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** [[Face Heel Turn]]: ...which has resulted in an ongoing attempt by the company to [[Win Back the Crowd|recapture some of their early glory days]] with some well-received original titles, along with a partial return to their old, publishing-only form with the release of [[Tim Schafer]]'s ''[[Brutal Legend]]''. (Only to intentionally [[Lowest Common Denominator|conceal the gameplay]] against the wishes of Tim Schafer, and almost bankrupting him by canceling the sequel.) This has turned them from being a hated symbol of everything wrong with the industry to a... [[Tweener|moderately-liked symbol of a freak hybrid of all that is right ''and'' wrong with the industry at the same time.]]

** Before then, there was Origin, a "digital distribution platform", but German consumers pointed out that it is essentially spyware. Also Origin's ban-happy policy (according to Rock Paper Shotgun), and the fact that using the Origin name itself is an insult to the former glory of Origin Systems (which was bought and "killed" by EA).

* [[Scapegoat Creator]]: Because of their status as a video game publisher as well as their controversial past publishing decisions, people tend to see the "EA" logo on some games and then proceed to lodge any criticisms about the quality of the game itself at them when they merely funded the development and marketed it, with only a few EA-published titles (''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'') escaping this, although they didn't ''entirely'' escape it in some regards.

** Publishers have a bigger role in development than people think, especially when they operate as the parent company. "Merely funding and marketing" is a major misconception.