The Consumerist's Worst Company in America

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Originally Posted by Joystiq

Two weeks ago, The Consumerist launched the "Worst Company in America 2012" challenge, featuring 32 businesses from a variety of industries, including gaming, which this year threw three companies into the running: EA, Sony and GameStop.

EA and Sony battled it out in the first round, with EA fighting for its consistently high prices, DLC blitzes, poor reputation and quiet support of SOPA, and Sony for the major hack and subsequent change to its PSN terms of service that disallowed class-action lawsuits. EA won with 81 percent of the vote. EA has since beaten Best Buy with 66 percent of the vote and is in the final eight, facing Comcast tomorrow at noon ET.

GameStop, playing on its link to high, stagnant prices, poor customer service and the industry-wide pre-order exclusive maze, beat Netflix in the first round with 71 percent of the vote, but later lost to Wal-Mart with 46 percent. Voting on the remaining eight companies (including EA) runs today and tomorrow, and the final four will be announced Thursday.

Go team?

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Link to bracket at consumerist.com

Only Wal Mart could take out GameStop, but at least EA is still in the running! I have no clue how Microsoft wasn't chosen, but Sony (in America?) and Apple were.

Zany Golf was pretty good.

My guess is that Microsoft isn't relevant enough to piss a lot of people off at the moment.

I really hated EA in the past, but these days I mostly get lulz from them. They are a bloated souless corporate entity, but I don't hate them. Project $10 does give them some evil points though.

None of this matters because consumers still give those companies a bazillion dollars a year.

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Originally Posted by Nash

None of this matters because consumers still give those companies a bazillion dollars a year.

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Once you vote, a message should pop up that says something snarky like "We assume that you are no longer supporting this company then, right?"

They're well on their way to totally ruining Bioware with tighter deadlines and endless bullshit DLC. For the first time since playing Baldur's Gate, I'm actually on the fence about buying the latest Bioware game. Especially after the god-awful disaster that was DAII and the complaints I've read about ME3 online.

I've no doubt EA's influence played a large part in all that.

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None of this matters because consumers still give those companies a bazillion dollars a year.

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Sadly, you are absolutely right. Hell, I'm guilty of it myself. I paid full price for Kingdoms of Amalur.

How is Netflix even on there??

I wondered that too. Maybe people are still sore about the whole Qwikster thing?

Final Four Wal-mart, BofA, facebook, EA.

I'd rather eat poop then hand one dime over to BofA. EA at least produces some entertaining software. BofA is actively harmful to society.