Well if your not familiar with who exactly Will Wright is, you shouldn’t call your self a Sims fan (just kidding, but not really). Anyway he was the co-founder of Maxis back in 1989 and the visionary behind Spore, The Sims and SimCity. Pretty much if he wasn’t around I wouldn’t be talking about The Sims, because it wouldn’t have been created!!!

So why is he leaving? Well he wants to invest in his “Stupid Fun Club”, which I honestly can’t figure out what it’s about. I mean there site doesn’t divulge too much information on what they’re about but EA is also investing in the whole thing.

Anyway, who’s the new big boss of Maxis? Well, from the press release it looks like Lucy Bradshaw, is now in charge (Congrats Lucy)

You can take a look at the post Will Wright made at The Sporums and the Official EA Press Release if you want to know more.

P.S. Technically he’s leaving Maxis but Maxis is part of EA so yeah.

If you remember just about a month ago their were talks of DRM protection on The Sims 3, which outraged a ton of Sims fans including myself. They were planing something similar to the game Spore, and let’s just say that they took ALOT of heat by gamers for it.

Well, EA’s Rod Humble said, in a post at the official Sims 3 site, that they are going to use a traditional copy protection meathod:

We have heard your requests over the past months and here is our plan for The Sims 3 – The game will have disc-based copy protection there is a Serial Code just like The Sims 2. To play the game there will not be any online authentication needed.

We feel like this is a good, time-proven solution that makes it easy for you to play the game without DRM methods that feel overly invasive or leave you concerned about authorization server access in the distant future.

Great news for all us Sims fans, thanks EA!!!