In April 2004, the subscription peaked at 55,000, but at this point was staying at around 35,000. The game had a $20 million dollar budget, but its sales were not enough to compensate this. Six months after release, it was reported that the game had 125,000 retail copies sold and 97,000 active subscribers, which is not that bad. EA predicted that TSO (The Sims Online) would obtain an ongoing, active subscriber base that would grow to 1 million. There was no purpose, and you really could not create your own purpose as you could with its predecessors and successors. The Sims Online was nothing more than a huge chat room.
We would like to thank everyone who has taken part in this online community as a unique experience in the virtual world.”Īs a player, one thing I noticed was a lack of updates.
The lifetime of the game has drawn to an end, and now we will be focusing on new ideas and other innovative concepts in the games arena. “Since 2002, EA-Land / TSO has attracted a very special group of players and we certainly appreciate your participation in the community. Just months after EA-Land launched with the new name, EA announced the development team was to disassemble and that they would be moving on to other projects. The Sims Online is known as a 20 million dollar failure by many articles and posts on their forums.
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