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Terrible game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: November 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game was a waste of money. It kept freezing up so I couldn't play for very long. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone!

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 20
Date: April 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A wonderful wealth building tool.
I've been very lucky over the years, by that I mean that I've had the opportunity to explore being an entrepreneur. I started when I was 14, a national magazine on a small scale and what I learned from that I would later articulate in other projects for publishing and even now on Amazon. I went to the Rich Dad seminar in New York this past November, having finished reading this book and I'm trying to figure out a way articulate what the value of this book is.
I will tell you what all of this has helped to congeal in my head. One, money does not exist. Now this may seem to be contradictory to the entire concept of what Kiyosaki's books seem to extort on the surface but it doesn't. I think that the previous reviewer is talking about the glimmering of understand that one must come to in order to achieve wealth. Again this is a radical concept, but I think that after a certain number, money is simply a concept. Now the mundane focusing on dollar to dollar make sthat difficult to conceptualize.
Here's a mental game I often play: I imagine what businesses I would build in a neighborhood I'm in, what I can see that woudl see, wouldn't, etc.. I also regualrly look at Lotto prizes and figure out exactly how much that money is----10 million after taxes, withholding, etc. and then what that is in my life. For the next 70 years of my life. Four or five million really isn't that much when you sit down and think about it. So then the concept comes down what to do with that money has to be explored in developing money.
This is where it becomes interesting. How to make money? We all assume that getting a job is the easiest way to make money and then we assume that a business is so difficult to manage that we don't have the ability to do so. And yet amazingly, I started my first business when i was 7 selling papers----not for a company, for myself----I would buy Sunday papers for 50 cents and sell them for 75 cents because I delievered the Sunday paper early in the winter. A simple exchange but ultimately the root of what this book suggests.
Most people want answers. Answers the way your boss tells you to sit there, do this this way, deliver it by this time and then go home. Thats what people miss in this book----being told what to do. But ultimately they want to be TOLD what to do, become rich and then tehy will have the freedom to be "free to do whatever they want". Being free is everyone's greatest desire and fear. We have become a society that values conformity over creativity.
People want to read this book and be told, put 5 dollars in a red box for ten years and you'll be a millionaire. Do this the right way and your life will be perfect. This isn't the way to be successful. There are ways of educatingone's self----first books like this. I reccommend the entire Rich Dad Series---11 books so far, I believe. You must make a study of first money, then yourself, then what to do with both. I further reccomend Tony Robbins Personal Power, Getting the Edge, Awaken The Giant because you must articulate what you want in the Universe. Here's the thought I think often---What if this world is similar to the concept of the Matrix? What if the difference between me and John D. Rockefeller (who I share birthdate and some personality habits with) is a Universal expression of my potential in material manifestation. Visulaization, understanding what money is, how to use it, how to grow, what real estate is, what the three products that never go out of use on the entire planet are, learning to look into the world as possibility rather than demands of musts.
I think I will end this lifetime as affluent, behind my wildest concepts most likely. Why? because not only have I maintained studyign these kinds of books but my video games are HSX.com, Entrepreneur PC game, I consider what my unborn children will do with their trust funds when I hand it over to them when they're 18. My goal is to hand them 500k and let it be their decision to go to college or not. Now friends think thats an impossible thing to do but my simple retort, is that with 18 years of education they will be young adults capable of handling 500k. Most people answer from the place of that they wouldn't know what to do with 500k.
I think that Kiyosaki SHOULDN"T answer questions such as numbers of what to do or how to do because life isn't about handholding in the concept that people want it to be. Did Obi Wan teach Luke how to transcend death or lift an X Wing fighter the first time? No. You have to understand business, law, taxes (I reccommend something as simple as the 99 dollar H&R Block ta preparer class---you can take it as a deduction and if you think about it, you may be able to make more not working for them immediately, whcih is what I did). Really considering my investment future, what to do with money I may receive NEXT year in my tax returns, looking at my 401k plans and realizing that I could invest the money better, avoiding mutual funds, thinking ahead. I will share the biggest push to my constant growing and investing and starting small businesses. After taking the tax classes, reading books, doing a quarterly listing of expenses and that year I discovered with tax management for about 8 hours of those extra activities I earned as much as Oprah Winfrey does an hour! Over 5000 grand!!! Thats a true tale!
What kind of house do you want? Where do you want to visit? What kind of car do you want? I think that people have a huge issue with discernign what they WANT and what they NEED. Each purchase, even down to food shoudl be prefaced with that answer. And if you're truly committed to financial freedom, you'll find thats a huge one. Also I would suggest Financially figuring out how to survive without a job. Where would you go, what do you need, what don't you need? There's a reason why so many extremely poor people become rich. I've been laid off in the past, taken time off, lived off of savings and actually creating money and it teaches you what you're really made of. I know how to enjoy all of the creature comforts I have now, in the great neighborhood I live in because I know what it's like to not have even something as basic as a TV. And this is goign to be my next rant: turn off your TV. You believe so much about yourself because of not watching TV as a manifestation of someone elses concept of what you want and like.
And the next thing is to find a like minded partner, you can't look at ten or twenty years of working towards being financially independent if you're with someone who's goals aren;t the same. If you're single, that's wonderful! I reccommend The Millionaire Mind as well as Harville Hendrix Finding The Love You Want. Ultimately you have to know yourself, explore yourself and truly open your mind and shut off the babble of get a job and buy a Chevy a house and die. Life is bigger than that. Read, explore Network Marketting, understand the MIND you need to be rich. People think it's an incredible BIG mind, in fact, its a almost an inversion of one's self. Creating a new mind for one's self and challenging the concept of what money, not the coins and dollars----because what I consider REAL money isn't coneys and stuff----is. Think about what you would do will one million dollars if you found it in a bag on the train? You need to think of this as training course, an exercise program, rather than a fix it solution. Amazon is great for this----books for less than retail? Why buy retail? Good luck!

Awesome game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: March 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game! Great business simulation with many different ways to play.

For business professionals and MBA students ONLY

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: December 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Don't assume anything before understand what this product tries to deliver. This game has been using in business classes on many universities (especially MBAs). Even companies has asked the UBISoft to design a more specific scenario for more specific training needs.

Eventhough it is suitable for poeple age 6 and up, but you only get benefits from this game if you already have working experience in business. You could also get benefits if you plan to apply your own business strategy and design.

Never expect that this game appears as SIMS games, since they are in different market. Again, this game is intended for business professionals and MBA students. If you don't have any idea what MBA is, you are better off this game.

This game should be an advancement from the previous release, the Capitalism Plus. You can read about those in other comments since I don't want to repeat the same thing over and over again. But there is one thing that I always expect since the 1st release; international trading. This game assumes that all trading are in one country. I really wish that the next release has more countries that each has its own trading regulations and caveats. Trading between countries is always fun (and IT IS the real world).

Not what I had hoped for

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 14
Date: March 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was looking for something on par with warcraft and starcraft by blizzard, but what I got was "convenience store tycoon", not as playable as Hasbro's Rollercoaster tycoon. but definitly the red tape paperwork frustration of business, caveat empor

Fun and serious at the time!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game, it develops very smoothly and it shows very well how's the deal in bussiness, in a simple way, but it does. sometimes you may get stuck in it but in overall, is quite easy to play with. Very instructional, interesting, relatively addictive. Highly recomended for people of those who are looking for some kind of a crash course in the bussiness world but in a fun way, without loosing real money. A+

Not in depth at all

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: September 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is not what is it cracked up to be. The first mission is you have to get a $90 Million net profit in a year from opening local grocery stores. That should be enough to let you know this is bogus. Furthermore, you have to achieve said $90 Million by selling 4 items in each store that have a mark up of 50 cents. So if selling 180 million loaves of bread in a year sound fun, then buy this game. Sim City 4 makes way more sense as a business simulator than this piece of junk.

Good for it's genre

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty good basic business sim,acquainting you with the basics of the supply chain and how business works. It can be a time eater!

Capitalism 2 is great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I got this game a few days ago and it is great. The graphics are real good, the game detail is good, it is easily navigatable, and the tutorial is wonderful.
If you want to learn how the buisness world works, get this game!

Very difficult and frustrating

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: July 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you want to play this game, a recomend you that first, read all the Big Manual (that came with the game), and then try to play. It's a fun game, but you still in the same level by a lot of hours.

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