I'm a sucker for free - Sims Online is now Free and known as EA-Land

TechCrunch - EA Turns The Sims Online Into Free EA-Land, Second Life Competitor

"EA is relaunching The Sims Online as a free service with a new name and new features, including UGC, commerce and land ownership.

EA-Land is the new, free Sims Online (TSO). The 12 different cities from TSO are being moved to EA-Land and the game area is being expanded to be “100 times bigger than the previous size of any city.” Existing TSO users will be able to purchase land in EA-Land before the new (reincarnated) world is open to the public with paying TSO users becoming “EA-Land subscribers” in a similar fashion to the way Linden Lab charges for land in Second Life.

Users of EA-Land will have the ability to upload custom content and (more importantly) buy these customizations from other players. Sounding a lot like Second Life? It gets better:\

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I'm not a big Sims guy, but since it's free... ;)

(But the name? EA-Land? That's just... just... err.... um... yeah)