While it's debatable that Electronic Arts is, in fact, De Debilz, there's no denying that the locust-esque company swallower is, like most corporations, a big fat pile of PR and sleaze. The news should have come as no shocker then, when it was discovered that EA was editing Wikipedia like a dirty cheat, removing traces of EA founder Trip Hawkins and whitewashing over some of the more scandalous and vile moments of the company's history.
I'm surprised though that EA thought it would get away with this, considering the amount of anal, obsessive Wikipedia editors out there who jump on everything with sweaty trotters, screaming things like "OMG NON-NOTEWORTHY DELETE DIS SPAM" or "CITATION NEEDED OR WE WILL ALL DIE!"
Since the jig is up, EA has today responded to Wikigate with what could only be described as the perfect corporate reply: "EA sometimes updates websites with info about the company, games and employees. For example, EA has sent a correction to Yahoo Finance when they had misspelled the name of an EA executive. Many companies routinely post updates on websites like Wikipedia to ensure accuracy of their own corporate information."
You don't even need further commentary from me on that one.
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8:28 AM on 08.17.2007
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... I'm not shocked or surprised personally. But it is definitely giggle worthy when these bastards get caught with their pants down.
Hehe
alright now. no offense or anything, because i'm telling all my web-news outlets this: stop ending every "scandal" with -gate! it's not clever, it's a bastardization of a hotel name, the "scandals" are not nearly Nixon quality, and everyone's doing it which makes it no longer cool.
[i]On August 15, 2007 it was revealed that IP addresses registered to EA had made changes favoring EA.[12][13] The changes made included downplaying the importance of the founder of EA, Trip Hawkins, as well as playing up the importance of the new (at the time) CEO, Larry Probst.[12] Other changes included attempts to remove information regarding the famous EA Spouse scandal.[12]
EA's response was that "Many companies routinely post updates on websites like Wikipedia to ensure accuracy of their own corporate information."[14] They did not, however, address the specifics of the changes.[/i]
Haha, owned.
So, how about that Destructoid Wikipedia article?