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Too bad there isnýt a zero star.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: January 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was a beta tester and enjoyed the game for the first few weeks. And even though I was getting somewhere. I knew that if I didn't have the time to sit there for hours on end I would never get anywhere. The price for the software is outrageous and if that wasn't bad enough the 10$ a month fee for basically chatting. The game needs better goals. Building a successful house with lots of visitors is ok. But if I want to cook dinner, take out the trash and fix things that people break, I would have a real life party! I really tried to make this work. But at this time it just doesn't offer enough "FUN" for the money. I would really rather play the old SIMMs or program in Cobol, which would offer more fun. I purchased this game but ended up returning it. After the beta test and realizing that once I purchased and installed I was getting nothing more then a registration code for my 50.00. No new features!!! Why after being a beta tester spend 50.00 for nothing new to expect of game play. I was very unhappy and quickly returned the software. Also The chatting feature is Horrible If you take your eyes from the screen for a few moments you miss everything. I give this game a big Boo..

Fun for the first few hours

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is really a BIG waste of money and nobody (,except people who will NEVER get bored of it no matter how bad it is,) should get this game. Talking to people isnt that great, its cool fore a little bit,your like " oh my god this is the coolest" but you dont think that 10 ,minutes later. You have a 100 object limit in building your house ( most people will reach that limit if the have multiple roomates) you cant speed up time, so the studying and getting other skills takes FOREVER. dont buy this!!

Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: February 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Everyone has pretty much said everything that needs to be said.
I'll just say this. Why play a game that simulates "Real life" when we live one everyday. Isn't the idea to get away or take a break from "Real Life"?

THIS STINKS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: February 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played this game at school and let me tell you, save your money.I don't have many games but this one was dissapointing.I've also played man games and this is the worst.This game really lacks fun and action.

Expense chatware

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 15 / 21
Date: December 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Sims online is an example of expense chatware system.
Good points: you can be somebody else, have your own home, build your skills.
Bad points: You can't have a job, trade with people, sell your stuff to someone else, modify your sim once you make it, time clock on the sims doesn't make any sense, bugs, bugs, and incomplete features.

Don't Do It

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: June 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was excited when I heard that The Sims was goign ONLINE. However I was EXTREMELY disappointed when I got the game and realized that Maxis wasn't even HALF way done with it's tweeking before it went on the market. The only thing that keeps me in game are the people I have met. If it were not for my friends I would have bailed a long time ago due to the lack of content. You don't even get half of the expansion pack objects. It's hard to maintain creativity with the limited "Stuff" to choose from.

A chat room with bells and whistles

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: June 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you don't like to chat online, don't buy this game. I got it because I loved all of the Sims games and expansions. But I found that Sims Online is basically a chat room with bells and whistles. Your sim spends so much time learning skills and making money that there is nothing to do while you wait for it to do those things. If you're social and like to chat, you will probably enjoy the game. However, I found myself leaving the computer while my sim was making potions to make money, only coming back long enough to sell the finished potion and start her on the next one. I soon realized that I was wasting my money by having the game just running and not doing anything with it.

A side note... when I called to cancel my subscription, the guy at EA asked me why I wanted to quit. I told him that I thought the game was boring, and his response was "yeah, we get that comment a lot."

I gave this game one star because Amazon.comwouldn't let me rate it zero stars.

Its a great chatroom but a tedious and pointless game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: April 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

TSO is not really one huge virtual community, as it is advertised. There are ten cities yet the way the game is designed you can't visit one at well without using another avatar/skin for that specific city you want to visit. Your Sim can't call a cab to go downtown. In order to visit the player houses, you teleport and they're either a dance club, wedding chapels, skills centers, hotels, and now casinos if you live in the Test City. I refer to them as being interactive chatrooms.

The lack of content makes every house look basically, generic.
And the meager amount of gameplay the game has gets very repetitive and downright boring after the first few weeks.

The game devlopers are adding new content in an extremely slow manner and they constantly make excuses for the delay,

You're basically trapped into following the same game routine everytime you play and while it is fun to chat, that was not the sole reason I was interested in playing this. Since this was from the creators of the offline game, I was expecting something
a little more challenging and not as...shallow.

I can chat for free anywhere. In fact, since unsubscribing from TSO, I still keep in contact with the friends that I made because we found something similar on the net and its free.

This game should have been marketed as an interactive chatroom instead of game because thats what it is...a chatroom.
Had there been more game content, and if creativity had been encouraged I would have continued playing but given the fact that its taking way too long for new content to be added, I felt as if I was throwing my money away by paying for an incomplete game. Buy the game at your own risk.

Profoundly dissapointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: February 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I really feel taken advantage of and wish there was a rating lower than one star. $40 for the game, $10 per month for the subscription, and for what? To be a beta-tester for what is so obviously an unfinished product. Several critical advertised options are not available, the gameplay is tedious with no fast-forward to alleviate that tedium of maintanance tasks, the chat overated, limited world-building options, limited currancy making options, long download time for folks with dial-up like me, bugs galore with no way to undo the damage they cause -- I could go on and on! This serious hurt the loyalty I once had for the Sims franchise. DO NOT BUY THIS!!!

NOT FOR TEENS!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: May 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

You'll be horrified if you order this game for a teen. It is more an adult cyber-sex chat room than a RPG. Filters are pointless they only work 1/8 of the time. Gameplay is boring, has to be the worst sim title ever.

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