Dyerbrook, I lost you, why would my mom want to sue Maxis for $150? I didn’t lose anything. And are you calling me a terrorist for reporting?

And as for me getting his account terminated, we don’t need players who break the rules.

Now…I would have to say that “Stockholm Syndrome” is not quite the term to be using here. I think you’ve been talking to the BDSMers too long and have lost all capacity to distinguish among levels and sizes. In the Stockholm Syndrome, a terrorist takes a hostage using force, and the hostage then becomes sympathetic to the poor freedom-fighting hostage as as technique to save his life. A game company that takes your $9.95 a month from you is not a terrorist, it’s just a game company offering entertainment. If you are fool enough to fork over your $9.95 every month, well, like P.T. Barnum said, there’s a sucker born every minute. What the syndrome is more like is let’s say sycophantism, where fanboys and fangals suck up to Maxis and after taking a certain amount of abuse, keep coming back ever faithful that this time, the dog won’t bite the hand that feeds it. I can only point to Paul Neruda’s awesome serial trolling-style post on the Stratics board about pets and excesses regarding pets for insights into the characters of the Maxis sycophants.

I think what’s more to the point is that guy in Korea or China who got this torts case won, where he was able to show that his game stuff was like a capital improvement on property he rented or something, anyway, he got some kind of restitution. So really, Polie Bear’s mom, or whoever has the credit card on this caper, should try suing Maxis in small claims court for $150. Or Urizenus could try the same ploy. For the lost of his in-game acquired items. However, then Maxis would be within its rights to inquire how these players came by the millions required to purchase cheetahs.