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171. Back of OfB Box Spotted

Written on Monday 20 February 2006 at 13:11 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The online version of the British WoolWorths has published the back of the box for Open for Business. It's not dissimilar to the back of earlier expansion packs, showing some of the new objects and mentioning a couple of features. Click the thumbnail below to see the full image. Thanks to Callum91 at Sims 2 Community for spotting the image.

172. "Sims Played By" Campaign Updated

Written on Monday 20 February 2006 at 13:00 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Last year EA launched the "Sims Played By" ("How do you play?") campaign to promote the Sims 2 on all platforms. New stories have been created since, for Open for Business, which will be released soon. EA has now published the 6 new stories - 3 videos and 3 picture stories - on the campaign's website, SimsPlayedBy.com. Fansite SnootySims has posted three stories as they were printed in magazines, all of which you can see by clicking the thumbnails below. The first and last were scanned and submitted by ZemiZem6 from Teen People Magazine, and posted on the official BBS, whereas the second is from Mitch, who has written the story.

173. OfB Gone Gold; 4 Screenshots

Written on Wednesday 15 February 2006 at 23:26 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The latest expansion pack for the Sims 2, Open for Business, has gone gold. EA has announced that today in a press release. The game, now coming off the presses and being packaged, will appear on American shelves on Thursday 2 March (just 15 days from now), the UK will follow a day later. The release date elsewhere might vary around these dates, though it'll be released in the same week worldwide. To get the game delivered to you on the day of release, you can pre-order the game from our shop. Along with the press release, EA has also sent out 4 new screenshots of the expansion pack, which you can see in their full glory below.

174. New Open for Business Screens

Written on Wednesday 8 February 2006 at 21:14 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

The official Dutch website has posted two new screenshots of Open for Business, this time showing a not so successful hair salon and the other one showing the sales social. As usual you can find the screenshots below. By clicking the thumbnails you'll get bigger versions of them.

175. New H-Mail

Written on Saturday 4 February 2006 at 16:10 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Hunter Howe has sent out his second e-mail for Open for Business, with a new update about the expansion pack. This time it's all about the new build mode features. Awnings come in various styles, and can be built in pretty much any shape. Elevators are also new, and are somewhat magical. They can rotate during their trip. Shaft pieces allow the elevator to skip a floor, whereas the door piece (2x2 squares big, 3x2 including the reserved tiles in front of the door) can let your Sims in and out. Plummeting elevators can drain the needs of the Sims in the elevator a lot, causing death as ultimate result if the needs are too low. Woohoo increases the risk of a crashing lift. Split levels are also new, and allow you to make stages or little pvaillions. Finally Hunter mentions the new dome, cone and octagon shaped roofs that you can put down instead of the usual ones. A new windmill ploppable can also be seen in one of the five included screenshots. You can see those together below, just click the thumbnails for large versions. The whole email, with the same screenshots, is behind the read more link (or below if that isn't here).

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176. OfB Designer Walkthrough Video

Written on Saturday 4 February 2006 at 15:47 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Maxis has created a new walkthrough video for the Sims 2 Open for Business. This time Hunter Howe takes you through the new expansion pack in over 7 minutes time. He shows a toy store, which has a crafting room to start with. A Sim with a gold talent badge for toy making allows him to create all kinds of toys, customizing them slightly. Uploading the lot to the exchange will include the customised objects in the download, so whoever downloads a lot gets your objects in it. You can also put the objects or anything else from the catalog for sale, setting the price as well.

Next Hunter shows a store that's opening up, and the first customer of the day browsing around a bit. Andy brings the buy bar of the customer down a bit, by failing miserably at trying to sell something. Sims looking around confused need some help from your salesmen. Good salesmen, with the golden sales talent badge, are able to use the dazzle interaction, making customers enthousiastic and buy stuff they might not really need. The customers buying stuff are likely to give you some loyalty stars which rank up your business. You can also buy perks with them, and Hunter shows the motivational speech interaction, which is one of the perks. He also shows setting the price for all items that are for sale. Still Andy is failing to succeed, so he's fired.

Finally, on another lot, Hunter shows some of the new build and buy mode features. From mascots to elevators, the salon chair and crafted toys. You can also spot some awnings and new roof shapes along the way. You can download the movie from the official movies page, or from the Open for Business trailers page, where it's named "Official Movie 1."

177. Open for Business Wallpaper

Written on Saturday 28 January 2006 at 14:30 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

On the official site, which recently got a new intro to promote Open for Business, a new wallpaper of the expansion pack has been posted. As usual it comes in four resolutions, 1680x1050, 1280x1024, 1024x768 and 800x600, suitable for any computer desktop. To put it on your computer's background, go to the official Wallpaper page. You can see a small example below.

178. EA Decided against Product Placement in OfB

Written on Saturday 28 January 2006 at 14:21 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

Although it was apparantly considered, BusinessWeek reports that there will not be any product placement - i.e. advertising - in the Sims 2 Open for Business. Because the Sims is a fantasy world, ad and design staffs working on the expansion, decided to not put real-life brands in the Sims world. This despite McDonalds and Intel making an appearance in The Sims Online, and later as download for the Sims 1, as well as an Alienware Computer download from the Sims 2 Exchange. EA was already working on placing some brands in the storylines for Open for Business, but those have now been removed. The full article discusses product placement in other games as well.

179. OfB Previews

Written on Saturday 28 January 2006 at 14:08 by ChEeTaH - 0 comments.

In the past week three new previews of Open for Business were posted. Naturally that has resulted in bits of new information about the expansion pack, as well as screenshots and videos. GameSpot, IGN and 1Up have taken a look at the game and give their first impressions. Read on for the exact details from these previews. Read More!

180. New Artworks

Written on Saturday 28 January 2006 at 00:57 by ChEeTaH - 1 comment.

Recently the arsenal of Open for Business graphics was expanded by three artworks, found by L'Universims at Europe2.fr. The brand new artworks show three shopkeepers making their own business. They may look somewhat familiar, from small icons, but they haven't appeared as full artworks before yet. You can check them out by clicking the thumbnails below.