-The name "Micropolis" was the original working title Will Wright suggested. EA granted the right to use the trademark "SimCity" only if the game passed their QA process -- and it was quite an ordeal hand-holding their QA department through running Linux in a VM on Windows to test it. Never wanting to go through that ever again, Don asked Will for an alternative name, and he recommended its original working title. Please call this game Micropolis, not SimCity, or [EA's lawyers](https://www.ea.com/legal/online-terms-of-service) may come knocking. As Jeff Braun (CEO of Maxis) once explained: Toho sued Maxis $50k over magazine reviewers calling the in-game monster "Godzilla" even though Maxis never used the name. And unlike Toho, EA might not be so friendly about it.
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