by Enrique Caroli on Jun 07, 2008
EA ret-conning, acting as if EA Online didn't exist.
Nancy Smith, head of EA's Sims division, sat down with the Times Online to discuss the possible future of the Sims Online. Not mentioned was the fact that this is deja vu all over again - The original Sims Online was released in 2002 and died a slow death earlier this year, after being renamed EA Online. Could they just be pretending that didn't exist?
Nancy Smith, head of the Sims Division at EA, said that the company, one of the world's largest game publishers, "would continue to invest in more and more robust community features" in the Sims. Two spin-offs from the franchise, including one called Sims on Stage, in which players compete against one another in singing and dancing contests, have incorporated online elements.
What does more robust community features mean anyways?
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