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Yep. And what people don't understand here is that EA isn't killing Maxis, they're shutting down the Emeryville studio. Half of Maxis was already at the Ears studio on the Sims and other work. Sim City will be maintained and probably be a slow but steady seller for the next 7 years. All the best developers from that studio will simply be moved to jobs in other studios.


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