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I'm getting one

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 23
Date: November 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is actually a game card for 3 months(90 days) and I think it's a great idea for people who don't have credit cards and can just get this as a gift. The Sims Online is going to be on of the most addictive games of all time. To the person below me, please know what you're talking about before posting a misleading review of it.

If you like The Sims Community, you should like TSO.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 24
Date: December 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Yes, this is a chat room game. If you enjoy going to the Sims Community forums, and making friends online, you should enjoy this game. For the reviews that state this is a popularity contest, you have visited the wrong houses. I suggest you visit the more entertaining houses. Popularity is something that is in life though & sometimes you just have to get used to it. :) TSO is very fun but you've got to find the right players.

See it for yourself

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: November 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

You really have to see this game for yourself. Actually, there are quite a lot of people who find this game addictive, and I'm one of them! yeah, it's a chatroom, but there's more to it than just that. There are some things that will not be completed by the release date, but a lot of bugs are being worked out on a daily basis, and as of today, I have not experienced anything so bad that it would keep me from enjoying the game. So yeah, I would buy it.

DON'T buy this game if you have a REAL LIFE!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: December 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely addicting. I've been playing the Play Test for about a month and I HAVE to come home and play for at least two hours a night, MANY more hours on the weekends! It takes The Sims to a whole new level and is MUCH more entertaining. As another reviewer said, The Sims is full of computer controlled NPC's while TSO is ALL live people from around the world...well, there are hot dog and ice cream vendors who are still NPC's, but you get the idea. Sure, you can compare it to a chat room, and it may appear to be just a fancy version of one. However, the game portion of TSO makes it much more. It is The Sims on steroids! You build your establishment, be it a home, a store or whatever, and you try to convince others to room with you. The more roomies you have, the bigger your establishment can be and the more stuff you can add to it! You don't send your Sim to work as you did in The Sims,choosing a job to which your Sim disappears for 8 hours a day, but instead make simoleons by performing certain skill based tasks or by participating in skill based group activities. The more people there are performing an individual task and the higher your personal skill, the more money you make. My only complaints are the length of time it takes to increase your skill and the fact that you can only have a total of 10 skill points across the board. Once you get more, decay takes over. You lose points until you are back down to 10 total.

If you loved The Sims, you'll die for TSO. And if you have a REAL LIFE, you'll destroy it if you buy this game. I'm well on my way to it.

I love this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: January 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

[It has been said] that this is a chat room fronting as a game. ... I'm in my late 40s and I play games like a teenager. There isn't a game out that I haven't mastered and beatened. And I have a life. ...I'm not into chat rooms, I'm into people. I love this game! There are some issues and bugs that Maxis is working out and I actually don't like the category system at all. However, I don't agree that its not fun. I can't stand chat rooms and I don't spend a whole lot of time "chatting" with other Sims. I make money. I'm one of the owners of one of the top 10 houses on East Jerome. I've built my character up from day one and have a thriving business. It was really great to build my house and add roommates one at a day and focus on a goal and meet it. We said we were going to be in the top 10 and within 2 weeks we were. If you want to chat you've come to the wrong place. Most people are too busy building skills and making money. Its true, I do meet new and interesting people and have a wild time visiting other houses and interacting with other players. Not really chatting though, but actually playing games together, making money together ... I even have a Sim husband! I admit, its no Ultima Online. But it is the Sims. Saying its not like the original Sims is like going to see a movie and saying you dont like it because its not like the book. Yeah, duh!!! Its a MOVIE!!! It will not be like the book ... Thumbs up on The Sims Online!

Ok I have played paid and love the game....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: January 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

At first I thought it was nasty of maxis to charge, but then I found out how much they are spending on us just to play.. The game cost them to make well over a million dollars frist off then on top of all that they pay for the server, it cost another million dollars, a year, they aren't even making enough back for a profit off this game even with the charge of 10.00 a month per person... So before you complain about how much you think they are unfair or how much you think they are ripping you off, begin in their shoes and wonder ... I think chraging 10.00 dollars is pretty cheep considering they are spendin so much per month on the server they provide for you to play on and that 10.00 per person doesn't even pay them back for it, nor give them profit... I love the sims, and am a sim freak, many are, We love the game, Buy it for yourself don't take other peoples words for it... their likes and dislikes are differant from yours. you have to experiance it your self... I didn't want to buy the game, at all and would mostly likely agree with people that are complaining until I started playing on my friends computer, and then got hooked, Loved it, had to go buy it... if nothing else spend sometime with someone you know who has it, ask to play once in awhile then you will know,, But please don't knock it tell you try it... There is so much more to do in this game.,... Then chat, don't let them stir you away... It is alot of fun..

gets more fun every day

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i really like playing this game a lot! it's a great way to chat and meet cool people but also to play the sims. some will say it's all about the money but that's not true. when you play the sims online it's really what you make it. my favorite thing to do is to visit the offbeat houses because they are always playing games and some of them even give you money for playing! i also like how the game changes depending on how you play it. if you get high skills in something like creativity, all of the sudden you can dance like madonna! it's way fun!

The good about TSO

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I loveee the sim online. Some of the reviews are a bunch of crap. There's not as many "Bad" players as they made it out to be, yes there are a few, but there's always a chat filter, where you can block out ANY word you want, AND there's ignore buttons along with ban buttons, which keep these people from entering your lot. There's "mafias" not gangs. 99% of the mafias are a bunch aof players who form a family type thing. The god father is the ruler and he "adops" his kids and the kids "adopt" kids ect. and they have a family who watch out for eachother and help on lots. I know because I have been in one in 3 different cities. I admit, the game is addicting as anything but it's fun. Just have self control :)

I take it you Flamers are kids or @n@l renetive adults

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 29
Date: November 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Aperntly you 2 flamers Never heard of vzones or newherzons or Dreamscape or second kingdom or seducity all these i have mentioned where programs that added a simple game to a chat room where you had a 2d person and you costomize them get an apartment (turf) for them there was comunitys in there where everyone knew each other took chat rooms to a WHOLE new lvl and people would pay up to 30 bucks a month not tomention paying extra for acceries items head for their avies it was and still is VERY addictive now sims online is just takeing this idea to whole new lvl with WAYYYYYY better grafix larger fan base better items and things to play with better costomizable liveing quaters (what would you take a 4 room 2 dimenionaly turf or a ful 3d home with back yard and everyting) sims online has been the most antisipated online community release for the past year .... so dont go flameing something when you dont even know what its all about.

SOL LOVE\HATE Realtionship

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 21
Date: December 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is actually very addiciting. The graphics are great, the options that you can do with each sim is really cool, and the things u can do in the game is awesome. I'm playing the beta version, and with any beta there are fixes that are needed, eg. Like being stuck in a lot and killing your sim of its needs (Needs are food, hygiene, energy...etc.) and some other glitches.

The Sims Online is fun when u meet other people and go to other lots (areas in the game) exploring the neighborhood around you. With any game there are moments it gets boreing but there are days you're laughing hysterically because of the "sims" aka people you meet.

The sims online lets ones imagination soar. If you have one. If not welll....I guess it would be boreing. Like any online games you have people who are ill mannered, but the sims online offers many options to ignore those people...or interactions like Pile drive to make those "sims" understand u are not going to take their immaturity. The game offers a lot starting with building your alter ego (sim), to exploring your environment. Creating a home if you wish and haveing room mates if you wish to. Furnishing your home and choosing the type of home or establishment you would like to have. You make a Skills shop, clothing, club, restaurant....endless possiblities.

The game I feel is not for 14,15 year olds. It has a lot of Mature Adult content happening. Considerly a lot of the players are older people. The playing age on the game ranges from 14 and up. But I feel should be for 17+. As for buying it...I'm still not sure about it...the price for me is a lot...but who knows what might be under the christmas tree. :)

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