Disaster Strikes: SimCity Developer Maxis is no more

#5024712

Texter

2015-03-06 12:25

The worst company on the planet strikes again...

#5024717

The Goose

2015-03-06 12:37

Does this mean No dlc or updates for Sims 4.

#5024718

pbvider

2015-03-06 12:40

Ea has manage to ruin another studio.

#5024743

Bradders684

2015-03-06 13:24

It's only the only the original Maxis studio in Emeryville that was closed, there are other Maxis studios that will continue the Sims franchise. It's still **** though, it's EA's fault that the latest Sims had such bad launch problems, not Maxis's.

#5024746

Fender178

2015-03-06 13:32

Man this sucks. Maxis created some classic games and it is hard to see them go. EA really screwed up Maxis. I remember watching a rant video about the buggyness of the Sims 3. Also it is EA's fault that the recent SimCity sucks and failed horribly.

#5024752

dsbig

2015-03-06 13:40

this is why I want to destroy everything on this planet and restart over.

#5024759

DoingNumber2

2015-03-06 13:51

this is why I want to destroy everything on this planet and restart over.

Try a reboot and you should be fine

#5024763

Labyrinth

2015-03-06 13:54

Had many good times on Simcity 2000, shame that never got ported to mobile. Then again EA would screw it up somehow

#5024804

schmidtbag

2015-03-06 15:09

You people really gotta start talking with your money. Over and over people know EA is the problem, yet they'll still buy EA games because there's always at least 1 per year that's decent. But we need more than just "decent", and EA is probably the worst offender of game quality and customer service. I think the last EA game I bought was Mirror's Edge, for $5.

#5024807

Octopuss

2015-03-06 15:11

Is EA completely incompetent, or is it just that they simply are such huge *******s they shut everything that doesn't give them huge profits down relentlessly?

#5024810

scatman839

2015-03-06 15:14

I posted elsewhere.

EA shuts down Spore and SimCity developer Maxis Emeryville http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-03-04-ea-shuts-down-simcity-developer-maxis Maxis Redwood Shores is still around though, the other studio who does the Sims.

So the sims is still going, and a small amount of staff has been moved somewhere else to keep simcity going.

#5024811

IcE

2015-03-06 15:16

Hilarious. "Hey guys, we're closing you down because your last game didn't do so well", completely ignoring the fact that it was rushed out the door by EA themselves, with a retarded DRM system that was their idea. But sure, Maxis is losing us money guys, we need to close it!

#5024813

Fender178

2015-03-06 15:19

Hilarious. "Hey guys, we're closing you down because your last game didn't do so well", completely ignoring the fact that it was rushed out the door by EA themselves, with a retarded DRM system that was their idea. But sure, Maxis is losing us money guys, we need to close it!

Very well said. This describes how stupid the people at EA really are.

#5024821

Prince Valiant

2015-03-06 15:35

Another notch on the studio and series killing belt. How many are they up to now?

#5024823

DribbelDog

2015-03-06 15:37

Had many good times on Simcity 2000, shame that never got ported to mobile. Then again EA would screw it up somehow

Actually, it got ported to Pocket PC / Windows Mobile (by a company named ZIO Interactive); probably the version I played most 🙂. I admit, it's somewhat hard to find sources, but here's an old review 🙂. Takes me back... :') (there was also a GBA version, which you could consider mobile)

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