Yeah, watch as EA squash it flat. Any time someone tries to bring out something related to one of their products, it's rapidly hit be a cease and desist order... Even if said product is VERY old and is no longer supported.
This is something that did happen to several TSO projects in the past... the TSO Restoration project had gotten really far, and then was indeed issued a cease and desist order.This project... is a bit special. Now, I'm no coder or programmer, or anything like that, but the way it was explained to me on the FreeSO forums, was,
"1. EA doesn't care, so long as noone is earning money off of the game's assets. If they did care, they would have let us know a long time ago. 2. Even if they did care, there's not much they can do. Writing and distributing code to interact with fileformats has never been illegal, nor will it ever be."
The most basic way I've heard it explained, is that they are writing code to interact with EA's fileformats, which is also supposed to be legal. I don't know anything about the true legality of it, I just know what I've been informed of. The main developer of this project does not seem to be worried about legal issues with EA.
As it stands, the game is meant to be free. Free to own and play, even with a designated server.
Those are the plans for now, that is.
Also, the developers have seen this and;
a) Not closed the thread to discourage people from trying to obtain the game b) Even moved the thread to Sims discussions.
They seem fine with it.
Ahem, you were saying?
What? It is still in The Sims Discussions and not deleted..........
I loved Sims Online! I understand that some players aren't for this, but this is really exciting for me. I remember when I first played Sims online, I was 16. I met some pretty awesome people and it was so fun to go onto a lot to skill and just chat with everyone while you did the "not so fun" stuff (skilling), lol. Then I remember getting a job as a waitress. and holy crud, it was so hard to do! lol. Especially as you got promoted.
BUT SO FUN.
There was also the dj, the dancer, and the factory job, you had to take care of the machines, or something, I can't remember. But I think it will be a lot of fun to play the game with other players, my little sister and I will probably make a server and build a house together. I think it'll be great to have something to share with her.
I wish that Sims 4 had something "similar" ish.. at least where I could invite her to a "lan server" ish thing for just me and my sister and we could make our Sims and then houses and then we could build our world together. But it's okay, I don't need this type of feature, but I think being able to do something like that would be nice to share with her. She used to be really into Sims, but she doesn't like that Sims 4 doesn't have toddlers, or many expansion packs yet.. so it's been kind of lonely playing by myself here lately. lol. I miss having something like that we can talk about together.
Yeah, watch as EA squash it flat. Any time someone tries to bring out something related to one of their products, it's rapidly hit be a cease and desist order... Even if said product is VERY old and is no longer supported.
This is something that did happen to several TSO projects in the past... the TSO Restoration project had gotten really far, and then was indeed issued a cease and desist order.This project... is a bit special. Now, I'm no coder or programmer, or anything like that, but the way it was explained to me on the FreeSO forums, was,
"1. EA doesn't care, so long as noone is earning money off of the game's assets. If they did care, they would have let us know a long time ago. 2. Even if they did care, there's not much they can do. Writing and distributing code to interact with fileformats has never been illegal, nor will it ever be."
The most basic way I've heard it explained, is that they are writing code to interact with EA's fileformats, which is also supposed to be legal. I don't know anything about the true legality of it, I just know what I've been informed of. The main developer of this project does not seem to be worried about legal issues with EA.
As it stands, the game is meant to be free. Free to own and play, even with a designated server.
Those are the plans for now, that is.
Also, the developers have seen this and;
a) Not closed the thread to discourage people from trying to obtain the game b) Even moved the thread to Sims discussions.
They seem fine with it.
Ahem, you were saying?
What? It is still in The Sims Discussions and not deleted..........
The Sims Discussions, is where threads are sent to die.
Yeah, watch as EA squash it flat. Any time someone tries to bring out something related to one of their products, it's rapidly hit be a cease and desist order... Even if said product is VERY old and is no longer supported.
This is something that did happen to several TSO projects in the past... the TSO Restoration project had gotten really far, and then was indeed issued a cease and desist order.This project... is a bit special. Now, I'm no coder or programmer, or anything like that, but the way it was explained to me on the FreeSO forums, was,
"1. EA doesn't care, so long as noone is earning money off of the game's assets. If they did care, they would have let us know a long time ago. 2. Even if they did care, there's not much they can do. Writing and distributing code to interact with fileformats has never been illegal, nor will it ever be."
The most basic way I've heard it explained, is that they are writing code to interact with EA's fileformats, which is also supposed to be legal. I don't know anything about the true legality of it, I just know what I've been informed of. The main developer of this project does not seem to be worried about legal issues with EA.
As it stands, the game is meant to be free. Free to own and play, even with a designated server.
Those are the plans for now, that is.
Also, the developers have seen this and;
a) Not closed the thread to discourage people from trying to obtain the game b) Even moved the thread to Sims discussions.
They seem fine with it.
Ahem, you were saying?
What? It is still in The Sims Discussions and not deleted..........
The Sims Discussions, is where threads are sent to die.
I thought that was Sims 4 feedback? Or it's just that this isn't about TS4 and is about The Sims Online, an offshoot of The Sims, which is what this section is for?
Just some random Simmer you probably don't even follow on the gallery! Gallery name's the same as my username! Did I just rhyme there?
Yeah, watch as EA squash it flat. Any time someone tries to bring out something related to one of their products, it's rapidly hit be a cease and desist order... Even if said product is VERY old and is no longer supported.
This is something that did happen to several TSO projects in the past... the TSO Restoration project had gotten really far, and then was indeed issued a cease and desist order.This project... is a bit special. Now, I'm no coder or programmer, or anything like that, but the way it was explained to me on the FreeSO forums, was,
"1. EA doesn't care, so long as noone is earning money off of the game's assets. If they did care, they would have let us know a long time ago. 2. Even if they did care, there's not much they can do. Writing and distributing code to interact with fileformats has never been illegal, nor will it ever be."
The most basic way I've heard it explained, is that they are writing code to interact with EA's fileformats, which is also supposed to be legal. I don't know anything about the true legality of it, I just know what I've been informed of. The main developer of this project does not seem to be worried about legal issues with EA.
As it stands, the game is meant to be free. Free to own and play, even with a designated server.
Those are the plans for now, that is.
Also, the developers have seen this and;
a) Not closed the thread to discourage people from trying to obtain the game b) Even moved the thread to Sims discussions.
They seem fine with it.
Ahem, you were saying?
What? It is still in The Sims Discussions and not deleted..........
The Sims Discussions, is where threads are sent to die.
Sadly I won't be playing this as the people who made this have a problem with people showing videos of their project. I was going to be nice and bring exposure to their project but they have a problem with Let's Players bringing exposure to their project. So I bid them adieu.
Wow I only just heard about this today! lol that is totally retro, oddly I don't remember it looking that bad when I played it. Anyways I can't remember what caused the game to fail so badly, might've been because every lot became a megalot and then EA added rules to limit lots to certain themes that annoyed players who spent hours upon hours grinding to make their super large lots that were now pointless? Or that the game developed a bad reputation for encouraging online ERP? Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm.... aha!
Oh my goodness, REALLY? I want so badly to check this out! My hub and I always have a hard time determining what to play together, but a revamp/boot of TSO would be the absolute best thing in the world.
Based on EA content, I'm sure they will shutdown this project. Royalties must be paid.
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They have server issues much like EA had with that game. They want the players to build and operate servers for the game. LOL. Too funny. If you are gonna steal something - you'd think they'd at least make it work.
But truthfully Sims online was a big bore fest and was often hacked when EA ran it - can you imagine users running it? Waste of time no matter who runs it anyway. In theory things are never as good as they pretend to be or are remembered to be - providing you even liked any of the 4 versions EA put out - mainly because there is always some people out there that just want to hack everything and steal through life. Keep in mind if hackers could take over things like accounts and your personal things even through EA's security way back then - are you really willing to join this - set up your own servers and lay out all your personal info out there with no security? That is crazy and believe me not worth it. The minute you download or even join this site puts you out there for all the world to get your info. Believe me it is easy to get hacked - it is not easy or cheap to get the mess fixed - on top of it - it's expensive and could ruin your life.
You see how few members they have - that's because most people know better then even try it - seeing all it takes is a single download or joining. No amount of deleting will remove that - keep that in mind. (It will remove it on your end - but your info will remain out there forever....
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What? It is still in The Sims Discussions and not deleted..........
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EEEEE! I missed this game!
BUT SO FUN.
There was also the dj, the dancer, and the factory job, you had to take care of the machines, or something, I can't remember. But I think it will be a lot of fun to play the game with other players, my little sister and I will probably make a server and build a house together. I think it'll be great to have something to share with her.
I wish that Sims 4 had something "similar" ish.. at least where I could invite her to a "lan server" ish thing for just me and my sister and we could make our Sims and then houses and then we could build our world together. But it's okay, I don't need this type of feature, but I think being able to do something like that would be nice to share with her. She used to be really into Sims, but she doesn't like that Sims 4 doesn't have toddlers, or many expansion packs yet.. so it's been kind of lonely playing by myself here lately.
Her humor is natural and amazing. Everything she does is entertaining.
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I thought that was Sims 4 feedback? Or it's just that this isn't about TS4 and is about The Sims Online, an offshoot of The Sims, which is what this section is for?
But it's a thread about The Sims....
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionAnyway, it seems that the beta has been delayed for a while:
http://freeso.org/surprising-results-notes-from-the-ashes-of-my-servers/
It's same as hacking, the product is turned on without the approval of the publisher.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionBut truthfully Sims online was a big bore fest and was often hacked when EA ran it - can you imagine users running it? Waste of time no matter who runs it anyway. In theory things are never as good as they pretend to be or are remembered to be - providing you even liked any of the 4 versions EA put out - mainly because there is always some people out there that just want to hack everything and steal through life. Keep in mind if hackers could take over things like accounts and your personal things even through EA's security way back then - are you really willing to join this - set up your own servers and lay out all your personal info out there with no security? That is crazy and believe me not worth it. The minute you download or even join this site puts you out there for all the world to get your info. Believe me it is easy to get hacked - it is not easy or cheap to get the mess fixed - on top of it - it's expensive and could ruin your life.
You see how few members they have - that's because most people know better then even try it - seeing all it takes is a single download or joining. No amount of deleting will remove that - keep that in mind. (It will remove it on your end - but your info will remain out there forever....
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....