EA

EA, aka Electronic Arts.

Formerlly quite a good games developer back in the day, now an evil corperation that makes the Empire from Star Wars look like someone you'd like to have as a next door neighbour by comparison.

Responsible for the fuxing up of so many games it makes this author cry IRL, there is seemingly no level to which EA will not stoop in order to make a fast buck, movie cash-ins, spin offs and cheap, horrible games are the order of the day.

Those good games that they haven't managed to fux up generally have "that EA feeling" about them that seems to come from a vague dumbing down of any game they touch. Look at command and conquer, as soon as EA takes over they start making games like Generals.

They do make the occasional blockbuster game that even the most staunch critic would find some enjoyment from, but this could easily be attributed to the 1000 monkeys sitting at a typewriter syndrome.

Usual highlights of an EA game:

• freezing at random moments
• briefly freezing just after encountering a baddie; when the screen starts moving again you will be dead more often than not
• getting kicked out of the game for unknown reasons
• getting kicked out of the game because the game lost connection with EA's back end infrastructure
• not being able to start the game because EA's back end infrastructure is unavailable
• having to download 500mb patches. sure, there's 495mb's worth of extra maps but the critical patch you need to actually play the game (hopefully) is in there too
• having to go through lots of articles on the interwebnet to discover what others have done to get <game> working because EA won't tell you or fix the issue
• having to disable your firewall because otherwise the game may not work
• having to run the game as administrator because otherwise it will not work

See also: Bioware