There are a lot of games that EA makes today that I wouldn't touch. When you look at some of the games of the pre-online console era (predating to when they made predominately computer games), while they still had their, shall we say, far less than ethical practices, they still had some of their good games, and there are some company titles that they have more or less kept entirely intact.
An example for me would be the SimCity, and The Sim games. While I haven't tried anything in The Sims line after the first set, they have kept the Maxis name as a reasonably good brand. At least up until they started releasing The Sims 3. But, while I have my own wishes of changes for SimCity 4, they aren't nearly as important to me as they might be. Still, with some of their other titles, I still shy away from very quickly. I do have favorite brands, and EA is near or at the bottom of the list now, even though it wasn't always like that. Heck, the very first Maxis game I played ( and Maxis makes the SimCity games, and technically The Sim lines as well, and is a division of EA now) was SimTower, and for what it was, it was quite good. In today's terms, it's a relatively low budget game, but there is some educational value to it, like there is to the SimCity lines as well.
Again, I tend to shy away from EA games now, but it wasn't always like that.
