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R.I.P. Maxis

The legendary development team of Maxis was gone a long time ago. The unit in EA called "Maxis" was just a bureaucratic name with no relation to the old company that made it big.
 
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Domini said:
It was and it wasnt, the game had way too many restrictions
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At least they hadn't yet gone so far as to encrypting game configuration and save files like their latest titles. Big middle finger to the modding community that makes games worth playing more than once.
 
I was ready to give up on all things EA as I played BF3, SimCity 3 and C&C 3. I stupidly purchased the fourth installment of all three of those games and hated every one of them. At this point, I am absolutely done with EA.
 
Heres some fun info
Studios bought and killed by EA

Maxis (SimCity) - Purchased by EA in 1997; shut down in 2015. [Though EA says the "Maxis" brand will live on, the main studio is officially no more.]
Mythic (Dark Age of Camelot) - Purchased by EA in 2006; shut down in 2014.
Bullfrog (Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper) - Purchased by EA in 1995; shut down in 2001.
Origin (Ultima, Wing Commander) - Purchased by EA in 1992; shut down in 2004.
Westwood (Command & Conquer) - Purchased by EA in 1998; shut down in 2003.
DreamWorks Interactive/Danger Close/EA Los Angeles (Medal of Honor) - Purchased by EA in 2000; shut down in 2013.
Phenomic (SpellForce, BattleForge) - Purchased by EA in 2006; shut down in 2013.
Black Box Games (Need for Speed, Skate) - Purchased by EA in 2002; shut down in 2013.
Pandemic (The Saboteur) - Purchased by EA in 2008; shut down in 2009.
PlayFish (The Sims Social) - Purchased by EA in 2009; shut down in 2013.
NuFX (NBA Street) - Purchased by EA in 2004; shut down in 2007.
 
LeviathanZERO said:
Heres some fun info
Studios bought and killed by EA

Maxis (SimCity) - Purchased by EA in 1997; shut down in 2015. [Though EA says the "Maxis" brand will live on, the main studio is officially no more.]
Mythic (Dark Age of Camelot) - Purchased by EA in 2006; shut down in 2014.
Bullfrog (Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper) - Purchased by EA in 1995; shut down in 2001.
Origin (Ultima, Wing Commander) - Purchased by EA in 1992; shut down in 2004.
Westwood (Command & Conquer) - Purchased by EA in 1998; shut down in 2003.
DreamWorks Interactive/Danger Close/EA Los Angeles (Medal of Honor) - Purchased by EA in 2000; shut down in 2013.
Phenomic (SpellForce, BattleForge) - Purchased by EA in 2006; shut down in 2013.
Black Box Games (Need for Speed, Skate) - Purchased by EA in 2002; shut down in 2013.
Pandemic (The Saboteur) - Purchased by EA in 2008; shut down in 2009.
PlayFish (The Sims Social) - Purchased by EA in 2009; shut down in 2013.
NuFX (NBA Street) - Purchased by EA in 2004; shut down in 2007.
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Wow.

F'ing EA....
 
LeviathanZERO said:
DreamWorks Interactive/Danger Close/EA Los Angeles (Medal of Honor) - Purchased by EA in 2000; shut down in 2013.
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This division technically lives on, more or less just a name change. Many of the same employees and programmers from Danger Close are still there.

They are now EA/DICE Los Angeles. They have been taking care of Battlefield 4 development since April 2014. They have been the ones fixing most of EA/DICE Sweden's fuckups. They did the CTE test environment and fixed the netcode. Fixed being a relative term here since it still has some issues. They brought it on par with BF3 with the August patch (BF4 was a step back for almost 8-9 months), and just issued another patch that improves it even further.
 
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Skripka said:
The legendary development team of Maxis was gone a long time ago. The unit in EA called "Maxis" was just a bureaucratic name with no relation to the old company that made it big.
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This. The two latest games to carry the Maxis name were SimCity and The Sims 4. While both games were fun at face value, they were mere shells of prior games in their franchise. I imagine most of the talent that was responsible for Maxis at their prime is long gone anyway.

Basically, what I'm saying is... EA killed off Maxis long before today.
 
LeviathanZERO said:
Heres some fun info
Studios bought and killed by EA

Maxis (SimCity) - Purchased by EA in 1997; shut down in 2015. [Though EA says the "Maxis" brand will live on, the main studio is officially no more.]
Mythic (Dark Age of Camelot) - Purchased by EA in 2006; shut down in 2014.
Bullfrog (Syndicate, Dungeon Keeper) - Purchased by EA in 1995; shut down in 2001.
Origin (Ultima, Wing Commander) - Purchased by EA in 1992; shut down in 2004.
Westwood (Command & Conquer) - Purchased by EA in 1998; shut down in 2003.
DreamWorks Interactive/Danger Close/EA Los Angeles (Medal of Honor) - Purchased by EA in 2000; shut down in 2013.
Phenomic (SpellForce, BattleForge) - Purchased by EA in 2006; shut down in 2013.
Black Box Games (Need for Speed, Skate) - Purchased by EA in 2002; shut down in 2013.
Pandemic (The Saboteur) - Purchased by EA in 2008; shut down in 2009.
PlayFish (The Sims Social) - Purchased by EA in 2009; shut down in 2013.
NuFX (NBA Street) - Purchased by EA in 2004; shut down in 2007.
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So EA is basically a serial killer. Reminds me of that TV commercial Stephen Colbert made for the last presidential election "Mitt the Ripper". Replace Bain Capital with EA (Colbert Super PAC Ad - Mitt the Ripper: http://youtu.be/rSLGt0-bHIA )
 
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Hate to say this as I don't like when people lose their jobs but the last Sim Cities was unforgivable and anybody in loved in that should have been fired.
 
Who cares about the number of companies that were shut down? What the hell did any of them produce in their year under EA? very little
 
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