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Mike Sellers: EA didn’t Anticipate TSO Problems with Griefers
In an interesting article in Reason Magazine Online (entitled “Hobbes in Cyberspace”), Mike Sellers, former lead designer on the Sims 2 develpment team and now Chief Alchemist with Online Alchemy offered that EA didn’t understand key differences between offline and online versions of the Sims, and hence never expected the problems with griefers that have [...]
Full StoryT. Liam McDonald blasts EA: “Pull the Plug on TSO Now!”
In a passionately argued article in MaximumPC magazine, columnist and game critic T. Liam McDonald has called EA to task for its unstructured game design, maintaining that it leaves nothing for users to do except “mischief and sex”. Indeed, McDonald argues that this has plagued TSO from the very beginning: “When I first covered The [...]
Full StoryElection Shocker! Mr-President enlisted mafia to “oversee” election
by The Teflon Don I recently received a tip from a group calling themselves the Sim Liberation Army (SLA for short they said, like that mattered). They said that they had received some information that the Soprano family had rigged the primary elections and were set to rig the final elections about to come up. [...]
Full StoryBad Girls are Back in Town
by m tovar exclusive to av herald… grandma celestie and av’s badgirl arrived at the av herald’s headquarters this afternoon eager to let alphaville citizens know that they’re back and ready to scam. grandma and badgirl identify themselves as original members of evangeline’s family, and are looking forward to parting all sims, both newbies and [...]
Full StoryAshley quits debate early. Illness or HBO???
Yesterday’s Presidential Debate ended early, when candidate Ashley Richardson took her leave at 9:00 PM eastern, claiming illness. Mr-President immediately charged that she was not ill at all, but on her way to see the Soprano’s on HBO. Whatever the reason for her early departure, you can count on the Alphaville Herald to bring you [...]
Full StoryAVG gets New CIA Chief
The Alphaville Government has replaced its CIA Chief Fans, who left the game recently following altercations with noted scammer and opponent of the Alphaville Government, Mr. President Bradley. In his press release, the new Director, named Alex Sanchez, promises to be a much tougher customer. He has already thrown down the gauntlet to the “Enemies [...]
Full StoryMob Hits get Serious: Former Soprano Member gets the “Moe Green Special”
by The Teflon Don Many have heard of the term Moe Green Special before. On the Sopranos TV show perhaps? Maybe on The Godfather where the Moe Green Special originated? For some of you, you have heard it somewhere else. Whispers of a tactic in the game that can take everything you own and love [...]
Full StoryNew York Times Picks up Alphaville Elections
The New York Times article on the Alphaville Elections is now up athttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/technology/circuits/01sims.html?ex=1081400400&en=e5984c6cc0bf6db8&ei=5062. There is a cute picture of Ashley Richardson on the online version. I noticed that the article used the term ‘gievers’ instead of ‘griefers’. Perhaps the most significant revelation in the article is that they now quote EA as saying that TSO [...]
Full StoryOn Running Multiple Accounts on One Computer
by The Phantom It happened again just the other day. There was an innocent question on Sims Stratics, asked by a customer who wanted to know why mere discussion of running multiple accounts on one computer were banned from Stratics, even though the actual practice is not obviously against the rules (or he couldn’t see [...]
Full StoryMaxis Plans Customer Humiliation Joke for April Fools
I decided to move this up from an earlier thread, because it deserves a topic of its own. Tomorrow, as an “April Fools joke”, all avatars in TSO will have monkey faces, and when you try to type out messages your sim will blurt out (in chat) some stuff about bananas and parts of a [...]
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