News Will Wright leaves Maxis

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  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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  2. azrael-

    azrael- I'm special...

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    "Seeding his spores" elsewhere...?
     
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  3. Guest-16

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    Hahaha!

    I just thought of "Wil Wright Wanders Wayward" but that's stretching things.

    "Wil Wright Wanders to seed Spores elsewhere"?
     
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  4. AlexB

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    Did he walk, or was he pushed as spore was so bad? ;)
     
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  5. Deadwolf

    Deadwolf What's a Dremel?

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    hell of a name for a project!
     
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  6. UrbanMarine

    UrbanMarine Government Prostitute

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    He came up with a new idea and the evil EA empire told him to leave.
     
    UrbanMarine, 9 Apr 2009
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  7. Guest-16

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    So is that Wil Wright Wanders as Evil EA Empire...

    :p
     
    Guest-16, 9 Apr 2009
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  8. Flibblebot

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    I'm hoping that he left out of shame ;)

    Given the huge disappointment that was Spore, I don't think I'd trust anything to come out of his thinktank - apart from advice on how to massively overhype a game, then sit back and watch the dollarpounds roll in.
     
    Flibblebot, 9 Apr 2009
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  9. interzen

    interzen Real men use chainsaws.

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    Personally, I don't think that he's done a decent game since SimCity (or maybe I'm the only person who doesn't 'get' The Sims etc.) - I'd totally gone over to console gaming by the time Spore came out, but having played it on a friend's machine I was convinced that I'd made the right decision.

    I don't think that Will Wright is a major hype-meister (surely that title belongs to Peter Molyneux) but if it's ever announced that Molyneux is going to work for Will Wright's 'think tank' then I can be fairly confident that Apocalypse won't be far off :)
     
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  10. Faulk_Wulf

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    Nah he'll just teach the movie industry to break their movies into 12 "expansions", releasing one a month for a year. ;)

    Though I had hoped it was related to Alice 3 development since they are going to be using the Sims 2 engine in the next iteration.
     
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  11. cheeriokilla

    cheeriokilla What's a Dremel?

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    you got to be shitting me... not a better engine?
     
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