The Sims may not be finished with online play

Posted Jun 5th 2008 2:00PM by Kyle Horner
Filed under: Interviews, MMO, Sandbox

When The Sims first made its foray into the online space via The Sims Online things didn't turn out so good in the end. Even with its less-than-stellar performance the game and its publisher Electronic Arts kept the online world around for a long time. Electronic Arts recently attempted to re-brand the game as EA-Land, although that venture's lifespan was far shorter than The Sims Online's original jaunt into the multiplayer space. So when the head of EA's Sims division Nancy Smith talks about future possibilities with online content in The Sims series, we're a bit skeptical.

Granted, there's apparently a ~~lot~~ ton of money to be made in said online space. So maybe it's not too crazy to think that Electronic Arts could be reassessing their options for a spiritual successor to The Sims Online. Who knows? Maybe The Sims 3 has some online features yet to be divulged. Although we would wager that such an online component would probably be featured in an expansion pack, as per the series' standard stratagem.

Tags: ea-land, electronic-arts, nancy-smith, the-sims, the-sims-3, the-sims-online

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

If that's an official image of EA land's header, that Cone is stolen from the VLC VideoLAN site, notice how its not the same theme as everything else? bad ea, BAD!Posted at 2:55PM on Jun 5th 2008 by Sam