Will Wright Changes EA's Game

Red Herring published on article on March 27th 2006 that is a very interesting read on Will Wright and the game Spore. It is entitled Will Wright Changes EA's Game. Here are some facts:

"Maxis, not far from animation house Pixar, near the shores of San Francisco Bay, currently has 70 developers working on Spore, most earning six-figures. It’s going to take an estimated $30 million and five years to complete the project. But EA will have to wait a bit longer to see if Spore is the blockbuster it needs. Mr. Wright started development several years ago, but the game probably won’t hit stores until 2007 at the earliest, perhaps even later."

Another point that caught my attention is that user created content will uploaded to the game server and be an important part of the game, bypassing the need for a third party website to download content.  This means that users will not have to log out of the application to install new content, and a website such as The Sims Resource would be ultimately pointless.