The Sims Online

Hi, anyone here every play the sims online? Anyone think Maxis, the games developer, revivie it? TSO has a custom content design back in its beta days in summer of 2002 however it was not realesed to the game when it went live? Can TSO be saved and how many of you would go back to TSO if it happened to get custom content similar to second life?

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I am actually still playing TSO...although not as often as I used to. If Maxis could up the graphics, and allow users to contribute items, animations and objects to the game, and create an environment for adults only, I believe they would have an awesome game. The things that I like about TSO are: user friendly, the jobs, having to keep up with needs, achieving skills, and the skills increasing the job and money making performance. If they could use the same 3-D graphics that they have in their Sims 2, and have the same tools, it would be the most "user" friendly online game available.

I spent a year playing TSO, a few hours a week. Lack of custom content made me seek out Second Life.

Even if TSO somehow miraculously did get custom content going, it's clunky and old looking now and 2 dimensional. It really needs to be 3D. It would be interesting to see a sims2 online though.

Forgot to add one more thing: The capability to stream your own music.

I came here almost 2 years ago from TSO, never looked back. I wouldnt go back even if they had custom content, and if it was free.

Yeah. People wonder why I don't play TSO, WoW, or WTFE. It's cause in SL I'm already the king of my domain, and I don't need to level up snuff out any poor rabbits. But I do have to deal with some punk-ass griefers on occassion.

I can my own furni, craft my own XCLBR Blade of D00M ++, and I only draw aggro when I want to.

And... of course, and this is a biggie, no software or subscription fee!

I never played The Sims Online. I played the offline version, which was a lot of fun.

I was in TSO beta 3 years ago, and to this day, I still have an account. A couple of weeks ago, I went back to Blazing Falls. It was a Sunday evening, and the first thing I noticed was a lack of red dots on the map. I looked into my bookmarked sims. Back in May of 2003, I had maybe a couple dozen bookmarks. As of this month, only 2 remain. Neither was online. I could only find one of my old hangouts, and it was offline.

My old house was still there, along with the 2 cats that live there. The cats looked well, even though they had not been fed for about 8 months. My Simmy and 1st anniversary statue still stand proudly on the front lawn.

I found an occupied house. I don't remember what the specialty was, but I just went in. I noticed a few recently created sims, much younger than my 3 year old sim.

I took a look at a few descriptions of the various skill houses. Many offered free money for just showing up (hmmmm, does that sound familiar?). I also noticed that on this Sunday evening, there were few if any full houses. Just groups of maybe 8 or less. It wasn't like the old days when I used to work the "til You Drop" contests of 2003.

I figured TSO would be dead by now. Many SL residents are TSO immigrants, and I suspect that SL has been a slow drain on TSO. I'm surprised that EA hasn't pulled the plug yet.

I think EA is unwilling to take any time on TSO when other venues are more successful. TSO is dying. I recently went to visit multiple cities, and all of them felt like ghost towns.

I actively played for two years, and still have an account, though I sold my main account on Ebay once I found SL. You couldn't pay me to play TSO on a regular basis anymore.

TSO was a lot of fun back in beta and up until the point I came to SL. Once I got here I never really looked back, but it took me eight months to finally close my Founder account. If it was less of a game and looked more like The Sims 2, I might give it another look, but probably not for long. A lot of the friends I had there are in SL now anyway.

I would totally be there, if there was THE SIMS ONLINE 2
Just like sims2, but with ability to add your own contents
- textures
- animations
- objects
- music
- clothes
- skins
and make it multiplayer..
So users could sell their creations and give it away, make sim stores, casinos and all of that!
The game would rock out! lol even SL will be in danger

But those geeks dont think like us.... lol

Yeah thats what i was thinking i played the sims online for two years it was fun.. but i hope they make a sims 2 online if they do they better allow custom content or else! It would be intersting if they did make ts2o though. When i played the offline verison of the sims i wished i could have a bunch of the custom content i have downloaded be online TSO was fun but i really used it as a chatroom and to skill and green up there wasnt really much to do. I played it for a long time only since i had many real life friends that played the game with me and helped out with the lot and we had a casino for about a year and half but after that i heard about there then from there then, i heard about second life!

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anyways yeah i hope they make a customizable tso2! Because then i would have two games to play

I was a founder, havent played for like 2 years. Just this week closed my account. Hated to but was spending 10 a month and I wasnt there. I had all the anniversay items and over a million dollars. Its just not fun after playing There and Second Life.

Ah, Nellen! So you're gone from TSO now. I hate still paying the $10 a month, too - and probably would have closed my founder account, except I still play Simball there!

Why doesn't somebody play something like that here? I have in my inventory the free ballgame uniforms the Lindens made once. Whatever happened to that? I don't know how to start baseball here, or why it didn't catch on, or I might try it.

Anyway, yes, I was a founder, and I had so much fun in the beginning, and for the first couple of years, and made many wonderful memories and many wonderful friends, friends who became real-life friends, even, in that I met them irl or would be willing to. And some of them are here now, too!

And yes, I'm still in TSO, but only for Simball. I lasted there a lot longer than I would have had I got cable internet sooner. (Not that I didn't try.)

They do get new players; I see them. But I haven't been keeping up with the number of players since they got down to 35k and I was able to start playing SL. May be much less by now.

I think they don't pull the plug because somehow it is still making a profit (as opposed to the other EA games they pulled the plug on at around 35k players) and because they don't want to label "The Sims" anything a failure, when they still have good things going with the offline Sims. Sort of a matter of saving face.

But if it weren't for Simball, I swear - sentiment and Simmies and (unfed) pets and everything, my cottage, my Game Show Channel, and now my (our) Simball field and everything - I probably would pull my own personal plug on it at last. Why pay for something you find you really don't want to go play anymore? (Except Simball.)

As for a TSO 2, it has long been scuttlebutt that they wouldn't do that in a million years, unfortunately. (I mean, it is EA we're talking about.) And they will never get custom content either.

coco

Just thinking about skilling and greening again makes me wanna puke. Left there 2+ years ago and would never consider going back.

Well I just had to comment since I am a newbie to SL but an old Vet from TSO. I finally found my way to SL and look back now, why would I. I love the graphics and almost all of my TSO friends are here now. Why EA hasn't upgraded to 3D for TSO is beyond me. So with that being said, I am here to stay. Thanks to Jana who referred me.

Coco, is that you? It's me, Gilmore!

Yeah, I'm a TSO immigrant too, the graphics and no updates in months bothered the hell out of me.

The Sims Online -- Will Wright's big mistake

Yes, it's me! Come look me up in the game!

coco

P.S. Yes, I went to look at the forums last night and also tonight. I still play every Saturday night, but - I don't post all my loudmouthed opinions in the forums every more, since I subscribe to this quaint notion that if one is off playing another game all the time, one should participate less in the community conversation in the old one.

But I saw that they are nigh onto the verge of a mass uprising, apparently due to being told they could expect no more information about anything ever forthcoming again.

This has always been a problem there - people wanting information, and then being told they haven't asked for it nicely enough or something. The best information came from when whatshisname was at the helm for a bit - not Randy, but the other one. Which is why I so very much appreciate the information we get here from the Lindens, even though that isn't always perfect.

But now it's gotten worse, I guess. They just refuse to share any information with the players at all now, it looks like. A tragic end to a very wonderful game.

coco

Wow, other than the user friendly bit, it sounds like you're describing all the bits I don't like about Sims games. Still, different folks and all that...