RIP Sims Online
Posted by Simon Lameth on May 7, 2008
In a not-surprising move last tuesday (meme intended), Electronic Arts announced that, effective August 1st, The Sims Online (which at some point seems to have been renamed “EA-Land”) will shut down for good.
“We share the sadness of the entire community in writing this blog to announce that the EA-Land experiment is being brought to an end. Decisions such as these are never easy and the rationale for closing EA-Land is particularly complex. Regardless, it is hard to see the end of the collective investment of emotion, time and friendship.” said Luc Barthelet, who seems to be the EA-Land Project Manager said in a blog post.
The Second Life Times Blog (and for those veteran readers, The Alphaville Times) will be uploading our archive of TSO Photographs in the coming days.
May 7, 2008 at 5:41 pm
The decision seems easy to me. EA Discovered one thing about EA Land:
Money Spent > Money Received.
I can’t see any other rationale as to why they closed it, to be honest.