SimCity series creator Will Wright has used an address at the University of California to talk about the latest incarnation of his famous city-simulation game.

“I feel bad for the team. I kind of did predict there’d be a big backlash about the DRM stuff,” he said during his lecture. “It was kind of like, ‘EA is the evil empire, there was a lot of ‘Let’s bash EA over it. That was basically inexcusable, that you charge somebody $60 for a game and they can’t play it. I can understand the outrage. If I was a consumer buying the game and that happened to me, I’d feel the same.”

“I think people care if it doesn’t work. If you can’t play it on planes, stuff like that – I think there are some very valid concerns about it.”

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Former EA Maxis leader and SimCity creator Will Wright just loves the new SimCity, apparently. “I have to say I’ve had more fun playing this SimCity than I have had playing SimCity in over a decade,” he said in a conversation with new creative director Ocean Quigley.

Wright said he got sick of SimCity over the years but had a “surprising amount of fun” with the new one, which releases in early March. You can see the pair chat in the video below; it’s kind of cute how deferential Quigley is to the master of sims, and the two have an interesting discussion about what tactics Wright used while playing the new game.

Source: VG247