
To protect their IP, they asked that I cease and desist any efforts to bring either of these games to mobile or any other plaforms. Given even just its relevance to me, The Sims’ IP is clearly something that is worth EA protecting from any potential damage, so I complied with these terms immediately out of respect.Ī few days ago, some time after our last blog post, I received further correspondence from EA, regarding my plans to bring TS1 to mobile devices, as well as potentially FreeSO.

At that time, you may have noticed a change in logo to avoid the house motif, the addition of multiple disclaimers to our websites, and further insistence on taking no donations for server costs (really, no change). For the foreseeable future, these efforts have been stopped.Ī few months ago we were contacted by EA regarding how the TSO IP should be handled. In the last news update, I announced an attempt at using the FreeSO engine to bring TS1 to mobile platforms. Here is what FreeSO had to say on their newest blog post about why they cancelled this amazing project. Yesturday FreeSO announced that they will be cancelling the project since EA was asking the team to stop creating The Sims 1 for mobile and other devices.
