Talk:The Sims Life Stories

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so, we're wondering if Life Stories works on Vista on a laptop. Can't find out. annoying. Appreciate a response at www.uncyclopedia.org/User_talk:Tayor thanks. 24.63.242.32 (talk) 05:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

i have vista on my laptop, life stories works fine. --Brideshead_{(leave a message)} 19:32, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

Unlike The Sims, or the Sims 2 The Sims Stories isn't a game unto itself. It starts with The Sims Life Stories and hence any base information about the series should be kept within this article and not in a separate article like it is with The Sims 2 and The Sims 2.--Crossmr 07:23, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is pointless to have two seperate articles on the same thing. The two should be merged. Blubba112 06:35, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support - I agree. z ε n .ıl 04:16, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

More Support- The two top ppl r SO right, there shouldnt even have to be a goddamn discussion abt it.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.115.118.243 (talk • contribs) 08:12, March 4, 2007.

This is a seperate game, The Sims Life Stories is part of "The Sims Stories" with its own two sequels. It is a spin-off of The Sims 2, most spin-off's on Wikipedia have there own artical as should this one. The Sims 2 does not support The Sims Life Stories whatsoever, no expansions are compatible and Sims from The Sims 2 can't go to The Sims Life Stories. 82.46.73.110 (talk) 14:58, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Expansions?

The Sims Pet Stories and The Sims Castaway Stories, we do not know if these are "Real" expansion packs for Life Stories. As they do not have Expansion Pack on the covers. So I have edited the page, so that it said "supposely" two expansion packs. So do not get pissed at me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.165.85.118 (talk • contribs)

does this remind you of anything? Sims city stories... —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackpotDen (talk • contribs)

They are not expansions, they are standalone games. The website says so. The text in the article now reflects this. — Frecklefoot | Talk 21:51, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whatisitgoodfor?

Whatisitgoodfor went through all the Sims Stories articles and changed the developer from Maxis to Aspyr Media (and, as of this writing, it is the ONLY edits this user has made). I did a fair bit of looking, but couldn't find one source that stated this was the case. Aspyr did do a Mac port of The Sims 2: Pets, but isn't doing the stories series as far as I can tell. I'm just going to assume this was an honest mistake, but, for future reference, anytime you make such a claim, provide a reference so it can be verified. — Frecklefoot | Talk 22:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, honest mistake. Mac player that didn't do enough research. Whatisitgoodfor 01:04, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually Maxis no longer exists. If you visit the site their logo has been removed, as well as on the games. The developer is now just EA games for any game released in the fall forward I believe, include TS2: Pets.--Crossmr 07:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It was Aspyr Media. Here is an article about the development:

http://www.aspyrstudios.com/games/featured/1

They are the developer of all three The Sims Stories, and I'm not just talking about the Mac version. I'm not editing it since I don't want my first edit to look like a malicious re-hash of developer.

CoreTech (talk) 19:23, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for providing that. This should be changed on all the stories articles.--Crossmr (talk) 15:23, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a seperate program from the Sims 2

This program is separate from the Sims 2, and does not require it to pay. It should not be merged with the Sims 2 article, but linked to and from it. In fact, the two cannot share items, packages, or anything else. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Snooziums (talk • contribs) 02:50, 2 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]

As far as I know there was no proposal to do so?--Crossmr 23:12, 2 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The first discussion in this page. Xolver 13:58, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That was a proposal to merge The Sims life Stories with The Sims Stories. Not with The Sims 2.--Crossmr 12:57, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Sims Stories

The Sims Life Stories is only one game in the Sims Stories series, meaning they are not synonymous and thus need their own articles, even if it is just a simple disambiguation page. --C. Raleigh 18:08, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The sims stories is simply the name for the franchise, and can be explained in the article of the first game in that series. The Sims was both the name of the base game and the name of the franchise. We don't create a disambiguation page to differentiate between the series The Sims, and the game The Sims.--Crossmr 21:36, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, but I do not feel that a more-inclusive topic (a video game series) should redirect to a less-inclusive one (a speceific game in that series), even if the series is described in the article. Just a thought. --C. Raleigh 05:59, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Like I said, we don't have separate pages describing The Sims or The Sims 2 series as opposed to the base games The Sims or The Sims 2. We previously had separate pages and the content was very small and it was unlikely to ever expand. That is why they were merged. There is no real difference here except in this case Maxis has tossed an extra word in to the name of the base game. --Crossmr 12:45, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for clearing that up. I suppose it can stay the way it is in that case. --C. Raleigh 17:59, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:29, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]