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		By: Jordan cain		</title>
		<link>https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1602</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan cain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Don&#039;t even bring up Warhammer. That game was amazing, and I still love it, but EA ruined it like everything. They may start strong, but they bleed things for everything they&#039;re worth and leave them to die. They don&#039;t even have the decency to make Warhammer f2p..]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t even bring up Warhammer. That game was amazing, and I still love it, but EA ruined it like everything. They may start strong, but they bleed things for everything they&#8217;re worth and leave them to die. They don&#8217;t even have the decency to make Warhammer f2p..</p>
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		By: Tom Gaarder		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1498&quot;&gt;Andrew Allen&lt;/a&gt;.

It&#039;s not &quot;Your&quot; either, it&#039;s you&#039;re.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1498">Andrew Allen</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not &#8220;Your&#8221; either, it&#8217;s you&#8217;re.</p>
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		By: Andrew Allen		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1410&quot;&gt;DarkAngel&lt;/a&gt;.

And your comment fails in basic English. &quot;Your&quot; isn&#039;t spelled with an apostrophe, genius. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1410">DarkAngel</a>.</p>
<p>And your comment fails in basic English. &#8220;Your&#8221; isn&#8217;t spelled with an apostrophe, genius. </p>
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		By: DarkAngel		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DarkAngel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dude you&#039;r article fails at every point. It&#039;s clear that you&#039;r EA&#039;s bitch.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dude you&#8217;r article fails at every point. It&#8217;s clear that you&#8217;r EA&#8217;s bitch.</p>
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		By: bcorcoran		</title>
		<link>https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1407</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bcorcoran]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1406&quot;&gt;Xino&lt;/a&gt;.

I don&#039;t live in the UK, but I agree with you to an extent. 

They do have European servers -- maybe it is possible that you are not connecting to them? If you go to origin.com and look at your EA profile settings. You might not have a country set which can cause all sorts of issues, like getting matched up with people outside your region.

Anyway, the overall point here is that EA is not the &quot;Worst company in America&quot; based on any real measuring of data. It&#039;s based on the votes of people on the internet... many of whom are probably angry/ill-informed gamers. I&#039;d suspect that many of the votes came from the same people who got their panties in a bunch over Mass Effect 3&#039;s ending...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1406">Xino</a>.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t live in the UK, but I agree with you to an extent. </p>
<p>They do have European servers &#8212; maybe it is possible that you are not connecting to them? If you go to origin.com and look at your EA profile settings. You might not have a country set which can cause all sorts of issues, like getting matched up with people outside your region.</p>
<p>Anyway, the overall point here is that EA is not the &#8220;Worst company in America&#8221; based on any real measuring of data. It&#8217;s based on the votes of people on the internet&#8230; many of whom are probably angry/ill-informed gamers. I&#8217;d suspect that many of the votes came from the same people who got their panties in a bunch over Mass Effect 3&#8217;s ending&#8230;</p>
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		By: Xino		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xino]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1404&quot;&gt;bcorcoran&lt;/a&gt;.

ok thanks for explaining.
do you live in the UK?


tell me why I should keep buying their game if they are not going to spend more time in improving their servers for people who gets disconnected?

makes no sense if you ask me. When a customer is unhappy, you rectify the problem! You don&#039;t say &quot;4/10 are having problems with connection issue, i&#039;ll leave them like that to manage&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1404">bcorcoran</a>.</p>
<p>ok thanks for explaining.<br />
do you live in the UK?</p>
<p>tell me why I should keep buying their game if they are not going to spend more time in improving their servers for people who gets disconnected?</p>
<p>makes no sense if you ask me. When a customer is unhappy, you rectify the problem! You don&#8217;t say &#8220;4/10 are having problems with connection issue, i&#8217;ll leave them like that to manage&#8221;</p>
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		By: bcorcoran		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1395&quot;&gt;avgjoegeek&lt;/a&gt;.

 Battlefield 3 10 years too late? Uh, that&#039;s when 1942 came out...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1395">avgjoegeek</a>.</p>
<p> Battlefield 3 10 years too late? Uh, that&#8217;s when 1942 came out&#8230;</p>
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		By: bcorcoran		</title>
		<link>https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1404</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1396&quot;&gt;Xino&lt;/a&gt;.

And what of all the people who don&#039;t get disconnected from their servers? I&#039;ve personally never had an issue connecting to their servers, except when they are actually down (usually maintenance).

I&#039;m going to clue you in on why you might be getting disconnected... try to keep up:

EA&#039;s servers are set up to have an aggressive TTL (time to live) on connections. Essentially, this makes it so that if your connection is really slow or lossy, you get disconnected. What it ALSO does, is save them tons of networking overhead. They&#039;re not waiting for 90 seconds or more for connections to time out before dropping them. This leads to an overall better experience (less lag, faster connections, mainly) for those who don&#039;t have poor quality internet connections.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1396">Xino</a>.</p>
<p>And what of all the people who don&#8217;t get disconnected from their servers? I&#8217;ve personally never had an issue connecting to their servers, except when they are actually down (usually maintenance).</p>
<p>I&#8217;m going to clue you in on why you might be getting disconnected&#8230; try to keep up:</p>
<p>EA&#8217;s servers are set up to have an aggressive TTL (time to live) on connections. Essentially, this makes it so that if your connection is really slow or lossy, you get disconnected. What it ALSO does, is save them tons of networking overhead. They&#8217;re not waiting for 90 seconds or more for connections to time out before dropping them. This leads to an overall better experience (less lag, faster connections, mainly) for those who don&#8217;t have poor quality internet connections.</p>
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		By: Andrew Allen		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1395&quot;&gt;avgjoegeek&lt;/a&gt;.

Well, if you have insider info about working conditions, I won&#039;t argue with that. It&#039;s never okay to treat your employees poorly. 

Still, I do need to refute a couple of your points in the second paragraph:


Need for Speed--&quot;The Run&quot; was whatever, but &quot;Hot Pursuit,&quot; &quot;Shift&quot; and &quot;Shift 2&quot; were all very well made games that were not simply &quot;crapped out&quot; every six months.

Battlefield 3--is most certainly not just BF2 with a new wrapper. It&#039;s similar in play-style perhaps, but the thing runs on a brand new engine, and it does feature a ton of new weapons, vehicles, and maps, so I think it deserves credit for that. 

Rock Band--there is nothing &quot;riding the coat tails&quot; about &quot;Rock Band.&quot; &quot;Guitar Hero&quot; was stagnating, just pumping out re-hashes, and then RB pushed the envelope by adding drums/vocals/bass, which forced GH to scramble to catch up. 

C and C--they actually have announced a new C and C, it&#039;s being made by Bioware Victory. I think we covered it on this site, actually. 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1395">avgjoegeek</a>.</p>
<p>Well, if you have insider info about working conditions, I won&#8217;t argue with that. It&#8217;s never okay to treat your employees poorly. </p>
<p>Still, I do need to refute a couple of your points in the second paragraph:</p>
<p>Need for Speed&#8211;&#8220;The Run&#8221; was whatever, but &#8220;Hot Pursuit,&#8221; &#8220;Shift&#8221; and &#8220;Shift 2&#8221; were all very well made games that were not simply &#8220;crapped out&#8221; every six months.</p>
<p>Battlefield 3&#8211;is most certainly not just BF2 with a new wrapper. It&#8217;s similar in play-style perhaps, but the thing runs on a brand new engine, and it does feature a ton of new weapons, vehicles, and maps, so I think it deserves credit for that. </p>
<p>Rock Band&#8211;there is nothing &#8220;riding the coat tails&#8221; about &#8220;Rock Band.&#8221; &#8220;Guitar Hero&#8221; was stagnating, just pumping out re-hashes, and then RB pushed the envelope by adding drums/vocals/bass, which forced GH to scramble to catch up. </p>
<p>C and C&#8211;they actually have announced a new C and C, it&#8217;s being made by Bioware Victory. I think we covered it on this site, actually. </p>
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		By: Andrew Allen		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Allen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1399&quot;&gt;Mitesh Ghanekar&lt;/a&gt;.

Dude I wish we were big enough that EA cared what we wrote about them.

Also, the &quot;Hot Pursuit&quot; remake was an outstanding game. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.breakmanx.com/why-eas-worst-company-award-is-wrong/#comment-1399">Mitesh Ghanekar</a>.</p>
<p>Dude I wish we were big enough that EA cared what we wrote about them.</p>
<p>Also, the &#8220;Hot Pursuit&#8221; remake was an outstanding game. </p>
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