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Are you a coder?
Did you enjoy The Sims Online?

Then this might be the project for you.
We are remaking the game - from scratch!
We have native support for all the archives in the game, thus no gamefiles need to be distributed with our client (just download our executable and place it in your TSO directory).

Currently we have a functioning Login server, and we're working on the PatchClient and PatchServer.

Because for some reason EA forgot (?) to remove the client for download, it is still possible for everyone who wants to play the game to download the client from EA. This means that we don't have to worry about creating any art or sound.

If you're interested, go here!
Interesting project, but doesn't this infringe on countless EA trademarks and copyrights?

Don't get me wrong, I'd love the idea but not sure how legal this is.
I'll be honest;

It's in a grey area. The license for the TSO client actually states that you are permitted to redistribute it. Not that we really have to, since it is available from EA.
Technically I think it would be illegal for a user to copy our executable into the TSO directory and run it from there, but it wouldn't be illegal for us to develop software that uses those assets.
So if EA were going to do anything they'd probably have to mass-sue all the users of the software, but quite frankly I don't think they'll care. They've released 'The Sims 3', and the graphics engine of 'The Sims' and 'The Sims Online' is horribly outdated.
It would actually be more illegal to develop and run a server emulator for the game than doing this, but we don't have that option seeing as the servers are long since shut down (unfortunately).
I'm so excited about this!!! Smile I'm not good with codes anymore since I haven't done programming in long time though. Confused Is there anything else I can do to help?
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