Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!

In August 2005 he said "We've been nonstop busy making other games over the past several years so the dinosaur game remains on the Sid Meierlf. U. Today Firaxis makes strategy games many of which are follow-ups to Meier titles such as the new Civilization games and Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004).

Meier co-founded MicroProse in 1982 and is a Director of Creative Development for computer game developer Firaxis Games which he co-founded with Jeff Briggs and Brian Reynolds in 1996. "Sid" Meier (born February 24 1954) is a Canadian-American programmer and designer of several popular strategy video games and simulation video games most notably Civilization.