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history online since 18 april 2002
The Sims history |
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| Date | incidents |
| 12 january 2003 | last
DL update by Ra * Pogo set * Stewart Prince Scratching Post * Brass Windows * Rich Witch Dancefloor * flatscreen PCs in silver, black & white * a girl's face in 3 skin colors |
| 04 november | i
guess i know now, what i could get for Xmas ... the Sims business is making the next step am i shocked? feel ratified? rejoiced about the manifold possibilities to make in the future a bunch of money with the rest of this Sims perpetuum mobile? am i weary of? or rather interested to study further the humanity's growth in the Sims web test tube? i would say - all of a little, but now to the original issue ... ... the non official, but by any Sims designer well known add-ons for The Sims soon in the shops now for money too read here more about |
| 04 november | * EA's The Sims Online
product placement deal with McDonald's &
Intel i bring this article online a little late, but i think it's surely still a very interesting issue & i'll garnish it with a comment about TSO, which i've read in october in thegamershq.net TSO forums - read this here please ... |
| september/october o |
the
end of my interest for The Sims is here i am just & only weary of i revamp the site for simchaotics' further coma online life |
| october o |
Unleashed
& deLuxe "rip off" are out in
Germany too |
| september/october - |
a
rest of known Sims sites is disappearing silent
from the web does someone care about? i guess no ... |
| 06
september - |
i got it today
first, although it's already since over one week
official TSR ends its free DLs access :o( read here the original news of the 29th august 2002 the terms of use in the free sections are in my eyes a complicated thing - i estimate, that i won't DL anything more from TSR on those conditions - good here for TSR, since i won't cause additional traffic at least the Forums - meantime the true heart of TSR will stay free i hope just i don't need to notify one bad day, that the TSR forums are going paid too ... all in all this progression was pretty obvious for me since EA let us, the members of the Sims web down to go paid & when i surf through the sites moving around from one free server to another, begging for donations, going paid one after another, giving up completely & when i read fans trying to excuse Maxis, EA, the webmasters, designers, themselves, so i don't see nowhere a glimps of chance for a free Sims web anymore surely it will take still months, maybe a little longer, but it's quite sure, that every good & hard working designer on a pretty frequented site with regularly updates has to go paid under the legally circumstances - all this is just a sad issue ... but the most sad is maybe that in this huge bunch of Sims addicted people there is nobody, who'll come up with a new sincere idea, grabbing together a bundle of other Sim junkies & offering to the dying free Sims web a realistic perspective to survive instead of everywhere just agony, excuses, accusations, virusses, abandonment, contentment & hollow hopes for a wonder maybe, for others, for the savior, for a self release - this situation remembers me to the situation of our other addiction, the Earth ... |
| 04
september + |
 up again at least
partial |
| 04
september - |
so
Sleepy Hollow too became a Sims Host site - wella
... meantime 36 hosted sites |
| 03
september o |
an interesting discussion on
TSR about creator's rights on his/her work for
the Sims 9/1 SimVibes claims rights to creator's files i clicked me further & realized that the issue was the first since less then one month online on SimVibes hosted the next progression is the closure of the brand new  |
| 18
august + |
Open Letter To Maxis: The
Sims Deluxe Rip-off Written at 01:18 on 18 August 2002 The Netherlands (Europe) by ChEeTaH, webmaster on  & i thought all of us are glad to pay double & tripple for any singular file, especially when it's comming from Maxis |
| 16
august o |
a
small humoristic note about the Pay Pal plague i've read already 2 times now on donations financed Sim sites, that donations under the 1$ border are too small to be received properly PayPal is taking a part of the donated money - of course, they are not a charity organization & so amounts of 0,50$ are "too small" make further people, i am really interested how the Sims business works & do someone know how much money the biggest of the pay sites are receiving & are spending for the actually site's management? |
| 14
august o  |
so
Sultry Earth is back again - one week offline -
artists are tender fellows but they are surely not simply there - they are hosted now by a new host - a free host but before you, fellow Sims webmasters & designers come running to them & start to ask, can i be hosted too?, can i be hosted too?, can i be hosted too? - try to pay your own traffic by yourself & try to keep it payable for you or try to ask those gently people on EA if they would possibly, eventually, potentially, finally support, what makes them famous, our Sims web - i don't recomend to ask Maxis - they are surely busy with the new expacks for the next year already ... you can surely also write me, when you have some power & new ideas, for the fight how to keep good Sims files online for free - i won't start anything like this by myself, but would be glad to support you now here back to the free new host run by cosycole - Sim Vibes as ever, jump over to their forum, say hello & a big THANK YOU!!! since free is this host for you, someone has to pay it in any case go now ... |
| 14
august o |
Dani Cast offers besides of
their several paid & mailed files now also a
files sharing variation of a site rules are of course there, how & where to share, but you can get those files for free, if not from the site, so maybe by an eMail friend or per Dani Cast Yahoo group ... all regards to Dani Cast for her generous offer |
| 03
august o |
&
here we are again in the Sims reality: "Sultry Earth is Closed. All permission to redistribute items through Email or otherwise from this site are revoked. We're sick and tired of working so hard to bring you this site only to have it called "crap", so we're sure you won't mind it gone. Next time, please respect what people have to offer you for free, and remember that they are only human and have obligations outside the Sims. We are not "lazy" and we will not "get off our lazy butts and update" anymore." well one of the prettiest & most cretive free sites out there is closed, maybe just for now, maybe forever |
| 01
august o |
SimSisters are back online
again - thanks to Finger Mouse on Cheap Frills & if you haven't got it util now Scooby Simz found seemingly a new home online |
| july o |
announced
for autumn release: |
| 25
june o |
The Sims Online is not
coming out in U.K. or Europe! read few thoughts on TSR about |
| 24
june o |
"SimSkins
by Daboo & Ana is temporaly closed for
renovations. |
| 09
june - |
SimSisters
announces to close the site The Wage of Sim will close with the end of june too |
| 09
june - |
some thoughts about the current mess & the possible aftereffects in the Sims web |
| june
2002 - |
now
it's opened - the Sims Host - offering at first
to over 20 Sims sites free webspace & traffic free to the sites, but not to the DLers, you have to pay: $24 (US) a year + $0.035 per MB DL it's of course not a lot, but that's just the shy beginning, i'm sure someone will come up soon with a less shy idea we entered with EA's decision a new no more free space, now it's just a matter of time to attract the money makers & they will come since The Sims is still popular & one of a kind the idea of a fan based community is dying & we stay besides & wait for the decisions of others |
| 01
june - / + |
EA's announcing SimCity4 + Ra's announcing an alternative game to The Sims read more about here |
| april o |
thesims.se
goes online looks like there is something special with Sweden will other countries follow? |
| 22
april - |
Sim
Fever is the next pay site which site will follow? (original comment edited - 20 jun 2002) |
| 21
april - |
3DSister
closed opens later again to stay online in coma - 27 jun 2002 |
| april - |
one
drop more in the see of the lost Sims community Greg the maker of Moon Sims is planning to offer to the Sims web in summer 2002 The Sims Host - a network of sites, but don't expect a free one, possibly not that expensiv like other pay sites, but PayPal & co will be happy again curious how the own idea is everytime a better one, even if the differences to others are gradual & not basical |
| 18
april o |
my
offered 150MBs of webspace & 9GBs of traffic
for a half year for free is seemingly not
interesting for the members of the Sims web seems like the Pay Pal button is a better kick |
| 16
april - |
Catherine
is presenting her "interview" with Claw
about his engagement for The Sims a pretty advertisement |
| 11
april - |
thesims.com & the
Amazon.com are offering a trip to Jamaica for the
fans, of course possible just for the US american people greetings to all the doubter about the truth of the national priorities for EA & Maxis |
| 10
april - |
i
decide to quit my engagement for The Sims there is no sense for me after the past & under the present circumstances my expectations about the future of The Sims are the same "exciting" Sims Online will possibly be boring, expensive & at any way not available in Germany Sims 2 won't offer, what i like to play, zooms & other cinematic buffoonery is not, what this game is needing to be good |
| 10
april o |
i
saw a prime time TV spot for Vacation seemingly is enough money there to lure new people to buy this product, but was never a dime for a support of the dying free Sims web, no dime for a good webmaster on thesims.com, no dime for the international official sites & no dime for a better quality of the game |
| 09
april - |
Catherine
is sick & seems to give up her prior position there is nothing more, that could offer a glimpce of hope for a better Sims future |
| 09
april - |
i
installed on saturday the Vacation expack today i played the game for a longer time & experienced a further buggy line the patch for HotDate is seemingly not inside the Vacation expack, my until now occuring biggest bug in downtown is worse than before clear said, the game is with all the expacks no more playable at all the Sims, which go on vacation can't leave the first chosen lot anymore the black limousine of the party killer Drew Carey is blocking still the exit of the road, but the following car with my Sims don't disappear anymore into the changing screen (as under HotDate was), but stays forever in the queue 22 april note: thank Cassandra i got my Sims at least out of this "Vacation trap" this bug occurs of course in downtown too, here i can at least leave the lot without to save & the Sim appears at home again, surely with the loss of the new made relationship points, what's rather senseless to play another point is that the game is jerking on the downtown & vacation lots, the gaming fun turns into the gaming pain after this experience i'm deciding definitive to freeze simchaotics for the future 26 april note: mintha gave me the advice to remove the duplicated files out of TheSims folders they were needed to work with Tmog Drew Carey didn't appeared after this & the buffet bug vanished |
| 06
april - |
this
matter is happened already in the end of march Byline, the main creator & webmaster on SimGoddesses asked on Maxis official BBS about the still not available HotDate patch to the non US american users as reply her account was banned & she still didn't got a propper answer, but several cheeky mails from different Maxis' people you probably must subscribe to SimGoddesses Yahoo Group to get the needed informations about that matter |
| 05
april o |
i
buy the german version of Vacation no illusions about besides of the hope to get at least now a patch for the Hot Date bugs |
| 22
march 2002 - |
*
EA says: it's ok for pay sites ... read here the original News from this day on simchaotics |
| 21
march 2002 - |
the
first of the last steps read here the original News from this day on simchaotics |