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Sims Griefers Get More Publicity
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a CNN article highlighting players turning to lawlessness and deviance in The Sims Online. This subject, which other reports covered a while back, seems to fascinate the media, and CNN says the problems of bad behavior are "..raising questions about whether limits on conduct should be set in such emerging virtual worlds, even if they are huge adult playpens." Additionally, the article ruminates on more serious problems, as disputes that escalate beyond the virtual "..could lead to more real-world, legal liability for both players and the companies that make the games."
You should only get your CD key blocked if a trial by an elected game member judge and 12 randomly choosen game keys finds you guilty. You have the right to confront your accuser and cross examine in online chat.
I don't think "j00 sux0rs" quite qualifies as cross-examining.
The couple say they have ransacked apartments, sent out their "troops" to urinate on others' lawns and once drove another player from the game.
Am I the only one of burst out laughing on that one? How evil can you get, really? While you're dealing drugs in Grand Theft Auto and driving over innocent people in Carmageddon, you piss on lawns in The Sims Online!
What's so bad about being lazy? What if there was a war and nobody showed up?
What if this is all the matrix anyway?!?
It probably is.
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"It's only a game but the people operating those little animated cartoons are real," said Holly Shevenock, a postal worker from Harrisburg, Pennsylania.
Note to self: don't mess with the postal worker to much... She might finish that thought....
"It's only a game but the people operating those little animated cartoons are real, and they bleed just like all those impatient people that all come in the post office at exactly 12:01 pm every day and want instantaneous service!!!! those same people are the ones that bitch when we raise the price of the stamp by a friggin penny to put more people at the counter!!! They make me so mad, I just want to kill something!!!
we have all heard the end of that story one to many times...