EA Shuts Down SimCity Developer Maxis

Geez, I think someone, somewhere got it all backward.

They should've shutdown EA itself, not Maxis.

 

EA The evil giant should die!

 

Actually I posted a rant about this in another thread comment months ago but it was censored. I wonder why? I wasn't getting personal, I wasn't flaming any fellow forum members. I was rightfully putting an evil corporation in its place and wishing it would die once and for all.

 

oh well. Sad day.

I never bought Simcity 2013. I did buy the revamped Mac Version of SC4 and am quite happy with its performance :-)

The End of an era.

Geez, I think someone, somewhere got it all backward.

They should've shutdown EA itself, not Maxis.

 

EA The evil giant should die!

 

Actually I posted a rant about this in another thread comment months ago but it was censored. I wonder why? I wasn't getting personal, I wasn't flaming any fellow forum members. I was rightfully putting an evil corporation in its place and wishing it would die once and for all.

 

oh well. Sad day.

I never bought Simcity 2013. I did buy the revamped Mac Version of SC4 and am quite happy with its performance :-)

EA is profitable, Maxis overall was lucky to have profit.

Ubisoft, Activison, WB are all now worse than EA in how they treat developers, gamers, and their development partners.

(I'm not defending EA's practices).

 

Maxis closing was part of the shareholder and investor led restructuring of EA.

Maxis has been "dead" for some time now- what has existed until now was its zombified shell. This is the funeral.

SimCity is why I started playing games in the 90's. Sad to see what happened to Maxis in the end.

 

I love what im seeing on Twitch with the Cities Skylines streams. I'm hoping it will deliver.

Have a bad feeling EA will buy out Paradox Interactive in the end 

What a sad day. A great legacy, now gone... I had every "sim" game there was for my windows 98 computer. Now it is just SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition I play from what used to be Maxis. EA is good at killing any game though (example: Command and Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight)

Great timing, EA. Great timing. 

 

Well, I guess my dreams of an upgraded SimTower are dead now - if anyone remembers that game. 

I guess you've never heard of Yoot tower the sequel of SimTower, the only thing Maxis did in SimTower was translate it 

Good bye Maxis.

And welcome Cities Skyline!!! So far its looks awesome.

bye bye simcity 2013

Xenocity you are absolutely right!

Profit = reason for existance in any business

But as with al art forms at a certain point it belongs to the people, they are the reason it once was a succes in the first place.

Reason most people hate EA however is that they $%&^! al over IP once it has been acquired it (due to terms and condition of the acquisition) and when they dont $%&^! all over it, they shelf it, allowing non to make promising sequals.

In comparison, even if SC3K was highest in sales and SC2013 is the runner up, SC2013 was released in the social media hype train age and they targeted a much wider audiance. (reason for smaller maps) It might have been a more profitable succes than SC4 but in term of game sequal succes it was utterly horrible.

It has been becomming a trend to release buggy and unfinished games for EA where players will buy it anyway becuse of the IP. And that is the real reason EA is the big bad guy here, even if the other big publishers tend to be worse at certain aspects, the perception remains thus, EA games suck becuase of the decrease in quality compared to prequals. But that might be the rose colored nostalgia glasses speaking in some cases. As long as the idea is out there that EA is horrible, the perception won't change.

Simple sollution for this really ...

Dont buy EA games, no disappointment.

Now, let us think about all this.

 

  Great art survives the demise of its creator.  I think it is pretty well established that SimCity 4 and its predecessors fall into the category of great art.  As long as we can get these programs to run on any platform, why do we care where the grave of the authors lies?

 

Many of us are trapped (or think we are) on the windoze platform.  Ladies and Gentlemen, let me point out that this is not so.  Pick your Linux distribution and go for it.  You can always dual boot your windoze if you must.  I abandoned windoze at the time Vista was released.

That's a shame,but it was bound to happen.

SimCity is why I started playing games in the 90's. Sad to see what happened to Maxis in the end.

 

I love what im seeing on Twitch with the Cities Skylines streams. I'm hoping it will deliver.

Have a bad feeling EA will buy out Paradox Interactive in the end 

They can try but i doubt if EA would buy Paradox. The games that Pardox develop the turn base games are not really EA scene and wouldnt fit into the company. Though EA would love to get there hands on Gamersgate which Paradox owns. I very much doubt Paradox would ever allow EA to buy them out.

^ it is not wise to try to predict corporate behaviour.  So much depends on partially hidden things like interlocking directorates and market conditions that I've learned to never say never.

Maxis is victim of the EA's lack of consideration for their consumers. It is easy to sell poor quality games such as NFS or BF when people accept to buy it, it is harder when people have higher excpectations like it was the case for the Sims or SimCity...

 

I used to love EA games when I was younger. But now, they just became the cancer of video games industry with Activision and Ubisoft.

Please Please not let EA buy Paradox, shouldn't even think such a thing. Paradox is an amazing company EA will destroy them if that happened. Nightmares the nightmares :-).

Did anyone ever mention that talking about a bad outcome might be a cause for it?

I hope that the employees get transferred to other areas of EA?

At what cost to Lucy Bradshaw's career? She climbs the ladder on the blood of Maxis

Hey Simtropolis! You should edit your main page website <title> probably... in a few days this place will be another game community mainly