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Interview with a Money Trader
In this post, I initiate what I hope to be the first of many interviews with a TSO player and money trader, who will remain anonymous for obvious reasons. Let’s just call him… “TSO Power Player” (or TPP for short). Urizenus: First question: what is your occupationTPP: TSO TPP: no joke.TPP: TSO IS my rl [...]
Full StoryCross-MMORPG Currency Exchange Opens
For a long time Squirrel and I have talked about the possibility of a currency exchange that would trade between MMORPGs, for example simoleans for Therebucks. It looks like that idea has become a reality. The Gaming Open Market has opened its doors to cross-world currency exchanges. This is such a great idea, IMHO, and [...]
Full StorySweet Crap I hate Maxis
While Camus may have been able to imagine Sisyphus happy, I just can’t bring myself to that level of desperation. Players often gripe that MMO’s require too much work inorder to see any gain. While the sentiment is true there is a fundamental flaw to the assertion. Firstly, what we’re engaging in when we skill [...]
Full Story‘Voleur’ means “thief”, Part 1
I had originally intended to write a single comprehensive article on Alphaville’s most infamous scammer, but I decided that given time constraints and the blog format it might be better for the staff of the Herald to write this story piecemeal. For those of you who don’t know, there is an individual or group of [...]
Full StoryIntroducing Pat the Rat
Pat the Rat: Gossip Columnist for the Alphaville Herald With this post the Alphaville Herald Introduces our new contributor and dirt-disher, Pat the Rat. Deep under cover in Alpha, Pat dishes on the virtual sins of our fair city’s virtual simlebrities. This week, Pat rats out Fueled Radio. Item: Fueled Radio DJ and badboy Itzno [...]
Full StoryInternational SimCon update
More news on the upcoming International SimCon. Looks like there has been a change of venue – will now be held at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn MI. That is probably a good move. They also announce a call for nominations for the “Simmy Awards.” Voting will take place in January and will conclude at [...]
Full StoryThe State of Play: Post 2
Sorry I’m being so slow about posting summaries of these sessions. Here it is almost a week later and I’m only up to my 2nd post. Nevertheless… Session 2 on Friday was entitled “‘Century 21′: Property, Intellectual Property and Creativity in the Virtual World.” The session included presentations by Dan Hunter, Ted Castronova, and Yochai [...]
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Full StoryBack to the Robot Factory
A couple weeks ago I posted a complaint about the new jobs on TSO. In particular, my utility sim, Doctor Legion took a job in a robot factory and suffered the mind numbing boredom of it for one shift, and was appalled by some of the slogans that are streamed at us while we worked: [...]
Full StoryState of Play post 1
I was only able to attend one day of The State of Play conference but let me just say that it was one of the most interesting conferences that I’ve been to in a long long time. What I would like to do is cover events session by session, beginning in this post with the [...]
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