Will wright

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but...

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play.

Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political.