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Will Wright Leaves EA/Maxis For Stupid Fun Club

Posted by timothy on from the requires-flash-10-for-shame-for-shame dept.

Dave Knott writes "Gamasutra reports that SimCity, Sims and Spore game creator Will Wright is leaving EA/Maxis. He will now be acting as head of Stupid Fun Club, an 'entertainment think tank' that he was previously funding out of his own pocket. From the article: 'The club has focused mainly on designing and building robots, as well as creating video productions based on them. Wright and EA will co-own Stupid Fun Club, which will focus on developing new cross-media IP for games, movies, TV and toys. EA has the right to develop game concepts that emerge from the think tank, and both the company and Wright have an equal stake.'"

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  1. Spore by religious+freak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anyone know how Spore has been received or how well it's selling? I've always thought it might've been a disappointment?

    I still haven't played the game, but I've got to imagine that if there were troubles, this is probably why he split with the company.

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    1. Re:Spore by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      A lot of people hated Spore, I think they're smoking crack. I enjoyed it. I think it might have to do with expectations, though: I've always felt Will Wright was rather overrated as a designer (SimCity aside, cause that was amazing), so I didn't buy into any of the game's hype. If you did buy into it, though, I can see how you might have felt let down.

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    2. Re:Spore by BurningFeetMan · · Score: 3, Interesting

      You've gotta remember though, EA & Will burnt a LOT of people who actually invested and were looking forward with Spore, such as myself. Now, I personally go out of my way to tell people NOT to get a game produced, owned, written etc by EA, or Will for that mater.

    3. Re:Spore by Rockoon · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Of course, this really doesnt matter.

      They have already gotten literally millions of free player-created "creatures." The cost of creating all that content would have easily been hundreds of millions of dollars if they hired modelers/artists to make it.

      You can bet anything that in the next year or two, E.A. will release games that are not anything like Spore, but will leverage the player created art they got for free from Spore players.

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  2. Re:Holy shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I spent about five minutes there, trying to figure out what it was all about. It was five minutes of my life that I'll never get back. That is the most pointless excuse for using bandwidth that I've ever seen.

    The "Stupid" is very fitting, while the "Fun" is complete bullshit.

    He should be put in a fucking wood chipper, while it's running.

  3. Re:May as well by Headcase88 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That may tell you something.

    That Sturgeon's Law is as true to paper dolls as it is to everything else.

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