Starting TODAY, you can control your sims directly. Else.”? More like, watch somebody else enjoy a ball pit hot tub in an extravagant mcmansion. You can’t feel like you’re committing hundreds of crimes a minute from a third person view. We played GTA Online for five seconds and immediately understood the problem. Despite the allure of this premise, the game hasn’t garnered the millions of players it deserves. The Sims Online is all about escapism, living your life as someone else and enjoying experiences you never would in real life, like dying without consequence and property ownership.