The Sims Online: Difference between revisions

'''''The Sims Online''''', or '''''TSO''''', was a massively multiplayer online game. It was based on ''[[The Sims]]'', and offered online plaplay hiwith other gamers via PC. It was published by [[Electronic Arts]] and released on December 17, 2002 for Windows. After the popularity of the game waned, the name was changed to ''EA Land''; the change failed, and ''EA Land'' was permanently shut down by EA on August 1, 2008.<ref>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/29/ea-land-the-sims-online-joins-the-deadpool</ref> This shutdown is commonly referred to as the "EA Land Sunset". In 2011, a new online based game known as ''[[The Sims Social]]'' was announced as a [[Wikipedia:Facebook|Facebook]] application and it is considered by some to be a new version of The Sims Online.