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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by bottled_poe on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @09:34PM (#9148899)
I hope that is EA's strategy, as it will end them.

The overhead of entering the games industry is cheaper than ever, and as a result we are seeing more and more independent game developers successfully penetrating the market.

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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by spiritplumber on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @09:39PM (#9148918)
EA has been around for 30 years though, so whatever they are doing, it works - what I don't understand is why does it work.
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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by interesting_att on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @09:53PM (#9148965)
EA survive off of Madden and FIFA licenses. They don't have to spend that much money on improving the game year after year, but millions of people purchase them almost religiously.
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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by chongli on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @10:39PM (#9149101)
They don't spend a lot on development but they certainly do on licensing fees.
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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by themartorana on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @10:32PM (#9149079)
Agree with @interesting_att - it's all about EA Sports. As much as I despise EA, even I get sucked into FIFA. Their sports franchise will support one hundred studio fuck-ups - annual minor updates are as good as owning a money printing press.
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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by delinka on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @09:38PM (#9148915)
I personally agree. But consider none of this is on the radar of the stereotypical MBA/middle manager/C-level execs/...
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