EA shuts down Maxis Emeryville(Spore/SimCity). Other branches staying open (.... for now)

[theRepublic]

TheJimbo1234 said:

irstupid said:

I have a feeling that its the Big Wigs who told them to do that.  I highly doubt the developers of a game sit around and think "man we shoudl do this"

They want to make a great fun game that they can be proud of.  It's the exec's who force them to add things becuase they believe it will make profit.  Whether that will be some F2P shit or some social media aspects or if they cut the timeline of development in half, ect.  That isn't the developers, it would be EA top brass.

Well at some point they signed off having maps that small. AT some point they said "100% online sounds fine", "bugged and not working? Lets release it!" etc. The vast number of mistakes means that a hige number of people involved didn't know what they were doing.

Also if the Devs know better, they should fight their corner and explain why they know best, otherwise things like this happen.

This doesn't make any sense.  The developers don't have to agree.  They just have to do it.  Otherwise they will just be fired, and EA management will find someone else to implement the design they want.