Because now it’s the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!

Television is a very different thing from video games. It’s kind of hard for me to compare.

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

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can’t really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

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

Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I’ve seen is the Wii – the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.

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.

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 there’s no real gameplay there.

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

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.