User blog comment:James12708/Possibility of a Mass Effect 4/@comment-5379655-20120827090650/@comment-2172565-20120829112504

To counter your first point, just because your being contrary doesn't mean your right. Popularity is as a general rule popular (durr). In order for it to achieve a 'popular' status means it has to pleasurable in one form or another on a wide scale to a wide audience so that a plethora of people enjoy it. And while I agree that the things you mentioned are indeed not good in the slightest, it is merely an opinion.

So you are going to tell me that the companies they buy don't agree to it? Thats not evil that's a bad command decision on the company selling. What developers? What IPs? Or are you just drinking the punch? A lot personnel from all the developers they closed were funneled into other studios. For instance they close down Pandemic Studios they kept IPs they owned. Battlefield is one of them and are you going to try and tell me BF3 is not a great game? You're crazy. When they lay off people guess what? Its a business and businesses occasionally have to do that and with a ridiculously slumped global economy they may or may not have lost their jobs anyway. I'm not saying that EA didn't have there moments and occasionally still do but why does Actiblizzard not get a mention for the EXACT same SHIT. Who wants to go and play the next used up whore of a Call of Duty? Oh and I'm going to go ahead and copy my partial list of awesome games that EA has published recently cause you obviously didn't read it... "Kingdoms of Amalur, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Dead Space, a lot of stuff from Valve, including Portal 2, Rock Band, All the Battlefields, The Sims, Crysis, and a plethora of other games. " Dragon age and its sequel both have series design flaws so I wont even mention anything else... And your obviously a butthurt guy who didn't enjoy the ending if ME3 because the game is strikingly better in most regards to the first one (but again this all opinion based unlike the stuff before which is fact, your entitled to whatever opinion you want I suppose.)

Thirdly (le sigh) See point 2 and ask why Actiblizzard, Square-Enix, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Bethesda, Rockstar, etc can do some, most or indeed all of that and no one says a god damned thing to them (or they do but its POPULAR to just blame EA for it cause they got bad press and act like a business should.) Videogame development is fun and all but its still just like any other business and of all the plethora of videogame companies that have existed these past 60 or so years about 5% remain cause they other got bought, went bankrupt or merged. Its as simple as that. Why does noone blink when Square Enix (a japanese rpg maker) buys out Eidos (Hitman, Deus Ex, Tomb Raider) Meh...