Such a shame as it could of worked.

The petition is here:
http://www.peti...d/petition.html

This is the EA land website:
http://ea-land.ea.com/blog/

Thank you for your time and please show some support! We want to save this game.

http://www.atitd.com

Check the forum for more info on the beta as they update.

It is run by a very small group of guys but is a wonderful game.

http://www.playercampaigns.com.

All this apparently because they weren’t earning enough money,
and not getting enough subscribers.
The problem is, they never promoted it well enough,
and im sure many of you never even heard of The Sims Online.
This is your chance too, if we save it, to experience one amazing game.
This is NOT impossible, it has happened before.
Well it worked for Disneys VMK (Virtual Magic Kingdom) Which was shut down by Disney.
The players got together and with massive online petitions
now have their own version of that game to play!

HERE is the news the Developer-team gave to us:
http://www.tso-e.com.

You can also sign a petition made as well:
http://www.peti...4/petition.html

We are calling out for help! Please lend a hand.

TSO has had mass defections to There.com and SecondLife, and should’ve been shut down 2 years ago.

Pogo is an almost underground phenomenom in the world of casual gaming. They’ve got a huge, paying subscriber base. It’s not as sexy as World of Warcraft, but I bet it’s making them a lot of money.

Bring back the gaming events or symposiums of the 80-90s and only invite young professionals with no ties to big corporations.

They should spin off the sims off to someone else who will put the money into marketing and long term planning that could make it a huge success. EA Land with a “simslands” name and marketing to families with children would ensure long term future success.

Certainly there are many things aside from proper marketing that could of made the sims online – or even “EA land” a huge success. Easy to customize and personalize would help, and adult islands or even racy online dating cities would have made a fortune.

Instead EA tries to get a hold of a company that is looking to make the fast millions off of a really mature title that is primarily a console game. I guess EA doesn’t care about the small online niche markets, even if those thousands of regular users long term could be extremely valuable, and maintain their value year after year, long after GTA has been forgotten over the next hardcore – “push the limits of decency” bloody game to take over the short term console market.

Actually I almost happy that this is happening, as it leaves room for global advanced media to expand in this area even more. We are already looking at doing similar things, and with EA bowing out, it gives us more opportunity to put a “kid friendly” vr-place into our future plans.

The success of The Sims is based on the ability to choose the kind of gaming-style that appeals to you: Build houses and townships, gather cool furniture and clothes and play Doll-house, set your Sims up for a video-shoot and make Sims-movies or be a contributor and make new sims-stuff including clothes and what-ever. Couple that with the inevitable new expansion-pack coming out every six months or so, and you have a game where you constantly add more and more value to your gaming-experience, by adding more downloaded stuff and new EP’s that brings more fun experience to your never-ending game.

The problem with The Sims Online, such as it was designed, was that your treasure-chest of gathered cool stuff for your Sims to indulge in, would have been more or less useless in the Online world. Now, why would the Online world be interesting to me as a Sims-player (and remember that I would be paying premium bucks to join the Sims Online) if all the reasons that I love my sims-game is stripped out of the Sims Online? Only an EA marketing-exec could answer that question…

LOL!