User blog comment:Cavia porcellus/The Sims Social is released!/@comment-3109473-20110809151932/@comment-26744861-20110810132952

The thing is with the graphics that the whole game was made on Flash, which has limitations (which is why most Flash games are 2D) whereas TS1 had its own engine and EA could do whatever they wanted to with it. I've seen a few Flash games with 3D graphics but they tend to be a disadvantage for someone with a slow broadband connection in addition to being sub-par to PC/console visuals of today, which is why most developers opt for 2D as they know that Flash can do it pretty well and very few are disadvantaged from it.