Oh oh Electronic Arts (EA) getting sued for lying to investors

[ballowers100]

Oh oh Electronic Arts (EA) getting sued for lying to investors

This does not look good Electronic Arts (EA) is getting sued for lying or misleading their investors and apparently rushing Battlefield 4 out to a very broken unplayable state.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=732604
http://investor.ea.com/
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131209006350/en/Investor-Alert-Holzer-Holzer-Fistel-LLC-Announces

The bad thing about it is if Electronic Arts (EA) goes out of business they can take a lot of their Intellectual Properties (IP) with them that ends up becoming abandon ware. Hopefully there will be other video game publishing companies and video game development companies that will purchase them if this happens maybe CD Projekt RED.

The second bad thing that can happen is a lot of people losing their jobs. But then they can get hired back by other video game publishing companies or other video game development companies like CD Projekt RED.

The good thing about this is Electronic Arts (EA) can finally disappear.

The second good thing about this is Origin can finally disappear and maybe get lucky and have every single video game that has been developed and published by Electronic Arts (EA) through out the years get released 100% Digital Rights Management (DRM) free on gog.com.

Any thoughts about this?

 

[alextyc1]

So what?
Big companies get sued all the time />
EA is huge,one of the biggest game publisheres and you think cuz of some bugs in BF4 and lies(a lot of lies) they will go out of business?
Lol

 

[ballowers100]

So what?
Big companies get sued all the time />
EA is huge,one of the biggest publisheres and you think cuz of some bugs in BF4 and lies they will go out of business?
Lol

Well that's not the problem Electronic Arts (EA) lied about the sales of Battlefield 4 and lied about the development time. That's the problem and when a investors own company lies to them about sales that is bad.

 

[alextyc1]

Well that's not the problem Electronic Arts (EA) lied about the sales of Battlefield 4 and lied about the development time. That's the problem and when a investors own company lies to them about sales that is bad.

And cuz of that they will go out of business?
(EA is wrong of course)

 

[gregski]

I never understand this notion: "hey, let's hope EA/MS/other evul company goes out of business soon".

What's so good about a company hiring - directly or indirectly as subcontractors etc - thousands of talented people around the world going bankrupt? Especially if it's a huge publisher that funds development of so many franchises? Yeah, their business practices might be bad or shady and games they release might not be the ones we would ever play but still - every market needs competition. Yeah, GOG and CDPR also need EA so they can continue building their strategy of "trust and respect for gamers" in opposition to the likes of EA.

 

[ballowers100]

And cuz of that they will go out of business?
(EA is wrong of course)

No they might not go out of business they might just settle it behind closed doors but who knows what might happen.

Electronic Arts (EA) has not seen a single cent or a single dollar (USD) from me since 2010 when Origin released. Battlefield Bad Company 2 is the last video game i purchased from them.

I wanted to purchase Battlefield 3, I wanted to purchase Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Dead Space 3, Mass Effect 3, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Battlefild 4, Crysis 2, Crysis 3, Dragon Age 2, Need for Speed: Rivals, and so on. But I did not purchase any of them because of Origin, not developed for PC first, lack of mod tools and saying mod tools won't be released because the video game engine is to complex which I think is only to sell DLC's because whose gonna purchase DLC's when you got lots of free mods right?

 

[ballowers100]

I never understand this notion: "hey, let's hope EA/MS/other evul company goes out of business soon".

What's so good about a company hiring - directly or indirectly as subcontractors etc - thousands of talented people around the world going bankrupt? Especially if it's a huge publisher that funds development of so many franchises? Yeah, their business practices might be bad or shady and games they release might not be the ones we would ever play but still - every market needs competition. Yeah, GOG and CDPR also need EA so they can continue building their strategy of "trust and respect for gamers" in opposition to the likes of EA.

I actually don't want Electronic Arts (EA) to go out of business I just want them to treat us better especially us PC gamers.

If they did I would then purchase every single video game from them (Except Free to Play (F2P) video games).

 

[gregski]

I actually don't want Electronic Arts (EA) to go out of business I just want them to treat us better especially us PC gamers.

Really? Following quote doesn't really show that:

The good thing about this is Electronic Arts (EA) can finally disappear.

 

[ballowers100]

Really? Following quote doesn't really show that:

Oh that's just me being mad at Electronic Arts (EA) for how they treat their customers. I purchased Battlefield: Bad Company 2 in 2010 and Mass Effect 2 which I still play to this day today but did not Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 because of Origin.

It's just the lack of mod tools and Origin that makes me sad.

 

[Ploutonas]

Disney shouldnt give copyrights in only 1 company for starwars titles... thats monopoly. And not many want origin though...

I am pointing to starwars, because this IP is a most loved title globally. Even if its a reversed reality. I am a sith and I am enjoying it.

Another example of EA dids... Is nintendo, that didnt used ORIGIN OS in the wii U, so now EA says : No starwars for nintendo.

But Nintendo is a good partner to Disney...so....

Xbox one sales stuck between 1.5-2m sales.. While ps4 sales like crazy and wii U sales increased dramatically (from 5000 consoles per week, now they sell 150.000-200.000!!). So we all know how this generation, will be.

 

[Flitters]

Lawyers are notoriously known to be trolls and/or fishermen....

They get enough paying customers and a grain of truth to make it worth their time for a class action well break out a notary and stamp my paperwork!

 

[ApuLunas.211]

ea committed lots of sins by forcing companies to make early releases and deserve a specific hate just for that. take your hand out of our purses and games dinosaur ea.

 

[FoggyFishburne]

I do wonder what IP I'd miss if EA would ever go bankrupt. I've played a lot of Battlefield 3 (630+ hours) and I love it to death. But I've had my fill of generic "murica is da best country in da world" fps' for a life time. Especially now that I'm playing a retro feel shooter, Shadow Warrior, it made me realize how much time I'm wasting on playing the thing over and over again. So if BF disappeared, shame, but I wouldn't care.

Dragon Age? Eh, same thing. I do really like the whole concept of the fade and demons possessing mages and the qunari are a cool race. But everything else is copy pasted from every other fantasy ever.

Mass Effect was destroyed by ME3. Which is a shame because I love that universe more than Star Trek and Star Wars combined. It's truly amazing. But eh. I doubt ME4 will be any good. It seems like BioWare will continue the tradition of pandering to EVERYONE and shit out a mediocre product rather than a work of art with any shred of integrity.

Kingdoms of Amalur, Crysis, the Sims, Mirrors Edge? Don't give a shit about any of those franchises, even if some of the individual games are pretty cool.

So yeah. If EA would die, my condolences to the people without a job but man, I wouldn't give two shits.

 

[adridu59]

goes out of business

haha

 

[GuyNwah]

Nobody is suing EA, at least no more than usual. EA is at no more risk of going out of business than they were before. Threatened and actual lawsuits are a normal risk of doing business when you are a company of that size and history.

A firm of ambulance chasers is trying to recruit shareholders in the hope of collecting fees for shutting up and going away.

The whole thing is a very small tempest in a very tiny teapot.

 

[vivaxardas2015]

Even if EA is sued for real, the only result would be that its lawyers will make a crap-load of money, lawsuit will go away, and it will be business as usual. Is it worth an effort? Hardly.

 

[Fandango9641]

I've had the dubious pleasure of doing some contract work for EA and know a number of people currently working for them (albeit on the marketing side of things) but am not in the least bit surprised they have been called out so. Just a terrible, terrible company.

 

[wichat]

Nevermind! There will be always new DLC's games of EA to release and make money for cover these little.... mmmm obstacles