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News from chat
The chat was at a convenient time for me today, and the Maxoids did give some more information about the delays of The Sims 2 and CaSIE. Here's what MaxisLucky said about CaSIE:
"We are planning on releasing CaSIE, but something to understand is that Sims created with CaSIE need to work with the game, and since the Sims portion of the game isn't done, we can't release CaSIE yet. We don't want to give you a tool that creates Sims that won't eventually work in the game. Once its is released we are so excited to see what you guys come up with."
It's not yet sure if the delay causes any changes to the system requirements. Other news is that once TS2 is released, there probably won't be any more Sims 1.x SimDay events, and until then there won't be very many Maxis objects for TS1 anymore, as they. Basically The Sims 1 is slowly dying, but of course The Sims 2 will take over and there will be a lot of new features there. Of course the Sims 2 website will be updated weekly with new info, screenshots, etc., even with the release date being so far away. Weekly chat times will from now on be alternated, so everybody can join some chats. As MaxisKitty said, it's because then more European people get a chance to join the chat. Currently the Maxis Website hosting will still take some time, as Maxis is "still jumping through some hoops to get it set up". Of course, TS1 fansites will be hosted as well. The transcript will be posted at The Sims Chat soon, and there you'll be able to read even more questions and answers.

[Update 20:45] TSC posted the transcript quicker than I expected. You can find it right here.

Written at 20:59 on Thursday, 29 January 2004 by ChEeTaH.

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Written at 21:55 on Thursday, 29 January 2004 by Bummed
Sims 2 and Pacific Assault delayed

Electronic Arts says both games won't be out until Summer 2004 … at the earliest.

During a conference call announcing its Q4 2003 earnings, Electronic Arts executives revealed that two of the publisher's most anticipated PC games, The Sims 2 and Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, have been delayed. According to EA chief financial officer Warren Jenson, both games will not be out until the company's "fiscal year 2005, not until the second or third quarter." Seeing how calendar Q4 2003 was EA's financial third quarter of 2004, in layman's terms, the announcement means that neither game will hit the market until calendar July 2004...at the earliest.


Do you know anything about this?

Written at 22:34 on Thursday, 29 January 2004 by ChEeTaH (TSZ Webmaster) (ChEeTaH)
Yes, check a couple of news posts back, as well as the poll this week. Here's a link to the news post at TSZ.
C-yAh,

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Written at 22:43 on Thursday, 29 January 2004 by Bummed
Dont You feel like this game is being built so big with all of this that it is bound to be a disappointment....

Mabee not but Ill try and forget about this game till I see it in the stores.

Thanks anyway, You guys are great

Written at 22:45 on Thursday, 29 January 2004 by Bummed
Edited at 22:52 on Thursday, 29 January 2004 by Bummed
I was hoping that it was a bad dream and I was going to wake up any minute.

Written at 02:14 on Friday, 30 January 2004 by hannah (hannahboo)
i wish that it would come out so you would stop driving me CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!

but i am realy exsited about the game.
keep up te hard work but go faster
thanks
HaNnAh

Written at 03:23 on Saturday, 31 January 2004 by theflood
yes u al are makeing me hyper
damit i want the sims 2 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

Written at 17:28 on Wednesday, 4 February 2004 by Jason (jwdmgj101)
yes I do agree that in the main gaming world TS1 will die but never to me they are the ones that broke the ground and yes TS2 will be better(hoping that I'm not speeking to soon) but I have faith in Maxis, I will play the sims 1 forever, I have all of the exp packs for the sims and I will never give up on them they have gave me a how to say differnt look at how things work, and I will play everyother game that has anything to do with the sims, but I will never quit the sims 1!!

Written at 00:20 on Thursday, 5 February 2004 by Greg (Gregorio)
can you literally create a sim on the internet on this website? email me

Written at 01:01 on Thursday, 5 February 2004 by ChEeTaH (TSZ Webmaster) (ChEeTaH)
No you can't. You will be able to download CaSIE from the official site within a couple of weeks (I think), with which you can create skins for The Sims 2.
C-yAh,

ChEeTaH

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