The Sims Online was the first massively multiplayer online variation on Maxis's highly popular computer game The Sims, the second being the Online Weekend mode for The Sims Bustin' Out, and third being The Sims Social. The game was sold in retail stores in North America and Japan and could also be downloaded worldwide through the EA.com online store, though the game was English-only and had no official translations.
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I remember there was a really unique community that sprang up on The Sims Online that was all about diy internet radio. Not sure what that was all about, but a dj did a shout out to me and I thought I was hot shit. I think I quit after the person who owned the property I hung out on tried to groom me. Fun tiiiimes~
sadly i never got to play this but the trailer that ran every time you launched the sims went SO HARD. i would never skip it and watch it in full every single time.
My lasting memory of The Sims Online is that the only way to advance was to grind your Sim's stats by using equipment like exercise machines, or making money by playing minigames. Instead of people building dream houses, they would turn their homes into dystopian experience farms. An unintentionally dark inversion of the wish fulfillment of The Sims.