Real Life companies logging in

I'd like to know how people feel about Real World companies expanding there horizons and logging in to Secondlife? Maybe a clothing company creates a store front..but host live shows with up and coming artists. Creating clothes from their real line for your avatar, but selling the real thing on there website. Any feed back anyone has would be great. I'd really appreciate an honest opinion on the subject.

Thank You

Nora Wayne

Hi Nora,

You might want to read my post on this thread /208/1c/148150/1.html#post1331136

may I ask when that was origanlly posted?

your post shows orig posted today at 1:14pm to me. the other thread shows posted today at 4:04am

I have to admit, sl wouldnt be the same for any of us, if big companies come in and start flexing their money and talent muscle in here.

We all worked so hard to start from scratch, to build from bottom up, in our ~SL~.

To be tossed aside, in SL cause, money talks and see all our small dreams crumble. Would be heartbreaking to see this.

I have been in game over a year, and just beginning to turn a corner on things, i have learnt in game. If i watch big companies come and eat the lil guys, sigh.

I honestly wouldnt be making them more money in game!

They want to corner the market in here?

Use to be such an easy game, making things, selling things. Trying to make a lil bit of money, or alot of money. Trying to see people wear our fashions or use our furniture. Alot of people in here, are just having fun, not worried about looking over our shoulder.

But now it seems, we must look. Everything has a fee, small print, do's and don'ts. Each place i go to, has a notecard of the rules to abide by. Simple things, but they feel they must have it in writing now. We lost the easy times.

Maybe if big companies, sponsored into SL, directly to Owners of this place. Allowing us the fruit of fortunes. Giving us payless classifieds, or no land tiers. Would it hurt them to do such things? Instead of taking our money in here and RL? I am not going to make lindens, to pay a large company in game. I shop from regular people, who worked hard at it.

Picture those big companies, having their employees log in to same store. Driving their own traffic up. Nationwide. Picture them, in classifieds with thousands of dollars in top credits. With All our popular places. With all the high paying events in clubs, or such.

Haven't they made enough money in RL? Must they really be seeking it in SL?

I can understand why Lindens would find it appealing for them to encourage such things. But they forgot about us, the simple-tons. They forgot, what they promised us.

A Second Life. [not a real one]

I'm actually tempted to sacrifice a small corner of my land, buy one of each of the items these corporations are selling, and making a large bonfire.

Lewis

A great deal has changed since I originally joined SL. Although I'm not (and never will be) a great content creator, I have enjoyed this world and have learned from it. The more recent changes, however, are unsettling to me. Second Life is becoming more and more like Real Life, where large corporations dominate and the small independents are, in essense, either swallowed by them or left to serve them.

I never wanted my "second life" to resemble my real one.

Maybe SL should be renamed.

Corporations R Us?

I still dont completely gather why people get tiffed over this subject.... Sure they come here but its up to the residents to acknowledge them one way or another and they still ultimately need to create a good product if they really want to make any money off of this other wise its essentially just advertising. Nissan for instance gives away freebies and unless they are better then other cars in SL people will still buy what the users make.

SL its ultimately up to the user base what ends up surviving and if we dont acknowledge that the big corporations are here then ultimately it'll mean bupkiss that they are. American Apparel is actually a fairly decent store if anyone has looked at it. Anyways its something thats inevitable as SL grows bigger but remember you still create content and the users still have to decide how to go about things.

And Corporations R Us really come on..... There arnt really that many here at all if you actually look at it in relative terms. They still need to find people to make stuff or train them and they still need to make a quality product which while they do have the money to do they likely may hire on a 3rd party. Like American Apparel had Aimee Weber design their in world stuff. While fine and all they dont have a huge selection and it may not be everyone's style in SL. It really varies and the store itself not that popular considering its a full island. Which proves my point people chose to ignore them and they can choose to ignore other corporations.

Doesn't really bother me too much. But in the back of my head I keep this thought that a large corporation can throw many people & man/woman hours at creating stuff in-world. More than a single resident here could. It could end up like the whole Land Baron thing, where there's only 1-3 big players. The rest are small fry, nipping at the scraps left over.

Yet as a safety net to prevent Corporate TakeOver, there is a certain Mindset in-world that I doubt the big companies would fully grasp. People seem to have their in-world favorites and THAT is what I think keeps a large company from taking over.

Besides, If I were a large company selling cars/clothes, why would I sell "virtual" ones for "virtual" currency when I could sell REAL ones for a LOT more? Most of what I see is, for now, advertising of a RL Product.

True. I'm sure it is something that most residents can and will adapt to without much trouble. I guess I'm better suited to fantasy worlds than to this one... I like to escape real world influences as much as possible during my "play time". I also realize I'm in the minority in thinking this way, and whether I stay or leave won't matter either way to the powers that be. *shrugs*

I just became a member, so I am somewhat disheartened to hear about this. It goes to show that even in Second Life there is a god...

I'm glad Toyota and American Apparel came in.....


I was lookin for somethin to poop in and then wipe my butt with.

as with any major change people dont like change and take time to accept, as with any product that gets big, things change.

but ll has no control over one thing. were you go in sl.

if you dont like it dont go there. major corps will pull out when they realise they paying good money out for nothing.

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