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ABOUT ANTI-EA

This group was created to demonstrate our dissatisfaction with the company known as Electronic Arts, EA. We believe that for too long now, EA has been abusing its power over their in-house developers by making them set very strict deadlines which reduces quality control and sometimes forces them to release products that are either poorly made or not even finished properly, leading to the possibility that the cut or 'planned' content that was to be in the main release of the game is now forced to be output as DLC.

Since the creation of their online platform Origin (formally known as EA Downloader Manager) EA has been shifting focus on the PC platform to their Origin client. The worst part about this is, even though most of their games can still be bought from the likes of GreenManGaming and Gamersgate, we haven't seen anything that requires Origin appearing on steam.

People say that steam is not different by not offering their titles on other Digital stores, but this is not true, impulse is known to be selling a few Valve titles e.g. http://www.impulsedriven.com/portal2

However, more to the point we recognise that:

-EA is a company with financial needs, just like any other company or coporation

-There are some popular franchises that some in-house developers produce that are still very much liked by the gaming community, and thus disagree with us to an extent

However:

-EA has been known to support the controversial SOPA.

-EA have been known to be shutting down a lot of servers and services in many different games (some recent, some not, but still had a small community), while other companies have been keeping servers active for online multiplayer games that are practically dead.

-EA has been known to be one of the first to pioneer the online pass and on-the-disk/day 1 DLC.

Since most groups in the steam community are dead, we made a new, and active one.
Please Contribute to this group, by inviting your steam friends, and spread the word in chats and on forums. Post in the comment field about your experiences with EA.

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POPULAR DISCUSSIONS

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9 hours ago

Third xbox console announced "Xbox One" no backwards compability, focuses on voice control, social media etc.

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14 hours ago

This is bullshit

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May 20, 2013 @ 10:40am

[GT-R]D13H4RD2L1V3 (Away)

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Apr 28, 2013 @ 9:55am

I cannot delete my origin account myself EA has to do it for me WHAT THE F&^%$^!?!?!?!?!?

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

EA possibly getting rid of Online Passes, finally.

May 15th, 2013 - Kennyist | 21 Comments

Originally posted by IGN:
Online Passes – the controversial attempt by many publishers to encourage new game sales by locking online-centric content for used copies – has become engrained in gaming culture over the last several years. But according to a report on VentureBeat, one major company is doing away with them.

Electronic Arts – the mega-publisher behind a litany of games including Madden, FIFA, Battlefield, Dead Space, Mass Effect and more – will be “discontinuing” its Online Pass initiative. In a statement provided to VentureBeat, EA’s John Reseburg said that “none of our new EA titles will include that feature.”

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Rad more at: http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/05/15/ea-getting-rid-of-online-passes

EAs Battlelog under DDOS attack!

May 9th, 2013 - refzem ↑ | 25 Comments

EA has been targeted by anonymous(*not yet verified*) and so Battlefield 3 and Battlelog has been offline due to DDOs attack.

- Breaking Origin News -
Despite our security measures, we have been working around the clock to mitigate the impact of an ongoing denial-of-service attack on our Battlefield 3 game infrastructure over the last several days. While the motives are unclear, the focus of the attack has been interference with network communications preventing access to multiplayer gameplay. At this point, no user data is involved. We share your frustration about the impact this has had to our service and the ability for many of you to play Battlefield 3. We are working tirelessly to mitigate the problem. As a part of our efforts to resolve these issues, we’ve conducted rolling restarts of Battlefield infrastructure servers to apply some updates. Thank you for your patience and support while we work to get everyone back and playing Battlefield 3 as soon as possible. More updates to come. /DICE Team

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/

EA responds on Twitter;
Tweets on Battlelog's Twitter page regarding the DDOS attack -

- Original Tweet -
The Real Dan Johnson ‏@PoolSpa_Man_Dan 5h
@battlelog no twitter update for 6hrs? No battlelog update since yesterday? Are you for real?
Surely your not so overwhelmed u cant tweet?

- Battlelog's reply -
Battlelog ‏@battlelog 4h
@PoolSpa_Man_Dan It is a national holiday today in Sweden

We are very pleased to hear this. Surely we feel with all players affected, but then again you shouldn't be playing it to begin with. Thanks to user TheGloriousWalrus for info.