EA being sued

[xtbe]

EA is being sued for the issues that came up with BF4

It were the investors that have filed a case against the game company

 

The lawyers claim EA lied by claiming that the game was great and awesome (while knowing about the issues) in order to boost sales

They should also have seen that several EA people sold shares which indicates that they knew about the issues of the game.

 

EA don't think much will be reached with these claims and told that they will thoroughly defend themselves in court.

 

Original complaint can be found here: http://www.rgrdlaw.com/media/cases/255_Complaint.pdf

 

Source :

Overclock 3D forum (http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=59017)

Tweakers.net (http://tweakers.net/nieuws/93273/investeerders-dagen-ea-voor-de-rechter-om-battlefield-4.html) -- Dutch link

[DoubleY]

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

 

[rhyseyness]

About time

[Wauthar]

I think this was old news already.

[JAKEBAB]

yay they might learn to let the developers finish there game before they force them to release it.

[JupiteL]

HAHAHAH This I like!

[Freaky_spider]

plot twist: apple is the investor and sued them! MUAHAHAHAH

[DudeWazap]

EA needs to understand that delaying a game release to fix issues isn't always a bad thing.

[Dragontail]

WOOHOO! might bf5 be a good game then

[Joe3417]

I love the tags. ea battlefield 5      lol

[Stefan Becker]

[SirReallySam]

plot twist: apple is the investor and sued them! MUAHAHAHAH

hahahah

[Osmium]

plot twist: apple is the investor and sued them! MUAHAHAHAH

If only it was Newegg, they would win...

[Guest]

Thank god! So disappointed with bf4, want my money back tbh.

[Mooshi]

lel

 

I hope trying to beat the terrible COD series by rushing was worth it, EA.

[Freaky_spider]

they did it because stupid parent who buy the first game they see for their children for christmass, so no BF4 to buy for chirstmass is alot of money they wouldnt have made....

[Osmium]

they did it because stupid parent who buy the first game they see for their children for christmass, so no BF4 to buy for chirstmass is alot of money they wouldnt have made....

Well they could have released it a week ago without bugs and still crush COD ghosts.

[Freaky_spider]

Well they could have released it a week ago without bugs and still crush COD ghosts.

probably, but there is 99.9% that that was the case.

[Valinor]

First off, I'd definitely be much happier if they (publishers in general) would only release games which weren't riddled with bugs. Like, who wouldn't?

 

But when I was reading stuff about this, it seems that the final straw as it were for investors was when EA announced they were holding all DICE projects until BF4 was fixed. Now I don't know about anyone else, but that sounds like a really good move imo, and not something that should be shut down in the future because of the threat of a lawsuit. Obviously the ideal situation is that they actually release a game without any bugs (or at least without any more than your "average game"), but if a game is released which is buggy I don't want them (publishers in general) to be prevented from allocating a lot of resources to fixing them because they're worried about being sued by investors.

 

Yeah, I think that's everything I wanted to say. Probably.

[Andrew48]

 Good job EA!

[xxTigerShark]

EA. Nothing else to say.

[TymmVonD]

It took me several years to get my check from the Madden class-action. Cashed the check a few months ago.

[EChondo]

It took me several years to get my check from the Madden class-action. Cashed the check a few months ago.

And now you can spend a whole $13!

[Snickerzz]

How can you sue for this... Saying a game is good is an opinion and its told to you buy every company about every product...

[Osiris199]

There's a difference between saying a game is good or bad and lying to your own investors who pay your company bills in order to rush a sale at the cost of those investors' money. It's going in the direction of fraud.