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SimCity's Empire Has Fallen and Skylines Is Picking Up the Pieces
sarahnaomi writes: Colossal Order's SimCity-like game, Cities: Skylines, sold more than half a million copies in its first week. The first 250,000 of those were sold in the first 24 hours, making it the fastest-selling game its publisher, Paradox Interactive, has ever released. Only a week before Skylines was released, game publisher Electronic Arts announced that it was shutting down SimCity developer Maxis' studio in Emeryville, which it acquired in 1997.
"I feel so bad about Maxis closing down," Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen said. "The older SimCitys were really the inspiration for us to even consider making a city builder." At the same time, Hallikainen admits SimCity's mistakes were Colossal Order's opportunity. "If SimCity was a huge success, which is what we expected, I don't know if Skylines would have ever happened," she said, explaining that it would have been a harder pitch to sell to Paradox if the new SimCity dominated the market.
"I feel so bad about Maxis closing down," Colossal Order CEO Mariina Hallikainen said. "The older SimCitys were really the inspiration for us to even consider making a city builder." At the same time, Hallikainen admits SimCity's mistakes were Colossal Order's opportunity. "If SimCity was a huge success, which is what we expected, I don't know if Skylines would have ever happened," she said, explaining that it would have been a harder pitch to sell to Paradox if the new SimCity dominated the market.
Sounds like my daily commute. WORKSFORME WONTFIX.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Question: Are you German, or not German? If you're German, I'll translate your rating of "adequate" into American as "CLEARLY GAME OF THE YEAR 5* A+++".
The original Sim City
was ahead of its time
not another platform shooter
it was so new and so fine
SimCity 2k
added isometric view,
a larger land area
I bought it too
SimCity 3k
had its own little quirks
with landfills and stuff
but I liked how it works
SimCity 4
16 times the size
and graphics so sweet
you won't believe your eyes
Then came SimCity 5
like a zombie in heat
Screwed everything in sight
It was Maxis defeat
The moral is plain
for all to see
give people more, not less
and they'll pay the fee
But get greedy and gouge
for something smaller? goodbye!
Please shove your DLC
up your a** and die.
R.I.P. the REAL SimCities
they were lost long ago,
Grieve for what could have been,
Curse EAs lack of soul!
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