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Not all aspects of the game work yet

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: January 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

EA and Maxis released this game too early. Many buttons say COMING SOON! and there are still MANY issues that prohibit smooth game play. I assumed these things would all be solved by now, as I was a beta tester.

I also agree that one could get bored with this game very quickly. It's more of a chat program than anything.

I definitely wouldn't give this to a kid!

Online Gaming

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: January 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm really into the online gaming word. I've been an avid EverQuest player for a long time. I've tried Anarchy Online and Dark Age of Camelot. I am highly anticipating the release of Star Wars Galaxies.

That being said, I also have enjoyed the Sims and have purchased about half the expansions. I enjoyed the game, but it got old quickly. I got frustrated with the game and often had my characters on fast forward, to get me through learning skills and other stuff.

So I talked myself into buying Sims Online. My opinion of it isn't very high. About all there is to do is use your skills and then build stuff using your skills (to sell it for cheap prices). You spend hours training, hopefully with a group of people cause it's faster, and if you don't train so often your skills will actually degrade.

My boyfriend has tried it out with a character, and what he likes about it is the chat and the social interactions. I love EverQuest for all the things I can do in that world, but he doesn't enjoy having to work in groups and kill stuff. He likes being able to do stuff on his own and loves the ability to just chat with people.

The Sims Online has possibility. It's not for me, as an EverQuest player who likes to actually do something with my gaming online, but it's a lot of fun to my boyfriend who enjoys the social aspects of games online.

Not as good as expected...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: January 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If this game does not require a monthley fee, it may be worth buying for 19.99 or less. As I was Beta testing this game, I had a common account problem with logging in. It seemd many people had it. Customer service was not good. I'll break down the ratings here:

Enjoyment Level: 3/10
Customization: 6/10
Interaction: 6/10
Variety of activities: 3/10
OverAll: 4/10

If you're looking for a SIMS games, just get the single player versions, they are actually funner in a way. If you're looking for an MMORPG, just get Earth and Beyond or wait for World of WarCraft.

Bringing a Sims game online just doesnt really work well. It's not like an MMORPG where you can destroy monsters and build up skills. But in the Sims Online, you have to work on a skill of your choice (physical fitness, studies, etc) which takes forever to level up to 10. It will also deteirorate if you don't play for awhile. Overall, if you want to paly this game, you're going to have to play all the time. Which mat draw you away from social life in reality and draw you into a virtual world for a long time. So just get an MMORPG.

Also, make sure you have at least these system specs if you want to play Sims Online:

1.3GhZ+
512mb ram+
GeForce 3+ ATI 8500+

Not ready for prime time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: January 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I eagerly joined the play test at the beginning of November expected that EA and Maxis would actually finish the game (from the perspective of their advertising hype) before releasing it to the public. Sadly that is not the case, and the only things they've done to the software in the last three months have been 'tuning' changes (changes to object payout, skill decay and motive decay) and stability fixes, as there are still performance issues. Most of the objects that were on the drawing board when I started the play test are still not implemented into the game - despite the fact that the players have been clamoring for them. The cities have become ghost towns in the last two weeks, and frankly the lack of players has made the game depressing. It would appear that the game was released months before it should have been - probably in hopes of capturing a lot of seasonal dollars. Sadly, even though they've extented the play test for Europe until late March, players in the United States are expected to pay ... to play the game, and the game does NOT include the content that is being advertised, nor is it nearly as fun as the pc version. My recommendation is to wait for a few months before purchasing this - by then Maxis will either have delivered on their promises or the game will have died ... either way you won't waste money on a half finished game.

An overglorified chat room!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 25 / 31
Date: January 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As an extrensive multiplaying gamer, the sims online is a big let down. If the forcive socialness isn't enough, the complete lack of moderation is. In my opinion its not worth wasting your time buying, and paying for, well at least past the complimentery month. now this game does completely grasp some people, but from what I've noticed, most who throughly enjoy this game have quite afew real life friends that have joined. So unless johnny and sue are going to join you might not enjoy this waste of time at all.

Waste of Money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: March 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I originally bought TSO, I was expecting it to be just as fun-filled and addictive as the The Sims. I was wrong. The Sims Online is purley a waste of your time and money. Why you ask? Well below are several reasons:
**It's extremley difficult to make simoleons
**No one ever visits your shop or company
**Even thought they say you can make a "career" its really nearly impossible to
**Unlike The Sims, TSO has no goals, so it gets dull and repetive
**Players under 12 will most likley be exposed to dirty and dangerous stuff
**You can't put downloaded online stuff into your game
**It's just not fun!...

Well, w/ all this negative stuff why didn't I just give it one star, you ask. Well, the one thing that was pretty cool about TSO is that there is a large variety of skins for to personalize your sim w/. But other than that, TSO is a total money waster. So if you were planning on buying TSO cuz you like The Sims, think again. The Sims is a billion times better.

Shame on Maxis

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 20
Date: December 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Shame on Maxis for releasing this poorly thought out game. After years of very reputable history starting with the original SimCity, they have managed to throw their quality commitment into question with this one game. This game is nothing but a highly-priced chat room in which you can spend hours & hours of totally boring *fun*? While the short life that you have slips into the cosmos, you can do such exciting activities as "reading a book" and "playing chess"... what fun! Save your money and buy a real book and a real chess set and I assure you you'll have a much better time.

A great idea translated into a badly designed game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: January 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a tedious and mindless game with very little redeeming value. What little gameplay it has to offer is not only painfully slow, but repetitive.

The structure of the game is so limiting, it stifles creativity and essentially, most elements that made the offline version of the game extremely fun to play are not in the online version. You basically chat to keep your Sim's moods up, work on your Sims skills because they go away after a certain period of time, and you chat with other players.

There are times where you can sit your Sim down to read a book to build knowledge skills, and you can get from your computer to do work, prepare dinner, etc and when you get back your Sim is still reading. That is how boring the game can get.

The only objectives are to become the most popular and wealthiest by trying to get people to your residence by any means neccessary, including manipulation.

More promises have been made to add future content but I didn't have it in me to continue so I unsubscribed. (which was a pain in itself)

For anyone who decides to purchase, please be warned this game is definitely not for children as some players are using unseemly methods to get money to survive the game and don't be surprised if you come across a cliquish attitude by some of the founding players. For every nice person I encountered in the game there were 2 others who were rude and condscending to new players.

What a pile of [junk]

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: March 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

...The Sims online is the most boring game ever. You are very very limited in gameplay. I think, the only exciting thing is probably building different homes over and over again. This game is definitely unprofitable...i want to control my character at work. Imagine this, you working your way to the top. Let's say you start as a teacher, and then make your way up to the headmaster of school. Imagine, getting to be headmaster, if you were a headmaster in an online game and you have hundreds of online players as your students, imagine if you can expel some. Or even better, think of yourself as a security guard working in an airport. THIS PPL is wat we wanna see right now in the new sims games. NOT PETS, NOT "A GAME OF BED" as some one said, not bad language...

Zzzzzzzzzzz

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 14
Date: January 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Taking out the trash, cleaning up, doing laundry... these are things I hate doing in real life; why would I want to do it virtually?

And what's massive about it? You "teleport" into and out of "buildings" that hold at most 16 or 20 sims. What do you do in these buildings? Waste massive amounts of time "reading", "working out", "playing games", and so forth (oh, so that what's massive about it). Looking at my computer screen while my "sim" does these tasks quickly becomes boring. It's much more enjoyable to do these things in RL. Sure, I can actually "talk" with other sims, but do I need to play $.. + $../month to do that? Not!

TSO amounts to a very expensive chat room... Skip it.

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