SimCity and Sims 4 Development Continuing After Shutdown of Maxis Studio

Doesn't really matter, the same people will just be absorbed into EA. Nothing changes.

So how many is this now?

Westwood

Origin

Bullfrog

Mythic

Many once "great" dev studios bought up by EA and then over time swallowed.

Why does EA do this? It's like they buy a studio and they can NOT keep their "hands" off of it once they buy it, oh they SAY countless times (both EA and the devs at the studio that is bought) "We still will be free to do what we want, EA will be hands off!"

Then slowly EA closes its grip, slight change here, there, the top dev studio people leave (like Bioware most reecntly) and then over time when it does poorly they'll move it in-house, then eventually the name goes away.

I just hope it's a long time before Bioware succumbs to this eventual fate.

RIP Maxis you will be missed, EA this does not go unnoticed by gamers. If we want more talented developers to exist we have to stop feeding these big soulless corporations like EA, Microsoft, Ubisoft and Activision.

welp the sims 4 will end up like the sims 3 now with all the dlc having to be bought on the store and shietty expansion packs.

Simcity is now free to play fodder, an undeserved fate for the once respectable series.

Origin (the studio, not the crap Steam wannabe), Maxis, Westwood, BullFrog... next will be Bioware, Mythic, DICE, etc. Mediocrity is the disease. EA is the bacteria that causes it. EA will forever destroy studios and franchises thanks to their ever-increasing army of Harvard MBAs

Hate is such a very strong word...which is why I use it when describing EA.

(not that I care about the Sims though)

murderers

EA has blood on its hands.

Come on Maxis! You can't say you didn't see this coming, after all, you sold your soul to the devil!

Maxis just couldn't handle all the innovations EA wanted to include.

Could have been prevented had they listened to what SimCity fans actually wanted instead of conducting a PR war against it.

Westwood and C&C. Medal of Honor series. Bullfrog Productions and now Maxis. nearly all of the games and developers EA has purchased have become a pale shell of there former selves or are in the process of becoming so. EA is ruining gaming with the stupid practices and we are losing beloved franchises left and right. if only something could be done to stop them and revive our favorite series under BETTER management.

Maxis was amazing during the 90's but after EA bought them, they had only a few good games (SimCity 3000, The Sims). I still wait for a decent successor to SimCopter.

It must be very frustrating for these developers, who I'm sure are very talented, to get instructions from suits upstairs on how to monetize their game. And then when it all blows up, it's them who are kicked out the door. That must be very frustrating.

EA literally exists just to buy up great studios and hollow them out till they're a shell of their former selves, don't see much hope for bioware or popcap RIP.

Maxis has been dead for a LONG time already.

Thanks again EA, for ruining a once great studio.

Another one bites the dust to EA's stellar "business management."

Just eat 'em up and puke 'em out till nothing is left but recycled Ignite and Frostbite games, right?

If they keep phucking up all of Maxis will shutdown...

EA bought the best just to die with the rest, they should've never sold out.

So to get things staight, one Maxis studio shut down, but it wasn't the only Maxis studio. There are still other Maxis studios in "Redwood Shores, Salt Lake City, Helsinki, and Melbourne". So do all these studios work together on every project with the Maxis logo on it? How do we know exactly what work this specific Maxis studio did if there's 5 Maxis studios?

With no loving with our souls and no money in our coats...

Sad....end of an era..

I am 100% SURE that the decline of Maxis has NOTHING to do with the fact that sim city and the sims were developed as incomplete games with future expansions and dlc's in mind.

Sarcasm aside, everyone will blame EA but i truly believe that EA isn't solely responsible. Maxis lost it's touch, they had shoddy developers doing a half a'd job. Shame to see em die but maybe someone else will be able to do something with both Sim City and the Sims series.

EA strikes again, i hope these guys find a new job fast, best of luck to them.

I hope the out of work, workers start making simulation indie games. without the presser of EA telling them what to cut out to the point, that the developers stop caring about the games there making. because they had to answer to EA.

no more sims games ?!?!?!?! :@ fu EA

EA took the ladder away from Maxis' swimming pool.

I say this as a longtime Maxis fan, but this was a long overdue mercy killing.

EA is cancer, EA is death.

This company's games were fine until EA stepped in and ruined them. Always online for Sim City?! What a joke.