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Sims Online Beware of Hidden Dangers
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User
When I first got this game . I loved every minute of it
then something nasty happen . I was inviting people to my party
when suddenly i was targeted by "Mafia " type sims , who then
with no provcation 'Tagged " me ie making an enemy out of me , for no apparent reason . Being under 13 , I was pretty scared of this and decided not to come back ......
So be careful , try the 14 day trial , I'm glad my dad insisted on that
instead of buying a subscription .
Beware - Very Addicting!!!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User
My son bought this game (without realizing you have to pay monthly) but we signed up anyway. I used to get mad at the kids for playing too long and not wanting to get off the computer... until *I* tried it - I am so hooked its ridiculous! I even paid real life money to buy extra Sim money! Yep, you can do that and people actually make real money selling it! I think I most enjoy the "house decorting" part of the game. Making money is very time consuming but its fun to chat with other players.
I do NOT like the fact that we have to pay about $15 a month to play online. That is WAY too much for one game, especially when we also pay for XBox Online and PoGo! I wouldn't mind $5 a month - maybe. Anyway, I love this game and I am almost 40 years old!
Great blend of sims and on line RPG
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 17 / 47
Date: December 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User
The last MMORPG released in 2002 was The Sims Online, a merging of two incredibly popular game types. How well did they do?
First, they did a very good job of translating the sim environment into on line gameplay. Each account has three sims it can manage, each in a different city. You choose your sim face and dress from hundreds of options, and head into the world.
Once there, you can choose to set up your own home, roommate with someone else, or just wander around the world. There are literally hundreds of houses on line at any given point in time. You can roam around the map, choose from the 'top 10' in a variety of areas, or search for someone in particular. You can look for a place to learn cooking, or work on your body skills, or just to hang out and chat.
Everything is done on line and in real time. You don't go "off" to work - instead, you go to an easel and work on a painting, or a typewriter to do some typing. Want to make more money? Grab some friends and work together on a great cooperative system like pizza-making or treasure-hunting. It's fun and lucrative! Just watch a group trying one of the group activities and watch the laughter!
The real money, though, comes from house visitors. Design a nice house that people want to hang out in, and you'll get income from the visits. You also get income from roommates, who help you keep the house on line and take care of decorating and caring for the home. The more your house is on line, the more visitors can come into it, and the more you earn - therefore the more you can buy for your home.
Where other MMORPGs are about slaying creatures and getting power, the Sims is all about people. You build friendship webs and can see who connects to who. You can throw parties at your house, complete with dance floors and buffet tables. You can get together for a poetry reading, have a pizza party, you name it.
It's a natural hit for kids and adults to play together, since everyone can have fun. The cousins can log on from Utah, the grandparents from Florida, and everyone can share in building and improving a sim-house together - chatting all the while! The built in parental controls make it easy for a parent to control exactly who can talk to any account.
Highly recommended for any sim fan! As beta-tester Ixia commented, "Be careful, it's very addictive"!
Ask yourself before you buy: Are you a chat room fan?
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User
I would describe the Sims online as a "three dimensional chat room." Unless you find some people to chat with on a regular basis, you're going to get bored because the game is too social. So if you're all alone, your friends aren't online, and you can't find interesting people to meet at the time, then the gameplay will drop like a brick. The ones who stay in the game are those who have found others in town to visit and chat with on a daily basis. Players who seek action and excitement will quit sooner or later.
I still play Sims online but only because I want to keep the friends that I've known in my sim town for half a year or so. It's the people that make this game worth hanging on to, but what other reasons are there? Ok, you can build a house but what do you do after you've reached all of the various property limits? Not much.
Oh, the redunancy! EA must think that "gee, the sims in the game has stuff to do, therefore the human player is also entertained." Yes, the sim is always doing something but for the player, it's just mostly chat or clicking something on the screen with a mouse. Skill building is so excruciatingly boring, when your sim is boosting up his/her rating, you'll need to do something in the real world like lift weights, watch tv, eat a sandwich, etc.
If EA wants to save this game, they're going to have to create better games within TSO. For example, when I play pool with another player, it's only between our two sims. Why not make it so that I can play an *ACTUAL ONLINE GAME OF POOL* with the other sim?
Single games are desperately needed in TSO as well. It's no fun to watch your sim play a game of pinball or some computer game. Yes, there are casino games like slots and roulette but that's not good enough. It has to be something where I am just as entertained as my sim character.
Then there are the actual games in TSO. Code is a yawner, maze is only fun if you're on the logic side, and Pizza is only fun when you're leading. Again, it's nothing but clicking on stuff with your mouse.
Aside from the great music, the graphics, and my wonderful friends that I know on TSO, the game gets boring fast for people who aren't chat room fans. If EA and Maxis want to attract a more diverse crowd to TSO, they'll have to start pumping out better patches like single/multiplayer games that are actually fun for players, not something stupid like ghosts or spotlights.
The Sims Online - A pleasure!
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User
First off, this is Delmer Eggert. This is his grandson, using his account to review the Sims Online.
When I first heard of the Sims Online about a year and a half ago, I was mildly interested in the game. Actually, it was about when my Sim craze took off when I bought the Deluxe Pack with the original game and its sequel.
So anyways, I read up on the game - researched it here and there, including Amazon. I found much negative response to this game and soon game up hope that it was good.
But just weeks ago I stumbled upon info that you can download the fourteen day free trial from FilePlanet. My interest soon bubbled back up to the surface. I tried downloading it, but instead bought the game when I found the download would take over TWO days on my modem.
Ever since, I have enjoyed the game. I started in the city known as Interhogan and made great friends and room-mates, and even was 'adopted' (no formal adoption in game though).
This game has no downsides, in my opinion, other than if you visit a house with fifteen to twenty people, you get lag for quite a while. People say it gets violent and cussing is all around. WRONG! First, interactions must be accepted by BOTH users before something happens (except for tagging!), and there is a word filter so you'll get something like "$%*@!" instead of the word. No worries.
Upsides, though, definetly conquer. The most major thing is chat - suddenly sims have ACTUAL personalities! You don't pick, for instance, five cleanliness points, or seven outgoing. Why? Because Maxis thought of a brilliant idea - let US do the behavioral stuff. You can privately or openly IM, make friends or enemies, and build your own house/become a roomie. Just be careful with your money! You only start out with 10 grand. Especially after buying a lot, you're down quite a bit - objects are expensive. But that's more fun - making money. This game lets you make an alter ego - become a p.i.m.p or a suave guy/gal who is loyal to his partner. Play all night long or come home every night to spend time with your love. You chose. Yes, that's right - you chose.
Question, though, Maxis: When's the Sims 2 Online comin' out? :P
They've got Pets now, and I like it!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User
I was an "original" TSO player when it first launched, and I admit, I was pretty dissapointed - it wasn't what I had hoped. Recently though, several friends who continued to play, that Maxis decided to add several different new features - one of them being Pets and Jobs and new NPCs. I love the Sims Unleashed and thought the Pets would be interesting to try out - so when the rebate came out, I decided to try it again since its only 9.99.
I love the Pets now! I have 3 cats and am thinkign about getting a job. Even though TSO is different to play than the regular Sims, I like the interaction and I really like the fact that it doesn't take up ALL my time - I usually only play about 5 hours a week. I'm actually a happy camper now!
TSO ROX!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 8 / 17
Date: October 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User
TSO is an excellent game its fun, enjoyable its almost like RL too i have experienced all sorts of emotion on the game from laughter to crying to crushes on sims! its tons of fun and the jobs r gr8 too i love to hate my job LOL pets r ADORABLE i LOVE playing with my 10 puppies all named the same thing HYPER! in general TSO is a gr8 game and i hope to see u there!
It lacks serious depth, but has potential
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 7 / 14
Date: January 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User
I've never been a huge fan of the original "Sims" game, but the social aspect of "The Sims Online" was very interesting and got my attention at the E3 convention.
I was one of the many who beta tested the game, and I was somewhat dissapointed in the amount of content, it seemed to lack any serious economic atmosphere as well and focused mainly on forced character socialization to upgrade and build homes and businesses.
They stifle any real attempts to create a sucessful business by allowing an exploit that brings millions of simoleans (Dollars) into the cities (Servers) each week, this allows players to give away everything for free and in turn, ruins any real chance of a player run economy or business.
However, with all of its flaws, I still firmly believe the game has massive potential, they are still tweaking the system and claim to be upgrading the game as the months go by, however I have yet to see any serious change within the system and i'm skeptical as to how far they intend to go.
Whether or not I continue playing TSO is still up in the air, but I will say this, if they don't completely overhaul the economic system, the game will be nothing more than a graphically enhanced chat room that you have to pay ...[rate]...a month for.
If you're a huge fan of the Sims, you'll probably have alot of fun during your first couple of months, but if nothing changes, you'll most likely find yourself cancelling your subscription and putting this game on the shelf forever.
Mindless Chatroom with a few game elements thrown in!
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 9 / 21
Date: October 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User
TSO was and still is HUGE disappointment. Its merely a chatroom with a Sims theme and ITS NOT WORTH the cost. I recently cancelled after foolishly paying for months of what is essentially a giant Sim Chatroom with some game elements thrown
to give the casual player the false assumption that they are playing an actual game when in fact they're only participating in an interactive chatroom.
Why can't Electronic Arts spend more time on making a really good game or two, rather than making a below average to horrible animated chatroom that has little to offer?
A Pretty Virtual Chatroom but not much else
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 4 / 6
Date: August 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User
This game inspires two things, despair and disgust.
I am disgusted that the game developers could release a poorly concieved, half finished game and after enduring months of despair on whether or not to stick with it, I finally gave up and unsubscribed.
What little gameplay is boring, the objectives are juvenile as well as shallow, and its creatively inhibiting.
Some elements of the game are not even activated yet and its been 7 months since the game was relieved. And now they have instituted a program where you can bypass the rules and pay a fee if you wish to have a bigger lot you can pay an 'extra fee' for it. So aside from the monthly fee, they basically want more money and that was the last straw for me.
This game is definitely not worth it. The bugs, glitches, and constant griefers are a pain to deal with and there simply isn't enough to do to warrant paying a monthly fee.
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