Electronic Arts’ Game
The Sims Hits 100-million Mark
The Sims, a PC game offered by Electronic Arts (EA), has recorded sales of 100 million units yesterday since its introduction way back in 2000. The game is available in 22 languages and 60 countries around the world.
According to EA, The Sims franchise has attracted millions of players to tell stories, create characters, explore relationships, live through generations, design fashions, and build homes and design home interiors for their Sims.
TheSims2.com, an online community of players of The Sims, has over 4 million unique visitors per month, who have downloaded more than 70 million user-generated creations, says the company. Players are also using video-sharing sites like YouTube, where nearly 100,000 videos and movies of The Sims have been shared, with about 200 million views.
Recently, EA has introduced the game’s online version, hitherto called The Sims Online, under a new label: EA Land, which will exist in the 3-D virtual space.
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EA is the biggest fraud in the gaming community. Their customer service is the worst and has never improved. They continue to this day after announcement of the closing of the very much loved and played game The Sims Online, taking subscription money from the players. Since this decision on canceling a very much popular game didn’t happen overnight – it is obvious that them taking the ATM money up to the day of the announcement , another way of milking money out of their subscriber base. EA is the death to the gaming industry if you continue to let it happen. You can stop that by not buying their products and services.. from POGO to any of their sports games.
EA announced that people don’t like to play with each other. This is again one of their attempts to cover up their failure of actually supporting a game they put out. As a gaming customer of many of their games, I will now be joining the boycotting of all games that have the EA brand on them. Their comment was only a smoke screen to what the true facts are. EA FAILED. They will continue to fail as they refuse to listen to their customers. They will fail because they continue to put out products with issues and never fix them or update them. They will fail because they are more interested in buying out smaller companies and promise them how they will make that game a hit, and then not follow through on their promises
They have proven over and over that they are not interested in what their customers want. They have proven that its all about buying out smaller gaming companies and not developing them into their promised potential. As they did with The Sims Online. Recently they changed the name of the game to EALand.. what was the reason behind this, only one sticks out in many heads. They wanted to distance themselves from what they were about to do. Yet not take any responsibility for the failure of the project.
The name change is to distance there failure from he Sims 3 release due out. As all gamers we all should stand together and boycott all EA games including the upcoming Sims 3 and Spore. Make your voice heard to the EA shirts out there that are not listening to their customers. They forget that it is us that keeps them in business. So stop buying EA products and services and soon they will see that listening to us is what they should of done.
They have not taken correct statistics to be able to say we gamers do not like to play together. If this was true, then WOW made by Blizzard and Second Life made by Linden Labs, just to name a couple would not be as successful as they are. The difference with these games and The Sims Online (EAland) is that those companies actually listened to their client base and do improvements and updates to their products. EA does none of this.
The Sims Online had no updates to the game platform for over 4+ years before it was given a skeleton development team that was given a task 100 could not accomplish in the time frame given. Yet they worked hard and listened to the customers. If anyone should be given awards of any kind would be this small group. Yet EA squashed them and in turn has and will loose many customers for the actions.
Bad press will spread of how they treated their customers and subscribers and the EA name will fall off the gaming industry. It up to us to make sure everyone and anyone hears of this. Just like they expected the subscription base to advertise for their game The Sims Online, since they didn’t even give up any advertising dollars to promote the new updated game.
Join us in boycotting EA and all there services or help us save the game that could of been everything if only given a chance.
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