User blog comment:Andronikos Leventis/Maxis Vs EA/@comment-1519608-20101229202310

Umm.... I don't think you really understand the relationship here. Maxis was bought out by EA in the late 1990s and since then has been in the process of being fully absorbed into the company.

Maxis, after its merger with EA, produced: SimCity 3000 The Sims (plus expansions) SimCity 4 (plus expansion) The Sims 2 (plus expansions) Spore

Maxis was not officially involved or credited with SimCity Societies or The Sims 3. It's usually the case, at least with TS and TS2 expansions, that although Maxis is officially credited as making the game, EA insists on downplaying Maxis' role in it, to the point where it would be hard for most people to ever know that Maxis was involved in it.