Mobs Move Into Sims Online Power Vacuum

Posted by simoniker on Saturday June 7, 2003 @01:02AM from the wot-no-2004-election? dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a San Jose Mercury News report discussing the rise of racketeering in The Sims Online. According to one of the afflicted, "[other players] ..show up at your house and they request protection money. `You have to pay me 100,000 simolians if you don't want your house torn down.' It's technically harassment." The reasons for this and other extreme in-game behaviors are also discussed: "Sometimes, [organized gangs] are a sign that the game lacks enough interesting elements to engage the players - so they create their own drama. More often, it means players are so attached that they invest the time to exploit its rules."

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How to dissilusion a libetarian by Crashmarik · 2003-06-07 06:53 · Score: 0, Troll

Next time you get ambushed by radical libertarians heres the counter argument. If people can't even behave decently in an online game, do you really expect them to do any better in real life ?