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'''''The Sims Social''''', commonly referred to as '''TSS''', was a Facebook game made by Playfish and EA. The first wall post was on Monday, June 6, 2011, and the game was launched on Monday, August 8, 2011. It was no longer available as of June 14, 2013, 2 years after its debut.
 
''The Sims Social'' was a free game but also has premium content inside. A mobile application for smartphones was also in development as a companion app to the Facebook version, which was to be available on the current generation of smartphones. {{fact}}
 
On 15 April 2013 EA announced that it would shut down ''The Sims Social'', along with other Facebook games on June 14, 2013 due to lack of popularity.<ref>[http://www.ea.com/news/maxis-an-update-on-facebook-titles Official Confirmation by EA]</ref> Another reason for the termination of ''The Sims Social'' is for EA to be able to reallocate its servers and other such resources.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/TheSimsSocial/timeline/story?ut=32&wstart=1312182000&wend=1314860399&hash=208087295972338&pagefilter=3/ The Sims Social Fanpage Milestone]</ref>
 
==Description==
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==Main Characters==
These are known available main character in ''The Sims Social'', especially Littlehaven:<ref>[http://www.sims-social.com/2012/01/littlehaven-residents-directory.html The Sims Social Fansite - Littlehaven Residents Directory]</ref>
===Returning Characters===
*'''[[Bella Goth]]'''<span style="line-height:20px;"> - Bella returns to Littlehaven as neighbor (which we can't control). She is a tutorial Sim. She helps the player to get started on Littlehaven.</span>
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{{Main|Relationship (The Sims Social)}}
 
''The Sims Social'' has a lot types of Sim relationships. Sims are able to make friends, enemies, lovers, with each other.
 
===Leveling===
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{{Main|Skill (The Sims Social)}}
 
'''Skill''' is a feature in ''The Sims Social'', which exist in [[The Sims series|all of ''The Sims'' games]].
 
===Career===
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==Currency and Units==
''The Sims Social'' has more than one currency, they are: ''Simoleon, SimCash, and Social Point.''
{| align="center" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="article-table" style="width:100%;"
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|[[File:Item silvercoin.png]]
| style="text-align:center;"|'''Simoleon'''
|'''[[Simoleon]] '''is a basic currency in [[The Sims series|''The Sims'' series]] games. In ''The Sims Social'', Simoleon is a grey coin with § symbol on it.
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|'''[[File:TSS-SimCash.png]]'''
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|'''[[File:TSS-LAP.png]]'''
| style="text-align:center;"|'''Lifetime Achievement Points'''
|'''Lifetime Achievement Points''' (also called LAP) can be gained by leveling up skills and finishing quests. LAP is used in the traits shop; it is similar to [[Lifetime happiness]] in ''[[The Sims 3]]'' to purchase lifetime rewards. LAP is blue treasure-chest shaped.
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|[[File:Careerpointsandtokens.png]]
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==Trivia==
 
*''The Sims Social'' was announced at E3 in 2011, and hit open beta August 8.
*[[Bella Goth]] appears as a neighbor. The player can interact with her but cannot control her.<ref>[http://www.simprograms.com/31362/the-sims-social-60-seconds-with-bella/ SimPrograms]</ref>''The Sims Social'' is the third game in which Bella cannot be controlled (others include ''The Sims 2'' and ''The Sims 2'' for PSP).
*[[Bella Goth]] has a Socialite personality and on level 10 Cooking career.
*Bella's abduction on ''The Sims 2'' was explained in The Sims Social, because Littlehaven was set after that event.
*The Buddy in this game could be a nod to Buddy of the ''MySims '' series, as he wears red (Buddy's signature color), has brown hair (Buddy's original hair color in the beta version of ''MySims''), and has the same name.<ref>[http://forum.playfish.com/showthread.php?t=2826789/ The Sims Social "Ask a developer!" Questions Answered! - Playfish/EA Community]</ref>
 
==Easter Egg==
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Sims Social - Promo Picture - Pool Party Preview for May.jpg|May Pool Party Preview
Sims Social - Promo Picture - 50's Rock'n'Roll Theme.png|50's Theme
SS 1.png|A preview of one of the houses from ''The Sims Social'' on their Facebook page, before the game released.
SS 2.png|Another house image.
SS 3.png|A Sim using jacuzzi.
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