When the next generation of a game sells 1.7 million copies in the first week even though adopting this version means eventually re-buying all the expansions you had in the previous version, that game must be a monster hit. The Sims franchise is the monster hit of which I speak. Being among the top selling PC games of ALL TIME, playing The Sims is s-e-r-i-o-u-s business!
While many Western MMORPG players are grappling with the idea of micro-transactions for virtual goods, The Sims community of players has been doing that for years. For many, playing The Sims (TS) is all about beautiful, bling and over the top. Unfortunately, the designing skills of the developers building TS has been shall we say, lacking in diversity and quality. The community creates massive amounts of custom content for every aspect of the game that can be shared by others. There’s a lot of free content but the amazing looks so real that it boggles the mind sort of content, comes at a cost. You can pay by the item from a wide variety of player run websites. Or you can subscribe to one or more of the better stocked sites for a few months. That’s what I do. And I’ve never worried nor cared about that fact that I was basically paying a monthly subscription, to a third party, just to have “pretty” virtual content in my game.
Although I purchased a copy for myself and one each for my daughters,
I’m not playing TS3 yet. But I ran across something while searching
for a veranda for my daughter, that completely blew my mind. I mean,
TS is serious business but damn – the Living Sims magazine takes it to a whole new level.
ALL the rooms are created using The Sims!!
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