I spent 8 hours in front of a gamestop waiting for Mass Effect 3's midnight release and ever since I beat it, it's been collecting dust on my dresser. I hate you EA. I just.....I hate you.

It's like the Umbrella Corporation guys.  You're just, "the customer".

I think Marx would say that EA is a necessary evil on our path to better gaming companies. I say give them enough rope to hang themselves. Eventually they will lose all connection to their fan base. Then the gaming proletariat will rise up and take down the bourgeois EA gaming company. It would only take one game getting zero sales to wreck such a vile thing as EA. 

I think its important to note that EA is a publicly traded company. It trades as "EA" on NASDAQ and is currently valued at just over $13 a share.

Having to make a profit for their shareholders takes away some of the freedom a privately held company, such as Stardock or Valve, has developing a game. Giving away a free sequel to a game that did not live up to expectations would probably get someone fired at EA.

I think the real people ruining the companies are the very same who started them in the first place. It was their choice to sell out to EA. But who could blame them with the amount of money flying around. It's like a chef who sells his recipe to McDonalds then complains when they streamline it, stripping it of some of it's essence.

Maybe companies should be selling their studios to EA as a sort of biological process. 

1. Get a good team together and make a solid game.

2. Expand a bit and make a few sequels until the franchise has run its course.

3. Evaluate your people and the games you have made. Move all the prime stuff to a new studio with a new name.

4. Sell the low performing employees and antiquated titles to EA for millions. 

5. Use that money and your new studio to think of new gaming concepts and continue your art.

EA is essentially the dung beetle of this equation. Hope someone is watching. 

Ozymandias? You out there man?