{"id":745715,"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.com\/index\/745715","title":{"rendered":"Botched SimCity launch vaults EA to second consecutive award for \u2018Worst Company In America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/ea-worst-american-company-426420\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/simcity-fire.jpg?w=650&#038;h=700&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C700\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"EA Worst American Company\" title=\"SimCity\" \/><\/a><\/center>It wasn'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 \"Worst Company in America\" 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 \"treating... customers like human piggy banks\" and released \"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.\" <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/ea-worst-american-company-426420\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/89FbQt459vo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","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":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37ZF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}