Doppelganger shutters vSide
Always sad to see an online world close. 🙁
It is with a heavy heart that we author and post this message. This message serves as the Official Announcement for the Termination of the vSide service. Please read this entire message carefully for important information regarding the next week.
vSide is shutting down. The last day of vSide operation will likely be Thursday July 16th, 2009. It’s possible that the service will become unavailable before then, but we’re going to try to keep it up until then. It’s also possible that it will stay up a few days after 7/16/09.
— vSide Forums: Official Announcement: Termination of vSide Service.
vSide used to be known as The Lounge, which was itself PCDLounge before that, I think. Doppelganger also did the Virtual Lower East Side for MTV; the old link for that seems to be gone behind a password. They opened in the summer of 2007.
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The vSide world was an experiment in developing a controlled environment quite the opposite of Second Life or Metaplace due to the fact that generating content for it required engaging Doppelganger to produce it.
I really liked the user experience they created for Virtual Lower East Side with MTV. It was a refreshingly focused, user-friendly virtual world released a time when many of us in the business were coping with the general purpose, unfriendly Second Life interface for client projects.
Yeah I am almost a vside for 2 years spending multiple
vbuxs ( ingame money) on stuff and now I have no were to go it actully makes
me cry ;(
This was a torque 1.5 engine project wasn’t it?
Come to Vivaty! I’m on it and am having an amazing time. It also isn’t going anywhere. The past few months I’ve seen a huge increase in people on vivaty and they’ve been coming out with features left and right. Check it out: http://bit.ly/AcHg7
No offence, but i tried vivaty and its graphics are terribly blouchy, and it just basically is stupid[in my opinion]
Nothing can compare to vside[and its good graphics]
Yeaa… I totally agree with Alex. Vivaty’s Graphics suck! And can;t compare to vSide.
Although vivaty is very similar to vSide.. Nothing will be as good As vSide.
Vivaty doesn’t even work on a Mac. which sucks Cause i have a Mac. So i had to play it on my PC And it kept freezing
read the news people
VSide is NOT shutting down.
check it out 🙂 http://www.vside.com
VSIDE IS NOT SHUT DOWN SOMEONE BOUGHT IT THERE GOING TO REOPEN SOON <3
Omggg, what company? Do they have any other vside like webcites??
Well is not a surprice news 4me. I ben playing on vside since first open on 2007 and they close.,change name the longue for vside etc.etc. And they just give you ring for your avatar to show off ….etc. Sadly I lost my trust on this webside this will be the second time they close etc.. Hmmm. I am not sure if I will spending again my real money on vside or watever new name will be…is not fair vside is playing with the costumers this way. I am very unhappy playing and spending money on a web is olways testing and costumers won’t have refunds from waisting time and money.