Electronic Arts and the A-Train Game series

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It has been surfaced that EA Games was actually working on a English Translation for the A-Train 7 Game but it was killed off

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Graphics and simple playability have been the target the past years. Magnificent strategy games like Railroad Tycoon turned into Railroads, with not even half the depth and longivity. At the same time Electronic Arts killed off A-Train 7 from being translated and published in English with the verdict that micro-management games weren't popular enough.

What is enough? Sim City Societies proves it, we are apparently not enough micro-management fans. Is that really true?

Through time Sim City has been a micro management game loved by the millions, but now its being simplified due to the success of The Sims and desire to aim at a different consumer group. The niche fans are being cut off. Look at the many Sim City forums and sites out there, and tell me there isn't enough space for micro management games?

There is! Its not about what people want, EA is monopolizing the game sector and killing off micro-management in favour of targeting the masses.

Mastodon titles Populous, Elite, Civilization, A-Train, Sim City, Railroad Tycoon and Master of Orion all set their standards within their genres as micro-manageable games and we can go even further back to remind you how big a genre micro management has been and how they have evolved into huge brands these days.

Look at the God-game genre, how it exploded with Populous, the space-strategy genre with Maser of Orion, business simulation with Railroad Tycoon 1 and 2 and city management with Sim City. At the time they were simple because of computer limitations, and those limitations have been moved tremendously. So should the games!

They should evolve and not devolve. Not please the masses but  challenge the current limitations of computer games just as games did 20 years ago, when genres were created and computer gaming redefined.

Sim City Societies is likely to be a very nice game, and a huge commercial success, but it is not Sim City 5, it is not the game we want. We want Sim City, micro-management, and we will be heard!

We love micro-management! 

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This Petition started off with only 9 signigtures

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/we-love-micro-management-ea/

If EA listens,Artdink's A-Train 9 can be included for translation as well