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A $75.00 chatroom with very little game elements.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 50 / 57
Date: December 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What a con. I bought a copy for myself and as a gift for my sister as I thought it would be a neat way to keep in touch.

I can begin to convey my disappointment after playing this for the last two days.
There is very little game content and the design is no better than some of the 3D Chat places that are available for free online.

I was expecting to see downtown areas. The advertising made it sound as if there were actual jobs and business and places of exploration.
This place is either geared for the under 21 set or for uncreative types because what I saw people do was childish and just plain crass.
I am disappointed that the developers of The Sims could release such a shallow, half hearted online version.

I should have tried the playtest because if I had, I wouldn't have made such a costly mistake. I just feel fortunate I was able to return my sister's.

This is a huge disappointment. How this can be considered an actual game is beyond me.
Maxis should have just developed an multiplayer version of The Sims where people could play with their friends and family.

Attention Parents

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 21 / 25
Date: January 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Please consider very carefully before purchasing this game. Play it yourself before allowing your child to play...particularly anyone under the age of 18.

As a 'Founder' (beta-tester) for 3 months, &, after being slapped by a 9 year old because I wouldn't get into the 'love-bed' (simulated sex) with him, you couldn't get me back to this 'over-rated CHAT program for losers" with a team of wild horses!!! and...I will not allow my grandchildren to 'play'.

Should you decide to purchase this 'thing' anyway, I'd recommend a high amount of Parental Supervision. There is a lot of very 'sick' stuff going on & Maxis doesn't seem to have put in the proper controls. The only contribution this game makes is everything that we don't want our children absorb...

Please, spend a little time there yourself before agreeing to alow your child to play.

Addictive at 1st and then quickly becomes terribly boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 23
Date: February 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It WAS addictive at 1st. Slowly, it started to get very repetitive and the game SLOWED down tremendously even on the fastest computers when many sims were altogether. Chatting became lethargic. You always had to empty your bladder or eat or sleep and that really made it very frustrating. Save your money.

Save yourself the agony, AVOID!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 20
Date: March 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this piece of garbage and I can definitely say its
NOT worth it.

This doesn't feel like I was playing an actual game, it seemed more like a giant Sim Chatroom with a few game elements inside so it could be marketed accordingly. And the gameplay it does have was extremely boring.
The only objectives are to become the richest and most popular and after you achieved that there is simply nothing else to do except to chat. I buy games for the purpose of having fun. This is NOT a fun game. Its boring, tedious, and shallow. And many of the users are using it as an outlet to express themselves in rather obnxious and creepy ways.

Had this game had what it advertised and was more complete, my review would be more positive as I have nothing against games of this nature. What I don't like is being manipulated into believing that this game was something more than it actually is. The truth of the matter is they released this game way too early because they assumed we'd all be happy to play it despite its incomplete condition. I don't like feeling this cheated.

Save your money and send a message to the game developers that you won't by incomplete, substandard games.

Waste of time and money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 24
Date: February 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you enjoy doing tedious tasks after installing a huge application, that lags horribly and sucks up a large amount of system resources, then by all means, this game is for you. Please do not waste your time and money with this game.
If you want to know the specs of the computers I played it on, in case you think my boxes were slow, well here they are:

note: All boxes were tweaked to give the best performance, and each experienced great slow downs when there were more then 13 people in a house.

box #1
Windows XP
p4 2.8ghz
60gig 72000 rpm hd with a 2meg cache (ata 133)
radeon 7500
T3 internet connection with bandwidth priority

box #2
Windows 2000
duron 1.2ghz
40gig 7200 rpm hd with a 2meg cache udma 66
gainward geforce4 ti 4400 overclocked to be faster then a 4600
cable modem

box #3 (laptop)
Windows XP
800mhz p3
30gig 5400 rpm hd
on board 11meg video card

Not A Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: December 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking to expand or perhaps re-live the fun you had with the original Sims, this is not the answer. Though it looks like The Sims and has the same familiar controls, it definitely doesn't PLAY like The Sims. It plays more like ICQ. Chat. Meet virtual people and have shallow conversations. Logoff.

Strong possibility that EA can turn this "project" into a "game" with more time, but for now, this is little more than Internet Chat - for $... a month.

A badly developed game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: March 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In the beginning this game was a great idea but a greedy
game publishing company decided to release this in an incomplete state figuring The Sims name would sell it.

What could have been an exciting and fun game to play is bacially boring, pointless, and just not fun! The gameplay is tedious and extremely repetitive and some of the objects that were promised have not even been implemented in the game and some of the other playable elements are still grayed out, meaning you can't play them yet.

It took months before an item advertised in the box was even added to the game!!! They take forever to add anything and you're constantly greeted with half baked promises.

The game strict rules prevents any opportunity at being creative and literally destroys the fun. As of now, its merely a chat room with a few game objects/elements that you pay monthly for.

My friends and I had enough so we unsubscribed altogether because we were tired of feeling ... ..., so all I can say is buy this game at your own risk and be prepared to be bored, creatively stifled and harassed by alot of griefers as they need something to do since theres not much to do in this game.

I Gave it My Beta Time Plus 3 Months

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: March 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you enjoy computer games with quests and missions, perhaps a sense of purpose for playing a game (perhaps a story line or some history), even if you just wanna wander around a vast 3-D world---DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!
The only game going on with The Sims Online is that there is no game here, and when you do find your place in role-playing in this game someone will inevitably report you to the gestapo I mean Maxis and you will have your account suspended for not playing the (non)game their way.
Oh I agree it sure looks cool on the box, be who you want to be right? Ask one person who organized a large group of people and formed a role playing Sim Mafia. He was asked to cease and desist his group because more or less the majority of people in this game are playing real life, and that is too much for them to deal with in a game.
I myself had started a fight club thinking there may be some pvp action to be had....NOT you must physically accept all interactions initiated by another player or it just rejects the actions.
If you really enjoy people chatting about what is going on in there life while they build a skill for no reason other than more interactions this is for you.
I play many games and beta test alot of new games so when I experienced massive lag issues in this Sims game after release with only 12 people on a property with its poor graphics from the early 90's I tend to wonder why when i beta tested shadowbane with 2500 peeps on one server with 100 people on screen at one time in a guild conflict with intense graphics i get no lag at all? Also this bloated pig of a game will bring down your computers resources faster than 20 viruses at once I got 768 megs of RAM and would run out of mem while playing.

Subscription Chat Service

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: April 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Why pay for something that is free ??

THIS IS NOT A GAME.

It's an interactive screensaver with chat attached to it.

Genuine waste of money.

Play the lottery

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: January 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Invest your [money] bucks or however much you want to toss away in the lottery, don't bother with TSO. Do you spend your day in a job that is not challenging, repetitive, and uninteresting except when you chat over the water cooler, copier or cubicle wall? Well, that is decidedly more interesting and fun than TSO and about as exciting. There is a design bias towards forced interaction. Due to individual object limits, creativity is limited. Skill takes extremely long to gain, and must be continously maintained. Needs restrict how much time you can spend doing anything before you have to 'green up'. These factors have been tweeked however are far from fixed. You can't walk your sim to another house, across the street or around the neighborhood. Sure, that is being 'worked on' in design, but do you really want to pay to play a less than beta version game while code is being written to make it live up to what it has been hyped to be? You start the game with [money] simoleons which you'll spend a third (at least) upon buying property which you then can't fully build upon due to lack of funds. If you choose to play alone without roommates, you will be penalized an exordinate extra cost in order to enlarge your lot. You can chat for free all over the net, why pay [money] a year to chat in a 3D enviornment? I played the Beta, am a founder and this is the worst game I've ever played.

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