You could buy the game, and within a year Maxis introduce new graphic sets and locations.
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Katy Perry has had a successful relationship with Electronic Arts and Maxis with The Sims franchise.
Maxis Senior Vice President Lucy Bradshaw made clear where EA is setting its sights with SimCity Social.
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Others have called on Maxis to produce a stand-alone version of the game.
Since then, Maxis has been working hard to get more servers online, having added a total of four since the launch.
There are millions of us enjoying it, and as an online game, its easier for Maxis to push patches and add content.
Lucy Bradshaw, head of SimCity creator Maxis, said an offline, single-player mode did not fit with its "vision" for the urban-planning game.
Playing around with the game at Wright's Maxis studios in Emeryville, Calif.
All the yachts are "maxis"--an old term for anything over 60 feet.
But now EA Maxis is turning the event into a marketing strategy.
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Wright will leave behind Maxis, the gaming studio he co-founded in 1989.
They partner with great game makers like DICE and Maxis, and the end product usually turns out to be a very good game.
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Behind the super maxis, the rest of the fleet is battling for handicap honors, which take into account each yacht's dimensions and sail area.
The Huffington Post made the connection, and contacted Maxis for comment.
However, said Ms Bradshaw, the way people played the finished game was very different to what EA and Maxis had seen during early, or beta, testing.
The two super maxis had fought a thrilling tactical duel along Australia's east coast with the lead changing hand several times throughout the 628 nautical miles.
In a blogpost, Ms Bradshaw said Maxis could have built a "subset offline mode" for the game that did away with the need to be constantly connected.
Maxis chief Lucy Bradshaw comes right out and says it: SimCity could have had an offline mode but it conflicted with the vision the developer had for the game.
Lucy Bradshaw, general manager at "SimCity" developer Maxis, said Friday more wannabe mayors logged on than they anticipated and that the developers have been increasing server capacity since the snafu.
The work lent weight to claims made on the Rock Paper Shotgun website by an unnamed worker at SimCity Creator Maxis who said a permanent connection was not always needed.
In a blogpost, Lucy Bradshaw, general manager for SimCity, said the way Electronics Arts (EA) and Maxis, the studio that created the game, had set up the servers had contributed to the problems.
Maxis had gone down the multiplayer road to make the simulation more realistic by letting cities in the same virtual landscapes share elements such as pollution, crime and resources such as coal, she said.
Will Wright is one of the most accomplished video game developers in the business, maker of the blockbuster Sims franchise, and founder of development company Maxis (now part of gaming giant Electronic Arts).
Electronic Arts is offering patient SimCity mayors who have stuck with EA Maxis through thick and thin (not that retailers allow you to return PC games these days) with a selection of free digital games.
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Frankly, the fact that EA and Maxis (the developer is a subsidiary of EA) have now made statements that are fundamentally opposed to earlier claims that the game relied heavily on their own servers makes anything they say on the matter suspect.
For those who have stuck it out with EA Maxis, the publisher is giving you until March 25 to register your SimCity game and until March 30 to download any of these digital games: Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition), Bejeweled 3, Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition), Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition), Medal of Honor Warfighter (Standard Edition), Need For Speed Most Wanted (Standard Edition), Plants vs.
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