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SL modifies Terms of Service and EULA (sort of)
Well, at least they let us know when then introduce a new agreement. The new TOS seems like a lot of legal CYA without much thought to forging serious business partnerships. For example, how much are *you* willing to invest in a platform that keeps this clause in its TOS? ?7.1 Termination. Linden has the [...]
Full StoryBlood Fued: One Song and Tank Levy to settle their score in Second Life Boxing
By Gina Fatale Most Second Life veterans are already familiar with Second Life Boxing (SLB). Run by Tommy Rampal and David Jacobs, these two men combine boxing and WWE style matches, bringing some high octane entertainment to SL. With the nearing completion of their new arena/mall/amusement complex the two impresarios wanted to have a boxing [...]
Full StoryThe Other Way to Run a Forum
Thanks to Toy for passing along this tidbit. While the Stratics Mods are busy falling overthemselves threatening to ban people that provide links to sites that link to sites that link to sites that sell game currency, Robin Linden (an EA escapee, btw) offers the following breathtakingly simple and sane policy for the SL Forums: [...]
Full StorySOE vs Big Mick
Mick Lite and his OnlineGameBucks site just can’t stay out of the news lately. No sooner does he reward his 10,000th customer with 500K extra free simoleans in the hardcore city of Dragon’s Cove, than Sony Online Entertainment tries to bust a cap in his ass over his sale of time cards and CD Keys [...]
Full StoryImitation Herald…Smerald
By: Father Callahan Update: Some readers are confused that the link belongs to the new DC Herald, however in the midst of all of this drama, Ian (Sir) bought it and fowarded it to his blog, the Alphaville Gazette. I hope our readers are not confused that he is the imitation name. My deepest apologies [...]
Full StoryUO Player Petition: Dump Stratics
Seems as thought TSO Players aren’t the only ones who are fed up with the abuses of the Stratics Mods. I just came across the following petition asking that the UO discussion forums be moved out from under stratics control. The reasons are familiar (petition is reprinted below) and the comments by the signatories are [...]
Full StoryThe Myth of Fiction
I’m happy to report that we finally got Professor Ludlow off of his fat derrier and got some product out of him — in this case a paper titled “From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces: Pretense, Contextalism, and the Myth of Fiction.” Wordy mofo ain’t he? Not sure I get the [...]
Full StoryWhy did Stratics ban Sir?
Sir sent me the emails with the pretexts under which Leah permanently banned him from Stratics, and I have to say that I ? even in my advanced state of jadedness ? I am shocked by the whole thing? But somewhat amused too. Following is the ban letter sent to the Sir. Loosen up the [...]
Full StoryTwo Parties while the Wizzards work late
Was a busy night in SL last night. Two club grand openings: One Song’s new Club Erotic, and the new Club Elite on Elite Island. But no sooner did I get done doing my paparazzi thing at those events but I was summoned back to the SimCast dev tower. Seems the latest SL update induced [...]
Full StoryBartle Mourns the Loss of Creative Freedom in MMORPGs
In a recent post on Terra Nova, game making pioneer/god Richard Bartle (d00dz, he co-wrote the first MUD) mourns the loss of creative freedom in the new MMORPGs. Why are we all giving up our creative freedom so happily? Do we all just wanna be SOE’s beyotches or is it just that we have no [...]
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