MMORPGs, Are You There Yet?

maddugan writes "CNN recently posted a story about a company by the name There and their opening of a public beta for their 'Virtual Universe'. One of the key element is that you can buy virtual Levis and Nikes for your Avatar. " Hemos & I have been playing The Sims Online- Come visit the Slashdot Charisma Sweatshop on the absolute west edge of the Mt Fuji City and say hi. I got my real nick for once too! I love MMORPGs and 'There' looks like another wrinkle on taking Sims type games online. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

Comments

Re:No. Flat out.

[Dark Lord Seth]

I played a MUD. The administrators were about as corrupt as an average politician and it was all being led by an unemployed welfare-supported hippie who wouldn't even recognize a "Bad Thing"(tm) if it hit him in the face at mach 2. Most of the players we're afraid to say anything and the few who did only droned out the words "I agree!" or something similiar to whatever ons of said administrators cried out in a fit of utter stupidity. That, and the basic idea of "You're not paying, so if you don't like it, go to hell." aren't very appealing to me. IF I would even want to play an online RPG every again, I'd either play one that's not massively multiplayer or one that is administrated by decent, unbiased folks.

Re:They totally miss the point

[praedor]

YOU miss the point. With a bunch of idiots living out their "lives" online in virtual worlds, that means fewer people to dick things up in the REAL world. Parks will become less crowded and polluted because a lot of the slobs will be pretending to me svelt hotties in a virtual world getting the babes, etc. They can even "enjoy" a virtual visit to a virtual park whilst you, me, and the few other sane people go to the REAL parks and see them as they used to be.

This could be great. The more addictive the better, I say, wrt these "games". I WANT to be able to go camping again and not run into a family of fatsos 10 meters away in their trailer (with TV and VCR). To hear the breeze again, hear birds chirping, water tinkling instead of boom boxes and loud drunken gatherings around the campfire in the next door campsite.