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Doppelganger shutters vSide

July 9th, 2009 (Visited 2183 times) Tags: doppelganger, mtv, 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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John Swords said on July 9th, 2009 at 2:23 pm:

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.

Tim Nixon said on July 9th, 2009 at 10:40 pm:

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 ;(

MrBloodworth said on July 10th, 2009 at 10:10 am:

This was a torque 1.5 engine project wasn’t it?

Selina said on July 13th, 2009 at 1:39 pm:

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

Alex said on July 14th, 2009 at 6:07 am:

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]

Kimberly said on July 21st, 2009 at 9:26 am:

Yeaa… I totally agree with Alex. Vivaty’s Graphics suck! And can;t compare to vSide.

Kimberly said on July 21st, 2009 at 9:27 am:

Although vivaty is very similar to vSide.. Nothing will be as good As vSide.

Kimberly said on July 21st, 2009 at 9:31 am:

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

lizettecarter said on July 22nd, 2009 at 12:35 pm:

read the news people
VSide is NOT shutting down.
check it out http://www.vside.com

TIM NIXON said on July 22nd, 2009 at 4:36 pm:

VSIDE IS NOT SHUT DOWN SOMEONE BOUGHT IT THERE GOING TO REOPEN SOON <3

shae said on July 22nd, 2009 at 10:52 pm:

Omggg, what company? Do they have any other vside like webcites??

L.A said on July 24th, 2009 at 5:01 pm:

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.