You're semi-correct, those weren't features of the early beta rather the user base was making various game types. When the game went live it got flooded with people more interested in clothes and sex. I quit playing when my gun shop stopped making money > I guess I made about $400 out of it back in 04-05?
I guess I'm seeing something that others aren't. Lord knows I could be wrong (and it certainly wouldn't be the first or last time). I had a chat with one of the creative directors I work with regarding interactive worlds, and how Video Games seem to be moving into a direction less about a linear controlled story, and into…