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• A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a…
• I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.
• Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or…
• The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.
• I typically go overboard when I research new projects.
• The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things…
• Everybody has a different definition of the good side.
• The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without…
• The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and…
• It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.
• And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a…
• And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
• Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!
• For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media.
• I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't…
• In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's…
• On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.
• Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.
• There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some…
• We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are…

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