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Now, some of you may know that EA closed The Sims Online on 1st August 2008. I am starting threads to make this game known, and trying to get EA games to revive it from the dead.
The Sims Online / EA-Land (rebranded), or even shorter, TSO was an Massively Multiplayer Online Chatting community version of the Original Sims. It was a safe, fun, enjoyable game - I shall explain more about it below:
Original details from the website
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The Sims Online is a massive world built by thousands of players. Create a sim and play as yourself, or your alternate sims persona. Explore neighbourhoods, make friends, host events or even make a business. The only limit is your imagination.
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Game features (in 2003)
Create and customize your Sim to be just like you -- or someone else. Be rich, powerful, popular, famous, or infamous.
Meet, flirt and get to know other Sims through chat, instant messages and hundreds of new expressive gestures.
Build your dream home, the trendiest boutique, or the hottest neighborhood hangout around.
Develop a network of friends, go into business with your housemates, or improve the neighborhood.
Choose from hundreds of outfits and thousands of appearance possibilities. Includes nearly all the faces, clothes, and objects from The Sims™ and the first four expansion packs.
Let your imagination run wild. Choose your online role and play your way in this unpredictable, infinite, online world.
Even better... The Sims Online became FREE when it was rebranded as EA-Land. I will explain it from my experience now.
The Sims Online was an online getaway from real life, allowing me to keep in contact with friends, create your very own home (once you have got the money!), be a roomate or have roomates at your home - all my friends lived with me. I also made a furniture shop - it also allowed you to go to your job, and you had to work. The jobs were: Nightclub, Robot Factory (I CHOOSE THIS ONE) and finally the Diner. You earnt money per shift, and got more as you go promoted, there were skilling rooms (skilling speed was faster), events, I also had my very own cute cat and puppy. And there is so much more. It was amazing - I could write a book about it, I just can't fit it all into this very thread.
I encourage, every single one of you, to try to get THE SIMS ONLINE / EA-LAND back, we want our game - we want The Sims Online.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE WEBSITE (SOME IMAGES MISSING) FROM 2003! or go to
www.playercampaigns.com to join the campaign the get TSO back.
We are asking you, please help us get our game back. The Sims Online should not be forgotten and is an important part of The Sims franchise - true sims players will understand.
Thanks for reading!
UPDATE #1:
FACT: Electronic Arts encouraged its players and former players to reactivate old accounts at $9.99 per month with the promise or rewards and gifts. Electronic Arts delayed those rewards for months....meanwhile players paid for their accounts and additional accounts. The day before those rewards and promises Electronic Arts reneged on their promises and shut us out of our game. This violates consumer protection laws.
FACT: Electronic Arts promised us value for our custom created content. Many of those same contents were deleted from the game with no compensation or apologizes. Sims Online players spent an accumulation of thousands and thousands of hours creating this content only to see it disappear.
Apparently according to players; Electronic Arts oversold the economy creating a lower dollar value, they tried to make it up by refunding the purchases of Simoleans sold through ATM's in The Sims Online ( EA-Land) leaving those who could not afford their scam to play on an unleveled playing field for the same dollar. If this is true it violates consumer protection laws.
FACT: Electronic Arts did not give an Official Notice to its player as stated on the retail box. According to Sims Online players; an official email was sent out only a few weeks before the actual closing of The Sims Online, not 90 days as marked on the Sims Online box. If you have ever purchased a copy of The Sims Online or know of someone who did you will want them to join our campaign. If true...this would violates consumer protection laws.
FACT: Electronic Arts deleted PLAYERCAMPAIGNS.COM campaign posts and removed every trace they possibly could of the horrible acts they committed against their subscribers leaving it's players in the dark searching for answers.