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This game came out in 2002. It was a massive multiplayer online Sims game. It has received negative reviews, and was disappointing in sales. In 2007, it has reached its demise and was closed down for good.
I brought this up because the social features in ST seems the same. I'm surprised nobody else brought this up yet.
Do you think this will be the fate of the Sims Series?
Discuss.
(I hope EA doesn't try to ban me for bringing this up
) In my opinion, I really can't blame EA for trying this online concept again.
As another simmer mentioned, this is a new time with a new team. I think the Simport/online features will either somehow make the game and maybe the franchise a lot better, or will make it all worse.
It's apparent that the Sims 3 and its expansions has been going in a downward spiral lately for various reasons. But will this all change after Showtime is released???
I guess only time will tell....
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Simport is nothing like the Sims Online. On the contrary, if you've ever played any Zynga games on Facebook, you'll get some idea of what Simport is going to become. At least on the Sims Online you could interact with other players avatar to avatar. With Simport, all you'll be able to do is watch someone else's avatar perform in your venue. It will start with one friend, and eventually, you'll be forced to use more than one friend (from your SimPage) to complete tours as they increase the number of venues your Sim must perform in.
I can see this getting really old, really fast.
"We Don't Care If You LIKE The Game, Just As Long As You BUY The Game!"
I Disapprove (Naturally)
I Took The Pledge!
actually it has been talked about i myself brought it up in a post as well
i dont get it at all its ignorant it didnt work then and its not gonna work now maybe they'll finally learn their lesson :evil:
And I just realized I need to clean out my old CD's.
Showtime is going to be more like Zynga's facebook games, Frontierville and Castleville. This is not necessarily a bad thing, depending upon how it is implemented. Many of the features that get people hooked on the Zynga games were already well established in the Sims 3 to begin with. While Farmville was gaining ground and everyone was telling me how great it was that they could farm and harvest vegetables, I was telling them I was already doing this in the Sims 3.
When you look at the more popular Zynga games, like Frontierville, the reason they are popular is because they have easily accessible gameplay like the Sims 3. Everybody gets what you are supposed to do, and it is intuitive, while still being fun and open. The quests give guidance in the Zynga games, but we've seen the same system work with Wishes, Lifetime Wishes, Opportunities, and Adventures in the Sims 3 already, not to mention the entire Quest structure from The Sims Medieval as well.
I would hate to see EA do the things that make the Zynga games so annoying, and give the Faceook games a reputation - the cash gouging for advancement (aka Premium items after making the difficulty so hard that the game is unplayable) and limiting advancement to needing lots of friends to send each other lots of links and spamming through SimPort.
The social ideas are fine, but should always be optional - if it becomes enforced, then it looks like EA will be crucifying their own franchise and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
The social features in ShowTime are nothing like this. >_>, so yeah.
P.S Just like the above Simmer stated, the Online "Franchise" has really grown since then.. and so I think another go at it with the technically we have today would possibly be better, and maybe even a bit more successful. And honestly, Sims Online was pretty successful at the beginning, but it had a fall because it started to lack things that Simmers needed/wanted. Bugs being one thing that caused issues, etc.
Do you see a pattern here? Maxis had Sims 1 and Half of Sims 2 before Sims 2 started to fall a part when EA took over; and now Ea has full control over Sims 3 and just look at it. EA took over Sims Online as well..........and that's where it fell. >_>, that's the reason it was unsuccessful and they renamed it as EALand. How stupid.
I want Maxis back.
lol!
I agree!, people are making a fuss out of nothing. You CAN turn it off.
yes you can turn off the social features and not simport
but if you dont atleast use simport you miss out on special items
and backgrounds
and after the latest patch EA is requiring you be online to play the sims no matter what they are trying to make you use online stuff more and more
and those of us that dont want to use these socials
are basically paying for a few careers , a dj booth, pool table, and a mic
No, you can't. The only thing you can turn off is the chat/messaging system. That has an on/off feature. Go back and read SimGuru Snelson's post again. You can turn OFF the chat/messaging features. You can only OPT out of the Simport.
And all opting out will do is let you ignore Simport in the game. But that doesn't mean you won't be bothered with it on the forums. There's already someone requesting friends on their SimPage, because I've been posting that I think the Simport feature will draw on friends from your SimPage, not from Facebook. And I can predict that come March, we'll see tons of these requests; and if you get a friend request from someone you don't know on your SimPage, you can bet your bottom dollar it'll be because they want to send their Sim into your game.
"We Don't Care If You LIKE The Game, Just As Long As You BUY The Game!"
I Disapprove (Naturally)
I Took The Pledge!
But the social aspect of showtime, is not going to make it anything like sims on line. I think the social aspect has in some way, gonna make it so you can set up a time, date, etc. for say your sim to play at a club/bar/park, in my game. When its time for your sim to show up, then my simmies will all head towards the place your sim will show up at. Now how they show up might not be like we expect, it could be by car, or just poof there you are. Then i think when its over, your sim would either get in a car and poof out, or just poof out.
So thats what i think might happen, i do not think it will ever be actually on line, that would be a bit hard to put online gameing into off line gameing, when most of it is on your computer and on line is on a server. where they save, etc. Anyways, no it will not be like sims on line, thankfully.
It would be awesome if they made an actual MMO that had the graphics and gameplay of the Sims 3. I'm still praying. I'd pay for a subscription for that game.
Well you can still ignore it in the game?, you don't have to send another Sim into someone else's game unless you choose to. So everyone has a choice you can choose to use Simport or ignore it.
on my part, i'm only gonna buy this ep 'cos of the items, town and careers and that is it. also, if i end up hating it. the place where i buy has always gave me a full refund when i've returned a game and without any questions.