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2152. TSO Interview at TechTV

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 23:02 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

TechTV has posted an interview with Will Wright about The Sims Online. It has some interesting questions:

"TechTV: Was there a goal during development to produce something that wouldn't be addicting?"

"Wright: I don't think you can really control that, because certain players will come into this and project so much into it and get very involved with it. You don't want to do anything to destroy that, where you'd basically have to make the game worse almost to prevent that from happening. I think what you want to do is make sure that the game doesn't force the other people to do that or else fall behind. I've been in several situations where I'm in a house with roommates and some of the roommates are playing several hours a day, maybe eight hours a day, others are playing three hours a day, and others are playing one hour per day or less. And it works out. The fact that this group of people can play together but yet be playing in totally different levels of involvement is pretty important."

The whole interview is at this page.

2153. Donation Files policy change & special offer

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 22:53 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

We have slightly changed our donations policy. The special files will be donations-only for 3 months. That means the current downloads for December won't be available for free until March. However, when you donate you will usually get only the username and password of the files of that month. As that might mean you cannot get older files unless you wait a few months, we've come up with a solution: if you pay $5 (or the equivalent of that) or more, you get two usernames and passwords (the current month, and the month before that). For $10 we give you all the files of the current and the past 2 months. As we've only just started with donations, this method isn't active yet until next month... if we didn't have the special offer!

Our offer is valid during December and January. If you donate this or next month, then you will get the files for these 2 months for any amount of money. You don't have to pay $5 or more for these files. That means you get twice the amount of files for just one price! If you donate now, we will send you the username and password for the files of January once they've been added. Please donate, we need the money! Without your donations, we will not be able to continue with this site. We need at least 300 ($450) in 4 months time, so please help us! We really appreciate it, even if you donate just $1. You can donate at this page. Thank you.

2154. SimDay 2 This week...

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 01:50 by ChEeTaH - 2 comments.

The official site has been updated again yesterday, with some nice things. First of all, there are the press releases of the going-gold of The Sims for PS2 and SimCity 4. Besides that, there are two new objects from The Sims Online which can be downloaded to The Sims (Offline). One is a new Intel computer, the other is the McDonalds 'food kiosk'. The advertising from these companies has now also hit The Sims 1.0... Unfortunately it are English-only versions, the international versions of these objects will be coming in January. You can download them both (296 Kb for the computer, 1.60 Mb for the food kiosk) from Get Cool Stuff. Maxis has now gone on their break, so this should've been their last update until 9 January...

2155. TSO Review 2

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 01:25 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

I've found another review of The Sims Online at Games Domain:

"Even now that the game's in US stores, many pre-release bugs remain, such as the occasional inability to enter your own house, the inability to look around the neighbourhood, disappearing items, and increasing lag that slows the game to a crawl. For that matter, the game designers were still making major gameplay tweaks related to skills, jobs and money on the release date as they struggle to fix an imbalanced game. While we're confident they will eventually work out these issues, the game could look very different in three months than it does today. It will likely be nothing more than ICQ with 3D avatars instead of what most people would call a game."

I guess there are still quite some patches to come for this game when I read this. The whole, rather criticising, review can be read by following this link.

2156. First TSO Review

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 00:27 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The first review of The Sims Online has been spotted at GameSpot. It gets a total of 7.4 (out of 10). There are also 30 new screenshots with the review. Here's a snippet:

"As Lord British, we proceeded to trespass on other people's property, treat them as though they were our subjects, and demand food and entertainment. We didn't make many friends this way, but we got poked in the eyes several times and eventually were booted from the premises. We were pleased to see that getting booted from someone's home involves the physical act of getting kicked in the butt and were comforted to know that Sims Online players could easily protect their homes from unsavory characters such as ourselves by means of this particular feature."

So if you ever met Lord British, then you know who it was now. The full review is at this page. We now also have a TSO review index, which you can find over here. Europeans can get The Sims Online at 14 February.

2157. The Sims PS2 and SimCity 4 gold

Written on Sunday 22 December 2002 at 00:16 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Sims on PS2 and SimCity 4 have gone gold. That means the games itself are ready, and the packaged are all put together and duplicated. Both these games will be released 14 January. To celebrate, IGN has posted movies of both games. Two videos of The Sims on PS2 can be found here, and a 30Mb SimCity 4 movie is here. People in the USA and Canada can buy this game 14 January, Europe (and probably other parts of the world too) will have to wait until 21 February for The Sims, or 17 January for SimCity 4.

2158. Most searched video game word: Sims

Written on Saturday 21 December 2002 at 00:52 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The Sims is not topping another chart. At Google.com there's the 'zeitgeist' page. This page has been updated to show the year-end 2002 results. You can find the full charts over here. Interesting is that The Sims is topping the charts of the videogames. That means the term 'The Sims' was the most searched for at Google. Here's the full chart:

1. The Sims
2. Counter Strike
3. GTA 3
4. WarCraft 3
5. Jedi Knight 2
6. Morrowind
7. Diablo 2
8. Neverwinter Nights
9. Max Payne
10. Dungeon Siege

2159. SimDay: Wrong dates...

Written on Thursday 19 December 2002 at 19:17 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Maxis has messed up their calendar: today apprantly is Tuesday the 19th. And it was tuesday two days ago too. Also, the official site says there will be a chat held last week at 3pm. However, when checking SimCity.com we find that the chat is not the 12th, but today, at 3pm PST. That's 11pm in Britain and midnight in Europe. This time it's art director Ocean Quigley paying a visit to the chatroom. More wrong dates: At SimCity Maxis says they'll be back 7 January, after taking a break of a few weeks. At the Sims' site, it's the 9th. Let's stick to the fact that they'll be back some time during week 2, and that the sites will be updated then. Just a week before the release of SimCity 4 and The Sims at PS2... That's all for this week, no SimDay next week or the week after, but the next SimDay will be 9 January.

2160. TSO WinAmp 3 Skin

Written on Thursday 19 December 2002 at 00:58 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Always wanted to give your WinAmp the look of The Sims? Now you can. For WinAmp 3, an official skin made by EA is available. You can select from 5 characters, listen to Sim music and watch some Sim video. You can download it from this spot.

2161. The Sims: SuperStar?

Written on Thursday 19 December 2002 at 00:46 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Another expansion for The Sims could be coming our way... *sigh* It's called The Sims: Superstar, and there are some first rumours about that now - nothing is confirmed yet! At this page you can pre-order it. The retail price is $49,95 New Zealand Dollars, which is approximately 25 US dollars. Because the developer and publisher are "EA Games" on that site, it also seems to be an official pack. Note that this all is totally unconfirmed and it are only some first rumours. It could all be false. This would be the 6th (!) expansion pack for The Sims, not counting the Deluxe Edition. Of course, it could also be an expansion pack for The Sims Online. It's a matter of waiting for more news about it... if it's true anyway.