Stone Librande, lead designerAs the project ramped up and more developers joined, EA largely took a back seat. Plans for future expansions were dropped, and EA moved on to its next project for the series: a mobile SimCity spin-off that it hoped it could develop more quickly and at a much higher profit margin. For all its novel ideas and aesthetic vision, he says, SimCity was never going to fly smoothly while its servers were so drastically unfit for use