EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis

Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by troymc on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @10:07PM (#9149003)

EA has at least one other strategy, with EA Sports: every year they come out with a new and improved Football, Basketball, Hockey, Golf, etc. and people get it. Madden NFL has been going since 1988.

To be fair, EA Sports did discontinue some of their less popular games, such as Rugby and Cricket.

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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by thefreeman on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @11:38PM (#9149283)

Actually the real strategy for those games is to buy exclusive multi-year contracts with the professional sports so that there is 0 competition.

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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by omegaham on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @11:03PM (#9149172)

And despite all of their shiny improvements, Madden 2005 and 2008 are considered the best from a gameplay and mechanics standpoint.

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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by fernandotakai on Thursday March 05, 2015 @08:32AM (#9150590)

i can't speak for Madden because i'm not a fan/player. But for FIFA (a franchise that i've been playing since Road To World Cup 98), 2014 is easily the best one. They improved a shitton of stuff.

Also, they have FIFA Ultimate Team which has a whole meta game of players and cards (which i love).

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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by spiritplumber on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @10:22PM (#9149044)

Sadly that looks like it's enough... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxhs-GLE29Q

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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by ryanhuff on Thursday March 05, 2015 @11:05AM (#9151508)

They also discontinued Baseball, which pretty much made the Xbox platform crap for a baseball fan (my son).

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