Archive for May, 2004
The rise of Ted Castronova and the study of Virtual Economies
Good to see our friend Ted Castronova featured in this article from Walrus Magazine. It is a really nice piece about how Ted resurrected his academic career when he started to think about virtual economies as real economies. Of course, I can’t resist pointing out that Ted was an interview subject in the AVH before [...]
Full StoryJohnny Lace Plans New Lot Design Contest in AV
Last September, Johnny Lace held his first lot design contest, attracting 75 participants. He’s now organizing another contest, and is hoping to attract as many as 100 participants with his 1 million simolean prize. In this interview Johnny talks about the contest, the judging, offers some advice for designers, and also chats about the uncertain [...]
Full StoryMr-President cloned by scammer
All citisims should be alert to a recent cloning of Mr-President by a sim named Mr – President. That’s Mr (space) – (space) president. You can also identify the sim by the fact that it is zero days old and has no skills. The clone has been contacting people in alpha seeking money. Here is [...]
Full StoryOn the Positive Side…
by Hyper After being asked by a AVH news reporter to be interviewed over the “unfair” Dan’s Grove elections, I got to thinking, I refused to be interviewed because, I felt the AVH is/was trash and never published one positive story. So to make a long story short after getting hyped up over the elections, [...]
Full Storyop/ed: on scammers
by humdog i think there are a few things that are interesting about scammers, and i don’t see anybody mentioning them, so i will. scammers are interesting to me because they are somehow able to cleanly divide the values they hold “in game” from the values they hold “out of game” or as the rest [...]
Full StoryBack to the Drawing Board: Dan’s Grove New Voting System Turns into Mess
By Dana Grove Accusations and complaints arose during the primary voting in Dan’s Grove this past Saturday. Running in the primaries were LegolastheGreat, Lonnie Rodriguez, RAW, USAPresident, Eminem- and Afrin. In the past, citizens of Dan’s Grove used to vote on websites, too many were complaining foul play when using this method. A new voting [...]
Full StoryIt’s Official: AVH and PL now blamed for everthing in TSO!
Why are there scammers in tso ? Alphaville Herald Encourages them.Why are there money bots in tso? Alphaville Herald “advertises” them.Why is there drama in tso? Alphaville Herald fuels it.Why are there Mafias in tso? Must have to do with the Alphaville Herald.All of this we already knew. But I’ll bet not all of you [...]
Full StoryNew Edition of Gir Out
Well I understand that the first incarnation of this post generated some controversy. If you have issues with this post please feel free to contact Peter J. Ludlow: ludlow@umich.edu. Leave the Phantom out of it. And just to show you all how well it works to try and bully the AVH into dropping a story, [...]
Full StoryGameSpot Interviews Darth Vader
by The Phantom In a recent intervew, GameSpot talks to EA’s CEO (they call him “King”, but why quibble) Larry Probst. My favorite part is an exchange in which Ole Lar seems to admit that they went to EEE and found that Sega had a better football game. The solution? Outmarket them! What a hero.
Full StoryBradley’s hack cj johnson account
Well, it seems like just days ago that we were posting a series of stories on how cj johnson was running a series of clones – in particular a clone of Lead Architect (called Lead Archetict), and was using them to scam people out of a number of valuable rares. Now it appears the Ubiquitous [...]
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