The End of Similization As We Know It
Posted by Matthew on Wednesday February 5, 2003 @06:46PM
from the fire-and-brimstone dept.
Matthew writes: EA/Maxis, the creator of Similization, has announced plans to smite the subscription multiplayer on-line role playing game only a few weeks after its debut due to slow sales, customer dissatisfaction, and rampant sin.
EA/Maxis has released this statement:
“Now the players of Similization were wicked and sinners before us, and have forsaken all that which we hath given them. Yea, they are slothful in subscribing and causeth a great burden in support and are as a millstone about our necks. Therefore we wouldst destroy this place, because the sin of the players is waxen great before the face of EA/Maxis. Then shalt EA/Maxis rain upon Similization brimstone and fire from out of the sky, and overthrow the cities, and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and all that which grows upon the ground.”
Early purchasers are apparently enraged about paying for a game they won’t be able to play, so EA/Maxis has offered to smite them as well.
Subject:Hard to believe….
that tons of people didn't jump at the chance to spend all their time playing a simulated real life.
Comment by Anonymous Poster — February 6, 2003 @ 11:26 am
Subject:Re: Hard to believe….
But they did all shell out big bucks to have simulated lives in place of actual lives. They just don't want to do this in PUBLIC. Which is what an on-line game is. You can find plenty of geeks willing to justify publically powerlevelling an orc avatar, but how many will you find willing to admit that their virtual girlfriend is the closest they've ever been to the opposite sex?
Comment by Tyson — February 10, 2003 @ 11:53 am
Subject:Re: Hard to believe….
Argument by re-definition:
No true geek would value the opposite sex, or for that matter, any sex at all, while surrounded by their computer equipment and sexy code
Even without arguing about what a geek IS, though, you still have to learn that, no matter how many people in normal society believe finding a mate and settling down to breed for life is the single most important goal in the world, not everyone shares this view. These people need to get over themselves, and stop sneering at anyone who doesn't meet THEIR standards of perfection.
Comment by PackCat — November 12, 2005 @ 12:27 pm