THE TRUTH ABOUT EA. -
11-18-2002, 10:59 AM
Spearhead.. Another unfinished product by EA.
EA gets the ball rolling on a cool product, puts a nice package on it, takes your money and takes more of your money and laughs to the bank.. This is the pattern. For those of you that give EA credit for MOH .. Don't.. EA is just a publisher and are not codders/programmers ... EA didn't write MOH any more then Stephen Kings publisher wrote his novels..
Having a background in Bus Ad.. let me tell you EA is nothing more then a group of very rich brand managers.. And these managers are very much out of touch with the products they manage on a user level.. Moh for instance the actually company/programmers of MOH could have taken the game to amazing heights.. instead.. EA just looked for the shortest route to get a buck and using the tried and true capitalist loophole that you can sucker a customer by flahsy advertising and hype.
EA has taken this course of action to maximize its profits.. pubish someone elses work.. get alot of money .. and dont support that product at a user level..
EA has chosen this business model. History has taught EA that customers have a short memory and forget quick when it comes to flash (esp true since it sells to minors).. Ea gets in the door with cool ideas cocepts and brand management in marketing products that are unfinished. By the time the cusotmer realizes the product is unfinished EA already has your money. Rinse Spit Repeat. EA has set up bus.model that maximizes profit by bypassing the process of finishing/polishing improving it's product.
Ea is even looking for new ways to screw it's end user for a buck.. the recent notion being making inferior 3rd party browsers (gamespy) proprietary.
Fool me once shame on you.. fool me 20 times in a row I must be an EA customer..
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