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

After my friends said it was good, I went out and got it myself. BAD MOVE. This game is bad, you sit there and make your skills go up, or make money, buy a tiny peice to your house, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat... I think you understand.

Aleast in other RPGs, you can kill monsters or other players.

if they added something like, stealing items, government system... something to have a reason to play a game.

Nothing more than a glorified chat room...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: January 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The idea behind The Sims is intriguing, but as I've stated previously in other reviews of Sims products, there can only be so much excitement derived from hauling your sim to the bathroom, feeding him, having him interact with others, etc.

The Sims Online is supposed to expand this idea into a larger "world" where your Sim can interact with a larger variety of Sims. What it amounts to is a glorified chat room that you pay $... to get and another $... to use each month. That's $... each year just to talk to other people. Ridiculous and disappointing!

It's Missing Too Much

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: January 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love the offline version and have gone back to playing it. SOL is missing everything I loved about the offline version. I was sold on SOL when I heard there were gonna be jobs and that I could own a restaurant. Well guess what??? I can't own a restaurant and I can't get a "real" job!!! So I am back to The Sims Unleashed (i have all the expansion packs) and I am enjoying The Sims again. SOL is a place to meet people from anywhere in the world and watch your sim earn skills or make money from doing monotonous stuff. I enjoyed SOL at first but I got bored with it pretty quickly. There's really not much to do after the thrill is over. If Maxis ever implements some of the items from my favorite expansion packs I would probally play SOL again.

It is fun....for a while.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: March 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got the game through beta testing, and it was a lot of fun. New stuff often. Meeting new people. Exploring the other houses. Seeing the interactions when building skill. Now all I do is build skill, and watch the same interactions, waiting contesntly and hopefully that new objects will come out within two months. But tonight, I had it. I cancelled my subsribtion, and I was constently asked "Why do you want to quit." They kept trying to keep me in the game, and do the SAME THING over and over and over. This was what my time was like. Sign on. Spend money on lot. Green up. Make money. Green up. Get skills back up from the fast decay when making money. Green up. Spend the money. Green up. Make money. Green up. Get skills up. Green up....You get the point. I did that for such a long time. Then I realized that I am paying $10 per month to watch my sims skills go up .01 percent every two minutes. It took me 107 days to realize that. So what is my opinion? DON'T BUY THE GAME!

Doesn't seem like a true game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 17
Date: March 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game after reading the few positive reviews. I didn't think it could be as bad as it was described and I figured this being from the makers of The Sims, what could possibly be wrong with it? Boy was I wrong!

If you like giant chatrooms with a few game objects, where all you
do is build your Sims skills, wander around trying to make money in extremely boring ways, go to dance clubs, fake weddings, and participate in contests where the whole object of the game is to get your Sim to pass out, then this game for you. Because they're taking an unbearable amount of time when it comes to adding new content, that is all you have to do.

I unsubscribed from this travesty and plan on throwing the game away.

In closing I think the game developer and publisher were very confused when it comes to what the regular The Sims player wants and what the MMOG player wants and thus made a game that didn't really appeal to anybody except a small minority of fringe players.

Disappointed...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: March 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm not a big fan of online games to begin with but I am a HUGE fan of The Sims. I have every expansion pack plus the PS2 version. I started out with a test copy of this game and my hubby ordered the actual game for me as a gift. Needless to say, I asked my hubby to return the game and get his money back. The Sims Online is nothing more than a huge animated chat room...period! I prefer the PC version myself because there are so many great sites that offer tons of downloads for the game. I seem to spend more time downloading than I do actually playing the game. *laugh Once again, The Sims Online is one big disappointment - don't waste your $$$!!!

If your real life isnt boring enough, do it online!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: March 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is gawdawful! Same skins and objects from the single player without any of the goals or objectives...basically a [$$$] chat-room...your entire income is based on 'skills' which you constantly have to improve to keep them from retrograding, and the entire process takes ridiculous amounts of time...This game is worthless because it's just as boring as real life...lets get some FPS PPL!!!

Mind Achingly Boring!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: April 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Words cannot describe how ripped off I feel after buying this.
This game is not only horrible, I am offended that the developers of this thought they can pass this off as an actual virtual world to consumers.

This whole game is based ONLY 2 concepts: chatting and making money. And you can only make so much money before you start to get bored, and then that leaves only the chatting.

Hardcore chatters may like this novel way of chatting with others but there are similar places to do it on the net for free.

If you are a person who recognizes that there is MORE to gaming than just chatting and making money, and doing the same tasks over and over and over then DO NOT Buy this game!

If you are a gamer who likes REAL DEPTH to your games, The Sims Online is NOT the game for you.

After the Beta, I bought the game because I had faith things would improve. Unfortunately that was 'not' the case. While you can now make your house a casino or a restaurant, etc, but no matter what you do, this is NOT a " true virtual world."

The Sims Online is basically a series of endless chatrooms that you select, enter, and then chat with others while making your little Sim do tasks to either make money and/or build up skills. Once you have maxed those skills up, there is nothing to do but maintain them because they will decay over time. And while you do that, you chat. My Sim can't go downtown, explore, etc because that simply does not exist in the game.

I finally cancelled my account. Unless you're new to the internet and online gaming, don't like true gaming, or are under 21 and/or addicted to chatrooms you will NOT like The Sims Online.

Playing Sims Online is self-induced torture

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 14
Date: April 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Save your money! The only thing this game is good for is a frisbee for your dog. This is one of the worst games I have ever played. I have been a fan of the offline sims game and expansion packs but the online version is a disaster. It's a glorified chat room where hardly anyone talks, and when they do you might find 10 minutes of interesting conversation for every 10 hours of play. Meanwhile you stare at the screen while your sims do all those boring things you can speed up on the offline version you can't speed up here, like reading. The only way this game would be fun is having enough money to build your own decent business, but it would takes months of boredom, tedium, and stress to reach that point. First you spend 8 hours real time watching your sim study (no wonder hardly anyone chats, they turn away from the computer and watch t.v.! Who can stand to watch someone read for 8 hours?!) Then to make money you repeat the same tedious tasks over and over. You can make money faster by being a roommate in a busy house, but then you're a slave to the game, because you're obligated to the house owner to play all the time to help clean, keep the place open, etc. No thanks, I already have a job and I don't need another boss... Don't expect this to be a simulation either. There's nothing "realistic simulation" about a huge room full of wide open toilets. Also, immature brats instant message you and harrass you for no reason, and you can't report it. Not my idea of fun. If you're a gluton for punishment and enjoy torturing yourself buy this game. Otherwise RUN AWAY from it!

Oh goody a gigantic memory-hogging chat room!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 18 / 23
Date: January 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Do you like playing games that involve pretty much chatting with other players? Well, if you also like paying some inflated useless fees, this game is for you. Entirely plotless and stupid, this game will entertain your 12 year old daughter going through the boys phase by giving her access to many many unknown predators that just love to chat; and if you are one of those predators and don't have the game yet, get it now! There are innocent children out there just waiting to be stalked.

However, on a more serious and economic note, this game is a waste of time and money. A better, cheaper way of doing pretty much the same thing is going to the MSN Zone website and playing checkers or chess, it's pretty much a chat room and the games are about as new as the idea in Sims Online.

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