#4087721 - 03/04/15 09:44 PM
EA Does It Again....
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EA Shuts Down SimCity Developer Maxis EA has shut down Maxis Emeryville, the main Maxis studio and longrunning developer behind SimCity and Spore, among other games. Though the Maxis brand will carry on, the studio that most people knew as "Maxis" is no more. 
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#4087723 - 03/04/15 09:48 PM
Re: EA Does It Again....
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Not surprising. Join the mega-corporation, expect to be sacked as needed.
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#4087726 - 03/04/15 09:58 PM
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I wonder how many of the bad decisions that led to the poor reception for their recent games like Spore and Simcity were made by EA versus the Maxxis studio? I'd bet it was EA and now they use the bad games to close the studio.
My kids love Spore but that game had so much more promise than what they delivered.
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#4087735 - 03/04/15 10:17 PM
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Many hours I played SimCity 2000 (still have it in DOSBox), SimTower, and SimGolf.
But the days of those type games have been past for more than a decade now.
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#4087976 - 03/05/15 01:43 PM
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The stupid part is the neverending cycle.
People found developer, make games, either get big franchise license thru publisher deal or come up with their own that gets signed over to publisher in deal, eventually get bought out, make a few more games, then become Just Another Cog in publisher, all get laid off, people found new developer with most of the same people, make all new games with different IP...
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#4088649 - 03/06/15 05:29 PM
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This is a somewhat humorous take on EA: EA in a nutshell
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” -Milton Friedman
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#4088654 - 03/06/15 05:36 PM
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Capitalism is a b*tch  If they didn't have everyone fawning over their products, they'd make different products.
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#4088714 - 03/06/15 07:52 PM
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It was called "The Furor Over SimCity's Always On Connection".
BIG hit. Everyone was talking about it.
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