Re: will the sims ever be online like the original TSO (The SIMS Online)?

@PugLove888 Thanks had some snow but nothing like the East Coast.  Mostly freezing fog which causes car batteries to freeze and stop working.  Just the ice storms and fires have been bad.  I do need to check out the Sims Medieval sometime.  I know there is a FreeSO mod that brought the Sims Online back.  I do play Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley and Minecraft with a lot of my friends, so at least for me I have options in a safe environment.  Eco is getting quite large too especially in the role-playing community and neat to see some Simmers enjoy that game.  Farm Together was a blast too with friends and very life simulation as well with an adorable art style.  I do think it will be harder for the Sims to enter the online market now compared to 22 years ago.  A lot has changed in that time and Simmers are far more diverse now and multi generational now with kids, grandkids, and great grandkids.  I tend to observe social media on how well the community gets along or not and at this time, don't think the community can handle the main game being MMO, but yeah with Sims Online being a side game sold separately from the Sims, hard to tell if it will sell as well or be as successful as Fortnite.  I mean their events are literally Epic from what they show on YouTube with real musicians performing live in game and players attending like a concert.  Sims events well are kind of pale in comparison which is sad.  There just isn't that community feel with events even with the mobile game events.  It is all achievement and time sensitive focused.  Makes me miss the community events Sims 4 used to have with the Jasmine Sim.

@Scobren Yikes! 😱 Freezing fog! Sounds horrible! Sounds a bit painful too! 😬
I'm sorry you are having both ice storms and fires!😣  You would hope one would cancel out the other! 😞 

Sims Medieval was a more linear game, but still a lot of fun, as you could try playing as several different characters who each had different rolls.  I never played Sims Online because it didn't interest me to play with a bunch of strangers who might destroy my house or hurt my Sims. This is why I hope it is like how Animal Crossing does it and also can be played as a single player game!  But it is hard to believe that Sims Online came out exactly 20 years ago! 

I have a relative who says I need to play Stardew Valley because he knows I would love it, and I have a friend whose whole family plays Minecraft. But I don't have those games at the moment. I don't know Eco or Farm Together.  

When you say that " compared to 22 years ago.  A lot has changed in that time and Simmers are far more diverse now and multi generational now with kids, grandkids, and great grandkids." , I'm not sure what you mean.🤔  I knew elderly people who played the original The Sims, as well as some people who played when they were like 9 or 10  (even though it was supposed to be for Teens and older) because their older siblings played it. So that was pretty multi-generational.😃 And sometimes whole families played it.   Also Simmers were always a diverse bunch since The Sims was popular all over the world! 🥰 . So I don't think that has really changed at all.  But perhaps I misunderstood what you were saying. 🤷‍♀️
While I don't think the Sims Online had as much of a multi-generational appeal, I do know that the original TS1 did! 

Ah! Jasmine Holiday! Always fun to see her when she showed up! 😄 I do miss those events!  I could be wrong, but i think they stopped doing those events around the time TS4 came to consoles.  My guess is that since back then consoles had not caught up with all the packs and patches that PC and Mac had, that it would be difficult to have the events for all platforms. But we did have that event last summer with the concert, so I guess they were able to now do that since consoles have caught up to PC/Mac in regards to patches and packs.  But that is just my thinking.  😉

@PugLove888Yeah think you would like Stardew Valley. I mean multigenerational of players now from multiple generations that have played since different versions of the Sims now which is really cool. New game has more languages now too which is nice for players. Sims MMO does make me think of players playing around the world too, like will it be set by region with servers or will it be one massive server? I know SimCity had issues with servers crashing, so that is one of the concerns I have with it. That concert event was fun and I had heard of two of the artists on it, but was nice to be connected with another one too. It is nice we get music artists from all over the world now too to do Simlish songs.

@Scobren ,, well there were a lot of Simmers from all ages, from elders to kids who played the first Sims! (Most of the people I know who played TS1 were in their 20's and older, and I knew personally quite a few elders who played it as well!  The great thing about the Sims is that it appeals to all ages!😎  And I know of some families that had 3 generations playing TS1, so that really hasn't changed much! 😉😄  However, what has changed is that now there are many people who play who grew up playing, which wasn't possible with the first Sims! 😄

Yes, I should probably look into Stardew Valley.  😉

The Sims in general isn't the best game suited for MMO.  There would probably need to be a lot of differences if they were going to try something like that again.  But that is why I think just the ability to invite your friends over to your Sims houses and to visit theirs is more suited to the Sims style of gameplay.  And this way, those who don't want to play the Sims with anybody can still play the way they want to! Many people play the Sims to escape, as not everyone is an extrovert!  (And then there are the extroverts who are control freaks with their Sims, like myself, who don't want their houses or families messed up! 🤣)

Yes, there were several musical artists over the years that I listened to in real life who worked on the Sims. Most of them recorded versions of their own songs in Simlish for the radio stations,  But the guy who did most of the music for The Sims 2 was in a popular '80s New Wave band called Devo! His name is Mark Mothersbaugh. 😎
But not counting the radio stations, my favorite music for the Sims was TS1!  It had very relaxing music that was also beautiful! 😊

Yes, I enjoyed the in-game music concert last summer, and hopefully they will do another one this summer , or at least something like it! 🤞

@Scobren , I forgot he did the Rugrats music!😎 😲🤩 I was too old when Rugrats came out, so I didn't watch it, but my older brother's kids watched it!  By the time my nephew was a teen, one of his favorite bands was Devo! 🥰  A shame he never played The Sims 2😔, though he did love SimCity  😀 !  I think I better check out some Rugrats episodes just to hear the music! 😅

My favorite music out of the 4 main versions of the Sims is TS1 and TS2, which is funny because the musical styles are so different between each of those 2 games! 😂 (While the music for TS3 and TS4 is good, they just can't compare in my heart with the music from TS1 & TS2!) 🥰