I'd just like to mention that I like EA since I get their games for free

If you look at it objectively this is of course an alarming development. EA is gaining way too much power and influnce in the gaming industry.

One of the major German gaming magazines (PC Games) seems to have abandoned all impartiality when it comes to EA games. They gave BFME a score of 93% which seems to be slightly over the top (even if the game really is quite good). Other EA games also tend to get unusually high scores...