And we were just talking about a SL by another company...

Article on blues news:

The Sims Online Becomes EA-Land


EA-Land is the name of a new online world born from the ashes of The Sims Online. This article outlines the revival, which says the new version "offers several improvements on the first game," not the least of which is that it is free. The environment is described as being similar to that of Second Life, with the distinction being EA's willingness to screen in-game content, so there will probably be fewer flying phalluses.

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Very interesting to say the least. If they can pull this off the end results should be interesting and perhaps give LL a little (positive) competition. And while I know some will gripe about the screening of custom content, IMO if not to pervasive, I can see it as a good thing. No griefing tools or trojan scripts anyone?

Was wondering what others thought about this?

Dollar short and a day late... lol

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read the site.... its 90% typical EA promises. Which they have been doing for years. All it means to me is TSO is in worse shape than EA will admit.

It's hard to imagine effective screening. But, I appaud the effort; it's best for people to have choices. My choice would be minimal screening.

It won't be a concern because TSO is on its last legs, and this is the "last hope" from EA.

They've seen how popular SL has become, and instead of writing something new to try and blast SL out of the water, they've taken an existing product and modified it in some way to try and compete - much like their sports simulators that each year's new $40 version is merely a new list of players and naff all else.

TSO players have been waiting for custom content for nearly 5 years after it was originally promised (after all, it's what made offline Sims such a big seller) and I simply cannot figure out how it was all so impossible for all this time then when the game is almost dead, suddenly it appears out of nowhere working.

If they'd done this 4 years ago when TSO began, then probably it would be bigger than SL. But too much water has passed under the bridge now, they've alienated many of their biggest supports (I was one of them) and apart from people coming back to have a look to see what's happening, I don't see it lasting very long.

A shame really... but that's the way of EA. After the way they treated the TSO playerbase I vowed never to buy another EA product again.

Heh! It's not limited to just TSO from EA. EA has a reputation of taking a really good game, making mind-numbing, bug-filled sequels, and driving a series into the ground.
The Battlefield series, Medal of Honor, TSO, countless sports games... the list goes on.

In their latest fiasco, the told the Medal Of Honor:Airborne community "Sorry, you can't nor will ever mod this game cuz we didnt include that option when we made it". Lets just say the mod community is not happy. Especially since Mods make these games last well beyond the average game lifespan.

They used to be really good back in the 80s!

I guess for those in the 'adult' industries, this kind of screening doesn't bode well for you. And for those in the PG realms of content creation, you guys of course wouldn't mind content screening.

For me, I wouldn't mind--as long as there wasn't a huge halt in production because I was waiting for my next piece to be screened--it might be worse than waiting for a type AB negative liver on New Years Day.

I wouldn't mind a PG, screened metaverse...it would really clean up griefing and annoyingly immature content.

All I know about EA is I played the Original Sims for about a week back in the day, but what I've gathered here and in other places, even if they did come up with a competing product, they'd run it into the ground even better than LL could. But a nothing wrong with some neck breathing to maybe get LL into gear and on a steady course.

Hey, I think LL IS on the right direction--they always have been. SL is an amazingly ambitious project, and because of user-created content, will invariably always be unstable...

It's our fault it's unstable...lol...their just sifting though the mess we created. I know I know...none of you will ever admit this, but its...kinda true--at least partly.

MMMMMMMMM lovely EA, maybe now you can all rush off to get your very own The Sims Visa card ...