Even if they kept the online version, I doubt it would of been any better.

I remember reading some stuff about how someone who worked on the sims 4 got sacked and wrote a tweet calling the sims 4 team 'mismanaged', At first I assumed this person must of been bitter and upset which might have inspired them to write that, but now... It seems true. Maybe that is the major issue, maybe they're THAT mismanaged.

I believed him then. They were doing zero advertising for the game for months on end. To shun your moneymaker like that shows serious problems.