The event that Mortimer chose to attend was called “TOUR MY CASTLE FOR FREE!” Surprisingly little interactions with other avatars, I was doing most of the talking. One person challenged me to a game of rock paper scissors and I lost. Another girl told me to “get out” and when I asked “why?” she simply said “I have to go weewee”, to which I replied “uh oh! You should go outside, being outdoors is the best!” I got no reaction out of her other than her leaving the room. I tried to go in a Jacuzzi but noticed that it said I must be wearing a bathing suit. I don’t think I should be limited to that in a virtual world. I also noticed that in this crowded castle full of things, it mad it difficult to click the right area of the doors in order to enter each room.
During all this interaction with others and whatnot, it really made me try to imagine what these other people on the other side are like in real life. What drives someone to spend real money in order to get fake money in order to buy ridiculous things to put in an imaginary “castle” in order to host an “event” that is just showing off how much time you’ve spent involved in this virtual world to begin with? I wasn’t quite overwhelmed, just whelmed. The experience educated me on how despite YoVille being a virtual world, people still take it pretty seriously, or at least enough to invest their own money in to it.
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