Gaming company Electronic Arts (nee EA) is unhappy right now. The launch of the much-anticipated SimCity got botched, after server demand overloaded EA's systems, making the game completely unplayable. The company's stock has been slowly plummeting for a while now, and gamers are using that as evidence that EA is employing penny-pinching tactics like digital rights management (software add-ons that prevent sharing and copying) to squeeze more money from customers. (EA's CEO was canned recently, presumably because of the company's lousy finances.)

Now, for the second year in a row, The Consumerist has named EA the worst company in America, based on the results of an online poll. It's the only company in the history of the competition to receive that dubious honor. The Consumerist cited a few facts: EA makes expensive games that are occasionally broken (like SimCity), then doesn't support the games with updates once they've been bought (or they charge for those updates). Pretty bad, right?

Says The Consumerist:

Still doesn't make EA the worst company in America. All it does it tell us is 1.) gamers reaaaaaaaaally care about gaming and 2.) gamers spend too much time on the internet. If you wanted to draw a Venn diagram, there'd be plenty of overlap between people who read The Consumerist and people who hate EA: Young, tech-savvy gamers whose hobby is being "threatened" by a gaming corporation.