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Wright - Broderbund skipped out on SimCity publishing
“When I started working on SimCity, I showed it to Broderbund and they said, ‘Sure, let’s do it.’ But they kept wanting to change it. I’d kind of programmed it to the point where I thought it was done, and they didn’t think it was nearly done. They kept wanting a win/lose. They were expecting more of a traditional game out of it. But I always wanted it to be much more open-ended, more of a toy. So they never published it.” - Will Wright
It just goes to show, companies have to take risks from time to time in order to find the next big hit. Broderbund surely made a big mistake with this one.