EA Wins The Consumerist’s ‘Worst Company in America’ Title Again

<p><a title&equals;"EA Voted Worst Company in 2012" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;ea-voted-worst-company-2012&sol;">The Consumerist had a poll last year<&sol;a> to determine which company was the worst in America was and the people deemed EA worthy of the title&comma; due in large part to the outcry over <em>Mass Effect 3<&sol;em>&period; This year&comma; the poll was held again and&comma; lo and behold&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;consumerist&period;com&sol;2013&sol;04&sol;09&sol;ea-makes-worst-company-in-america-history-wins-title-for-second-year-in-a-row&sol;">EA has won the title again&comma; making them back-to-back winners<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Following last year’s surprise Worst Company In America victory by Electronic Arts&comma; there was hope that the video game giant would get the message&colon; Stop treating your customers like human piggy banks&comma; and don’t put out so many incomplete and&sol;or broken games with the intent of getting your customers to pay extra for what they should have received in the first place&period; And yet&comma; here we are again&comma; with EA becoming the first company to ever win a second Golden Poo from Consumerist readers&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Consumerist&&num;8217&semi;s Worst Company in America poll cites EA as failing time and time again at three core requirements&colon; Provide a product people want and like&comma; Sell your product at a reasonable price&comma; and Support the products you sell&period; They went even further and stated that the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ea&period;com&sol;news&sol;we-can-do-better">apology letter from Chief Operating Officer Peter Moore<&sol;a> was what&comma; in the end&comma; &&num;8216&semi;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;consumerist&period;com&sol;2013&sol;04&sol;05&sol;ea-admits-it-can-do-better-but-blames-worst-company-success-on-homophobes-and-whiny-madden-fans&sol;">sealed the deal<&sol;a>&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>EA won the title this year by once again beating Bank of America&period; The company had accumulated at least 78&percnt; of the vote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrace;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;consumerist&period;com&sol;2013&sol;04&sol;09&sol;ea-makes-worst-company-in-america-history-wins-title-for-second-year-in-a-row&sol;">The Consumerist<&sol;a>&rcub;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;