Something of a historical monument for gamers is close to being history itself. The EA sign outside their Vancouver facilities developed a slight lean about a year ago, and has worsened in the past few months, to a point that officials with the company feared they may have to remove it.
“We don’t have the money for stuff like this in the budget, so our hands were really tied,” said a company official. “But that’s when our fan… I mean fans came to the rescue.”
For more than 45 days, a man known only as “John” has been holding up the Electronic Arts marker. John, who describes himself as simply one of millions of hardcore Electronic Arts fans, said he read about the situation on EA’s website and knew he had to help.
“This company has given me so much, and asked for so little in return,” said John. “I just knew I had to join with all of the other fans to help keep this sign standing. It will never fall! Not on my watch.”
According to John, there are hundreds of other fans on their way to lend a hand, or rather a shoulder, to the effort.
“I think they must have got lost somewhere along the way,” said John. “I’m sure that any minute a horde of rabid EA devotees is going to come around that corner and show their love for the company… any minute… that corner right there…. any minute now… any minute.”
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10 responses so far ↓
1 Legendary Hooligan // Jun 20, 2008 at 2:36 pm
i sense a video game death coming out of this. DONT STARVE, JOHN!!! YOU CAN MAKE IT! (yes, i know it’s friday)
2 capncrunch86 // Jun 20, 2008 at 2:42 pm
whatever would we do without that EA sign?
John, you are a saint.
3 DWK // Jun 20, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Sorry John, I’ve been having to drive instead of flying so I could pay for all of those EA Sports games, I’m such a fan of old games with new players and gimmicky features.
4 Gareth // Jun 20, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Hmmm, help john or play beautiful Katamari, both such great choices.
5 Meresin // Jun 20, 2008 at 6:29 pm
It’s a pity that it isn’t the whole of EA about to topple.
6 Luke // Jun 21, 2008 at 11:52 pm
I agree the cheap bastards probably will charge John for loitering
7 ProjektWikked // Jun 22, 2008 at 5:55 pm
When I read all the comments on this article I flipped out laughing.
8 Peguinfury // Jun 22, 2008 at 10:15 pm
John, try using bailing wire or duckt tape instead of your sholder.
9 Jake // Jun 23, 2008 at 4:53 am
HAHA!
they don’t have enough money to fix the sign?
Are they really that tight with their money?
Man that is sad!
10 Bacon // Jun 23, 2008 at 9:47 am
Maybe EA could use all the copies of games that never sold to prop the sign up…
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