Congratlations on the Death of Second Life!

Seocnd Life is dying. All the people that said that the economic "changes" where a good thing for Second Life were desparately wrong. The people that where suporting the community have left. All that is left know are the people that are hoping that Linden Labs will return to way it was or last a scaled version of it. With out the social players SL is nothing. I am a builder. I used to love to build things for people and to teach people how to build things. I taught new players for free in the sand box, while I was looking for customers to build things for. I like being sought after for my abilities. Now that all the social players have moved on there is no-one left to build for. The sandboxes are empty. None of the new players can earn linden to pay for the things that people create. That's what was so great about SL. I could spend acouple hours building something, and then someone walking by might think it's cool and ask me to build something for them or offer to by what i built. Those days are gone. Thanks to people caring soo much about how strong the linden is to the dollar, they forgot to think of what will happen when there are no more people wanting Linden. The MAJORITY of people that would by Linden from places like GOM and IGE were the social players, that used SL as a glorified chat room. They didn't come here to learn how to script pr build, they came here to have fun and be with there friends. SL is where they felt like they had a social life. Ugly people could win beauty contests, people that can't walk can DANCE ALL NIGHT LONG. People that dream of flying CAN. SL is a wonderful place, but if things continue the way the they are the only people that will be left are the ones that are the Lindens, because everyone else will get tired of being broke with no fun places to go to, and no fun people to talk to. Please SAVE SECOND LIFE.

Where do you get your info? My shop sales all over the grid have more than trippled since the changes. You are spewing meaningless, baseless dribble. You filled this thread with your own theories and are presenting it as facts. Where I'm from, we call a post like this BULLSHIT.

Sky has fallen, sun no longer rises, film at 11.

What utter rubbish.

This horse is barely recognisable as a horse anymore. Can we please bury it now?

Have you actually been in world lately, or are these just grand assumptions? Judging from your "guest" post, I'd assume the answer is No.

Things have changed, of course.... but change is good. And yes, if you can't embrace change, *your* second life *is* dying. From my vantage point, the 'social' class in SL is just as alive as it's always been.

You're always much better off looking at change as a challenge to get acclimated to, rather than wringing your hands and claiming the end is near.

Everything you listed in your post to support the 'recent economic changes driving people away theory' are things that are free. Unless your friends are charging you to chat with them, or your spiffy dance animations have an activation fee per use, or the Lindens are charging you and only you a dollar for every m2 you fly... None of those activites should have changed at all with the economic changes. They're all completely free.

The only thing the economic changes should have changed is ratings abuse and maybe the amount of money people have to shop with. I haven't noticed a dip in my sales at all. Quite the opposite.

There sure are a lot of well-programmed AI bots in the sandbox then, because it sure isn't empty.

And I'd like to point out, reading screeds is always more enjoyable when our friend Mr. <RETURN> key, is involved!

If you write when mad, and just have to get it out, it makes sense. Just go back and put a few breaks in it, so we can time our incredulous looks appropriately as we read it.

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Oooo i want wanna those

Wait...you mean ME?

FEAR NOT! I AM HERE!!!

Pedaling the bike of progress!
Slaying the dragons of ennui!
Milking the cow of prosperity!
Picking the nose of analogy!
Removing the spleen of...

wait...what was I talking about again?

I was about to demand the last 45 seconds of my life back. But this post made it all worthwhile.

I'm starved. Is it lunch time yet?

omg if I had a Linden for everytime I said that..



Wait, you dont know me...er.....


(plain ol) fen-

Looks like "Chicken Little" has returned

If Second Life is dead, call me a necrophile...

On second thought, don't call me that, but my point still stands.

Figures from the economic stats page show inworld sales have averaged L$ 82.7 million per week in the five week period since the changes began.
The five week period preceeding but not including Christmas Week averaged 62.6 million. 60 million in the five weeks prior to that, preceeded by 50.5, and 46.3 before that.

If it's true that everyone is either leaving or broke, I wonder why the dying who remain have suddenly taken to such promiscuous shopping sprees. I know funerals can be expensive, but hell...

Damned Mortuary Barons!

If this is the case, why was I having problems teleporting last night? Why are there more people in world than ever? Why are my sales way up?

Oh wait. I've seen this same damn thread about 1,000 times since I started here... Jessie... prim limits... government... land barons... economy... ratings...

What to blame next? How about prune juice? I really don't like prune juice.

The forum is trying to send me a message, one I cannot ignore.

I will have a chicken sandwich for lunch.

I have to say that the first three sentences that I have quoted, are the reasons to me that SL is such a wonderful thing. We are all gods & goddesses, no matter who we are irl. During a discussion at work last night, my friend and I agreed that although the internet has sucked in a certain demographic and removed them from real world socializing, the internet & games such as SL have opened a brand-new, inviting reality for those that cannot interact due to physical or mental disabilities - I'll never forget the wonderful, caring deaf girl that I chatted with way back when in 1993, in an AOL chatroom (back when AOL was 1/2 million subscribers and was a useful service); was not an easy thing for me to do beforehand as I don't know sign language. She was a shy girl who blossomed in a text environment. I'm sure she would love SL as well.

These people will not leave SL due to your reasoning, I don't believe. I think more will come.

We can *all* save second life, here's how: Every current member, first of all, upgrade your $10 lifetime account to a $10 per month account, find a newbie plot of land and settle in; you won't be broke b/c you'll get at least $500L per week as well as your little bonuses. Then, invite 10 friends to join & try your best to convince two or three of them to sign up for $10 per month accounts. SL will grow leaps and bounds. When the IPO is set to release, we few thousand will be ready to ride the wave of stock market physics and all retire from rl into sl for good.

We see daily that the Lindens care dearly about this world they are creating. We are at a beginning here. This is one of very few business ventures that involves so closely its consumer base. They are listening to you. Philip & crew have a vision: the big picture involves you, every one of you, I am sure of this. Give yourself the land & the stipend with your $10 per month; give the Lindens your ideas and the $$ to expand, change, create along with us, and we will not only save SL we will make it the greatest reality that a game could possibly give us.

/speech

Weren't you supposed to report for bronzing last week?

All the SL bronzers left the game because they lost their stipend bonuses.

Congratulations on winning the award for the Most Hyperbole Filled Pose Ever (and that is hard to do!). Your assertions don't remotely match what is really happening in SL. Vestalia said it best - the gloom and doom "Mortuary Barons" are amusing, but so off track it's almost sad. If your SL experience sucks so badly, change it - no one is going to do it for you.

If your sales have dried up, make new stuff. If being a rating whore stopped working for you, try something new. Tringo is all the rage right now, as is hoochie hair with bling scripts in it, so you might want to capitalize on those. Your summary of what makes SL so special was pretty astute - it is sad that the rest of your post was so far off base you might as well have been talking about There.

That explains why you are full of shit, Flipper