Rod Humble spoke with CNN about the 10th anniversary of The Sims series, pretty much the same information we’re familiar with in past anniversary interviews.  Is it just me or should they have done something bigger than The Sims 3 High-End Loft Stuff and a few freebie items?

In 2009, the franchise continued to evolve and “The Sims 3” launched, allowing players to explore a world that was open and “real.”

Humble said they expanded the simulation from individual households to entire towns and communities. So players could watch a neighbor move in, go through their lives and move away, and that neighbor would not entirely disappear from the game as in previous incarnations.

“We’re extending the simulations from being hamsters in a cage where we’re just simulating each individual person to extending that network across the entire town,” Humble said. “I wanted this idea that you could bump into anybody in the ‘Sims 3’ world, and, not to be stalkerish, you could follow them home. You could see their life.”

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