Why I buy this one ?
- The third expansion pack for The Sims 2
- Turn your Sims' skills and hobbies into careers - even children can run a business!
- Cultivate an audience for your wares, from window shoppers to niche markets
- 125 new items to decorate your Sim's house or business
- A new radio station featuring famous bands singing in "Simlish"

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What our customer's say!

"OFB is the best one out of all seven!",
after reading all the reviews online, i bought... every expansion pack for the Sims 2 (over the course of several months)I have to say, this is the best one in the whole series! its kinda challenging, but once you start to get rank your business grows and its sooooo much fun and worth the effor. If you dont feel like going to your business one day, just don't go. I would suggest locking your front door (except when you invite friends over and then making a second floor or seperate building for a home business because you will be very aggravated with the loading times if you have a off site community lot. Also, if you two members of the family, your shop can stary open 24/7 if you have then take shifts becuase the downside is that your sims needs decay very quickly (especially hunger, energy, and hygiene) so they will have to leave an offsite business lot after a couple hours. The best addition, is the talent badges, which are more fun to gain than job skill points.

New Additions include-
*makeover chairs -open a salon!
*talent badges (stock shelfsefficiantly or craft objects like Servo)
*also new roofs, awnings and elevators (woo-hoo able of course)

Its jusst so rich and deep and sooo much fun and because you can seel virtually anything, you never get tired of it!
the only downside is that your sims life, unless you run a family business, will be taken over by running a store. but thats the price to pay for the best expansion pack of the sims 2 series!

(lets face it, seasons didnt really add anything except snow. I know thats oversimplifying it, but come on, its not that great.)

"Is fun the right word?... Yes!", Okay I'm a little late commenting on OFB but I've had this pack for like 2 years and only recently am I starting to take advantage of its features. I was like many people who thought the work aspect of sims life detracted from the gameplay. I mean, how is running a business actually fun? Well, I now realize it just takes the game to a new level. I have all the EPs including FreeTime and I rank OFB second only behind the revolutionary Seasons EP. To take full advantage of OFB you should have all the other EPs, especially Seasons, Nightlife and FreeTime. You can run a home business or purchase a community lot. For example, I have just started a business called The Downtown Dance Studio where the owner trains and teaches visitors music and dance on ballet bars, instructing them, and dancing with them to build skill. For a 35 simoleon fee per hour of course. And she can sell that price to just about any sim because she has a gold talent badge in sales (trust me, that makes sales a whole lot easier). Just pure fun. There are so many possibilities with this EP its incredible. You can sell just about anything, hire employees, and take a vested interest in the business or just take a backseat. You can charge by the hour for entertainment and membership lots, or just sell, sell, sell. With Nightlife you can run a restaurant. Build customer loyalty and the value of your business grows. And that's not easy either. My dance studio has a ranking of 3, making it worth about 15000. You get perks for each ranking achieved, up to ten. So it make the game challenging. Of course if you're not into a challenge this pack is not for you, but if you want to expand and revolutionize your gameplay then OFB is the EP for you!

"Awesome Game!", After having been a Sims1 gamer for many years, and after getting a new PC that can handle the power/memory that Sims2 uses, I finally invested in most of the Sims2 games/expansion & stuff packs. First, you must have the Sims2 game installed on your PC. You can get the Sims2 game by buying either the Sims2 original title, the Sims2 Holiday title (includes additional holiday items), the Sims2 Deluxe title (includes the additional Nightlife expansion pack), or the Sims2 Limited Edition (which includes Deluxe and Bon Voyage packs). I bought the Limited Edition. Back to Open For Business...it's a must have for the game. It opens up a world of opportunity to your Sims. I wouldn't play the game without it. The expansion packs are more valuable than the stuff packs. The stuff packs are fun add-ons to the games, so I wouldn't dismiss them too quickly. But, if you're new to the game, I first buy the expansion packs and then the stuff packs. Again, Open for Business is a must have!

P.S. As with any game, expansion pack, or stuff pack, after registering your game at the Sims2.com website, be sure to check for game patches. Patches will improve performance and fix any bugs in the game. ;)

"Impossible!", This is such a let down! It's nearly impossible to play. For one thing, you can accidently ruin the lives of other Sims by hiring them to work for you. How do teenagers go to work and to school? How do adults keep their 'real' jobs? They don't, and the adults show up as unemployed if they're staff and don't get paychecks or get called to work when you play their lot. Also, if you have this game without other expansions, it overrides the basic Sims2 wants for your sims, and you end up with business-focused sims (from child to adult, and regardless of their aspiration)which is really annoying. All the expansions have this annoying tendancy though, so if you have them all it balances out. I bought this the day it came out and have been kicking myself ever since.

"More challenges", At first I wasn't that interested in running a business, but it became addictive and challenging, which I found enjoyable.

This expansion primarily lets you create a business either at home or on a community lot (which you buy). Running a business can be quite challenging; it's like a game within the game. You have to manage employees, track inventory, set prices, satisfy customers, and still try to make a profit. There are crafted items that are new to the expansion (robots, flowers, toys) that you can sell, but you can also sell anything from the Buy Mode catalog. You can also buy a salon chair to give customers makeovers. So your business can be a bakery, toy store, car dealership, salon, or you can sell all bathtubs.

If you don't want to own a business, there are still things this expansion set lets you do. For one, you can lock all your doors to restrict access to your house and property. (No more strangers wandering in to play your piano at 2 a.m.) The crafted robots include SentryBots, which zap troublemakers who appear on your lot, and Servos, who become playable, ageless robots. With flowers you can make snapdragon bouquets, which elevate all your Sims' needs (except energy), so they'll never have to eat, socialize, or shower again.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Great Fun", Open For Business adds a new dimension to the Sims 2 gameplay. While the general style of the game is an open-ended sandbox where you just do whatever you want, this expansion is more goal-oriented, by allowing you to build up a business empire for your sims.

One thing that's worth noting as a downside is that if you want to run a business at an actual commercial lot, you'll have to travel to and from it on a regular basis. So, if loading screens bug you severely, keep in mind that the only way to avoid them would be to run nothing but home-based businesses. (Having the ability to own a car from the Nightlife expansion helps a bit, since it at least saves you the waiting-for-taxi time.)

The new workstations where you create toys, flower arrangements, and robots are nice and produce some useful items. You could even scrape along funding a sims life by creating items with one of these and then immediately selling them (either from manipulating the station or just dropping the item in buy mode). The profits this way are much smaller than you're likely to get from customers interacting with a good salesman, but you can get by.

But retail and service-based businesses are possible, and even possible on the same lot, which gives you a great deal of flexibility in creating the business you want to run. Nearly every object in the game is capable of being sold through stores, and if you want to build an entertainment facility where sims pay to hang out, anything that makes them feel like sticking around can be good for business.

It's nice to feel like you can actually participate in the way your sim earns a living, rather than just watching him go off to work every day to do something mysterious.

Remember to check the Sims 2 website for patches!

"a good game", but very hard. the only business(or not even a business) i succeed in is the lemonade stand.well i don't succeed even in the lemonade stand. it's my home business and i HAVE to have a open sign for customers to come. without that sign they will not come and buy my lemonade. i have an employee sell the lemonade though. i sometimes do it myself. my sim is NOT poor. i only have 1 sim right now. a teenager. the reason she is not poor is because i use the money cheats. she would be becuz i get very little customers. overall i enjoy this game but recommend you have a lemonade stand. it's the easiest.

"Open for business Sims 2", This is the best little game that they have come up with owning your own little shop I would have never have guessed it to be so dang hard! LOL I love it though, Just like I love those prices. Thanks Alot!

"Complicated Installation", The installation of this game was very difficult. I even got my 14 year old to help me and we still have difficulty. Once you go through the complicated nightmare, my 14 year old daughter really enjoys game.

"If you like this maybe you should start a real business", The great thing about the Sims series has always been the way it lets you take on challenges you could never imagine pulling off in real life. Open for business continues this tradition by allowing you to create almost any business you can imagine. Ever wondered how a composite nightclub/gym would work out? Give it a go!

Opening a business is a little more challenging than many of the activities the Sims series has offered thus far. I wouldn't exactly call the process straightforward. One of the first items you're going to need to open your business is an open/closed sign. Without this there is no way for customers to know that you're open, or employees to know to come to work. The funny thing is that this oh so important piece of inventory is hidden away in the catalog, where you might just have to stumble across it by accident. There are more such glitches such as you have to call up employees to hire them, yet they magically know when you flip that open/closed sign that it's time to start their working day.


Once you start your business though, and work through the hitches in logic, the game really does get intense. You're going to have to have some support to start almost every business, simply because of the cost of the cash register and merchandise. It's not all plain sailing once you have those things either.



Not only do you have to work hard for the money, you may even have to take on employees. From the scrupulous to the scurrilous, it is your job to supervise them and make sure that they're on task and making you money, rather than costing you it. Bad employees can make a marked impact on your business, as their mood effects the customers and therefore your rating. If you manage to get a good team going, and keep them happy with their hourly pay, which you must pay them hourly, then you have come a long way towards getting that business off the ground.

The better your business is known and regarded, the better the rewards. You can get lower prices on wholesale items, which is oh so life like. It's always the ones who don't need the money who get the discounts. You can also gain social skills which makes meeting new Sims more rewarding and easier. The star rating system ensures that you will always know how satisfied you are keeping your customers, something many businesses would kill for in reality.

The expansion hasn't stopped just at game play however, there are 125 new items, and Robots have been added to the mix. Robots are great fun, and oh so eager to please. Like a 70's sci fi dream, they cook, clean, and try to anticipate your every need. Then, like every 70's sci fi distopia if they get mad they trash the house and run off with another robot.

The new items add an extra level of customization to the game, which means it looks better than ever. The sound ranges from some great music to the funniest effects ever, and is, as one expects, an integral part of the game experience. If you don't speak Simlish yet, perhaps this expansion will give you a few more clues, as you listen to the radio burble away, or perhaps an angry customer raging at you because of a lazy employee.