Great article

[paxx]

http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=481707


Now if you do not see the relevance in this, then you are blind. The fact that SimsOnline has gone to the lowest common denominator?means to allow bad action, there must be a severe ingame penalty, or if it is a banning offence, it should be disallowed to happen in the game.

There are actions that will be unavoidable, like poor language all over the place, but for the most part we will try to limit that, and other offensive actions.

[Kixie]

that whole article was bull crap. it was severely blown out of proportion. the game is the same as it was when it started and i have no idea what they mean by prostitution rings because i havnt found any or anyway they could exist at all.. Just another article trying to make interesting headlines. I know evangeline online and he says that he was constantly screwin witht that guy and it offends me they called him a warped teenage boy. but whatever...

[derwoodly]

Can either of you summerize the article.  I am to cheap to buy it.

[paxx]

It was free.

But it spoke about some of the effects of badly controlled PK ability

[derwoodly]

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By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
16 January 2004


Peter Ludlow is not just a computer gaming enthusiast. He\'s also a philosophy professor, with an abiding interest in the relationship between the real and the virtual worlds. So when the world\'s most successful virtual-reality game, the Sims, launched an online version just over a year ago, he didn\'t just join in for fun; he also decided that he could carry out research for his next book.

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That part about Sims Online being the most successful VR game made me laugh.  Is the rest of the article this funny?  What kind of organization is \"Independant Portfolio\"?