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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by neolefty on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @11:29PM (#9149260)
Except when a company dies, no people actually die. They can go on and create new games and new companies.
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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by serf on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:31AM (#9149415)
>Except when a company dies, no people actually die.

except that isn't always true. [0]

Suicide Rates Rising for Older U.S. Adults - Rates for 40-64 year-olds may be increasing due to financial circumstances, according to American Journal of Preventive Medicine

[0] : http://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-jo...

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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis by louhike on Thursday March 05, 2015 @03:57AM (#9149823)
Are we really talking about suicide in a discussion about a company unsurprisingly shutting down? It is not because it is EA, which have a really bad reputation (which they partly deserve), than we should have a discussion of such a low quality.
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