Simsville Canceled

Ant wrote to us with the story that Maxis announced today that Simsville has been canceled. It was originally supposed to be out in 2002 - but Maxis decided that "it wasn't up to the standards of Maxis" - but did also say the team did a good job, and was being reassigned to other products like the upcoming Sims Online. The original intent was to be a cross between The Sims and SimCity. Having had to play through some real stinkers of games before, I applaud Maxis decision to kill the product, rather then try to release it on an unsuspecting public CT Cry!

Comments

Not up to standars?

[Anonymous Coward]

This form the company that released SimAnts, SimFarm, SimIsland, etc? Good God, that game must have been *really* bad.

6 fingers.

[holloway]

Having had to play through some real stinkers of games before, I applaud Maxis decision to kill the product, rather then try to release it on an unsuspecting public.

When you insult SimAnt, you insult my family... now prepare to die!

"suckage" is a subjective term

[Cynikal]

About the only maxis games that got me were the first simcity and afterwards, the sims. the later simcity games really didnt do it for me, but thats all a matter of oppinion, i'm quite positive there would have been some players who would have loved this game if it didnt get killed. but oh well...

While some people hated the sims, i loved it. Almost our whole family got addicted to playing it far too many hours a day. to the point that it made itself into our real lives. I still lmao when i think of the time i had supper at my sister's house one night, and then after i was finished i stood up, put my plate on the floor, said "blah blah, bla bla bla!" and walked away... lol.. we all practically cried with laughter, while my parents looked at us like we were idiots, not getting the joke.. ah well.. now my mother playes it like mad..

How to cheat in Sim City

[goingware]

Early on in my programming career I figured out how to cheat in sim city, the original one for the Mac.

Wait until the amount of money left was some unusual number.

Then press the debugger switch and search for that number in memory. I think it was the "F" command. Here are some macsbug tips.

Likely that number will be found in several places in memory (so keep pressing F to find them all). Now press "g" to continue and play a little while until the money changes.

Now search again. Notice what locations are the same between each of the two values you searched for. Use SL or SW or something to set the money to a high number.

Once I showed my housemates this I never had any peace anymore. They always wanted me to cheat for them. Once I'd done it a couple times myself I never cheated on my own games, it took all the fun out.

I'm not claiming this is an original cheat but I thought I was pretty clever.

Oh no!

[wampus]

My wife was really looking forward to this game. I can just see the red double-minus over her head and the little breaking heart icon as she kicks my ass out to the couch tonight.

"Don't kill the messenger" is not how she operates, especially when it comes to computer games.

Curse the GEA!

[isomeme]

Having had to play through some real stinkers of games before

How many more helpless gamers will we allow to be bullied by the fascist Game Enforcement Agency? Well I remember that midnight knock at my door, and the trenchcoated goons who swarmed into my home and forced me at gunpoint to play Eleventh Hour. I screamed "But it's a stinker!", hoping for mercy, but it was no use. They made me play through the entire thing, twice. I was left a broken man.

Fight the GEA!