Comments on: Will Wright to leave Electronic Arts

The creator of The Sims and Spore is setting up an "electronic think tank" in which the game maker will be an investor.

[sanenazok]

Good for him, he needs to put out more papers and think tank meetings rather than drm-ridden mini games.

[minonda]

Thank you! My thoughts exactly.

[aSiriusTHoTH]

Brilliant man... will come up with brilliant ideas.

[rucknrun]

Spore, a lot of hype, not much of a game.

[Len Bullard]

"Most people are very narcissistic," Wright said. "The more you can make the game about that person, the more interested, the more emotionally involved they will get."

Cogent. It's why Facebook works and why the ad revenues it generates consistently fail to match expectations. People are more interested in themselves than products. A victory for the mammals...

[sythara]

Its good that he is leaving EA. I don't think the crapiness of Spore is attributed to Wright, but rather to the way EA does business and dictates how the games should be.

There are very few good EA games out there. Most of them are a carbon copy of previous game, that is a copy of a previous game and so on.

With few exception of course.