User blog comment:Starmoonie/All this hate.../@comment-3109473-20120609191740

The problem is, there are companies who make money respectfully, by giving the fans what they want and without a problem. This is what has made TES successful. EA buys out small companies with great games e.g. PopCap, and then they ruin it all by making the games overpriced and as soon as they are out of ideas (not that they had any good ideas in the first place, of course), they simply stop the game production.

Moreover, I hate the way they shape the games. I can play Skyrim at the highest settings, on a cider port with no lag at all. I don't even dare to raise my settings that much on TS3 (also official cider port, yet this one is official and not self-made), especially since Pets came out. And speaking of Pets, what the hell have they done with the graphics engine? It is terrible, slow and laggish. It has broken a lot of CC as well.

But my greatest problem of all is the fact that they make very simple things SO complicated. Patching, for example. Even patching Skyrim manually is simpler than patching TS3 with no harm done.

Another problem I have is Origin. As they say, it is not spyware, yet as the EULA says, it technically is! And they always try to spy on you. Thankfully I had Little Snitch to protect me while I was playing TS3 from it phoning back home, so I was OK, but what about an average computer user who is not aware of that?

EA needs to change their minds, cause if they don't, we will all see to it ourselves that their "empire" collapses.