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Finally got accepted to beta test There.com about 2 weeks ago. I applied about 2 or 3 months ago. I guess they were busy. Installed and logged in for the first time today. I had a blast!
The Sims Online sounds very similar, but I can't make the comparison cause haven't played it yet.
The social aspect was really refreshing. The in-game culture. Maybe cause the game's still in beta phase.
Went Hoverboarding with an awesome custom board that someone lent me. It felt like going surfing at a point where there are some pretty nice swells and a friend of a friend lends you a board cause you're a dork without one. There are rocks and potential hazards that can wreck the board, but you get to borrow the stick just to share the experience. Basically, to go out and have fun.
This guy took me on top of some floating island that we can leap off of. Like sky diving with snowboards connected. It was nuts. Instant addiction. I think the person who took me up there just wanted to share this insane feeling. That was really kewl.
Maybe that's what makes games like this and MMORGs fun. Being able to share the kewl stuff. I mean that's what we do in real life anyway ... right!?!
As people spend more of their time in online worlds ... advertising is shifting from off-line to online areas. Look at product placement by McDonalds and Intel in The Sims. More info on ZDNet, and
The Register.
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