Comcast Makes Final Four in Consumerist 'Worst Company' Award > All a formality

All a formality

You got that right. With the fact that the Simcity fiasco is fresh in a lot of people's minds, I have no doubt that EA will with the Golden Poo Award.
--
Tom
Boycott AT&T uVerse! | Tom's Android Blog

reply to Ga Dawg
You know what's really sad? The fact that EA is even that high. I mean, they make non-essential items in a competitive market. If you get screwed by them, then buy someone else's games. Ticketmaster is sort of the same, except they have a relative monopoly.

AT&T, BofA, and Comcast all provide essential services that people can't do without. Two of those have monopolies throughout many parts of the country, and duopolies in the areas where they might have one competitor. BofA has a societal duty to provide consumers with essential financial services, but they at least have a bit of competition. The horror stories that I can tell you about BofA...they're unfuckingreal.

What I'm getting at here is how in the hell is a video game company at the top of the list when their products are meaningless compared to what the others provide? People's priorities are really messed up.

reply to trparky
The difference between Bank of America and EA is EA is destroying virtual cities and Bank of America is destroying real cities.

reply to Arty50
They are in the final 4 because they pissed of reddit and 4chan, as well as most gamers on the internet. Those are very power things to piss off when you are in an online voting.

reply to Ga Dawg
Funny, when I called EA Origin support, they were quite good at resolving my issue. Then again, I don't play SimCity.

reply to Mike
I agree, I'm voting BoA

reply to iansltx
As much as I hate Comcast; their pricing shenanigans, their consistently playing fast-and-loose with the truth and their "fuck you" corporate mentality, any company that puts out a single-player game that REQUIRES you to be online in order to even play the game you PAYED FOR deserves to be named Worst Company in America.

I didn't know EA had a monopoly on city-building games...

reply to Arty50
At least banking has competition. Big banks have the advantage of convenience but small banks have better service. I left TD Bank for a local bank because TD Bank had a data breach and they got too high on fees. As most of my purchases are on my debit card. I can count on less than one hand the number of times I've used an ATM in a given month and if I need cash I'll go to the supermarket or CVS and I'll buy a soda and get cash back. Most ATMs around here get $3.50 to pull money out but getting cash back costs nothing minus the cost of the soda or candy bar that you have to purchase for the privilege of getting cash back.

Back in the good old days the state of Iowa had a ban on ATM terminal fees and I think non bank ATMs were banned in Iowa as well.
--
I've experienced ImOn (when they were McLeod USA), Mediacom, Comcast, and Time Warner and I currently have DirecTV. They are much better than broadcast TV.

I have not and will not cut the cord.

Big banks aren't even convenient anymore. The vast majority of credit unions have partnered up into the Coop network. This means almost all CU ATMs and every 7 Eleven ATM around the US are fee free. If you add it up, Coop dwarfs the size of BofA's, Chase's, or Wells Fargo's ATM networks. Many of them offer shared branching too in case you need to physically go in.

reply to iansltx

reply to Arty50

HERE! HERE!! BofA has seriously SCREWED a lot of people, starting with me back in the 70s.. I swore I'd never do business with them again.. Unfortuantly, my mortgage with Countrywide got sucked into them in 2008, but fortuantly, QuickenLoans came to my rescue in January with a refi that dropped my payment by $200 and a 2% interest reduction.... BYE BYE BofA!!! F.U. Hope you win the worst company title.. you sooo richly deserve it