In this world, you have your own plot of land to do with as you please. Create a house, coffee bar, dance club, museum, or whatever else you can imagine. Explore the neighborhoods around you and meet scores of Sims along the way. Build a network of friends from around the world to enhance your power, wealth, reputation, and social standing. Be a peacemaker or pest, casanova or matchmaker, recluse or party animal. In this open-ended online world, you choose your role, your attitude, and your destiny.

• Get real... ridiculous: Create and customize your Sim to be just like you, or someone else.
• Speak for yourself: Meet, flirt with, and get to know other Sims through chat, instant messages, and over 60 new expressive gestures.
• Build a home and a livelihood: Build your dream home, the trendiest boutique, or the hottest neighborhood hangout around.
• Be roommates and colleagues: Develop a network of friends, go into business with your housemates, improve the neighborhood, or open a hoppin' club.
• Live life online to the fullest: Select from over 500 new items and skins, designed for online play. And choose from almost all items and skins from the other Sims games.
• Life is what you make of it: Let your imagination run wild. Choose your online role and play your way in this unpredictable, infinite, online world.

This limited Charter Edition includes:

• 3 free months of play time, a $20 value (regular edition has 1 free month of play time)
• Sims face magnet: 25 Sims faces and a small frame that says "Today I am..."
• Sims music CD
• Sims twisty block key chain (contains four Sims in 3 segments each)
• 4-color manual with development team signatures
• Charter Member certificate