The Sims Online

THE BAD:
Somewhat a lot of spamming (depends on which city you live in), too easy to make money, and it is really hard to be in the top 15 houses of TSO. A lot of competing

SUMMARY:
This game is really addicting and fun, i play it everyday. It is similiar, actually very similiar to a persons life..except that you make money by selling boards, potions,pizza, maze, ect. . There is quite a lot of people that play and if your the person that likes to meet new people this is the game for you. The main point of the game is meeting new freinds and also making your house one of the best houses. There are casinos, love houses, skill building, money making, offbeat, store and a lot more. There are a lot of gangs/mafias though, its just really annoying..but in some cities there are no mafias. A lot of the cities have a very low population though. What I mean by cities is that when you create a sim you can choose a city he/she can live in. This game overall is pretty cool and you should like it (just to let you know you will be addicted lol)

THE BAD:
Now this game is a REAL addiction. i suggest DONT BUY IT. buy the orignal. i can't stop playing it and i really want to. its almost like cigarettes. Also, you can get suspended from the game for 72 hours for cusing. watch what u say. the bad thing about suspention is they dont let you go on any of your sims while your suspened and your paying for the days your not playing.

SUMMARY:
A REAL ADDICTION! I wouldnt have bought it if i knew i would get addicted to it. I really want to stop playing the game but i can't. It is a waste of time. Sims online is also very annoying. You get money very slowly, your skills take way to long to gain, your skills can go down, maxie can take your accont from u, loseing all your money and items, it's 9.99 a mouth, and its crap. If you want a sim game i would get the original one not sims online.

THE BAD:
Earning Money is realy hard and is stupid.Your skill level goes down after all that hard work getting you skill up. You go to each lot by jumping there from other lots there arent connected lots. The lot you start on is way to small. There are no cheats and even if there were some Its a Violation aginst terms of Use and you cant be kicked off the Game. You have to pay 9.99 for basicly alot of little chat rooms

SUMMARY:
This game is not what I expected. I realy thought this game would be great because of all the adds and fake pics. I dont like how its realy hard to get money and that you get soo little. I thought that lots would be connected to other lots so you could go next door to your neighbor but the lots are not connect and you have to load every time you wana go to different lot and there arnt any roads or downtowns. I wanted to make a huge house like I do on the normal sims but its inpossable to get enough money and all you can make is a tiny shake that has like almost nothing inside.
Basicy all you get when you play this game is a big chat room.

THE BAD:
Adults engaging in immature, childish, highschoolish behavior. And the game looks like 3D Chatroom as their are no real downtown zones. My Sim couldn't even walk down the neighborhood street.

SUMMARY:
I am very disappointed in this game and my advice to everyone is don't fall for the hype and for the over enthusiastic reviews from younger fans.

This game is nowhere near how it is advertised and you'd think with all the many expansions that have come out with offline game that they'd offer similar features in this game. There are no downtown areas, and you can't even take a walk in the neighborhood. Players teleport from lot to lot and while some are bigger than others, they all look basically the same.

The so-called economy barely exists and what little of it does exist, literally sucks the money and energy out of your Sim. Your Sim can't produce anything to sell and whatever you do make when you work on building your Sim's skills disappears. The only items you can sell are the *Secondhand" objects your lot has and that is just part of the game.

And there is no trading in the game so be wary if you read or hear anything about trading because its simply not there.

One of the primary goals of the game seems to be wandering as that is what the majority of Sim players end up doing. Players just jump from house to house looking to to keep their Sims skills up, earn a few sim-dollars, and occasionally chatting with other players.

The developers of the game reward gangster/mafia behavior by rewarding the top 1% with visitor bonuses. The competition to get riches and become the most popular finishes after a week of play. The big houses get bigger while the rest of the players get left out.

And before the fanboys and fangirls start shrewing that this is a beta test, it has been announced that there will be no more wipes. When the game goes live, those big houses will be ruling the game.

This game is very disappointing. It offers little creativity and basically encourages these horrible values

Party -animal/rowdy behavior is rewarded while creativity and and productivity is discouraged.
Ganging up on, to manipulate and take advantage of the young and smaller houses warrants praise, and the only way to be popular is to be rich and not creative or even smart for that matter.

I know some of the pro TOS fans will not like this but it has to be said and maybe they're not happy because alot of people are saying the same thing.

What I know is that I would gladly pay $20.00 a month for a multiplayer version of The Sims that I could play with my friends and family instead of this pathetic joke of a game.

THE BAD:
Seeing adults engaging in immature behavior while trying desperately to make something out of what little game content it has, is truly painful to watch.

SUMMARY:
This is *not* an actual game where Sims can stroll through neighborhoods and downtown areas and play with other players in an actual Sim World.

The game has a similar design to several online 3D Virtual World-Skin/avatar chat places I frequent.
And in some of those places for a nominal fee, you can actually buld your own world that people can explore.

This doesn't seem like an actual, legitimate MMORPG. Because in a true MMORPG, interacting with others is one aspect of the game
which you can particpate in at your discretion.

The foundation of a good gameplay comes first, then socializing and interactivity follows.

What the developers of the game did is create a chat room, and
then try and add psuedo, half- hearted content in order to promote
chatting.

A bunch of adults playing with musical instruments, kissing other sims and engaging in crass potty humor does not make a game.

There simply isn't enough gameplay in it for it being justified in being called an actual game and to con people into paying monthly to particpate in what is essentialy a giant chatroom is positively dishonorable.

THE BAD:
Payouts are being lowered EVERY DAY.

SUMMARY:
If I want to "not be able to afford stuff" and live off of welfare, then TSO is the game for me...!!!

Americans, and the like, complain about governments lowering wages, tax increases, and the inability to keep the wages comparable with the cost of living. Yet, the people at Maxis and EA seem to think that we want to play a game in where we bust our butts to ascertain skill levels, only to have the payouts lowered - gee sounds like the BUSH ADMINISTRATION if you ask me. Do I want to play a game where I have to bust my butt like I do in real life? I think not - and so do HUNDREDS of other test players in TSO.

To top it all off, they keep the prices of objects the same - or raise them - yet continue to hinder our ability to buy them. I don't mind playing a fun game, however these people who created the game BETTER realize that CONTRARY to what they think - the majority of the gameplayers they are seeking to make money from, are adults who have jobs. I do not think that MANY of these "individuals with disposable income to play TSO" will want to spend all their free time after wroking a long hard day, go online to play a simulation game and exaust themselves trying to make the measly amount of money now available in the updated versions of TSO. They will MOST DEFINATELY loose a large portion of their user base, once the game goes public, with these kinds of updates to the game.

Long story short - the game started out fun, but now its way to exausting. I won't be playing to long - and I know MANY of the "game test founders" who have indicated that they will not be playing the game once it is released. OUCH - big setback for EA and Maxis.

Jolly

THE BAD:
1) its hard to find an unused pizza machine.
2) Cant have a natural born baby (the child has tp be another person)

SUMMARY:
Ok, the Sims Online overall is a great game. With all the new things to do, it is so much fun. But after you buy your lot and bought everything you can buy, you have to make money. SO, you got to find a pizza machine to make money and they are all being used and have a line for the next people who use them. Also, if you want a child, another real life person has to be that child. Its hard to find a roommate because almost everyone already is a room mate or owns a house. I like it, though, because you would think that no one would go to your lot, but there are a lot of people that randomly come to your lot. It is a very, very, very fun game and is a MUST BUY. Go to The sims Online website for more infornation about the game.