Sorry, missed one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14382246

No discussion at all because the similarity isn't immediate. Just swap bunnies with crop and their food with patented sterile seed.

I'm not, surprised it's still around.

MMOs in general are very good at investment/achievement trapping users. SecondLife also is but their users will spend pretty large sums, I've seen users some 3 grand in (before land), owning small amounts of land will cost thousands up front and a few hundred a month to keep it going. It's going to be hard to leave that behind.

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I played for a summer between highschool and college. Great fun for a student in IT or some sort of graphic design. When I cashed out for the start of the school year it was enough to cover college books (not a lot for the time spent, but better than my friends got from Warcraft).

As a 19 year old it was also great for meeting older generations on equal social ground, and picking up some freelancing habits when the risks were less than $100 or so (and nothing but hobby time for both parties).