Omg So Sad Tso ;_________________;

Im sorry to say this, but do you hear how emotional your getting over an online game? Go outside, get some fresh air, trust me, "fun" in a virtual game is nothing compared to fun in the real world.

It isnt exactly the game, it's the people, the friends I made. I started playing TSO since the beginning of Beta. I was one of the originol founders, so yeah, I get emotional. I made all kinds of friends in TSO, I met my rl hubby there. So excuse me if I form an emotional attachment to a bunch of pixels. I put alot of hard work and effort into that game. Too bad Maxis screwed it uip.

As far as going outside and facing the real world, I do that on a regular basis. I moved 2000 miles to be with my hubby, whom I met in an online game I might add.

Jeez, Ryen, STFU. If you have nothing nice to say, alt+F4!

Wow, congrats, Scotty. Thats very cool!

Also agreed that its the people we meet in these games online that make them so fun and involving.

Ryen, shhh...

Anyway, I didn't really find it all that sad. Maybe that's just me, though. I can't really say it was FUNNY, but it wasn't sad, either.

Well... I hate to say it but...

I really don't see what is sad about this video.

I mean, I can perfectly accept what other people are saying here, about how they've become emotionally attached to the players behind the pixels, and I believe them when they say those relationships are valid and valuable. But what I don't understand is why or how the emigration from an online game poses an insurmountable obstacle to your friendships.

If they are your friends, wouldn't you continue correspondence in other ways? Say, through a LJ? IMs? Phone calls, even? Are these avenues somehow unavailable?

Your sadness at losing these friends seems to indicate to me that you don't anticipate there being other ways to maintain the friendships outside the context of the game. Except that there are. So then, it's a matter of the relationship becoming too inconvenient, relatively speaking, to take advantage of alternative means of communication, which tells me that these relationships are not nearly as valuable to you as you would have us (or yourself) believe.

I mean, you're happy and you're surprised when someone from your TSO days shows up in SL, but I really gotta ask -- if you expect us to take your relationships with these people seriously -- why didn't you keep in touch during the intervening time?

All I'm suggesting here is that whatever emotional attachment you feel to the friends you've gained in these communities, in most cases it is no where near what you expect those skeptics among us to believe. If it were, you'd work harder to maintain those relationships, and the shutting down of an online community would not be the sad event you would have us believe.

made me think of back when I was begging my friends not to leave... I never left, just quit playing so much.. and I was one who walked away to SL in Jan


*waves to the few friends left behind*