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26th May 2009, 08:35 AM
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 Why doesn't EA make it multiplayer?
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zanev
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The concept is simple: You seperate the online from the harddrive. Meaning two of everything. You have your story line for the none-multiplayer and when you want to play online you make a new sim and interact with whoever is online. You could still have a job, the only downside is you wont have reaccuring relationships.. Hard to describe, I mean I got the theory in my head so let me just ask: Why can't EA games make the sims multiplayer/online based ALONG WITH the none internet. |
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26th May 2009, 08:40 AM
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SuicidiaParasidia
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im pretty sure there is a Sims Online, but its more of the sims 1 style than the sims 2+. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/simsonline/index.html |
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26th May 2009, 08:41 AM
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CleoTheMuse
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They made SimsOnline...and it was horrible. My soul still aches from the failure of that game. |
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26th May 2009, 10:57 AM
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HystericalParoxysm
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How would online mode be any real difference from the game as it is now, besides characters being named even dumber things than they are as it is (yay, I'm gonna go have my sim talk to SexyTwilightVamp0498) - sims don't "chat" to each other with meaningful text, they speak simlish with thought bubbles. The sims could be controlled by other simmers, but would it really matter? I guess there could be an ingame chat function as well, but why not just... chat? TS3 does sort of have some MMOish concepts and I guess the exploration/house building/skill building aspects would lend well to an online type game, but since there'd be so little difference between computer-played sims and human-played sims, I just don't see the point. |
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26th May 2009, 12:09 PM
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JeNNacide
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Join Date: Dec 2006 |
It's a good concept, but when you really look at it, I don't think it would work that well. Imagine a nice big blank neighbourhood where people from all around the world could put their houses and raise their sims, and the whole neighbourhood functions when you're not there making decisions from it. Oh but wait, don't half of us hate that part of TS3 anyway? Haha sure if they made it, I'd try it, but really I think sims should stick to offline rather than online. There are too many GOOD mmos out there to compete with |
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26th May 2009, 12:57 PM
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ixcuincle
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Join Date: Mar 2009 |
It's been done before. As above posters said it didn't really work out online. To this day Sims Online is the only Sims game I have never bothered to install. |
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26th May 2009, 02:22 PM
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I'd have to agree with everybody else, it really wouldn't work. Like HP said, sims names would get annoying, maybe even obscene. And the houses/lots people might be able to build, ergh, the neighbourhood would look a mess. No, I'd deffinitely stick to offline. I guess, if they implemented some sort of seperate online style game, something like Runescape with a sim you create, maybe it could work. But I don't know about that. The original game would never work. |
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26th May 2009, 03:31 PM
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seraphime
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I for one played Sims Online it was horrible, I played for about a year right when it was first released. They knew they had a failure on their hands and I think they were trying to revamp it right before they dumped it in '07, something about renaming it also. So yeah I have a copy of Sims Online collecting dust. It just didnt have the same feel imo as Sims. I think with TS3 and it being an open neighborhood it gives that feel of basically things going on around you like you would in an MMO. |
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26th May 2009, 04:15 PM
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lilliandulcia
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I got Sims Online and didn't even bother playing, it cost extra money to actually play in besides the initial cost (I got it as a gift because it came in some pack) :P |
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26th May 2009, 05:22 PM
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GnatGoSplat
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I wouldn't mind just having a simple 2-4 player LAN multiplayer mode where a few people could share a neighborhood over an Ethernet connection and have their Sims interact in real time. |
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Meh. |
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26th May 2009, 05:25 PM
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maralucia22
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That's a great idea! It seems that EA won't make an online game because of the failure of the sims online, however the sims have progressed so much since then. The open neighborhood and 3D graphics would set for an interesting an exciting online game. |
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27th May 2009, 11:55 AM
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Nstone53
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I played Sims online for two weeks, It wasn't great. But I was hoping that Sims3 would have a online option. Maybe like have a neighborhood that for each player could visit or something like that. |
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27th May 2009, 11:58 AM
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J. M. Pescado
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Considering that the usual reaction people have to sims not under their control is to wall them up and kill them, this is probaby not a healthy thing you want to have happen to your sims. |
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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off. |
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27th May 2009, 01:51 PM
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Sidheed
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All I am going to say with regards to this is that why release one game which has the functunality of 2? They can make more money by selling a SIM3 style online game and we, the addicts, will still buy it on top of all the other sims games we own! |
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27th May 2009, 03:49 PM
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Kissamies
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Mar 2006 |
MMOish game would require servers and upkeep of those. Complicated and risky business, with monthly fees for the players. Non-MMO could be simpler, but possibly inconvenient to play if you need same players for each session and how would it be done, really? |
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A lurking translator who goes stealthily converting text strings into finnish when he feels like doing that, which is very rarely. |
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27th May 2009, 05:36 PM
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Misty_2004
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They can't even release TS3 without major bugs. How bad would an online version be? |
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27th May 2009, 06:09 PM
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bad-and-ugly
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The idea of my sim interacting with sims that are not AI really excite me, but I have no idea how would be the best way to do that. I heard The Sims Online turned out to be a huge 3D chat room. Anybody here is into Second Life? It's kinda boring... '=( |
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27th May 2009, 06:56 PM
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tinydancer80
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Yeah... I picture that sort of thing as being... well... a Yellow Pages for sex offenders and identity thieves 
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27th May 2009, 06:59 PM
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Gazelove
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Apr 2008 |
It'd be cool, but TSO was a huge failure so I think that kind of turned EA away from the idea. I like the LAN idea though, brings back team fortress classic memories. ^^; |
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27th May 2009, 07:24 PM
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schitzwa
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Join Date: Apr 2006 |
I never played the sims online as I heard it was terrible so simply didn't bother. I did at one point come across second life though and I can imagine that if sims 3 went online it would end up like that. Filled with the cyber sex obsessed and obscene, those sort of people are like flies to crap with that sort of thing. I am happy there is no sims 3 online (as if you hadn't guessed :P). |
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27th May 2009, 07:30 PM
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tinydancer80
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Yeah  I think you and I are saying the same thing! It's kinda like that IMVU thing. I tried that before and I got like, a GAZILLION guys IMing me right off the bat going "Wanna cyber?!" 
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27th May 2009, 07:42 PM
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malianx
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Join Date: May 2009 |
I played the sims online, it was a real letdown 
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27th May 2009, 08:19 PM
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GnatGoSplat
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Agreed. I don't know much about Second Life, but wouldn't an online Sims game be similar to that? It is, afterall, 3D human-looking characters in a virtual world. There would be no purpose for Sims-style autonomy because each character is controlled by a real person. If you were to make it a Sims game with the fixed number of Sims interactions, people might find that too limiting for an MMO game. Granted, I've only tried SL once years ago and never tried any other MMO games so I don't really know what they're like. I'm just not sure a Sims game will buy you much over something that already exists (and costs nothing) like SL. I do think there would be some utility to a smaller-scale LAN multiplayer mode though. Just about every household these days has PC's on a home network. It would add another dimension to gameplay to be able to share the same neighborhood. I think being able to enjoy a game with a handful of other people in close proximity is part of what has made the Wii so popular. | |
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Meh. |
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