Interview with Rod Humble

[maniac19642003]

CNet had an interview with Rod Humble, head of EA's Sims studio. He's interviewed about the several Sims games, the history of the franchise, the culture at EA and much more.
Read it here: News.com

[Sam the T-man]

Since SimCity and The Sims, there's been lot of competing games in the genre. How do you keep The Sims on top?
Humble: No. 1 is listening to our community. Number two is learning from our mistakes. So if our competitors do things that our players respond to, don't be too proud. And I think listen to your customers and make changes accordingly. It's very important that the customer's always right and you can't let your own internal design religion get ahead of the customer. So that's the answer. Steal ideas where appropriate.

Hardy-har-har. At least he was right about the last answer ¬_¬

Thanks for the link

[Tenshii~Akari]

:laugh:  I believe that was the funniest part of the interview.  Lie, lie, truth.  :lol:  

Thanks for that update, maniac.  :smile bi:

[Katheryne]

Heh...  Exactly which customers are they listening to???

Wait...  Mr. Humble came from SoE's Everquest studio?  Say no more.