Remember, this is a rumor. Take it with a fine grain of salt!
If this turns out to be true, then there is NO hope for SimCity 5.
List of studios and their known/expected games, courtesy of Nirolak.
BioWare: Generals 2, Dragon Age 3
DICE: They have something that’s not Battlefield, what it is isn’t clear.
Danger Close: Medal of Honor 2
Visceral: Dead Space 3, Army of Four, Dante’s Inferno 2, at least 2 new IPs
Maxis/PlayFish: Sim City Facebook
Respawn: New IP
Insomniac: Overstrike, Outernauts
EA Partners: Populous
Criterion: Hot Pursuit 2
PopCap: They are presumably doing something.
EA Canada: FIFA 13, NBA Elite 13, NHL
Tiburon: Madden 13
Source: NeoGAF
Maxis was looking for professionals for PS3 and Xbox 360, does not fit with SimCity Social (Facebook). ‘-‘
i’m definitely in agreement with you here because i read the same thing. i don’t want to see simcity 5 anyhow, would prefer the sims 4, or a brand new IP. A simulation style game set in the real world, and player having complete control over your character actions, Human-like character instead of sims, who have a racial indentity and speak real language.
Maxis and EA aren’t this ambitious, but whatever game they announce i hope it new and risky, also hope I get pick to play and test the beta, like i did with darkspore which was fun.
Maxis gain alot of experience outside of the sims with spore’s procedure conent, and with darkspore action rpg style gameplay. I think if the combine this elements within a simulation style we could have a completely new game in the making.
Maxis gain alot of experience outside of the sims with spore’s procedure conent, and with darkspore action rpg style gameplay. I think if they combine these elements within a simulation style game we could see a completely new game in the making.
Who need simcity social?….i want the real simcity still hope and dying for simcity 5.
I geuss maxis is not going to be working on the sims 4 Same we have to be stuck with EA agin and there poorly made sims games and patches.
I geuss maxis is not going to be working on the sims 4 Same we have to be stuck with EA agin and there poorly made sims games and patches.Shame we have to be stuck with EA agin and there poorly made sims games and patches.
It will be nothing more than click, coins, click, coiins and freemium stuff.
I’m not sure how accurate this list considering as a sports fan I know EA sports put NBA game development in the hands of Tiburon. And Dragon Age 3 has been confirmed but I seriously doubt they would have anything concert on it ready. And that is one heavy load for Visceral studios to be taking on.
I told you I had a feeling, TBS 🙂
I don’t think they would hype such an important announcement for a Facebook game. EA maybe, but not Maxis. Besides, any port of SimCity is not exactly big news. Now a new SimCity or Sims game, even a complete new IP would be epic.
This is almost certainly the big announcement that is coming. It has been rumoured for a good while that Maxis & Playfish were working on something that EA thought was BIG!
They probably feel this is a big deal as it will (I think) be the first World Building Game available to play ON facebook.
If you look at how The Sims 3 is going with Showtime it becomes clear that EA now believes that all gaming should be done via Social Networking…
Of course for all us millions of people who don’t use (and will never use) Social Networking Sites it is mega-bad news!
I could understand it if EA released Social Networking games along side Single Player version but all this integration, and now must have, Facebook etc is getting stupid. Not everyone uses Social Networking, infact in the Real World I don’t know anyone who does! Some of my friends did when it first started but they gave up on it a long time ago.
Social Networks are the domain of Celebrity Wananbes, Social Misfits, attention seekers and kids who tink it’s call at the moment…
NO! It can’t be.
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