Ich bezweifle dass Mass Effect da eine grosse Rolle spielt bei dem Voting. EA hat da schon noch ganz andere Hunde im Keller die auch beim Consumerist in den Kommentaren angesprochen werden. Schau dir da mal die älteren Votings und die Kommentare dazu durch. Mass Effect wird da kein einziges Mal erwähnt, da gehts um ganz andere Sachen
Also für mich sind sie absolut zu Recht im Finale und da ich nicht weiss was die Bank of Amerika letztes Jahr so alles verbrochen hat (ausser Steuergelder verheizt) würd ich mir EA als diesjährigen Sieger wünschen. Verdient haben sies!
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Edit: hier der Grund warum EA im Contest ist:
EA has spent much of the last decade cultivating a bad name for itself among millions of game-buying consumers. Aside from its reputation for spoiling the good names of all the companies it acquires (and EA has acquired a lot of companies), it has played a pivotal role in the fact that video games continue to be expensive while the cost for many other home entertainment media has dropped.
Since the company obtained the exclusive video game rights to NFL teams, it's been accused of gouging customers out of millions of dollars on an annual basis by grossly overpricing its Madden NFL series of games.
And like Sony, EA got no love from consumers for its tacit backing of the failed (for now) SOPA legislation.
But what is becoming the biggest sore spot to video game customers is the increasing amount of add-on content that the company doesn't include in the games it sells, but only makes available in deluxe editions, store-specific versions or as a la carte downloadable content.
For example, Destuctoid recently calculated that you would need to spend $870 to get access to all of the content in the newest big EA release, Mass Effect 3.
We received numerous reader testimonials on why EA belongs in this competition, but this audio clip of the company's CEO explaining to investors about squeezing money from customers through these micro-transactions basically sums it all up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZR6-u8OIJTE