Ea Staffer rewrites ea History on Wikipedia (joystiq.com)

[7th lutz]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/16/ea...-on-wikipedia/

We already know that EA changes its screenshots, but is somebody trying to rewrite its history? Shacknews reports somebody with an IP address linked to the Electronic Arts Redwood City HQ is going into the EA Wikipedia page and altering the past. Using a tool called Wikipedia Scanner made by Cal Tech student Virgil Griffith, they discovered this IP address has made numerous alterations, the most damning occurred on Nov. 20, '06 when they erased Trip Hawkins as founder of the company. Later on, the same IP address added a paragraph emphasizing the work of Larry Probst, current EA chairman, and attempted to remove the scandalous EA Spouse saga.

Shacknews concludes saying that the IP address is responsible for one third of the 1,351 changes made by EA-registered IPs. Many of the changes made by the EA IPs have since been reversed by the Wikipedia community. EA would not comment on the issue. Maybe this person at EA is just striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that their next leap ... will be the leap home -- if those pesky Wikipedia people would just stop changing history back to the way it originally happened.

[8-bitNesMan]

Maybe they should change their motto to "Change everything"

[Matt-El]

Oooooohhhhh Boy, Sam!

[smokehouse]

Somehow this doesn’t surprise me one bit…as a company, I despise EA almost as much as Sony…

[heybtbm]

Remember when EA was just the company with the weird Genesis cartridges? Now they represent the worst of everything in the industry IMO.

Anyway, the good thing about Wikipedia is that bullshit usually gets corrected the same day and "convenient" deletions aren't missing for long.

[kjmontana]

Remember when EA was just the company with the weird Genesis cartridges? Now they represent the worst of everything in the industry IMO.

I remember when they made great Commodore 64 games(Dr. J/Larry Bird:One on One; Pinball Construction Set; Archon; M.U.L.E.; Robot Rascals, etc.)!

[GarrettCRW]

EA isn't the only company whose employees have been doctoring entries-someone at the New York Times has been meddling with the entry for the Wall Street Journal, and someone at Fox News has been attempting to smoove over aspects of Bill O'Reilly's entry while messing with the entries for Al Franken and Keith Olbermann. And I'm sure there's more.

[calthaer]

EA's motto? It probably goes something like:

"A fool and his money are easily parted."

This news doesn't even register as a minor tremor; this is par for the course when it comes to EA's sinistrosity.

[Sothy]

"Iggy says if you wanna get home you gotta work the shaft Sam! Work the shaft!"

[bangtango]

So who edited the entry? Easy guess. Just some shithead with 2 years tenure who wasn't around while Trip Hawkins was there.

[Push Upstairs]

Not surprised, but I don't care enough to get worked up about it.

[TheDomesticInstitution]

... By the company that has been running a huge scam (successfully) for more than a decade- Madden. But if they're able to make money off of it, that's capitalism right?

edit: reread previous posts and meant to title reply- "Also not surprised..."

[The_4th_Survivor]

EA's motto? It probably goes something like:

"A fool and his money are easily parted."

No offense to any Madden NFL or any EA Sports Fans here, but that pretty much describes them, especially if they buy it on launch day.

Interesting Tidbit - I'm sure you all know this, but the value of Madden 07 has plummeted dramatically. My cousin traded in his PS3 copy and only got $5.00 credit for it. rofl

Serious sports games are so volatile. Hell, I have more of a chance of selling a copy of SMB/Duck Hunt for the NES at $5.00 a piece instead of 20 copies of any Madden game from 06 or earlier.

[bangtango]

No offense to any Madden NFL or any EA Sports Fans here, but that pretty much describes them, especially if they buy it on launch day.

Interesting Tidbit - I'm sure you all know this, but the value of Madden 07 has plummeted dramatically. My cousin traded in his PS3 copy and only got $5.00 credit for it. rofl

Serious sports games are so volatile. Hell, I have more of a chance of selling a copy of SMB/Duck Hunt for the NES at $5.00 a piece instead of 20 copies of any Madden game from 06 or earlier.

The fact the prices fall so quickly on sports games allows a late buyer like me to reap the benefits.

I have a big pile of sports games from the PS1, PS2, XBox and Cube which date from 99' to 06'. None of which I bought at launch. I got every last one of them for $10 or less, most of them were $5 or less.

I don't care what anyone says. Some of the mid-life PS2 and XBox sports titles still look pretty damn good when you take into consideration you can get just about any of those titles complete for $4 or less at Gamestop. Most of them are 99 cents and when you take into account their "Buy X, Get X Free" offers, well you get the idea. Rosters that are outdated by 3-4 years don't bother me. At least I'm still getting real teams and real players.

[ProgrammingAce]

So i guess i'm the only one here who goes in and edits the wikipedia to win arguments?

One of my favorites was when i changed the expiration date for Baily's liquor so i would feel better about drinking a 3 month old bottle (for the record, it is supposedly good for 6 months).

Or if i can't remember what an acronym stands for, i'll just go in and make it whatever i want.