public video-game publisher

Electronic Arts

A public video-game publisher behind EA Sports, The Sims, Battlefield, Apex Legends, and other large game franchises and live-service products. Electronic Arts remains weak because of youth capture, identity capture, and documented human harm, even where the product or service has practical value.

Why this matters: EA is a low-score games anchor because useful game craft sits inside shareholder governance, live-service monetization, sports-license power, loot-box controversy, and youth capture.

Letter grade D Extractive Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1 Last reviewed May 7, 2026

Final Score 12* D - Extractive

DEXTRACTIVE12 pts

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material20

Bonus+2

Cap35Ownership <= 2 and Governance <= 2

After Cap22

Penalties-10

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Evaluation Overview

D - Extractive

The score turns mainly on Extraction, with the largest penalty coming from Youth Capture.

Strengths

Extraction3/10
Labor Sovereignty3/7
Product Integrity3/5

Penalties

Youth Capture-5
Identity Capture-3
Human Harm-1
Ideological Disavowal-1

Evidence state

ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
Linked claims8
Direct axis claims7
Coverage7/14

Scoring Axes

Axis	Score	Why this score
Ownership ? Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.	2 / 10	Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. [1] context EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games. [2] context EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [3]
Governance ? Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.	2 / 10	Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence context Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. [1] context EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games. [2] context EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [3]
Extraction ? Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.	3 / 10	Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence context Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. [1] context EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games. [2] context EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [3]
Labor Sovereignty ? Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.	3 / 7	Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. That places Electronic Arts in the middle of Labor Sovereignty: workers or participants have some protection or agency, but not enough binding power to control the relationship. The value stays below the top tier because the linked record does not show full democratic control, non-extractive lock-in, or complete stakeholder protection on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence context Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. [1] context EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games. [2] context EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [3]
Solidarity with the Unemployed ? Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.	2 / 7	Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence context Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. [1] context EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games. [2] context EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [3]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity ? Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.	2 / 7	Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence context Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. [1] context EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games. [2] context EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [3]
Market Conduct ? Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.	1 / 5	Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence context Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. [1] context EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games. [2] context EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [3]
Product Integrity ? Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.	3 / 5	EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games. EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games. That places Electronic Arts in the middle of Product Integrity: the product has real use value but is compromised by incentives, monetization, lock-in, quality degradation, or risk. The value stays below the top tier because the linked record does not show full democratic control, non-extractive lock-in, or complete stakeholder protection on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence context Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. [1] EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games. [2] context EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [3]
Scale Integrity ? Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.	2 / 5	Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence context Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. [1] context EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games. [2] context EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [3]

Penalties

Penalty	Applied	Why this penalty
Human Harm ? Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense, reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to 0.	-1	EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. That warrants a limited Human Harm penalty because ordinary operation, documented misconduct, or institutional power creates serious injury, deprivation, abuse, or foreseeable human damage. The value is limited because the linked record shows a real problem but not one that dominates the profile on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [5]
Youth Capture ? Manipulative youth-directed marketing, youth-data or attention monetization, collectible/add-on traps, parasocial or identity capture, surprise mechanics, or treating young people as lower-disclosure consumers. Making useful toys or welcoming children is not itself penalized. Range: -5 to 0.	-5	EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. That warrants a severe Youth Capture penalty because young people are treated as manipulable consumers, data sources, attention targets, or culture markets. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [6]
Identity Capture ? Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation. Range: -3 to 0.	-3	EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. That warrants a severe Identity Capture penalty because users, workers, customers, or publics are pressured into identity attachment that protects institutional power. The value is near the floor because the conduct appears central, large-scale, repeated, or institutionally powerful rather than incidental. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops. [7]
Ideological Disavowal ? Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.	-1	Electronic Arts's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Electronic Arts shows bounded neutrality theater: some contested choices are softened through… Electronic Arts's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Electronic Arts shows bounded neutrality theater: some contested choices are softened through expertise, public-interest, professional, market, safety, or institutional language, but the record does not show dominant concealment of standpoint. That warrants a limited Ideological Disavowal penalty because the institution presents situated, contested choices as neutrality, expertise, inevitability, safety, or common sense. The value is limited because the linked record shows a real problem but not one that dominates the profile on this axis. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Ideological Disavowal 0 to -3 recalibration: 0 for explicit standpoint or no penalty-level neutrality theater; -1 for bounded softening of contested choices; -2 for strong neutrality theater by a powerful institution; -3 for major gatekeeping or coercive power presented as neutral, necessary, objective, or non-ideological. Uncertainty This recalibration uses public self-presentation and profile evidence; later review should add direct language-analysis evidence for high-impact institutions. Linked evidence Electronic Arts's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Electronic Arts shows bounded neutrality theater: some contested choices are softened through expertise, public-interest, professional, market, safety, or institutional language, but the record does not show dominant concealment of standpoint. [8]

Bonus Credits

Bonus	Credit	Why this credit
Cost Transparency ? Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency, especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or individualized pricing are normal.	2 / 3	Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. Calibration notes Comparative anchor: Toy, video-game, tabletop, and game-retail expansion; compare against Nintendo, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Disney, GameStop, Hasbro, LEGO, Roblox, itch.io, Green Toys, PlanToys, and The Game Crafter. Uncertainty Focused category expansion based on public sources; a later pass should add more jurisdiction-specific labor, supply-chain, privacy, and product-safety evidence. Linked evidence Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company. [4]

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 70/100

8 verified linked claims 7 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 7/14 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 13/20

8 verified linked claims

Source quality 14/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

7 direct claims across 14 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 5/10

7/14 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending

VerificationUnverified

ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)

ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)

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Claims and Sources

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* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

1Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company.

Ownership Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 7, 2026

AI scaffold

Electronic Arts investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
EA gamesGeneral web source · 58%

2EA publishes major sports, action, simulation, and live-service games.

Product Integrity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 7, 2026

AI scaffold

Electronic Arts investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
EA gamesGeneral web source · 58%

3EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops.

Calculation Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 7, 2026

AI scaffold

Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets: loot boxes in games of chanceGeneral web source · 58%
EA annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%

4Electronic Arts is a shareholder-governed public company.

Cost Transparency Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 7, 2026

AI scaffold

Electronic Arts investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
EA gamesGeneral web source · 58%

5EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops.

Human Harm Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 7, 2026

AI scaffold

Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets: loot boxes in games of chanceGeneral web source · 58%
EA annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%

6EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops.

Youth Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 7, 2026

AI scaffold

Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets: loot boxes in games of chanceGeneral web source · 58%
EA annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%

7EA’s model has included live-service monetization, loot-box controversy, licensed sports market power, and youth-oriented spending loops.

Identity Capture Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 7, 2026

AI scaffold

Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets: loot boxes in games of chanceGeneral web source · 58%
EA annual reportsPrimary institutional record · 90%

8Electronic Arts's public framing is assessed as ideological-disavowal evidence because Electronic Arts shows bounded neutrality theater: some contested choices are softened through expertise, public-interest, professional, market, safety, or institutional language, but the record does not show dominant concealment of standpoint.

Ideological Disavowal Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending May 9, 2026

AI scaffold

Electronic Arts official siteGeneral web source · 58%
Electronic Arts investor relationsOfficial self-description · 68%
EA gamesGeneral web source · 58%

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