I'm glad EA Land closes. From what I read on the blog they had only one person who approved fanstuff, so a lot of stolen content popped up in the game. Whenever one of the original artists came and complained EA just deleted the fanstuff with no compensation for the buyers.
If I had spent 150$ of my real money to buy custom content just to come back to my house later and find nothing but worthless placeholders because the cc became disapproved... oh boy, I can't understand how people could stick to that game for so long!
For someone who worked "so closely" with EA on this TSR kept a rather low profile in the blog, Simfreaks was much more prominent. I also noticed a fat EA Land banner on Simfreaks1 lately. Guess there's more than one paysite crying about lost profits now.