Sims Online

online version of The Sims - MMORPG

released Dec'2002

$10/month

no MacOs X client?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims_Online

failure?

• http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/55/18

• interview with Don Hopkins

• http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=03/02/10/09194550

• example of bad Nations-Lite? Peter Ludlow offers a broader criticism. "I think the problem is that the game itself is mind-numbingly boring," he says. "It's an axiom of these games that the less there is to do, the more people gravitate toward cybersex." And maybe the occasional mob war.

Apr'2008 update: being revived as "EA Land".