off the internet. Don't like it? Don't piss off the internet. It's still fucking retarded and undeserved, but I got more important shit to worry about than EA's hurt feelings.

Irrational levels of internet outrage run amok. Exactly the sort of thing that often makes me feel embarrassed to consider myself both a gamer and a member of the internet community at large.

I don't even feel like wasting my time going into just how petty complaints about EA business practices are in comparison to companies that are out there straight up destroying people's lives and exploiting entire nations of people.

Video game company that makes too much DLC and too many sequels--worst company of the year.

Countless megacorporations profiting off war, destroying the environment, poisoning our food, etc.--whatever.

Goddamnit.

Crossing my fingers for the three-peat next year!

I liked video games better when people spent more time playing games than bitching about the companies that make them.

So a bunch of dickheads from 4chan got together and spammed the vote for the second year in a row. Gamers being myopic idiots is not news.

haha I'm gonna go with zero, except maybe a couple disgruntled ex-EA employees.

Nobody can possibly ever care about anything called Own3d.

No, a video game company that releases shitty games and continues to be an asshole is nothing compared to a Bank that Can't get you money. Video Games are something you can simply live without where as money is something that essentially runs your life.

The executives at EA eat newborn babies. I have proof. PM me for details.

It's important to remember that this poll is purely for entertainment. The average consumer isn't polled on this, just people who know about the site that is hosting it, thus vote-drives win this over who is really the worst company. If the Consumerist polled your average consumer walking on the side of the road, I doubt EA makes it out of the first round let alone gets nominated.

Precisely. We can have preferences against the company, sure. However, they're a video game company. Don't like them, don't buy their games. I find it very funny to watch these folks decry EA every chance they get, then see them get hyped over BF4.

It's not like you could, y'know, buy a game from Nintendo, Atlus, Activision, Sony, Sega, Valve....and just not buy an EA game? Naw, that's crazy talk! EA SUX! YEA!

Relevant:

People shouldn't be surprised, upset, morally outraged, embarrassed to be part of the gaming community or anything of the sort. It's an internet poll. An internet poll. Something that really holds no weight and the result will be forgotten in two days. However, as The Consumerist wrote in one of their articles: "The point of this contest, now in its 8th year, is to enable consumers to send a message to a company that provides goods or services to them. Winning this contest means your customers are trying to tell you something." Jimbo said it well:

They won precisely because of the vocal minority who voted.

@driveuplife: You forgot the rest of his sentence.

Should they be ranked worst in America no, but I'm not going to berate the internet like so many like to do. EA could do better to not alienate their vocal consumer base. Also we could use more vocal people to speak out about other companies who deserve this honor more.