Declaration of Boycott

VIAN

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I want to know if you guys agree with what has been said here or if you think something should be added.

Declaration of Boycott

This document is to inform EA (Electronic Arts) and, anyone else who wants to know, the offenses they have committed against gamers.

EA has consistently released games of low quality control. The newest example is Battlefield 2142. Bugs, existing in games upon release, going unfixed for over one year, have caused frustration to gamers all over the world. These bugs have caused server browsers to crash, menus to crash, loading screens to crash, and the game to crash during play. They have also caused games to malfunction, changing the intended way to play and thus making the game unsuitable for play. Multiple patches have left major bugs unfixed and often introduced new bugs. A current example is Battlefield 2.

EA has released games where menus and ideas have no common sense. Menus often take extensive time to load. Server menus lack convenient features that have been found in other multiplayer games for years. For example, it has been a long tradition of multiplayer games to have non-permanent game names. In Battlefield 2, game names are permanent. EA does not make it clear how names will be used or that they will be permanent. Thus many gamers were forced to lose their e-mail to an unwanted name. It also made it tedious to register with a new name.

EA has raised prices on their games for no good reason. In 2004, some game publishers started to raise their game prices due to extended development time required for programming new and advanced graphics. During that time, EA released games, notably, Sims 2, at the new higher price point, even though their games lacked new and advanced graphics.

We hereby boycott EA published games and any other publisher who shows this lack refinement in their games.
 

Trevelyan

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I could say something about how this doesn't matter or how the very idea of "online boycotts" is amusing, but my hatred of EA runs very deep.

:thumbsdown: EA is bad for PC gaming.
 

gorcorps

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Ahem, BF2124 hasn't been released so you can't really put that as a reason for "releasing" buggy games. Of course I don't expect it to get fixed so in a couple weeks it'll be a completely valid argument. And don't we already have a boycott thread? Now I have to say that online PETITIONS aren't effective. But an organized boycott that was followed through on could be effective. If they sold severely less amounts of the game than they needed to and they knew we did it on purpose, it might give incentive to fix the game better first. Of course everybody knows that EA doesn't need anymore money and despite people saying they won't buy it, enough people do for EA to not care.
 

HamburgerBoy

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So long as you boycott Eidos for doing the exact same thing, good for you. Otherwise, EA is being hated far too much.
 

Trevelyan

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Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
So long as you boycott Eidos for doing the exact same thing, good for you. Otherwise, EA is being hated far too much.

What are some recent Eidos games?
 

Lonyo

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Originally posted by: Trevelyan
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
So long as you boycott Eidos for doing the exact same thing, good for you. Otherwise, EA is being hated far too much.

What are some recent Eidos games?

Doesn't matter, they have been taken over.
 

tuteja1986

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Sorry guys but EA has one franchise that i love to death :) Burnout and i am never turning my back on it. Burnout 5 for XBOX 360 can't wait :)
 

DanTMWTMP

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hehe ya, it's a love-hate relationship. But ya, you can't deny their success. They'll probably be like microsoft. Microsoft was hated for awhile, but we couldn't separate. Now, at least in my opinion, they gained some of the respect back. I really dig their new live concept/brand. Ya it's from microsoft, but, it's very functional, clean, and easy.
 

Maximilian

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Feb 8, 2004
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I really really HAVE to buy c&c 3. They really f**ked up c&c the first decade though, you would think it would be simple to put all the current c&c games on one dvd with no problems huh? Maybe even make sure they work too wouldve been a nice touch but nooooooooo. Utter soabs. You know what keeps them going? Those people who buy FIFA year in year out with little or no advancemane in gameplay, just random changes and new players.

If they ruin c&c 3 for me ill burn down EALA's building :frown: Its looking... ok... so far. Only time will tell.. only time will tell.
 

Maximilian

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Feb 8, 2004
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Originally posted by: Burkeman
Bonehead - gotta love online boycotts & online petitions!

Sheesh.

Ahem, an online petition brought BLUE tiberium to c&c 3. YEAH!! Thats right!! BLUE as well as green! A different color like in tib sun!! Nothing to say now mr smartass huh!
 

mzkhadir

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Remember, you are free not to buy their games. You can pick up something else. If the sales drop dramatically, they will figure it out.
 

apoppin

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Originally posted by: mzkhadir
Remember, you are free not to buy their games. You can pick up something else. If the sales drop dramatically, they will figure it out.

just don't buy their games . . . IF their sales DROP . . . they will get the message.

of course they will follow the recording companies cue and say eveyone is pirating it. :p

:D

maybe EA will start suing their customers
:Q
 

sandorski

No Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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I'm sure this Boycott has already been created. Search first before creating another one.
 

CPA

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I'm sorry, but that was one of the weakest petitions I have ever read. It was incoherent and had no direction.
 

Schadenfroh

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Good luck with your boycott, guess you are going to boycott ExonMobile while you are at it eh?
 

Wheatmaster

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lol there's a reason they release a demo, to get people excited and 'attempt' to patch up the remaining bugs. besides, the slow menu loading isn't the game, its your slow ass pc haha jk jk

and i think the reason they make you keep the same name, is so you can build up your ranks and weapons, this ain't no counterstrike match.
 

BladeVenom

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Jun 2, 2005
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Better than a boycott is to support and recomend good games, and publishers. Gamers aren't going to stop buying EA games unless there is a clearly supperior, and well known alternative.
 

40Hands

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Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Boycott a video game company? Get a life IMHO.

And I love Madden 2007.

I think by boycotting a game company we are more likely to have a life then someone that buys the newest EA $50-$60 patch.

It's just like any other company. If you don't like the quality of their product then the only real power you have is your $$
 

0roo0roo

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Sep 21, 2002
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i've been sick of them for a while now. i haven't bought from them recently, and any game from then no matter how good i'm gonna think twice about buying. do they still make those EA title screens on game startup unskippable? yea iknow u could alter the shortcut but wtf is with such bs.
 
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oh yeah like this wont go straight in the coporate shredder within about 2 seconds

even if you dont buy their games, theyre that well known and have that many games and that many loyal uneducated buyers that it simply wont matter anyway

and they do make some decent games. i for one thought that NFS:MW was actually pretty good, and you really cant say theyve destroyed the Burnout franchise, theyre still good too.