{"id":651452,"date":"2013-04-09T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=426420"},"modified":"2013-04-09T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T19:42:55","slug":"botched-simcity-launch-vaults-ea-to-second-consecutive-award-for-worst-company-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651452","title":{"rendered":"Botched SimCity launch vaults EA to second consecutive award for \u2018Worst Company In America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/ea-worst-american-company-426420\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/simcity-fire.jpg?w=650&amp;h=700&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"EA Worst American Company\" title=\"SimCity\" \/><\/a><\/center>It wasn&#8217;t easy, but <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/electronic-arts\">Electronic Arts<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=ea\">EA<\/a>) managed to beat out the competition and make history by being named <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/04\/09\/ea-makes-worst-company-in-america-history-wins-title-for-second-year-in-a-row\/\">the &#8220;Worst Company in America&#8221; by <em>Consumerist<\/em> readers two years in a row<\/a>. <em>Consumerist<\/em> writer Chris Morran says that EA won the award for a second straight year because it continued &#8220;treating&#8230; customers like human piggy banks&#8221; and released &#8220;so many incomplete and\/or broken games with the intent of getting your customers to pay extra for what they should have received in the first place.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/ea-worst-american-company-426420\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/89FbQt459vo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t easy, but Electronic Arts (EA) managed to beat out the competition and make history by being named the &#8220;Worst Company in America&#8221; by Consumerist readers two years in a row. Consumerist writer Chris Morran says that EA won the award for a second straight year because it continued &#8220;treating&#8230; customers like human piggy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}