Archive for February, 2004
Be anything you want, except a slave
Maxis has been moving against certain profiles in the BDSM community of late — in particular those which indicate that a particular user is a slave of another user (an example would be the relation between AVH readers/contributors Maria LaVeaux and her slave, Toy). Some accounts have reportedly been suspended for using the “slave of [...]
Full StoryThe Alphaville Herald on the Boob Tube
CNN has produced a story on the joys of cyberbrothels in alphaville. It’s up on their website at http://premium.cnn.com/pr/video/meta/tech/2004/02/11/bb.sin.city.cnn.np.smil. I have no idea if it has aired on the network. It seems that the reporter (Bruce Burkhardt) got his virtual ashes hauled in the Jiggolo [sic] Escorts cyber brothel, which offers a good hour of [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Stop Blaming the Techies!
By Anonymous B Enough is enough. After reading several posts and comments in this blog, I just had to chime in and say you people are badly misdiagnosing the failure of TSO. TSO is not failing because of EA tech people, it is failing because the suits in marketing and legal don’t want it to [...]
Full StoryDiary of a Newbie part 1
By Montserrat Tovar one day curiosity got to me and i became a sim. you could say that i joined the crowd materializing into the ether instead of walking to walsingham. first thing i had to do was create my sim. it was interesting to do because in spite of pages and pages of parts [...]
Full StoryUru Live bites the dust
In a sad bit of MMORPG news, Uru Live has been shut down by its owner Cyan Worlds (better known as makers of Myst and Riven).
Full StoryDon Hopkins on TSO’s failure: Maxis Lost Will’s Vision
In a recent blog entry, Don Hopkins, formerly of the original Sims development team, comments on how the lack of custom content in TSO not only is responsible for the failure of TSO, but is also at odds with Will Wright’s creative vision for the sims franchise. He writes: “Will Wright’s original vision was enabling [...]
Full StoryFebruary Census of Activity in TSO
Raw stats thanks to Cherry Bomb (who is not responsible for the explanation or the formatting!) We are told by EA that TSO has 80,000 subscribers, but did you ever wonder how many actually play TSO or how many hours are logged? Perhaps we can extrapolate. Following is a census of recorded visitor hours listed [...]
Full StoryMeet Mr-President of “The Alphaville Government”
By: The Teflon Cambridge Don With all the bad things covered in the Alphaville Herald in recent times, I approached the publisher and challenged him to present something positive for us to read for a change. That’s when he offered me a job as a reporter. This is my first story with the AV Herald [...]
Full StoryAlphaville’s Robin Hood?
In an interesting, but presumably impossible to confirm story, a sim recently appeared in Alphaville, stayed long enough to hack into the account of a member of the ex Van Clan, give away his 800K to newbies, and then disappear. The story goes like this. Ex-Free Money for Newbies regular Julia (among other names), known [...]
Full StoryOn the Map: Interview with Godfather Antonio Armone
Several weeks ago the AVH reported that the collapse of the Sims Shadow Government would lead to the rise of Mafia activity in Alphaville. That prophesy has certainly been fulfilled, with one neighborhood currently under the control of X-Mafia and another under control of mafia newcomers, the Armone Family (many members of which are ex-ssg). [...]
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