Simulated Friendships?

The Sims Online (TSO) was my first experience with what would become a multi-million-dollar industry: MMOs, or Massively Multiplayer Online games. Gaming in TSO was much different than modern gaming because the principles of the game were very basic: helping a cartoon person with basic need and goal fulfilment while chatting with other players in the game. Many of today’s MMOs are much more complex and geared toward group play

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