4. EA Are The Devil Incarnate
I am far from EA's biggest supporter; they take a lot of great franchises and run them into the ground through annualised editions, and their business practices (such as
infamously banning one player from playing Dragon Age 2 because he referred to EA as "the devil" on the game's forums) are shady to say the very least, but at the same time, are they really the spawn of Satan? There are a lot of moving parts to consider, namely that a lot of the developers under the EA banner have undergone structural changes since being with EA - ones which were seemingly
not EA's decision - with pivotal members of BioWare and Maxis leaving the companies, leaving them in the hands of "lesser" employees. Consider the handful of exciting games being published under the EA banner; Star Wars Battlefront, Titanfall, Mirror's Edge, Battlefield 4 and so on, for though the company devotes themselves too much to just
churning out games, they're also one of gaming's publishing giants for a reason, and that's always going to attract controversy. Note: this post was in no way paid for by Electronic Arts.