Interview with Lucy Bradshaw

Nothing particularly new here, but further insight into our favorite game studio, even if some of us feel a bit estranged by some of the choices they are making with their next game. (Not me per se, but many fellow Simtropolians)

"...we value fun failure as much as successful advancement." -- fun failure, I knew it! -- the pre-/elementary school terminology she uses clearly indicates the target ages for the new game. That's why the dollhouse look and all the other BS.

The persecution rests.

SimCity 4, a game that is over 10 years old, continues to sell quite well as a classic title. That is quite a healthy shelf life in the video game industry. And even today, modders in communities like Simtropolis continue to add mods to SimCity 4 – we helped them along with some tools over the years – which other players download and play with.

Really ? I think most modders nowadays using tools that not created by them, though LE, SC4PIM, and BAT are useful, but how about other tools ? Maxis does contributing for the modder, but they who already make this game survive for over ten years are us ! Their contribution is quite small (but honestly, quite useful if you can't operate ilive reader, SC4Tool, PIM-X, etc.) if compared with the users.

In a recent study of video game brand awareness, SimCity had over 80 per cent awareness in both the United States and Europe

Many aware of this game and not happy when they know about the game.

Stop with these BS, we have enough.

"we value fun failure"... but as customers... we don't value that. I think this is just lingo forshadowing that this game isn't up to par with what they were wanting. It literally will be fun failure because it's too unrealistic and will make you loose all the hardcore fans who could have taken this game to new levels... instead you'll get the bored people who buy every game and will love the MMO feature for a month or so before moving on.

I really am livid reading everything about this game because they truthfully abandoned everything that made Sim City a game people loved to play, and now have turned it into a larger Sim City Societies that no one cared for in the first place. A lot of people are making up excuses as to why features aren't there, but we all know it's because it has to be 100% online and that the glassbox isn't up to the standards to be able to handle a realistically sized city... so it's now a cartoon, small size city, missing core features, and they deflect us with saying things like OMG A CASINO!!! As if that's what we were looking for as a main feature in a new Sim City.

It's just sad that EA/Maxis is a huge company with many resources... yet a game like Cities in Motion 2 looks to be a better city simulator and it's not even about city building, but just transportation. I'm just sad that everyone at Maxis thought this was the way to go, when most fans want the opposite.

Poor Maxis, all they needed to do was make a better version of SC4 and I guarantee almost everyone here would have brought it. Instead they were forced to fix what wasn't broke by EA's retarded marketing philosophy - 'everything must be online'.

I wonder if there will ever be another really good city simulator, SC4 will probably be the last while I'm still young.

they really should just be quiet and stick to releasing screenshots.

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SimCity 4, a game that is over 10 years old, continues to sell quite well as a classic title. That is quite a healthy shelf life in the video game industry. And even today, modders in communities like Simtropolis continue to add mods to SimCity 4 – we helped them along with some tools over the years – which other players download and play with.

Really ? I think most modders nowadays using tools that not created by them, though LE, SC4PIM, and BAT are useful, but how about other tools ? Maxis does contributing for the modder, but they who already make this game survive for over ten years are us ! Their contribution is quite small (but honestly, quite useful if you can't operate ilive reader, SC4Tool, PIM-X, etc.) if compared with the users.

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In a recent study of video game brand awareness, SimCity had over 80 per cent awareness in both the United States and Europe

Many aware of this game and not happy when they know about the game.

Stop with these BS, we have enough.

Of course they are going to take most of the credit for keeping SC4 alive for 10yrs+ they have got marketing to do and money to make off people who will buy Simcity 2013 lol.

Well I'm truly thankfall to the community here at simtropolis the ones who have really spent all their time making SC4 what it is today (with a small helping from maxis they did release the first sets of tools afterall!).

Its telling how people apprechiate the community and the effort gone into takeing SC4 beyond its intitial shell, when the new NAM post has more possitive comments and thumbs up than the marketing for the new game lol.

Its telling how people apprechiate the community and the effort gone into takeing SC4 beyond its intitial shell, when the new NAM post has more possitive comments and thumbs up than the marketing for the new game lol.

Because NAM and other user-made mods, BATs, LOTs, and tools deserve more attention, because SC5 is proven to become a disappointing game. Mods, especially the next NAM, will has two new guns called flexible FLUPs and Draggable FAR that can make this SC4 become about to be same with SC5, with the only thing that will be needed soon afterward is BATs that can easily fit very well with the FAR.(I bet if some will soon enough starting to make 30 degree or 60 degree BATs that will fit better with the FAR angle)