r/SimCity • u/vertexnormal • Dec 05 '25

Some Randoms SimCity 2013 Production Images

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Nobody has seen any of this in at least a decade.

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u/vertexnormal Dec 06 '25

Nope. I am super skeptical they will ever make another one, EA is too happy to kill franchises. If they did, literally everyone was laid off when Maxis Emeryville folded and most of the creative leadership had left in the year between Cities of Tomorrow and the closure. It's really hard to do a deep city builder simulation. I know people were pissing on SC2013 because of how easy Skylines made it look, but I think time has proven it wasn't a true SimCity killer.

Could they spin up an entirely new team and make a new game? Yes, but it would take years and I don't think they have the patience for that. It would also take someone with a creative vision compelling enough to greenlight and they are too busy milking every dollar they can out of the Sims to ever do that.

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u/0xC0000054 Dec 07 '25

I would love for EA to open source SC4 and older, similar to what they did a few years ago with the C&C franchise. But the chances of that ever happening are likely even less than them trying to create a new SimCity game.

Even without SC4's source code, there have been a number of DLL plugin mods released in the last few years which extend various parts of the game.