In fact, the reporter for the state-wide paper that first broke the story about the crushing of the hard drives, you know, was condemned as, for Jason Blair-type tactics.
Worse still, if a large U.S. money center bank becomes too big to fail, can the regulators stab bondholders with the same type of cram down tactics experienced by Anglo Irish subordinated debt holders?
Fans constantly fault the company for unfriendly practices including intrusive DRM (the cause of the SimCity debacle) and questionable tactics with regards to micro transactions and DLC, which are sometimes felt as a type of gouging.