User blog comment:Th3 razor/Electronic Arts voted 'Worst American Company' by Consumerist readers/@comment-1441235-20120407031127/@comment-1441235-20120407221519

I find it strange how you take such offense to my and others criticizing of the developer's works. I wish I could have used the same justification for not getting an A for any paper I'd ever written in school simply because of the fact that I had put time and effort into it. If I was supposed to be writing some sort of narrative and I did: I sat down for a few hours, came up with a story, submitted it, and got an F for my various mistakes and poor execution. By your logic I shoud have gotten an A+ because of the time and effort it took me to boot up Word, write down my thoughts, and print the page. Just because you put time and effort into a project does not put you above reproach for your poor execution. Secondly, I am wholly justified in judging a project to be lacking compared to another regardless of my ability to produce something similar. I think most of us can all agree that a Ford Pinto is hardly on the same level as a Lamborghini, correct? And yet the vast majority of us could not go design, fabricate, and assemble our own vehicle. The same thing applies to some shovelware Wii game compared to, for example, the first Mass Effect. While effort was required to make that shovelware, the product is still of poor quality and can therefore be considered a waste.

On the online pass issue:

Selling things secondhand has been around as a practice long before EA or even videogames in general came along. You don't see, for example, those same car companies you were talking about demanding you pay them sort of pass for the use of their vehicle and holding the electical system hostage until you buy said pass just because you bought it secondhand from some discount used car place and not them directly. Nor do you see those same companies wetting themselves over the fact someone else is making profit off of their goods when they already got theirs. People would (quite rightly, imo) lose their minds were they to do so.

Finally:

As with anything else in life, respect is earned. If you produce what I or others think is a low quality product, you will not get the same respect given to those who produce higher quality products. Can you honestly say you would give the same amount of respect to the products of a Burger King as you would to Gordon Ramsey or Wolfgang Puck? I think not.

I hold the individuals part of the developers to the same level of respect as everyone else. It is their products that I take issue with.