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If I remember correctly it's because its an online poll. The combined forces of reddit and 4chan upon finding out there is a poll for worst company in America would flock to it and immediately derail a company they feel has slighted them. As I would suspect that redditors and 4channers outnumber the average consumer and they also tend to be a major portion of gamers in the world. The poll naturally gets skewed toward a game company.

Just my theory at least. I personally think Activision is the far worse company(compared to EA, my vote would go to BofA as well overall) by reselling the same shill every year and calling it progress. At least with EA even as they are ruining franchises one could at least argue they are attempting some form of trying to make things new and interesting. Just doing it very very badly. Although the SimCity debacle I'm sure could be argued against them.

Activision made no attempt to mask it though, and EA is doing it right now with Battlefield. They're doing it because they can. Minimal development cost, and kids are still buying up every yearly CoD addition. The current generation of CoD games is nearing the end of it's life cycle. Once the next gen consoles are out, they will have better hardware to work with, and they can actually make a new game and have a console to run it too.

EA is a significantly worse company because it buys up what were good developers, then has them push out a game much worse than what it used to be.

Bioware and Mass Effect 3. Westwood and Red Alert 3 (they actually closed Westwood prior to making the game). Maxis and Sim City. And of course, DICE and Battlefield. The games are necessarily bad, but they're worse than their predecessor.

Sim City is an atrocity on so many levels. From the broken, small scale (Sim Town, IMO) gameplay. To the terrible launch and always online requirement. By the way, the game has been hacked, and despite what EA said, the game does not need online connectivity to function.

If I read an article right, EA is not making a single game right now that doesn't use the internet. EA's thought process is "How can we get every penny out of each game?" When it should be "How can we make a game so good, everyone will want to buy it?"

If EA continues the way it has been running for the last decade, they won't be around after the next one. They've been riding the success of previous titles. They got lucky with BF3 because most of the consumer base never played BF2, and they were able to mix some CoD in to it to help steal the CoD playerbase. While BF2 vets were used actual large scale combat, teamwork, and modding, all the current teenage playerbase was used to was 12-18 player CoD arcade shooting.