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"Felicity;c-17388559" wrote:"OEII1001;c-17388533" wrote:"Felicity;c-17388531" wrote:"OEII1001;c-17388510" wrote:"Felicity;c-17388508" wrote:"OEII1001;c-17388455" wrote:"Felicity;c-17388449" wrote:"Simmingal;c-17388442" wrote:"SageRainWillow;c-17388429" wrote:
The Sims Online in a nutshell: People would spell out offensive words in their houses' roofs so everyone could see it from the neighborhood screen. If you went anywhere... or sometimes while standing in your own house... someone would walk up to you and slap you. Or there was this piledriver move they would do on you.
Skills would decay. Raise one skill, another one on the pie chart would decay faster. So you could never keep your skills at 10. Money was impossible to make, but you could buy it in the cash shop! The most fun were the jamming parties. Some houses would set up a bunch of canning stations and everyone would jam. Sometimes there were contests. Overall, it was boring, annoying, and the people were awful.
EA CEO: Yes I want exactly that! Let's do it again!
That could be why, tbh, that they were so loath to get rid of the brothels and such. Sims online brought the predators and the ones who like to make money off them into the fold, but they probably also spent a lot of money in the in game store.
I think that this is an unfair accusation to make.
What is the accusation and why do you feel it's unfair?
That the powers that be are courting unsavory elements from society. I think that is unfair because it is most likely untrue. Perhaps I was unclear, but I thought that is was clear enough.
I didn't say they were courting them. I did say that they were there and there wasn't a real effort to kick them out either so I speculate it has to do with the cash shop. If that's unfair, I'd like to know why.
Games of all persuasions have a hard time dealing with cheaters. This doesn't mean that they condone cheating. Correlation does not imply causation. I understand that such individuals are problematic at the least, but I think it is pretty clear that no one condones these people or their presence. Again, I think you are being unfair in this assertion.
They weren't cheaters. You are comparing apples to oranges. And there's a difference between condoning something and not trying to prevent it. Most games, for instance, have anti-cheat systems in place (FO76 is an exception so I won't discuss any arguments using that one). EA didn't have an anti-gross system.
This is kind of a fun article as to what happened. I can get you better sourced if you want. It doesn't even focus on the grossness that was pretty much just ignored.
https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-digit/submission/the-sims-online-should-have-taken-its-own-advice-to-be-somebody-else-or-when-networks-fight-back/
Certainly they were not cheaters. I was invoking cheating as it is a more widespread issue. They would not condone cheating, just as they do not condone predatory behavior.
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