Fully agree with everything you said, Cinebar! From experience with trying one of those online multiplayer games for a month or two I forget how many years ago. There was absolutely no control over anything, no customization of environment (a la TS4), cliques abounded, and more other negatives than I care to mention or anyone read. TS4 on steroids is what it amounts to, all the bad stuff that frustrates us no end with none of the few good things that give us some semblance of a game. Not to mention the very real possibility that the 'sims' we interact with are actually real people either too young for the interactions IRL or are of less than honorable intent. There is simply too much opportunity for abuse of too many kinds for this option to be viable.