Archive for 'News from Other MMOs'
We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take it anymore!
Well, not the subscribers to TSO — We still love to bend over and take it from EA — but other gamers are fighting back against their game owners. For example according to this article in the JoongAng Daily (Korea) subscribers to Lineage (500 million total subscriptions thus far) have threatened to file a class [...]
Full StoryGriefing Comes to There. Did it come there from here?
Like Alphaville, the MMORPG There has a newspaper called The Caldera Sun-Times, edited by one Christopher Snizik. In a recent story keyed by Celtic, entitled “Griefing: the Ugly Side of There“, the paper reports on recent problems with griefers and also outlines some possible responses. A good article in a very toney paper (at least [...]
Full StoryMore newz from DG: Rocco Montana Strikes Back
By Dana Grove Daniel Alfredson (aka Bob Busch, Triad Mafia) learned his lesson the hard way this week when Rocco Montana ordered a good old house trashing to be issued to Mr. Alfredson after he threw insults at Mr. Montana several nights ago. From what witnesses at the LLC Hate Shack described, several nights ago [...]
Full StoryPost Cards from Second Life
A lot of AVH contributors have moved on to other MMORPGs in the last six months. We’ve had squirrel go to FFXI, Lady Juliana, Mikal, and a number of SWG-ers and Mafiosi go to SWG, a slew of people have gone to There (including Stella Dives *sigh*), some to soliolotron and some to Second Life. [...]
Full StoryNew YIM offers avatars
Since this is my week for posting old news, I thought I would add that the new version of YIM, now in Beta, introduces avatars. The avatar options are still pretty limited, but it raises interesting longer term questions about whether chatty MMORPGs like TSO are needed if we can have our own YIM chatrooms [...]
Full StoryThe Second Life Way
While EA and Maxis continue to treat their customers like garbage, offering little freedom for creative play, no opportunity for the introduction of custom content, and no reward for either, Second Life has introduced tools for the introduction of creative content, user ownership of user created custom content an a generous reward program for users [...]
Full StoryEA Pulls Plug on Earth and Beyond!
In a shocking announcement that does not bode well for other EA run MMORPGs, EA yesterday announced that it was going to pull the plug on its Earth and Beyond MMORPG. Additional information on the move can be found here. What makes the annoucement shocking is that EA essentially expressed the same committment to E&B [...]
Full StoryThe Issue of Virtual Slave Auctions
In a situation that is currently being discussed on a Second Life message board, Linden Labs moved against a property that was advertising a sexually oriented “slave auction” on the grounds that the slavery aspects of the roleplay were offensive. (The adult theme was presumably a non-issue since 2L is adults only, unless one wants [...]
Full StoryUru Live bites the dust
In a sad bit of MMORPG news, Uru Live has been shut down by its owner Cyan Worlds (better known as makers of Myst and Riven).
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