News Archive - 2000

Ever have one of those parties where everyone on the planet shows up? We're having the website equivalent right now. The response to TheSims.com has been overwhelming - literally! We're working on increasing our capacity, but until that's done, there will be some brief outages from time to time while we give our servers a chance to catch up. We won't have more than 10 of these outages any given day, and each one only lasts 5-10 minutes. So if the site appears to be down, don't panic, just try back in a few minutes. Thanks!

That's right! We've now sold over a million copies of the Sims. Our thanks to all of you who told a friend what a great time you're having! Support groups for Sims addicts should be forming shortly...

The Sims is getting some airtime! We're sponsoring MTV's Wanna Be a VJ contest on the last two weekends of April. We're also airing a series of hilarious new ads on MTV all this month! If you miss them on the air, we'll have them here for you to download. As Elwood says, "Fan-tastic!"

You asked for it, you got it - an update to the game! It fixes bugs, improves gameplay, whitens teeth and freshens your breath! Well, okay, the patch doesn't do EVERYthing, but it's still pretty good. Come and get it! (For a faster download, go to the Start menu, under Program Files, under Maxis, under The Sims, and choose Check for patches.)

Go to Game Patches