Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis
by m_mueller on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @11:56PM
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Apparently I haven't been clear enough, so let me rephrase: What DNA is to a virus, money is to EA. Selling games is how they get their money, which is then used to infect more games and destroying them all in the process. Well that's at least how my analogy was supposed to work.
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Re:EA Shuts Down ‘SimCity’ and ‘The Sims’ Developer Maxis
by pkinsky on Thursday March 05, 2015 @01:02AM
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I understood you, but your analogy doesn't work. Viruses are replicators, they infect cells to spawn new generations. EA is a monolithic entity that consumes studios to sustain itself, all without creating a single copy of itself. Money is food, not DNA.