Truth in advertising...

A few months back I was checking out a bunch of other self-described virtual world systems, and one was called "Utherverse". I just got a message offering me $27.00 in Utherverse money for becoming a Utherverse VIP for $20 a month. This, of course, set off all my scam detectors... until I got to the end:



Whoa, now is that "truth in advertising" or what? Is it still a scam when they tell you right out that it's a scam? I gotta say, that shows class. Of some kind.

Well... you realize what sort of a place and what the overt purpose of Utherverse is? What's a little more truth?

I looked up the place it is connected with Red light Center.
Not sure how you can have intimate, private experience if you got
no personal private space.
They don't give you the ability to have your own place or make
content, just doing virtual drugs and sex from the looks of it.
It doesn't explain their age verification process either.
I don't want to age verify here, why would I want to else where?

So you're saying that virtual brothels are inherently more trustworthy than Wall Street?

So you're saying that virtual brothels are inherently more trustworthy than Wall Street?
I don't know, I didn't get that far.

Hubby belonged to that for awhile....his computer could handle it, but not SL. He was constantly asking me for help in there. It was frustrating, and the graphics aren't nearly as good.

We finally bought him a computer that would run SL and he hasn't been back since.

If you really need that sort of thing, Bella Boardwalk in SL is probably better. Not that I feel the need to go there, but I did so a few times when I was new.

eh..
Think about it ....

Yes.

Actually, Utherverse just implimented the Zaby apartments, giving every VIP memeber a private apartment. Acess controls for the apartment are at the discretion of the owner of the apartment. A free (with paid memebrship) apartment can hold up to 5 people.

And you can make custom content for Utherverse sort of in the same way Kingware made custrom clothing and skins for TSO. To see other peoples custom content, you would have to download thier specific files. Much of the custom content is exchanged freely on thier forums. The new Zaby apts also seen to support a certain amount of customization, tho I havent messed with it yet.

Utherverse is mostly a one trick pony, updates and upgrades are few and far between, at $20USD a month the membership fee is steeper then it needs to be, but for blatant sexual fun, it can be amusing. Or it could be I just have a fondness for blatant sexual fun.

Another vote for whores being more honest then anyone on Wall St, with the exception of the whores on Wall St.




I signed up for VIP almost two years ago so Im not positive, but I think the only verification I had to provide was a credit card for the membership fee. You know, pretty much all the ID that any X rated site on the interwebz asks for.

They are both doing the same thing, but a brothel will tell you that you are about to be $#*@ed.

No- I meant that if they acknowledge that is what they are and you-the user- not YOU Argent- acknowledge that's what the user is there for, what difference will a little more truth do? However- at least with brothels, virtual or not- one knows going in you're going to get screwed- Wallstreet waits til you're not expecting it

Great minds my dear

Just checking.

So people don't actually sell their content there?
I saw they have stores but not whole lot more information about it not sure
27 or 20 dollars though a month is worth it personally for me if only activity
that people do involves sex.
When I was in TSO there was no ability to do custom clothing or skins unless
they found away to do this similar to The Sims games added modifications
or how Romancer or Toadwater did years ago but back then only the user of the modifications could see the customizations because the files are only seen on
either on client side or whomever has the files.
Either way it is interesting, I am not sure if scam any more then what any
other similar business is doing with selling virtual dollars or products.

I have no idea. Over the past couple of months I have signed up for and tried to run pretty much everything resembling a "3d world" that didn't require money or credit info up front... to see whether there was anything close to SL out there. This includes things even more way out or at least less world-like than Utherverse.

Summary: No. There ain't.

thanks for this update.

which operating system was your research based on?

I did something similar to you some months ago, but being on Linux, I know I can't even try most platforms out there. If your conclusions include Windows, they are even more relevant.

Mac OS X, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.