EA Responds to "Worst Company in America" Poll

EA has responded to a North American poll that has voted the publisher amongst the worst companies in America.

The home of FIFA, Madden, Sim City, Mass Effect and many more high-profile franchises was voted for by the public, slipping past retailer Walmart, providers Comcast, Time Warner Cable and AT&T as the worst out of the bunch. EA took down Facebook, Apple and numerous others in earlier rounds of the "Worst Company" Consumerist tournament.

Today EA heads up against Ticketmaster for the unfortunate crown.

EA's chief operating officer Peter Moore admitted that the company has "made plenty of mistakes." Amongst these faux pas include "server shut downs too early, games that didn't meet expectations, missteps on new pricing models and most recently, severely fumbling the launch of SimCity. We owe gamers better performance than this."

However Moore believes a majority of votes may have come from those who disagreed with the latest Madden game cover and from "conservatives protesting the company's LGBT policy".

He concluded that the company are "committed to fixing our mistakes".

The poll was no small feat either, with more than 250,000 voters nominating EA up the ranks to the "worst company in America" finals.

Do you have issues with gaming giant EA Games - are there other contenders for your "worst company" vote?