Is this REALLY a surprise??

[Wee Willie]

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/electronic-arts-named-worst-company-america-again-170932002.html

[Blind Otto]

That's not a big surprise - especially after the Sim City fiasco - but it is worrying.
The wrong manager/director in the wrong place at the wrong time, drinking the wrong finely mulled wine, will look at that 'award', and a little word will wander into his head:
Restructuring.
Next thing you know, some corporate ladder climber will be whispering in his ear that they already have several MMOs with fairly good uptime, and we'll find someone building a new hyperspace bypass right through the middle of Skara Brae, and international footballers are running all over the Luna bagball arena.

That, or they'll go "we need a new look - distance ourselves from the past", and bang, we're dead.

[Adrianas]

The best thing that could happen would be if they spun it off and sold this 'asset' to someone that would actually care about it.  I believe that there are people who do care about it (certain devs - whether or not they are currently working on the game).  Although I do not agree with her on everything, I would support Mesanna if she and a crew of rogue developers past and present bought it out.  I think we would actually see better content and support as I suspect their hands are tied by 'corporate' more than they are allowed to tell us.

However, we may be a small fish in the EA pond, but we are a consistently paying fish.  So I doubt we would be let off the hook.

[N49ATV]

Yeah. Too bad they won't redo it, and make it more darkfall ish. Updated, I mean, and 3d. But keep core game