Well, it seems as though we’ve come to the end of an era. I’ve taken to digging around the BBS a little more often (as much as it pains me to!) in hopes of digging up new, interesting information. Today I’ve come across something on the sad side.

For those who have read some of my previous posts, I always refer the the company that creates, markets and sells The Sims 2 as EA/Maxis, while most simply refer to the makers of TS2 as Maxis. As most everyone knows Maxis was purchased by EA Games, and run as a division of EA since it’s purchase in 1997. So while Maxis has long been a part of EA, it was allowed to keep a certain level of existence. However the other day I noticed something, Maxis seems to be no more. The Maxis logo is no longer at the bottom of this Website, and http://www.Maxis.com now redirects to http://thesims.ea.com/. It seems that Maxis is now gone forever.

You can read the entire thread here. I think it’s really too bad and we have more negative changes to look forward to. They’ve already started the slippery slide of creating a massive money making machine (where there already was one) with the addition of Stuff Packs. I’m sure those of you from the MMORPG communities remember what became of EverQuest after Sony took over Verant Interactive completely.

You can discuss this on our forums where user simaster8 has already started a thread in regards to it.