The Sims Online Game Time Card

by Electronic Arts

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00006CRVG
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: December 17, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #53,162 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A total and complete Rip Off, February 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sims Online Game Time Card (CD-ROM)

I buy games not only escapism but for the challenge.

This shouldn't even be marketed as a game, if they have no
intentions of completing it. This is nothing but a chatroom with some inside gameplay thrown in so that it can be called a game.

This game is boring, what little gameplay it has is shallow
and the majority of players are rude and obnoxious.
I thought when people get older they grow beyond having cliquish-highschoolish behavior and engaging in bathroom humor. Apparently I was wrong because there are a great deal of adults apparently living the life they never had in highschool, online.

This game lacks everything that made The Sims fun and needless to say I truly regret not listening to those who warned me not to buy it.

70 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars yes it's addicting but..., November 28, 2002

By 

Rastaman (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sims Online Game Time Card (CD-ROM)

ill give it two stars just because the game is okay. why put it online? all you basically get to do is talk to other people in a chatroom while playing. sure there's other perks, but The Sims is so extremely diverse now with 5 expansion packs, you dont really need to play it online. Much worse, have to pay ... to play it for 3 months. wouldnt you think that charging ... for a game would entitle you to playing it online for free? im just thankful that other online games havent done this yet. (knock on wood) You can waste a good 7 hours playing the sims and not even notice it. Now Maxis is trying to capitalize on this and take advantage of all of us. It's a great game mind you. But i dont want to be charged to play it after i already bought the game. I hardly think that paying all that extra money is worth the few perks the online edition gives.
but hey, that's just me.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This game emphasizes being popular and being in business, December 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sims Online Game Time Card (CD-ROM)

The person who said that this is a chat room masquerading as a game is right on. The emphasis is on popularity -- there are lists of 100 most popular sites, etc. Many of the features of TheSims are not there. Goal seems to be to set up your own business. Those who like chat rooms will perhaps like it. Those who like a family/relationships game may not. The user interface is also not very good. And, frankly, I think the graphics are POOR. I played it from a 2400 mhz machine and it was so slow to construct anything it was frustrating. Everything is on their servers, which also is irritating. One can't work on anything in the game offline. Online the action goes on; there is no way to pause to just go to the bathroom, or find and read instructions. It appears defaults are set so that there is no privacy -- people automatically enter your home as though it were a business unless you specifically set up things otherwise. Perhaps some will like defaults being different from TheSims, but I found that everywhere there were differences, I preferred TheSims. It was almost as though whoever designed this game didn't like TheSims. If that was Will Wright, we are lost :-(