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Title: Sim City Developer Maxis Emeryville is Being Shut Down by EA
Post by: Steel Diver on March 05, 2015, 06:40:50 AM

Well at least it wasn't ended by a meteor strike.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/39802/sim-city-developer-maxis-emeryville-is-being-shut-down-by-ea

Maxis Emeryville, the developer behind the Sim City franchise, is no more after being shut down by its parent company Electronic Arts yesterday.

In an official statement, an EA representative says that employees at Maxis will be given other opportunities for work in other EA studios. For those leaving however they are "working to ensure the best possible transition with separation packages and career assistance."

Sim City will still be made, just in another studio after the "consolidations."Layoffs also may be happening at Redwood Studios, the dev behind The Sims, though there has not yet been an official statement.

Title: Re: Sim City Developer Maxis Emeryville is Being Shut Down by EA
Post by: broodwars on March 05, 2015, 03:28:28 PM
Given all the outage and vitriol over that last SimCity game a few years back, I'm honestly surprised it took EA this long to close them. EA's closed studios sooner for less than that.
Title: Re: Sim City Developer Maxis Emeryville is Being Shut Down by EA
Post by: Wah on March 05, 2015, 09:53:15 PM
No more (cough) good simcity games?
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

seriously tho,
What other good city creator games are there?
Title: Re: Sim City Developer Maxis Emeryville is Being Shut Down by EA
Post by: Shaymin on March 05, 2015, 10:23:24 PM
It's a shame that EA basically handed Maxis a gun and they shot themselves in the head smiling.
Title: Re: Sim City Developer Maxis Emeryville is Being Shut Down by EA
Post by: NWR_insanolord on March 05, 2015, 10:53:33 PM
Quote from: Lucariofan99 on March 05, 2015, 09:53:15 PM
No more (cough) good simcity games?
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

seriously tho,
What other good city creator games are there?

Just go back and play one of the older SimCity games. 2000 is on GoG and 4 is on Steam, and they're both great.
Title: Re: Sim City Developer Maxis Emeryville is Being Shut Down by EA
Post by: Phil on March 05, 2015, 11:36:08 PM
Quote from: Lucariofan99 on March 05, 2015, 09:53:15 PM
No more (cough) good simcity games?
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

seriously tho,
What other good city creator games are there?


This one looks promising.
http://kotaku.com/one-city-building-game-still-looks-cool-1685054166?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow
Title: Re: Sim City Developer Maxis Emeryville is Being Shut Down by EA
Post by: ShyGuy on March 07, 2015, 03:54:45 AM
Remember SimCity on the SNES? Nintendo liked it so much they developed and published it themselves.