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The title (and of the article) is inaccurate. The title talks about Maxis as a whole closing, but the article and third party sources list just one (admittedly
by UnoriginalGuy 12y ago
The title (and of the article) is inaccurate. The title talks about Maxis as a whole closing, but the article and third party sources list just one (admittedly BIG) location closure.
The Maxis brand may very well continue and appears to be operating at other physical locations.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoMaxis Emeryville is Maxis. The Will Wright Maxis, the Sims, SimCity and Spore Maxis. The real Maxis, if you will. There are some other things EA does under the Maxis brand, but that's just rebranded EA Play stuff. The Maxis people cared about is dead. (Though The Sims isn't, that was spun off into its own studio before Spore was made.)
- stickfigure 12y agoMaxis split up when they closed the Walnut Creek office in 2004, with SimCity and Spore (and Will Wright) going to Emeryville, everyone else going to Redwood Shores. Will Wright left in 2009. There is no "real Maxis", and if there was, some Maxis expat older than me would tell you it died back in the 90s or whatnot. Maxis had a few big hits and a lot of colossal failures. Including some that never made it to the public. I guess the balance sheet just finally shifted too far in the wrong direction. This isn't necessarily EA's fault; studios that fail go out of business one way or another.
- TwoBit 12y agoThe modern version of what Maxis used to be is Minecraft. Developing those games is risky though. For every minecraft there are ten failures.