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Anybody else happy that Maxis will have something to with The Sims again?
canitbeman
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It makes me happy to know that Maxis and The Sims series will be together again! Don't ask me why (I know it will still be the same group developing The Sims), but it gives me the warm fuzzies to see the Maxis logo on a The Sims game box!
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Dont expect anything to change
Pretty much.
Although, I have missed that logo
And it's not going to change much about how the games are made...so it's just one of those "oh that's a cool tidbit" things.
That's not true at all, back in 2006 EA transferred responsibility for the Sims franchise to a new studio and Maxis went off to work on other things, Spore being the big one initially.
Will Wright and Maxis were not at all involved in the development of TS3.
You would be correct in saying, however, that many of the former Maxis developers were involved, as they were moved from Maxis to The Sims studio.
Last year, The Sims Studio became a part of EA Maxis again, which made Maxis involved with the development of The Sims franchise now. And of course Will Wright is no longer around, having left in 2009.
From 2006 to 2012, Maxis was not a part of the development of any products within "The Sims" franchise. They were still around, were still a studio, and were still doing things, but The Sims was not one of those things, in any way. But "some" of the people involved were former Maxis developers who were moved from the Maxis studio to the Sims studio.
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Now, EA has announced Island Paradise and one more expansion pack, and Maxis is supposedly part of the package again. Anyone seeing a pattern here? Dollars to doughnuts we start hearing about Sims 4 right after the Time Travel EP releases.
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I imagine most of it comes from people who actually read the news. That's where I get my information from anyway.
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Video game development detail makes headlines!
They do indeed make headlines at news organizations which report specifically on gaming news. For print news, PC Gamer tends to carry such details but it is a waste of money because the same news is on sites such as IGN and GamesRadar.
News such as reorganization at EA and their studios also makes it in the business or Entertainment sections (depending on the specifics of the news) of mainstream news such as the Wall Street Journal or USA Today.
When Maxis was removed from the sims development I read the story in every one of the above locations. When Will Wright left Maxis it was in every major newspaper that I read. When EA reorganized and reshuffled again last year, it again made news in all of the above.
That's why I said "read" the news. If a person's only source of news is mainstream telivision media, on the other hand...yah, you'd be hard pressed to find any news related to video games other than discussions about how they are responsible for some pyscho shooting up a theatre or something.
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I'm glad that Maxis is returning to the franchise, because that means that their influence will return with it.
No, it's not. Only the name is returning...the label. The Sims team is still EA. Maxis has no input on the new expansion packs. Those were planned years in advance; I'm pretty sure University Life was in the planning stages while Showtime was being developed; me "evidence" is the fact that we have a coffee house zoning designation, and that University Life is going to have a coffee house with the required objects, including the barrista.
Maxis had nothing to do with it, nor do they have anything to do with anything else, except Sim City. The only reason EA *ever* trots out the Maxis label is to pacify the fans and dupe them into thinking that Maxis is making the games again.
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Except in this case it is more than just the label, the Sims Studio is now rolled into the Maxis division, which means they report to the same division head. That was not the case prior to the reorganization last year.
Granted, it's not a huge change if the the same studio is still doing the work (and it is), but a change in management can and does make a difference as well.
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Nothing has changed. The Sims team is now part of Maxis label again. But people are the same as always.
Particularly, Will Wright and Maxis were not involved in the development of the latest title in the series, The Sims 3, although many developers of former Maxis products remained involved in its production. This third generation of the main series was developed entirely by The Sims Studio. However in 2012, The Sims Studio became a part of EA Maxis, which made Maxis involved with the development of The Sims franchise once again.