What You Didn’t Know About The Sims | Will Wright | Simulations Summit 2023

Join us at Simulations Summit 2023 presented by Virtual Beings Summit to hear Will Wright, Creator of The Sims, talk about the inception of the game and the evolution of simulations.
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[@armintargaryen9216]

It's so good to know about this gaming genius in 2023-24. He truly is underrated. Sims 1 and 2 were overflowing with personality and charm, and so was SimCity 4 in a different way. Truly they made my childhood.

[@user-hs7ry4nx7l]

SimCity 4 is still the best city simulator today, imo.

[@NewWaveEnthusiast]

His games had such a wonderful impact on my younger years, brilliant mind!

[@toontoon8039]

music, simulation everything is amazing!! sim 1 is the best in my opinion

[@worstusername22]

Will Wright is a genius

[@BIGDAWGSQUAD]

He also created Spore, a great game as well that I wish had a community like the Sims. I miss Spore.

[@joenathanz7474]

Will pls make a simulation game with The Sims heart in it. We missed your making

[@playwithvee9628]

Will please save the Sims Franchise 😭😭😭😭

[@MakeWay4CJ]

It’s probably safe to say that Will has walked away from that franchise a long time ago. In other words - we Sims (2 for me) are screwed!

[@simplymanda523]

I wish

[@toontoon8039]

Sim and the the rest of the sim 2 onward just doesnt seem the same

[@Cyan_Nightingale]

EA ruined many franchises. Not one of them can be saved. For example, Command & Conquer franchise was ended and Westwood Studios couldn't do anything about it

[@cr0wzzz]

Will explains brilliantly. What an inspiration!

[@0ryanryanryan0]

i love you will wright thank you for SPORE™ 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@melodydomain3487]

I LOVE THE SIMS 1,2, and 3 … I WISH SOMEONE COULD FIX SIMS 4 CORRECTLY

[@mayaha200]

he is amazing

[@Edarnon_Brodie]

Still waiting for Spore 2

[@robertpollock38]

Please make the sims 5 like a modern version of sims 2

[@notmanurios]

He’s not working on the sims anymore. He only made sims 1 and 2

[@cendresaphoenix1974]

​@@notmanurios It's noticable

[@Tevi_L7151]

I love the sims 3 open world, I would like to keep it

[@MakeWay4CJ]

I don’t know if you’ve noticed this but he’s washed his hands of the Sims franchise years ago.

[@misskywy8796]

Isn't sims 4 similar to sims 2?

[@breabeyrouti7834]

Wow. This was amazing to listen to. Thank you

[@magnificentpotato4927]

Spore 2

[@thatcreativebeauty]

Why didn’t you ask him pertinent questions about the full origins story of the different franchises and why he left or why he sold it to EA?

[@tanakaitoi]

Second question has been answered. Pre The Sims while they had success with critics and fans, it wasn’t enough to keep the studio afloat. They met with Activision, EA, and Infograms as potential buyers. And during that time when The Sims was still “Dollhouse” EA was the only one to see a potential future in it regardless to focus group tests with players saying the idea wasn’t really exciting. They sold, EA Rep they had overseeing Maxis as a Studio Head got along well with Will and even knew his tech. However in time that person also left Maxis, I think could be misremembering, around The Sims 2 Expansions. EA wasn’t always the devil and killer of studios we’ve grown to see them now. Back then even after the Trip Hawkins era, EA was making efforts to push for more interesting games. Totally understandable that Will and the other founder of Maxis would chose to sell as they believed in simulation games could and can sell.

[@SGWinstar8844]

❤❤❤

[@joeybishop5428]

PERIODT WILL

[@kiwicatnip]

Sims sucked after Will Wright left

[@Kio_vidz]

I want him to make Spore 2, free Spore from EA. I want Spore from the beta gameplay. I want REAL SPORE.

[@user-wr4wp2bn9e]

Waiting proxi since 2019😢 I guess this game will never released

[@gallium-studios]

We're still very much working on Proxi. We post updates in our Discord often, please feel free to join!

[@user-ul3jc6ge9y]

I've heard this dude talking about his 'purposes' to create sims games from past years and it was deeply disturbing it was never about creating something for fun but to control and watch what people does, this guy is 100% interested in your private computers stuff and what you do in gameplays, he said it himself.

[@BeachBum447]

Thank you! Sims 2 is the greatest game ever!

[@williamschubert7063]

Please find a way to get people to Create a new version of SimCity for 2024. That Cities Skyline one out there now is too convoluted.

[@williamschubert7063]

I am the person who mentioned Sim City to Ross Perot on CSpan so many years ago.

[@patrickbennett439]

Sim city was one of the bigger addictions I had as far as games. SO, whats stoppin ya from doing it again? Sim city 5 sucked. I played city skyline a lot but roads are kind of annoying to build in that game because they have to be so good to function at their best and I do a decent job of all that but its still a lot of work where sim city was just fun. So the world is waiting for sim city 6, 7, 8, 900000000000. You got a never ending gold mine that you havent finished tapping.

[@YellowBriefs]

He left EA 15 years ago dude, he doesn't own SimCity or want to work on it anymore

[@patrickbennett439]

What a loser. lol@@YellowBriefs

[@cendresaphoenix1974]

You sure did... Now please fix it because oh my god it sucks now and they are literally doing any and everything to ruin it more.

[@Tevi_L7151]

He has not worked with sims for a long time and does not have the rights to fix it

[@MakeWay4CJ]

Exactly! And there’s a difference between the current situation (legalities, contracts, agreements, eyc.) and what we WISHED would happen!

[@HopelesslyCritical]

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