What happened to Maxis?

[aimeeandbeatles]

They used to be a great game developer (think of the SimGames). Very innovative with some stuff. Now all they churn out is Sims expansions and not-so-good games. (Although SimCity 4 was pretty good.)

 

[Maniacal]

Electronic Arts

 

[azzaman333]

Two letters.

EA.

 

[philippe]

Electronic Arts

Two letters.

EA.

what they said.


but there is good news:

EA stock feels burn, Universal stokes Inferno
By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot Posted Nov 3, 2008 7:02 pm PT Wall Street Journal muses a Disney takeover of share-price-challenged publisher as Variety reports movie studio has landed rights for unannounced game set in depths of hell.

Last week, Electronic Arts made headlines for posting a $310 million quarterly loss and laying off 6 percent of its workforce. As a result, its stock took a drubbing on Wall Street, dropping over $3 per share in after-hours trading to end the week at $22.78, just above its one-year low of $21.91. As a result, the publisher, which recently was poised to acquire rival Take-Two Interactive, has become the subject of takeover talk itself.

burn EA burn.

 

[Maniacal]

I'm glad they can't ruin Take-Two now.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr...logy/news/e3i418dddc577c320a4485d767bd82d8b92
Apparently game sales are going up.

 

[Sly-God Loki]

To be fair The Sims is a pretty good game even if they have over milked it.

 

[J-man]

I hope EA lets Maxis develop a new simcity. Burn societies burn! I want to zone.

 

[Izipo]

SimCity 5 with curved roads FTW !

 

[Maniacal]

SimCity 1700!

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[JtheJackal]

Yeah since EA they've made not so good games like Sim City 4, The Sims, The Sims 2, and Spore, oh wait they are good.

To be fair they have made some not so good games like SimGolf and I guess some uninspired Sims expansions. (Sim City Societies was not made by Maxis) But they made not so good games before EA too, or attached the Sim name to another developers game.

 

[J-man]

Yeah since EA they've made not so good games like Sim City 4, The Sims, The Sims 2, and Spore, oh wait.

To be fair they have made some not so good games like SimGolf and I guess some uninspired Sims expansions. (Sim City Societies was not made by Maxis) But they made not so good games before EA too, or attached the Sim name to another developers game.

Simcity 4 wasn't bad, after the Rush hour expansion it was (is) pretty good imo.

 

[Maniacal]

Spore was a dissapointment.

 

[JtheJackal]

Simcity 4 wasn't bad, after the Rush hour expansion it was (is) pretty good imo.

I was trying to be sarcastic, but it didn't come across very well.

 

[Maniacal]

I was trying to be sarcastic, but it didn't come across very well.

Well, I understood the sarcasm. But sarcasm detection can be iffy no matter what.

 

[J-man]

I was trying to be sarcastic, but it didn't come across very well.

Sarcasm detection on internet forums is notoriously iffy. Besides, spore is a bad game imo.

 

[carmen510]

Simcity 4 was pretty good, I even partly enjoyed Societies for maybe 5 hours.

SimGolf was okay for me, and I haven't played Spore, nor ever had any interest in it actually.

 

[JtheJackal]

Whatever games you do or do not like, the point was that Maxis isn't really that different than it was before EA bought it except now they have multiple insanely successful game series

 

[Lord_Iggy]

EA is deep into the process of digesting Maxis.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I liked the SimGames.

SimCity is real good, and I'm surprised they haven't milked it that much. Actually, the original, they put the source code out. If I'm right, it's Micropolis.

I have original boxes for SimCity 2000 Deluxe Edition, SimEarth (DOS version), and SimIsle. I also got the manual for SimCopter. A lot of my SimGames I've also got the jewel cases, and I'm planning to buy legal copies of the older ones I've downloaded (such as SimFarm and SimAnt.)