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Life after Mazing: Interview with TSO Power Player.
In this interview we check in again with our old friend TSO Power Player to ask him about life after the maze money object has been eliminated. Liquidity is down, and he thinks ordinary sims are suffering the consequences. What will replace Maze? Well…
Full StoryFounder Account for Sale on Ebay
by The Phantom I don’t normally report on sales on Ebay, but this is a particularly interesting case. There is a male founder account for sale on Ebay, and current bidding is at $350 with approximately 20 hours to go. Check in here for details. What makes this sale particularly interesting to Alpha residents is [...]
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Full StoryOn Display for All: Stratics Message Boards Caught Deploying Selective Censorship Against Urizenus
As we reported earlier, there was an attempt (not by us) to open a “Free Urizenus” thread on the Stratics Sims Online Message Boards. A secondary thread, opened by a journalism student at The University of Texas at Austin attempted to address issues related to the report of r/l child abuse and r/l children working [...]
Full StoryGaming Open Market to the Rescue!
Urizenus has gone to a better place, but I’m sure readers want to know what happened to all the simoleans he racked up playing trivia in those money houses! Put to sea on a burning ship like a Viking king’s gold hoard? Er, not exactly. Turns out Uri had @ 1 million simoleans on deposit [...]
Full StoryRealsimsonline Seeking New Cheats in Response to Maxis Moves against Mazing?
By The Phantom Realsimsonline, one of the famous sites targeted by Maxis as “illegal” (linking to it from in-game is regarded as a TOS violation ? see Uri’s warning letter), is best known for its service of providing a forum where sims can post their r/l bios and pictures. It is also known as a [...]
Full StoryDiscussion of Alphaville Herald being censored on Sims Online Stratics Message Boards?
Rumor has it that the Sims Online message boards run by Stratics had an interesting thread discussing the termination of Urizenus, but that it was wiped from the boards on the grounds that it constituted a “protest movement” or some such thing. We are looking to confirm this development. If you saw that discussion thread [...]
Full StoryMaxis Moves Against Mazing!
With all this apparent harassment by Maxis going on you might think that we have become completely self-absorbed. Not so! We continue to bring you important news and reflections on life in Alphaville. Today I’m happy to introduce a new reporter, who wishes to remain anonymous (for obvious reasons!). Let me just say that he [...]
Full StoryMaxis Suspends additional accounts related to Alphaville Herald
In this Rapidly Breaking story, it appears that EA/Maxis is attempting to pursue its vendetta against the Alphaville Herald by banning additional sims from the game. Now the account associated with Doctor Legion has either been suspended or terminated. Doctor Legion has received no official statement of suspension from maxis, much less a justification of [...]
Full StoryEA/Maxis Permanently terminates Urizenus Account
EA has permanently terminated my Urizenus account, 11 hours after issuing a 72 hour warning/suspension. In the termination letter (below) EA falsely claims that I have “continue to list alphvilleherald.com” in my profiles. In fact I immediately removed all references to the Alphaville Herald from my user bio. One presumes that this action is in [...]
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