Originally posted by alienpriest
This article confirms my suspicion.

The Sims Online == YAAAWN!

I, too, thought TSO was dead.  I never see/hear any advertising for it anymore.  I played a free-trial of it not too long after it came out and found it pretty empty and rather boring.  Playing The Sims offline was hard enough (staying green is hard! especially with more than one character!), this just seemed harder.  I do agree, working in the diner is probably one of the more fun things I did.

Too bad they took EnB away and kept this game going...EnB was such a cool, fun, and unique game.  But I'm playing EVE Online now, so I'm kinda playing EnB...sorta...

I played TSO when it first came online.  There were so many things I didn't enjoy about it that I left within my 30-day free trial.  I'm sure a lot has changed from then to now, so I won't rehash my complaints about the game, but I've never been tempted to go back to it because the basic premise remains the same.  It is too group oriented.  If things are as they were, the solo player is greatly penalized in that everything costs more and skilling takes more time to do alone.  I do play TS2 and it can be enjoyable if you're working toward particular goals. 

Originally posted by Tharcide

Originally posted by Jackdog
I am probably one of the few who have neer bought a Sims game. Single or multi player.

Well I hope you try Spore when it comes out.

Originally posted by Jackdog

Originally posted by Tharcide

Originally posted by Jackdog
I am probably one of the few who have neer bought a Sims game. Single or multi player.

Well I hope you try Spore when it comes out.

Will it have something in it that I can shoot at or blow up?

I played TSO when it came out in 2003, was hooked to it until 2005 when they stopped updating the game and quit playing it. I moved on to other games during 2005 and early this year I decieded, ah what the heck, give it a try and see what's happening.  It was a little barren at first, with the main populated cities being Alphaville and Blazing Falls, but you know what started to happen? More people started joining the game. Old players but mostly new players. The first couple of weeks I played TSO I met 5 newbies in a row. They fell in love with the game and were playing it for what it was.

That felt good to me that new people were joining, the population seemed to be growing again, but inside I felt this voice saying, "Move on to something else, it will never be what you remembered" I went to cancel my subscription and as I was in the process of it, I visited the sims stratics boards just to meander through them. Guess what I found? An article that EA had bought a company called Mythic and that 2 people were now put in charge of running the whole clan that were working on The Sims Online. And let me quote something she said on that forum, "I'm not going to ask you guys to be patient, you've been patient for over a year now, but I will tell you good things are comming and once we have confirmation of updates and new changes that will be put in place, we will let you all know about them".

This to me means Hope. Before they were barely keeping the game alive on a heart monitor and IV's, now they have brought in a team of surgeons to do a complete heart transplant and basically breath new life into the game. This is a huge movement towards TSO in a positive way. To me this confirms that EA still cares about TSO and the people who are playing it and they will be doing more with the game to make it better and more fun.

With that said, I'm sticking around for awhile to see what new updates will happen and what new things will be implimented. Everyone from the TSO community was ecstatic over the news. I encourage anyone who likes a more "Casual" type of game play to try The Sims Online. And I encourage all the old players from years gone by to come back and give it another chance. EA is giving it another chance, shouldn't you?

melca

What I said was not a lie. You can go to the Stratics Boards and read exactly what I wrote about The Sims Online and new people working on making it a great game again with new patches.

Please Visit---    http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/sims/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=640282&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

This post confirms what I said to be true. As for the 4th Year Gifts, I have no idea what their doing about those.