In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.

The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.