User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/EA and how they're contributing to the economic downturn!/@comment-67.185.244.153-20120303065253

I guess I can't use a pseudonym here like other sites (stuck as anonymous), and I'm in no way affiliated with EA/Maxis/anyone else. However, I did study economics–EA has a monopoly on their product niche (when was the last time anyone heard "yeah I'm playing Alter Ego 3 it's just like Sims 3") so if anyone wants to play a modern people sim it's going to be an EA product. A bit of solace: SimCity (heck, paid $40 for that in something like 1993), then LinCity. Civilization, then FreeCiv. Transport Tycoon then OpenTTD. I could even go further by adding something like MS Office then OpenOffice. Perhaps someday we'll see 'FreeSims, the free people simulator.'