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

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NiKKoM on 04 March 2015

Don't worry.. In time we won't speak about it anymore.. Just like Westwood and Command and Conquer

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ryuzaki57 on 04 March 2015

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Sim City is literally a part of my life, this is devastating!

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theprof00 on 04 March 2015

Great job on the last two games, EA.
"here's an idea, let's completely remove everything in the game that people like and replace it with casualized DLC nonsense"

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BillyBlaze on 04 March 2015

Augen said:
Shame, I really enjoyed Sim City 4 and The Sims 2.

Hopeful someone makes competing series as lately EAs handling of them has been terrible.

Check out "Cities Skylines" by Colossal Order! Release will be next week.

@Topic: Meh. I won't buy any EA products anyway. Just let them buy and ruin even more traditional studios. We can't do anything against it anyway.

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Their soul and spirit now live together with Westwood Studio, RIP

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tpjp on 04 March 2015

EA at it again...

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JEMC on 04 March 2015

Wow, that came out from nowhere!

I'll miss SimCity (even thought I haven't played Sim5).

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Wonktonodi on 04 March 2015

you should fix the title, it's not all of maxis.

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Protendo on 04 March 2015

The more time that passes, the more I fear these EA comics are based on reality. The part of Maxis that was shut down did (Spore/SimCity) The Sims segment is still around.

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