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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sims multiplayer sounds like it could be fun, but it is highly dependant on how that is implemented. The other "features" just sound like shareholder porn.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Sims multiplayer sounds like it could be fun

Me, who remembers The Sims Online: ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Making pizzas in slave-like conditions

"Mmmh, this sure beats pressing fast forward for 8 hours in single player"

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Hell, I still have the CD installer. And I think the soundtrack CD.

I did enjoy the puzzle houses people would make though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Pretty much exactly what I thought of.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, I never got to play online. Why wasn't it fun?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There wasn't anything to do. The whole loop of the game was basically akin to making a carnival midway and trying to sucker other players into your home to have their sims pay your sims for crap they could have used in their own home. All so you can buy better attractions for more money.

I imagine a new version would simply change the sims paying other sims to players paying EA directly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I gave FreeSO a try since it's an open-source implementation of Sims Online, but the hookability wasn't there. We've come so far from the days of Sims 1...