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  2. Criticism of Electronic Arts - Wikipedia

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    In the last few months, we have started making changes to the business practices that gamers clearly do not like." [44] Gibeau attributed the elimination of online passes, the decision to make The Sims 4 a single-player, offline experience, as well as the unveiling of more new games to the shift in thinking. Gibeau added: "The point is we are ...

  3. EA (service) - Wikipedia

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    Users may also add certain EA games to their Origin account by using CD keys from retail copies, and digital copies obtained from other digital distribution services; however, the addition of retail keys to Origin is restricted to games from 2009 onwards and older keys will not work even if the game is available on Origin, unless user contacts ...

  4. The Sims - Wikipedia

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    The Sims is a series of life simulation video games developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts.The franchise has sold nearly 200 million copies worldwide, and is one of the best-selling video game series of all time.

  5. Maxis - Wikipedia

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    The former logo of Maxis, used until 2012 Will Wright, Maxis co-founder. Maxis was founded in 1987 by Will Wright and Jeff Braun to help publish SimCity on home computers. . Before then, the game was only available on a limited basis on the Commodore 64 due to few publishers showing any interest in porting a non-traditional game without definite "win" and "lose" condi

  6. Data corruption - Wikipedia

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    The adjacent image is a corrupted image file in which most of the information has been lost. Some types of malware may intentionally corrupt files as part of their payloads , usually by overwriting them with inoperative or garbage code, while a non-malicious virus may also unintentionally corrupt files when it accesses them.

  7. Emergent gameplay - Wikipedia

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    Immersive sims, such as Deus Ex and System Shock, are games built around emergent gameplay.These games give the player-character a range of abilities and tools, and a consistent game world established by rules, but do not enforce any specific solution onto the player, though the player may be guided into suggested solutions.

  8. Trip Hawkins - Wikipedia

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    [4] Around this time, in 1975, Hawkins estimated that it would take home computer saturation seven years to make a viable career out of game design. [3] He was the Director of Strategy and Marketing at Apple Computer in 1982 when he left to found Electronic Arts (EA), a video game publisher. EA was successful for many years under his leadership.

  9. Origin (data analysis software) - Wikipedia

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    Older (.OPJ), but not newer (.OPJU), Origin project files can be read by the open-source LabPlot or SciDAVis software. The files can also be read by QtiPlot but only with a paid "Pro" version. Finally the liborigin [ 1 ] library can also read .OPJ files such as by using the opj2dat script, which exports the data tables contained in the file.