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‘SimCity’ kind of worked itself into a corner,” Wright said. “We were still appealing to this core ‘SimCity’ group. It had gotten a little complicated for people who had never played ‘SimCity.’ We want to take it back to its roots where somebody who had never heard of ‘SimCity’ can pick it up and enjoy playing it without thinking it was really, really hard.quote> Quite honestly, this quote makes it sound like SimCity will be "dumbed down" in order to be more appealing to The Sims players and basically anyone unfamiliar with SimCity. Personally, I have never found SimCity to be all that difficult, and would love to have an even more in-depth, realistic game.

I was wondering if anyone here has received a copy of the magazine Games for Windows? According to some sources, the magazine should be arriving today. If someone could scan and post some new screenshots, that would be great.

This whole thing wouldn't bother me so much if they simply wouldn't use the SimCity name for this new title. They really should call it "Sim Societies" or something like that - leave room for Maxis or another software company to come in later and create a real SimCity 5.