Sesons split
This is going to be an unpopular view but here me out I would not mind it if the next 4 GP’s were Spring, Summer, Autumn & winter (community gasps and gets ready to flame me) you may now be thinking w...
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"TS1299;c-16483078" wrote:"Writin_Reg;c-16482683" wrote:
Keep in mind Grant knows Seasons eps - he did Sims 2 Seasons - so I would not worry about it. He knows how we like Seasons and he didn't work on the game in Sims 1 - so he is very familiar to how a seasons ep goes. He also has worked on base games in Sims 3 and 4 - so he also know the basegame and the engines capabilities. So if Grant can't do it eps style that is the engines fault - not the teams or EA's.
From my understanding the Maxis teams tells EA what they want to do and EA either approves it or not - not the other way around.
I still think it depends on the situation. Sometimes it can also depends on a direction EA is heading to. I remember an EA executive that overlooks DICE and that he didn't approved Battlefield WW1 theme, but DICE pushed it to the limits and even created a test game and it impressed the executive, which turned out to having Battlefield 1. Sometimes we saw EA to decide for all of their games to go online, having a multiplayer aspect, etc. And by that I don't think the studios have a choice.
That was the former CEO and you see where that got him when they made Sim City online. Maxis immediately took the Sims 4 back to single player. So it was not EA - but a single CEO and he always wanted EA games online. He started saying that the first year he was at EA back during Sims 2. He is the same one who made the deal with Sony for Securum midway during production of Sims 2 - He was a businessman not a gamer - like our present CEO, who was at the time the head of the EA sports. Big difference.
