EA Closes SimCity Dev

[Misanthrope]

so far, cities skylines looks way better than sim city. I am eager to purchase this game and replace sim city with it. however like all games, i will wait till a through review of the game has been released and i feel its worth its price tag. 

 

 

It does look nice, it better be now that likely EA will destroy Simcity even more

[Yoinkerman]

This looks pretty much wrong across the board

 

Sure Visceral is a skeleton crew but they are still around

Dice? isn't closed

Bioware is still in full force

Bullfrog is just now EA UK (besides their head staff left to go make his own company)

I was going to write that Blackbox couldn't maintain the quality in the NFS games, but holy shit they made NHL hitz, the best hockey game RIP

Rip Maxis

 

Besides Origin is a good service, that way i can lend my friends my EA games without giving out my steam, same reason i like uplay now

 

Wait, are you really arguing bioware and bullfrog are the same as they used to be?  Are you drunk and on drugs?  They're not.  They're really not.

 

You also like Origin *and* Uplay *and* steam.

 

Perchance are you 15?(serious question, nothing bad implied)  Because I was around for Biowares hayday, as well as bullfrogs.  And Westwood, and Origin.  EA buys companies, whores them for their IP, and either shuts them down or makes them make the newest <movie title> game, then shuts the studio down when it flops.

[JAKEBAB]

Well this sucks! I love simcity, even 2013, I know there were things wrong with it but overall it looked great and was fun to play imo. Good thing they are still developing Simcity and The Sims just as other studio's. I really don't like the look of City's Skylines, i think the textures kinda look non existent in zoomed out mode and people gave Simcity 2013 shit for being simplified yet this is even worse. People are so messed up sometimes like they hate on a company because they expected more from them due to previous projects yet a new comer comes in and does worse in terms of game play but didn't screw up at launch and gets praised? wtf!

[cloclo8003]

It looks like EA thinks gamers like being treated like crap

[Trik'Stari]

Just EA being EA

 

 

In their twisted heads, they probably blame them for the controversy of having to pay for pools.

[Bensemus]

so far, cities skylines looks way better than sim city. I am eager to purchase this game and replace sim city with it. however like all games, i will wait till a through review of the game has been released and i feel its worth its price tag. 

 

First I've heard of this game but it looks interesting. One thing I'm confused about is no support for Intel HD graphics. What would be the reason for this?

[Misanthrope]

Wait, are you really arguing bioware and bullfrog are the same as they used to be?  Are you drunk and on drugs?  They're not.  They're really not.

 

QFT

[samcool55]

I'm not sure how i should feel about this.

I liked sims 3 actually and still play it now and then, never played sims 2 exept on the ps2 but the long loading times ruins it for me. But i do still play it now and then, multilplayer sims FTW.

Sims 4 and simcity 2013 are both a disaster. Which is probably EA's fault. So on one side i'm happy that EA needs to shut down a studio because it's their fault the games they produced were crap. But on the other side, it's maxis... And maxis was a very good company and did some nice things in the past and it's like sims is dead for good now...

Anyway, i think this is a sign more and more people stopped pre-ordering crap and are really trying to make a point with their money by not giving it.

[JAKEBAB]

 And maxis was a very good company and did some nice things in the past and it's like sims is dead for good now...

 

No this wont effect development of The Sims or Simcity (much) Op didn't include much but a handful of people will being going to other studios within EA to further develop both games also some other studios already had people working on those games.

[samcool55]

No this wont effect development of The Sims or Simcity (much) Op didn't include much but a handful of people will being going to other studios within EA to further develop both games also some other studios already had people working on those games.

Well i know that, but maxis is like the father of the sims, or the mother, whatever, it's like the original version that only they can make. It's like burnout, no other company will be able to make it as good as criterion games could make it.

So you are right it will still be developed, but i'm quite sure the authentic feeling from the sims 2 and 3 is gone because i really don't belive another studio, team or whatever will be able to make a new sims like the old ones.

[Albatross]

So wait...doesn't this mean no more Sim(city) games? I'm actually a little sad if that ends up being the case.

[Sharkyx1]

Wait, are you really arguing bioware and bullfrog are the same as they used to be? Are you drunk and on drugs? They're not. They're really not.

You also like Origin *and* Uplay *and* steam.

Perchance are you 15?(serious question, nothing bad implied) Because I was around for Biowares hayday, as well as bullfrogs. And Westwood, and Origin. EA buys companies, whores them for their IP, and either shuts them down or makes them make the newest <movie title> game, then shuts the studio down when it flops.

I'm 21, I don't miss punching in serial keys every time I want to install a game

But I prefer to have my games split up because that means that if one service fails I don't lose everything, and I can lend out games without my whole steam account, and origin is far better than steam, as far as customer service, looks and the program in general. Uplay is very unreliable though

RPGs aren't my thing, so I've never been a fan of bioware

[Sharkyx1]

So wait...doesn't this mean no more Sim(city) games? I'm actually a little sad if that ends up being the case.

I think everyone should know they "closed" Maxis in 2004 when all they did was rename it to the sims studios, for the launch of SimCity they reinstated the Maxis name

And everyone likes to get on the EA hate train, but Maxis didn't have the budget to do everything they wanted before the buyout

Like Maxis chair canned The Sims, and it only got finished when an EA guy saw it after the buy

So without the buyout we could have never gotten the sims,hell they probably would have closed.

[Monkey Dust]

EA are the grim reaper of the gaming world. They have bought and killed so many studios, so many franchises they are possibly the worst thing to ever happen to gaming. In case you hadn't realised, I'm not a fan. Yes some of those studio may have folded if EA hadn't bought them, but they are as good as gone now anyway.