Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time/@comment-28731720-20140808021718/@comment-24275721-20140814102951

PnFforever wrote: You don't get it at all. Try imagining if EA has no more money. Try researching on how Google Play developers work and have I mentioned that EA has financial crisis? No, well my bad. Well this thread is getting out of hand. So, some things to say from my end:

While TCD is definitely acting harsh and immature, @PnFforever, (maybe you don't know this) EA has a really bad reputation in the gaming industry among console gamers. Reasons being they acquires a game studio (take in this case, PopCap), slaps their own brand onto it and then markets the app as their financial consumer product.

EA has acquired a game which originated from PlayStation called "OddWorld" which they tried marketing exclusively to the XBox consoles which then made the PS fans rage as the series originated from them (kinda like how PC fans rage as PVZ originated from their area but deviated towards other platforms while ignoring them). EA has also 37% of Microsoft's consoles shares on the market (one more reason being why XBOX consoles got an early exclusive PvZ:GW game) and the reason EA is suffering financilal crisis is because they refuse to give up the rights towards FIFA and Madden NFL in 2011 when Sony wanted their initial copyrights restored (they were partners) while the policy clearly states that both companies have mutual rights to share that product.

Don't get me started on the Need for Speed series. To this date, EA has the record of firing most developers from their game studios because of denying console exclusiveness. The earlier studios like Pioneer, Piranha, Slightly Mad striked off their contract against EA when the earlier NFS titles remained a XBox exclusive before finally being developed by third party studios while being ported to PlayStation.

My friend, PopCap Studios is in no way bad and money is certainly a factor. the main problem is EA acquiring them. But when you put it so that most game studios just outright refuse to sell or make your titles, that publisher gets a bad name. If you have any hesitations, search what I said above on Google and read most of the news realted to earlier EA exploits.

I've always supported PopCap and I always will but I really don't trust EA. Also, like you said above virtual losses doesn't mean much to you but everyone isn't like that. Some people take these things seriously (and they are the majority in this case).