SimGoodie billed itself as "Norge største Sims fanside" (Norway's biggest Sims fan site), and its VIP Lounge page, published on October 8, 2011, offers a window into how Nordic Sims 3 fans gathered and talked before Discord servers and Reddit threads became the default. The page was posted by site founder Alexander Ahlsen and functioned as a community hub during a busy stretch of Stuff Pack announcements.
What the VIP Lounge contained
The page itself was spare on editorial text, serving instead as a landing spot where readers could vote in a sidebar poll, browse recent articles, and leave comments with an elaborate library of custom smileys (everything from "Drunken Razz" to "Zombie Killer"). A user named "jon" left a comment on October 12, 2011, just four days after the page went live.
The sidebar poll asked: "Hva synes du om Soverom og bad Stæsj" (What do you think about Bedroom and Bath Stuff), referring to what English-language players knew as The Sims 3 Master Suite Stuff. Readers could choose from five options:
- Ser veldig bra ut! (Looks very good!)
- Ser bra ut (Looks good)
- Helt greit (Quite alright)
- Liker det ikke (Don't like it)
- Hva er det? (What is it?)
The "Kommende spill" (Upcoming games) sidebar listed Master Suite Stuff with a release date of January 26, 2012, alongside a vaguer "EP6 VÃ¥ren/sommeren 2012" (Spring/Summer 2012), which would eventually become The Sims 3 Seasons.
The site around the VIP Lounge
SimGoodie's recent-posts sidebar captured what was occupying the Norwegian Sims community that autumn. Articles included "Objekter i Soverom og Bad!" (Objects in Bedroom and Bath!), "Første bildene fra Master Suite Stuff!" (First images from Master Suite Stuff!), "The Sims Journal, Episode 8," and "Klær til dine hunder!" (Clothes for your dogs!), the last of which tied into excitement over The Sims 3 Pets, which had launched just weeks earlier.
The tag cloud reflected a community knee-deep in expansion talk: "Kjæledyr" (Pets), "hester" (horses), "vampyrer," "GamesCom 2011," and "helaften" (Late Night) all had prominent weight. Recent comments showed readers actively speculating about weather in the next expansion pack and discussing Pets features.
Social connectivity ran through four channels listed at the top of the sidebar: Facebook, Twitter, RSS Feed, and YouTube (under the handle SimGoodies). In 2011, an RSS feed still sat alongside social platforms as a first-class way to follow a fan site.
How long SimGoodie ran
The site's monthly archive dropdown reveals posts stretching back to October 2009, with its most active stretch running from mid-2010 through November 2011. Output varied dramatically: August 2011 alone saw 97 posts, while some earlier months had only a handful. The copyright footer read "SimGoodie 2009-2011," confirming about two years of operation covering The Sims 2 expansions, The Sims 3 and its packs, The Sims Medieval, and the "Historier" (Stories) spinoffs.
This was a period when independent fan sites filled the gap between official EA communication and player discussion. SimGoodie covered GamesCom hands-on events, ran polls about upcoming packs, and maintained a comments section that functioned as a small forum. The Sims 3 patch 1.22, which shipped alongside Generations in May 2011, was part of that same content wave. By 2012, the site appears to have gone quiet, but the Wayback Machine capture preserves what it looked like at full speed.
Source: SimGoodie legacy archive (simgoodie.com)