EA-Land

[NabrashaSim]

How can I download the game ?

[debslee]

Hi NabrashaSim

Unfortunately The Sims Online/EA Land shut down its servers on 31 August 2008. Below I have copied for you the Blog that Luc made regarding closure of the game.

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.

This development team over the past year, in partnership with your amazing community contributions, worked to deliver a re-engineered TSO architecture ported to DirectX9, with a stable economy, variable pricing, the beginnings of custom content (bitmaps, chairs and sculptures, skinning), integrated web-services (enabling Facebook apps and user created widgets), and kept pace with new features pushed weekly (cash in, free play, across-world mini games, etc). The team is a very dedicated crew that spent many nights and week-ends making it all work.

We would like to thank the community for trusting us over the last 10 months and enabling this opportunity. A special thank you to the few thousand who have been with the game since the original beta! (A big thank you also to all the users who came back since December).

Thank you for uploading 30,000 pieces of custom content and proving again that development teams should build worlds involving their user communities. We are particularly proud that the top entrepreneurs in this new world are custom content makers. Personally, I have been most motivated by your participation in all stages (from design on the wiki to testing in TC3 and feedback all over). I think that this smart and well-connected community is one you should be proud of.

Thank you for helping us, pushing us and making us more flexible, wiser, and smarter!

The virtual worlds are still in their infancy, I sincerely hope we will have the opportunity to be creative together again.

We miss you already,

Luc,

(With the help of: Greg, Larry, Sarah, Uri, Cort, Randy, Parizad, Mark, Lee, Margaret, Paul, Michael, Audrey, Laurent, Alex, Minkz, Vishwa, Cindy and Bing)



Luc and some of the team have created a new company and are in the throws of creating a new game called Tirnua. Have a look here for updates and developments:

Tirnua Blog (http://www.tirnua.com/)

Tirnua Discussion hall - Stratics Forum (http://vboards.stratics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=406)

[Katheryne]

It's also worth noting that many of us, following the game's closing, have moved over to Second Life while waiting for Tirnua to be developed. While EA-Land may be gone for good, a lot of the community behind it still lives on and can be found in one of those two places.