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Maxis Harassment of Alphaville Herald Continues: Urizenus Suspended
In This breaking News, The Publisher of the Alphaville Herald, Urizenus, has been suspended for 72 hours for providing a link to The Alphaville Herald in his property description. Specifically, the offending statement in his property description was this: “Our newspaper/blog is online at alphavilleherald.com” (see letter from EA Player Relations below)This is the latest [...]
Full StoryMAXIS is deleting in game references to Alphaville Herald
According to the sim Doctor Legion, Maxis has deleted references to The Alphaville Herald in her bio. Doctor Legion reports that the contents of her bio were simply “Read the Alphaville Herald, alphavilleherald.com”. This message has been replaced by Maxis with the message “REMOVED BY MAXIS”. No explanation has been given to Doctor Legion. Tomorrow [...]
Full StoryMaxis Targetting Whistle-blowers?
As reported in the previous post, Maxis finally revisited my IM messaging with a sim that claimed to have beaten his 8 yr old sister and hospitalized her . After repeated complaints to EA, Maxis *finally* notified law enforcement authorities. But within hours of being notified of this positive development, I received the following notice [...]
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Full StoryInterview 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 [...]
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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 [...]
Full Story“Challenge Everything?”: Third-Party Harm and Online Gaming
Lately, I’ve been losing more sleep than usual. I started playing TSO in Alphaville. I had wanted to further explore some legal issues in the course of my graduate studies. My first exposure to Alphaville was light-hearted, fun, and it struck me as a seemingly benign little place. Then something freaked me out. Another player, [...]
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