EA therefore celebrated National Hot Dog Day with a tweet showing Mio and Zoe holding some very questionable-looking hot dogs, and well, the internet had SOME THOUGHTS. The tweet was probably meant to be harmless and light-hearted, but instead, it became an immediate battleground of sarcasm, demands, and outright roasts from gamers who apparently have some issues with the company.
First of all, the hot dogs themselves looked… well, let’s be honest, they appeared to have been lifted right out of some cheap indie game texture pack. No toppings, just sad, plain sausages in buns that somehow felt undercooked and stale at the same time. And the gamers? They definitely noticed.
@TheGamingCynics delivered one brutal truth to EA Sports: “No toppings? That’s pretty bland and unpalatable. Kind of like Madden every year.” Ouch. @Jorge_Hyrule took it further: “All the toppings and ingredients are DLC’s because your main game is bad and half-baked.” Damn.
And then there was so much more than the hot dogs. Oh, no. Answers turned into demands, memes, and chaos. Some begging for updates for long-delayed titles, @Bleepyb00p pleaded: “There are still HUGE communities who want this game EA please give someone the licensing to make it, or get a team together to make the game using American McGee’s design Bible!!” (Of course, they’re referring to the long between-stations of Alice: Asylum that EA has been sitting on ever since).
While others like @ZinoSpool just yelled into the ordeal: “WHERE IS NEED FOR SPEED??? RAAAAAAAH.” Relatable.
Then the international guys schooled EA in what REAL hot dogs should look like. @SpinelliRonaldo posted a shot of a fully loaded Brazilian dogão (which, for the record, looks like it could feed a family of four), while @navarro_1908 said, “Never will be cachorro quente,” dripping with disappointment.
And then there are the hopefuls for Battlefront III. @Kaiser249150347 casually tiptoed in the rumor landscape, Verge-style, and then dropped a mic. Classic.
What is even worse? Is that so many used this hot dog tweet as a springboard to air their grievances about EA’s entire business model. “@FragstarGames said, jokingly, ‘Left one is FC 25 and the right one is FC 26. Both exactly the same,'” alluding to the yearly FIFA (now FC) releases that somehow never change.
So what does one take from that event? EA tried to pull a fun little tweet, and instead, the whole fanbase went ahead with a roasting they have been holding against for a reasonable amount of time. Maybe next time they should just… stick to game announcements. Or at least put some ketchup on those hot dogs.
In the end, only Mio and Zoe walked away winners, and somehow they just couldn’t be bothered. Good thing for them.
