Why Doesn`t LL Just........

Linden Lab is a very successful business. They're making lots and lots of money.

Then why do we constantly hear all the "poor me" crap? So many times I've heard it said they can't afford new, top notch hardware. They can't afford to hire customer service people. They are doing the best they can with the resources they have. Why do I hear that, if they are very successful and make lots and lots of money? Are they fleecing us? Tell me.........I want to know.

It's easy to forget with all the current problems that several times SL reached the point where it simply worked. Everything important worked just fine. But that's no progress, it's stagnation. Good for the customer, bad for the guy who promised his investors to turn this adult game into the internet of the future and make them richer as Microsoft shareholders.

When I arrived here, everything was great. Minor lag issues on weekends, aside from minor problems one can live with (like prim drift, which is still not fixed). Things became very unstable when LL removed the need to verify accounts via cc or paypal and the user numbers shot through the ceiling, but they managed to pull their act together, fixed the asset server with duct tape and chewing gum and again everything worked.

But it is not meant to be. SL is not meant to simply be a stable, reliable platform. It's a test environment, a continuous beta test for the pipe dream called metaverse. Whenever things are halfway stabilized, the next feature has to be squeezed in, no matter how much it breaks and how many features will have to be removed in order to make the increasing lag halfway bearable. We are paying lab rats, not valued customers that LL would try to satisfy.

well, i would argue it is unnecessary to render all my landholdings null and void. i have many $ worth of land and one way to ensure i never spend another $ on sl is to 'delete' my landholdings. prefab makers, hair makers, clothes makers, scripters, etc probably wouldnt like their entire inventory of merchandise and sl livelihood wiped either, and people that own dozens of islands would be pissed off too. sl would lose pretty much every skilled content maker in world and really the only people that would be happy about starting over are the ppl that had nothing to lose.
if they want to build a second generation engine then fine. but start over? thats the death of sl.

If they created a platform which worked and said "hey go on and migrate over there".. I would go.

The virtual world that replaces Second Life wont need customer support. It'll just work.


Internet Explorer just works. We don't all post messages in an Internet Explorer (or Firefox) forum every week complaining about customer service. The thing just works.

I bet within a month something big will be at least on the beta grid.

I'm with you!

This is very intriguing.

But if this is so, why didn't they just start out with "Here's Your Three-D Internet" in the first place, instead of having this game?

Why not have just sold sims to whoever in the first place?

coco

It isn't a hardware problem. It's not a customer service problem. They can hire the whole of freaking India to answer our stupid questions, but it's not gonna fix a damn thing

They're making lots of money. There isn't a problem.

The internet started as this cool little college thing. It grew and evolved in ways that people would have never guessed.

The internet started as this cool little college thing. It grew and evolved in ways that people would have never guessed.

It takes years to develop a new game engine, and there's no real precedent for the kind of forwards portability necessary to move folks stuff over to a new engine- mostly because the current engine is constantly updating and the future engine would be stuck at one point. So you'd keep bugfixing and keeping the one in use up to date and every time you made a change in the normal one- to improve anything from stability to new features- it would set back the new one weeks or months. It's just not feasible.

So there is a posibility that LL is fleecing us. That's not something I want to believe. However, there are plenty of indicaters that is could very well be a fact.

If that's the case, then SL will never be fixed (as you imply) and will die a sudden and very real death once the money going to LL slows down. That will make a lot of people very unhappy..........and make me extremely causious about any "cutting edge" company offering a virtual world in the future (especially if they are based out of San Francisco).

So there is a posibility that LL is fleecing us. That's not something I want to believe. However, there are plenty of indicaters that is could very well be a fact.

If that's the case, then SL will never be fixed (as you imply) and will die a sudden and very real death once the money going to LL slows down. That will make a lot of people very unhappy..........and make me extremely causious about any "cutting edge" company offering a virtual world in the future (especially if they are based out of San Francisco).