Consistent Message: SL is/isn't a game

You can call it Dove, but it's still soap. You can create some other term for "game-time," but it's still gonna be game time to virtually everyone.

coco

You can call it Dove, but it's still soap. You can create some other term for "game-time," but it's still gonna be game time to virtually everyone.

Let's talk about how persecuted and put-upon I personally feel because I mention what events I go to, or how nice Gene Pool was to me in the Welcome Area, or how fabulous somebody's build is, or how I am in the events committee, because how anybody CAN be in the events committee, or how it is not true, despite what Cienna says, that they will of course never listen to a thing I say, or how I have said time and again how good they are at listening, and how I have said time and again that there is no way they are going to treat me any differently from anyone else.

TRY THAT on for size, Enabran, and the rest of you. Go peddle your ridiculous theories elsewhere. And be glad I don't try to start one about YOU, which by the way, would hardly be DIFFICULT.

Also, way to blow a great opportunity to get SL switched over to Greenwich Mean, as well as to adopt a 24 hour clock.

I don't want either. I'm perfectly happy with SL being on a 12-hour Pacific time clock.

As to your second paragraph, I'm not either and never was concerned that LL doesn't consider it a game. In fact, I always considered it kind of interesting every time they talked about that.

I am saying they should not correct their players for using the term "ingame." Ever. And I'm further saying that shouldn't happen to people at the welcome spots.

And someone should explain to me the fact that if they never intended it to be a game, why has it been presented as a game, ever since I first heard of it and read about it, back when it was a baby in beta?

And if they are going to CORRECT us for saying "ingame," then the least I expect from them is quick removal of all references to SL on all gaming sites. And to reject all requests for interviews from people writing articles about online games.

And someone can also explain to me, that if this is some kind of developer's program, for developers and not gamers, who the heck are we developing the stuff for? Each other?

And if we buy it from each other, to use in some trivial or fantasy fashion, does that make us gamers?

coco

Who else is there?

Why, there's also the dreaded they!

Enabran, the rest of the world treats this as a game.

Tell that to the Europeans. AM and PM is really hard to keep track of in ANY context, much less one way outside your own timezone. Even if we kept PST, we need to adopt a 24 hour clock.

(Honestly, 12 hour time is stupid anyway. I've been using 24 hour clocks since I was... uh, 12 )

Okay... "Europeans, I'm perfectly happy with the Pacific time 12 hour clock, and I don't want it to change to GMT or a 24 hour clock."

Why so nasty lately?

Why so nasty lately?

How was Jonquille remotely nasty? I agree - if AM and PM is hardly tricky, I am sure the complexities of daylight savings time must be mind blowing.

In any case, I felt the point about opening the discussion to make it easy for international users to understand when things are happening was a fair one, not to be so flippantly dismissed in light of LL's recent overtures toward an international audience. Maybe I'm being sensitive, though.

Let's examine the inverse for a minute Cat. If somebody goes to a developer site and sees that SL is just another "game", would that be a fair desciption of the product?

By insisting that SL is a "game" is a moot point.

You can look at a Ferrari 3 different ways:

1 - Exploit of opulence.
2 - Metal, rubber and plastic.
3 - Precision engineered automobile.

Although remarkably various, none of the above is wrong.

With online games, comes the need for game masters. Something LL has made clear from the outset, are not in the mood to go that route.

Gamers expect a certain level of service from the provider with the interface, resolution of conflicts, provision of content and goof-proof dialog boxes etc. Games don't allow you to access sim data and debug menus, no less build and scripting tools.

I would do a great disservice to any new subscriber by explaining that SL is not a game insomuch as it is a developers tool set. The response to that is 100% favorable, not a single person was disappointed in that. In fact, they are delighted to not be cast into a competitive gaming environment.

Games are largely, male oriented projects. I don't mean this in a sexist way at all, but SL appeals to probably the widest target audience, especially those disinterested in games.

So Cat....thank you for your comments, you have every right to call it a game.

However, I do take offence to being called a "player". I run a business in SL, I make every effort to provide my customers with a high quality product and offer support and service in a prompt manner.

I am a subscriber and a resident. Nothing more, nothing less.

You are just adding that I must never tell my personal experience with anything - positive or negative - that is germaine to the question.

What the heck experience do you expect me to think about here? The experience I had at the dentist's office last Tuesday?

Just go back and LOOK at I originally said. I invite you ALL TO DO THAT. Just TELL me where that is anything of a persecution complex..

This irritates the hell out of me, especially coming from people who can't accept that "game time" is the commonly used phrase for people who play online games.

And I would HATE Greenwich time and I would hate FAR WORSE that damn 24-hour time.

And here's another thing. This whole conversation is entirely ridiculous.

We are actually sitting here wasting time about what to say so we don't have to say the dreaded "game" word?

To hell with that.

What total nonsense. I'm going to build.

coco

I cringed today while playing something else while I referred to it as a game. That is how this is affecting the player base.

You being the perpetual victim has NOTHING to do with THIS thread.

(See... I can be SNIDE too with mid sentence caps)



90% of 2000 posts.




You seem to have an exclusive on dismissal and hatred.



The Lindens have said ITS NOT A GAME - GET OVER IT!

Tomorrow, no matter the topic, I'm sure you will remind us how hard done by you are.