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According to Will Wright, The Sims Online will be a “big experiment” for EA. I’m not sure what his hypothesis may be, but mine is “gathering large groups of anonymous people with zero repercussions of action generates anger, animosity, and cruelty to one another.” Perhaps if SimsO players become

The principle behind “enforced rarity” and “bottlenecks” in Everquest, to its designers, is to preserve the “fantasy” of Everquest – the wonder of coming across the rare player with a flaming sword or animated cobra-staff. Unfortunately, that … for lack of a better word, that vision – is flawed. It assumes that

Microsoft is unveiling a Train Simulator for E3, where you get to… drive a freight train! For most of us, this would be about as exciting as guiding a layabout dolt in going to the bathroom regularly, but it seems to have already sparked some controversy. Apparently, Union Pacific declined

Folks, Electronic Arts/ea.com/Origin et al isn’t a non-profit community service organization. It’s a business whose primary function is to make money for stockholders. Your in-game protests, your web-based petitions, and your e-mails to Origin staffers will make no difference. There are

Artifact Entertainment joins forces with the largest, most successful Massive Multiplayer Online Game Company in the world. MESA, Arizona – May 11, 2001 \’e2\’80\ldblquote Artifact Entertainment Corporation announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Korean behemoth NCsoft to publish and operate the eagerly anticipated MMOG

Top reason why SB might fold as fast as the XFL Though its really a combination of several unfortunate events. Fact: To break even (and we will be nice here) SB will require 50,000 subscriptions. 80k to even start recouping development costs. 100k+ to recoup dev costs and include

Why your /petitions in EQ take so long to answer…