Smallworlds

SmallWorlds was a virtual world and social network service by Outsmart Games, a privately owned company based in Auckland, New Zealand. As of April 9th, 2018, the game has shut down and is no longer playable and is replaced with TownCenter. However, there are rumors out there stating that SmallWorlds will possibly return in the future. However a revival project called MiniMania will be released publically on July 22th, 2022.

Why It Sucked

 * 1) The player rate was unable to exceed 2,000 players. This is due to a horde of bad updates.
 * 2) * Back in 2008 during the beta years, the game was free. When it officially launched, nearly everything required money from that point onward.
 * 3) Microtransactions: the game wanted your money for VIP and Gold. You couldn't get either of those two things, unless you earned Gold by completing offers.
 * 4) * Sometimes, the store wouldn't give you the Gold you paid for.
 * 5) * Any of the rare items sold were extremely overpriced.
 * 6) * The Spin-To-Win Deluxe could be considered borderline gambling. You could win some decent items, but most of the time you'd only win some junk.
 * 7) * In the store, you could pay for a 1-month VIP with 3cl, but you needed 1,500 Gold to get one.
 * 8) * Monthly items were sold for 2,000 Gold and only dropped off after it's off-sale or raise.
 * 9) The game has a horrible community.
 * 10) * There were a lot of scammers.
 * 11) * More experienced players would often make fun of the newbies.
 * 12) * A lot of trolls and spammers used this website.
 * 13) Just like MovieStarPlanet, the game had a bad lagging problem.
 * 14) Awful moderation. You could get banned for no apparent reason.
 * 15) * Their support system was awful. All they did was copy-paste a message in addition to wanting you to tell them your e-mail address.
 * 16) * Their offer providers had virus offers that would infect your device.
 * 17) The Smallworlds website itself wasn't secure. Other words being, it was a risky gamble if your computer got a virus from it.
 * 18) As of April 8, 2018, the game is shut down. By now, it was made clear that the whole game into the biggest cash grab; all for the money.
 * 19) * Since the Outsmart Games company has shut Smallworlds down, you cannot gain free Gold by doing offers any longer. Instead you had to rely on selling your items, but it was rather difficult due to the store being closed.
 * 20) * They begged you to support them while they were prepared of shutting down the game.
 * 21) Their "revival" TownCenter is even worse, and it is more of a huge downgrade of the game.
 * 22) *It later shutdown as of 2021.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) You could build your own house.
 * 2) The game used to be good back in 2008 - 2011.
 * 3) Good quality items and some decent missions.