Comments on: Salon.com picks up story

By: Mae Mai

Mae Mai — Sun, 11 Jul 2004 18:34:37 +0000

blurring the line between fact and fiction
The Salon.com article is Raking muck in “The Sims Online” By Farhad Manjoo In the real world, Peter Ludlow is an academic, a professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of Michigan whose books go by sober titles like…

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By: The Organization

The Organization — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 15:19:02 +0000

Us versus the MMOG industry!
Very interesting goings-on in the Virtual World World. The Sims Online owner, Maxis, is using heavy handed practices to silence a vocal critic of the game, Urizenus, who runs the Alphaville Herald, a news blog which reports about things in…

By: futureStep | net.tech, academia, society & culture

futureStep | net.tech, academia, society & culture — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:17:35 +0000

[ virtual chaos ]
A scholar by day and a Sims Online junkie presumably at all other times, Peter Ludlow has poised himself as observer, documenter of and activist in the virtual world of The Sims Online. Working against a tide of tawdry and…

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:28:41 +0000

What the heck is cyber prosititution, and if it’s not real, what’s it matter?

By: Jordan from New York

Jordan from New York — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:22:56 +0000

I was recently perma banned for an offence on another ea morpg called Earth and Beyond. I made a miner slip and broadcasted some bad language on a public channel (i made a miss tell). I am not one to take things like this sitting down however as I already have an authoritarian complex if thats even such a thing. Upon reading the email that I was banned forever (I had no warnings i was being banned until i read the email, no conversations with a gm at all) i proceeded to take steps to prove ea wrong and get my account back and i suceeded. First i posted 4 topics on the ebportal chat room at ebportal.com, in case you wanted to read them seeing as i found the link to this site on that forum( this is the chat room used most by the people that play). Next i wrote 10 emails composed of the reason why i was banned and peices of their TOS policy that supported my arguement to 3 different email addresses that i came upon that delt with ea game support. I only got automated messages back but i dont believe that for a second. I got this idea from the movie “The Shawshank Redemption” heh. Lastly and i think the one that had the most effect, I logged on using a friends account and broadcasted across every chat channel for people to send in help request saying that my character (i dont wanna say his name incase ea is monitoring your web page) was wrongfuly banned. I even broadcasted on every channel how to submit a help request heh. I broadcasted these 2 things twice last night and once this morning.I am not writing this to entirely boast about my winning battle but also to give you some ideas of how you could get your account back if you show choose. It is all in the reputation however, not what you know but who you know. Good luck.
Jordan

By: AndreaMarie

AndreaMarie — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:26:58 +0000

Ever since reading about this, I have come to the conclusion that I no longer want anything to do with Maxis. I have four accounts and am seriously considering deleting every one of them. Given the way they treat their customers, badly, and let the biggest liar and scammer ever continue to run a muck, I have come to the conclusion that Evangeline has to be related to someone at Maxis, or even the developer himself. With as many accounts as he has, of course they would be on his side before any one elses.

Here’s hoping something good happens within the game…but I seriously doubt it will.

By: entropy123

entropy123 — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 12:42:29 +0000

The salon.com article alerted me to the interesting goings on in Alphaville. It seems improper that the wealthy thirty-forty somethings at EA/Maxis would lash out at what I perceive to be the more responsible element of the online community, while presumably leaving the peodophiles and pornographers….unmolested.

IMHO EA/Maxis’s action beautifully illustrates how corporate America thinks. Screw the customers, screw the community, screw anything but our bottom line.

While I would rather solve problems through other means, these people only think with their wallets. I’d sue EA/Maxis silly.