Will Wright
An award-winning game developer and one of the most influential individuals in the industry. He's best known for founding Maxis, and subsequently developing SimAnt, SimEarth, SimLife, SimTower, SimCopter, and the SimCity, Sims, and Spore franchises. Wright collects artifacts from (and is a general expert on) the Soviet Space Program.
Will Wright Leaves EA
Although I've loved most of Wright's games under EA, I hope he finds his new venture to be fun and exciting.
As I read this, I got the same feeling I get whenever I hear about a great college sports coach leaving a school: Things won't reaaallly change, but this is awful for the recruits. There are lots and lots of people that came to EA with the hopes of being able to work with/for/under/in the same building as Will Wright, and while that's not an impossibility now, that chance has taken a serious hit.
For everyone else, this is great.
This is good news for sure, he would have inevitably be tied to do sims sequels for all of eternity otherwise.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the Spore DRM fiasco. Either way, good news and best of luck to Will. He seems like one of the more creative minds in video game development.
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