Trivia
Peter Ludlow, a player of TSO, posted an article in his blog-type TSO newspaper The Alphaville Herald about the spreading of brothels in The Sims Online. EA terminated his account for this.
Comedy Central's The Daily Show did a comedic investigation on the matter in February 2004.
People have taken paths in The Sims Online that EA nor Maxis expected to be available. Although the main concept was to create a friendly environment were new people could meet, a dark side has grown as well. There are scams, money tricks that disturb the economy (known as mazing), account hacking, explicit sexually oriented communities, prostitution, censorship, terrorist forces and counter terrorist organizations, ... In fact, TSO resembles real life much more than was originally planned, while Maxis and EA do everything to keep an artificial, friendly community that doesn't scare away new players.
Contributed by
Sciere 
(120443) on Dec 21, 2003.
