Game: EA - Epic Assholes

This might be prompted by several buggy and what seems to be, rushed releases in the past few months that i've purchased by EA but still im going to bitch because i can!

EA are driving me up the wall!, BF2142, Red Alert, Tiberium Wars, NFS Pro Street just to name a few games that i have faithfully bought because i belive in supproting the people who actually do the wor, to find out everyitme after install that there is some sort of thing wrong with it.. this is absolutoley insane! EA are a mass media giant not to mention what seem to be the next Microsoft in terms of take over and buying power and all these thigns are fueled by the fact that their investors love money (cant blame them really) and so we the gamers have to suffer as EA make deadlines that cut potential bug testing hours/days/months to shreds as their developers scramble to meet these deadlines and release the games that are under developed, under tested or worse.

Mercenaries 2 was a fantastic game! but it was, i wouolndt say riddled but had its fair share of bugs and it seemed that the vehicles where skinned better than the terrain and buildings... Pandemic is a fantastic developer and i fully support their games but now that they are associated/owned by EA, EA will no doubt want something released by whenever and this to me is frustrating because it means that anyone under EA (not just Pandemic) are going to release games that have bugs (that could have been fix prior to release) and perhasp even lacking in material/media all because EA want the game released by a certain date!

Whats that saying "you cant rush art" this is the philosophy Activision-Blizzard have taken (or rather Blizzard.. well we'll see about Activision soon enough) and they have consitantly release games that have rich and fluid content accompanyed by a significantly less bug ridden game mechanic compared to EA.

You'd think that this would be enough for people to boycott EA altogether and go elsewhere, i mean afterall at 70 - 100 dollars AUS these games arent exaclty cheap!... well some are and some like me arent, why? well EA have some impressive and tempting titles under their belts and i think no matter what kind of job they do they are going to make sure that they keep these titles so they have some leverage over the competition, not to mention leverage over the consumer... so we can piss and moan all we want but in the end they have the titles and we the consumer have to decided whether or not we want to play them.

One more thing, i bet no one who is currently investing in EA on the markets is a gamer!