It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers – the people in your physical vicinity. Will Wright Read Quote
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 needs at different age ranges. Will Wright Read Quote
Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we’ve resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits. Will Wright Read Quote
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 invading the core dynamic or the core game play. Will Wright Read Quote
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 treasure hunt, you know. Will Wright Read Quote
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 fully test it. Will Wright Read Quote
Players like to know that they’ve discovered things that even the designers didn’t know were in the game. Will Wright Read Quote
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 a good website that’s visited a lot, but there’s no real gameplay there. Will Wright Read Quote
