Re: Will Sims Ever return to online? If so When? If not Why?

It'd have to compete with Second Life, which it can't, and when Sims Online existed there wasn't enough interest to remotely warrant the cost of keeping it running, thus the shutdown. It takes a lot of money to run and support an online game and even if EA could in theory afford to support it, there's no money in doing so unless you can gather a large playerbase to pay for it. The vast majority of Sims players on various forums have expressed many times that they aren't interest in an online game. I know a few are, but that brings us back to the first problem: It's not enough.

Also, I believe many don't want EA to focus on online components after the SimCity fiasko, where the online components were a major part of what made that game not work properly.