sabinky Boutika Site Owner
Posts: 3630
(1/10/03 7:22 pm) Reply
Interview with TSO
We were invited to interview TSO. We are putting our list of questions together now, so if you want a specific question asked, please list it here. I cannot promise that it will be included, but all questions will be taken under consideration.
lulu Boutika Forum Mod
Posts: 498
(1/13/03 3:41 pm) Reply
Re: Interview with TSO
The point of the Internet is so that people from all over the world can access everything on it. That said, what is the point of TSO being restricted to the US and whatever other countries it is allowed in?
sabinky Boutika Site Owner
Posts: 3691
(1/25/03 10:28 am) Reply
Re: Interview with TSO
These were the questions sent:
1). Many of our site visitors are Macintosh users. Are there any plans to release TSO for the Mac?
2). Are there plans to expand TSO globally any time soon? If so, what countries?
3). How will skins be submitted and what type of acceptance process is there going to be? For example, do we email the skins to you and then a group of people decide if they are to go into TSO within, say, a week... something like this? We would love to know how this process is going to work.
4). How will the skins be sold? For instance, I, from Boutika submit a group of skins, then does my online store have the only access to them to sell? Or, are all submitted skins put into some sort of queue where store owners buy them wholesale? People are really interested in this particularly because of design credit issues.
5). What if a designer closes shop after selling skins? What happens to their skins in the game?
6). Are skins cross-city or just for the particular city the designer has a store in?
7). How will Sims change in and out of skins? Will they need a dresser or do they wear what they buy and then have to buy something else to have a different outfit?
. The Club idea has been discussed quite a bit. Could you elaborate on what exactly the Club means and how it works?
9). Will high profile sites have specific "extras" in TSO? In other words, high profile sits which carry skins for the PC/Mac version of the game, may get a special discount on wholesale items. Or a % off on the monthly TSO access fee.
10). Are skins made for TSO allowed to be distributed also on a particular Web site? If so, how are theft issues going to be handled?
11). What type of shop items can we look forward to? Will there be display cases, mannequins, shopping bags, etc. Will any of these items be customizable to carry the store's name/logo? Will the mannequins be able to wear that store's particular clothing? Will store sign's have that store's name on it?
12). Is a property designation (shop, money, skills, etc.) going to exclude the property from having items outside of its own designation? If I wanted to have a mall, for instance, and in that mall I had a restaurant, a gym and a shop, would I have to designated that mall as a store, for example? If so, would I still be able to have access to the gym and restaurant objects?
13). When will customized skins, buying and selling options for a store and store objects, be released? Are you releasing everything in phases? In other words, shop objects, wallpaper, a few skins here and there or will the store concept be released all at once?
. The Club idea has been discussed quite a bit. Could you elaborate on what exactly the Club means and how it works?
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