Yea, no. EA is bad, but isn't nearly as bad as companies like Palantir.
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Nestle is arguably the worst company in the world. EA sucks, but it isn't even close.
I wouldn't call EA anywhere close to the worst company in the world.
Serious contenders based on their overall effect on humanity would be Monsanto, RTX, Aramco, UnitedHealth and Nestlé.
Remember when we thought we had it bad?
It's from PC Gamer, so I think it's safe to say they mean worst gaming company in the world. They could have said that though.
Even limited to gaming, EA, Ubisoft, and Activision have always been pretty much tied for it. Now Activision is part of Microsoft, and I think with both Activision and Bethesda and the shit the latter has caused lately, I think we can bump Ubisoft out. And I think when Copilot gaming rolls out, whatever they're calling that, they'll be worse than EA was before. The problem with EA isn't so much what they were before though, it's what they'll be under SA leadership.
Gaming by megacorps has never been good for gamers, and it's going to get worse. And yet people keep supporting them.
Wtf is copilot gaming?
It's an AI assistant in your game that will help you, tell you where to go and whatnot by using Copilot to help by analysing your game.
Doesn't sound too bad, I mean who cares if they see what you're playing or how (bad) you're playing? It's just weird. Like the generations after mine used GameFAQs, or asked on Reddit, or watched YouTube videos. My generation read Nintendo Power, and shared tips on the playground or at school, whether we read it in a magazine or discovered it on our own. There were 1-900 numbers you could call, but no one I know called them. Maybe the rich kids did? I was forbidden from doing so (by my parents) and I never did. But that was actually another option. Like, Nintendo operated one. I think some of the third-party gaming magazines may have, as well. You could also write in, and maybe they'd publish your letter and a response, but that would take months.
The only way I can see this shit working is like a search engine that do AI summarizing. They can't trained Copilot to "learn" about the newest game. This shit looks more like marketing bullshit than anything, any AI that can search the internet will do just fine.
I think some of the third-party gaming magazines may have, as well. You could also write in, and maybe they’d publish your letter and a response, but that would take months.
LOL, I had some of these magazines but at the time internet was already a thing, sounds painful to wait months for a response on how to beat X game.
Exxon, Philip Morris, Boeing, Northrop Grumman...
Do they make video games?
If you follow the comment I replied to, they mentioned non-gaming companies.
Aramco and not Raytheon or Lockheed Martin or Palantir or Blackrock?
Raytheon is now called RTX.
They're the ones who are so evil they keep having to rename themselves.
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Nominating EA for "worst company" always has been ridiculous. Gamers need to touch some grass.
We didn't know how good we had it.
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In a world where big tech, Nestlé, and Monsanto exist, the OP is way out of touch with reality.
noone mentioned Amazon because you'll happily let them destroy the world for 2-day shipping
With lots of new EA titles requiring invasive kernel level anti-cheat, I don’t see what could go wrong here ~/s~
If I need to install their client to play a game, I just don't play it.
"Arab country bad"
Saudi Arabia is absolutely bad. I'd go so far as to call them the EA of Countries.