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A pay by the month chat game

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

Did the developers who created this never play The Sims?

And has it become a standard practice to sell incomplete games?
I can understand the occasional bugs that require a patch, but the problems with this game are beyond the point of no return.

I read that this game took years to develop and yet it still plays like a pre-release beta.

And as for the content, what little of it consists of some game objects woven around a chat interface. Theres only a fragment of an actual economy but now real downtown area, no neighborhoods to walk through. All you do is have your Sim go from place to place doing boring tasks and chat.

Maybe my hopes were set too high but I was expecting something with a bit more depth.

There are promises of future content to be implemented in the game but I am too burnt out from frustration to wait it out.

And as for having the oppurtunity of "being someone else" in the game, I can do that for free in one of the many 3D Online Virtual worlds that have skin/avatar based chat.

I want to give a zero star if that is a valid option

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 16
Date: February 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A super boring beta-version chat room that charges you 10 bucks a month.

Not worth either the hassle or the money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 16
Date: April 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'll be the first to admit that I haven't played this game in months. I was one of the beta testers: I signed up, paid a few bucks in shipping and pretty much played for free for the first month or two. ONce it went 'live' (ie, after the release date), when I received my copy of the game, which I had ordered, I quite promptly returned it unopened and never logged in again.

Why?

Quite frankly, it's boring as all get out. While the developers have promised a great deal of interesting things to fix the game balance, reading the reviews here shows it hasn't much changed since I played it in December. The game balance is focused towards an economy, but an economy where you only get things via skills. There's no ingenuity involved; it's all based on your skills, not your choices. In short, all you do is make pizza, work on jobs with people, etc.

Plus, there is the necessity of roommates. While this is a good idea in theory, as it encourages cooperation, it also insures that the most popular "wins". It also makes it difficult for people just starting out, as they have to immediately join a house and frequently the good ones are taken -- and you have to spend time in other houses to get the money to make yours visitable, and then... you see how this spiral goes?

There's really no roleplaying to be had, and while it can be amusing to watch your sims do strange things, in the long run it's just boring. The place is a glorified chat room, and as someone who is used to roleplaying, I was vastly disappointed. I outgrew chat rooms in 1992.

I did meet some nice people there, and the roommates I did have (people I met there and people I knew already) were quite nice. But ultimately, it's not a concept that really translates well online. The Sims is very much an internal sort of game, and has no clear goals after a certain point, as opposed to other multiplayer games where the focus is quests and skill point achievements. Perhaps if the roleplaying were improved and the economy vastly balanced it would be better, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Don't waste your time on this one. Stick with the standalone game.

zero support, zero fun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 31
Date: December 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have cable broadband internet access and Windows xp, yet I can't even sign on to the game, much less play it. Customer support was zero help. Just go to the EA message board and read the horror stories.

Wouldn't pay a penny for the game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 42 / 74
Date: December 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am a Sims fan. My daughters and I have most of the expansion packs with the exception of Unleashed which just recently came out. That will be under the tree. What will never be a part of our collection is The Sims Online. It is a slap in the face to all loyal Sims players who waited patiently for Simville (cancelled)and bought all the other expansion packs. We have all dreamed of being able to play online with our Sims but not at the price Maxis is asking. It should have been an expansion pack with two options: the multiverse (the current version) and a free, limited multiplayer for up to 8 players like other PC games offer.

Could have been SO much better!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: January 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

18 years ago Lucasfilm Games made one of the first commercial attempts at a big "virtual world" online community, the seminal Habitat.
It ran on a Commodore 64 with a 300bps modem and was much, much more fun than this disaster that the Sims Online have turned out to be!
Shouldn't EA be able to do better than this disgrace after 18 years of "progress"?

Not playable anytime soon!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: March 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game keeps on getting worse. I've been playing this game since Beta and it seems to be going downhill. I finally decided to throw in the towel and stop paying. There is no real economy, you can't fast forward through the skilling, there are few people left playing the game, extremely limited selection of items/skins, and most of the creative people have left. All my friends have left the game and now I'm leaving too.

This game needs major changes before I'll ever come back again!

Good Concept, but Falls Short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 16 / 20
Date: August 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

At first, TSO sounded like a great game. After I bought and played the game, however, it seems a little...well...pointless. You go around to other properties and make "money" by playing mini-games (that are strange, time consuming and not fun). Then you use the money to buy clothes, furninshings and building materials for a house. And then...not much happens after that. I wouldn't even categorize this as a game. There isn't really an obejct to it.
If you're considering buying the game to make friends and meet people, use AIM. TSO is the same concept except you see a fictional image of the person you're talking to. Not too exciting there. And all the interactions get really old after a few days...heck, the whole game gets old after a few days. Not to mention the monthly fee you have to pay to play. Definetly not worth it...

If you like the Sims DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: February 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am an avid Sims fan but this game blows. It is nothing more than a chat room that you can visually entertain yourself in. Some of the items that were shown in many screen shots never made it into the game, like the slot machines for example. I think Maxis pulled a lot of stuff out of the beta release to make fodder for future add-ons which I think is nothing more than shoddy commercialism. Banking on an awesome franchise to make you money is one thing, but this was a horrible let down that reminded me of the many LucasArts failures.

A root canal is more fun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: January 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is total .... absolute mind numbing tedium in a pretty box covered in descriptions of non-existant game features which are "coming soon".

Total waste of money.

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