I have heard this rumor for years and years now, since i started playing. I am not sure if it is true or not, is Liden Labs being sold off? I heard it was, and it was going to turn to a "Pay to Play" but then i started thinking, if they did that wouldn't they
A) Get in trouble
B) Lose alot of people
C) Lose alot of money?
I am not sure what to think on this. u.u; i hope it isn't sold i have been playing it since day 1 T.T and i like the system.
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Isabella Moran
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04-14-2008 15:30
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Isabella Moran
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04-14-2008 15:32
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Desmond Shang
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04-14-2008 15:42
Sounds like just an unfounded rumour to me, of which there are many.
The Company is always either: - about to be sold - about to buy somebody - about to IPO - about to not IPO - about to be closed down by the Feds - secretly in league with the Feds - about to be shut down by the US Govt - about to shut down the US Govt and take over (eerie space music plays!) Ah, and in spite of relentlessly growing by X hundred regions a month it's always upon the "Precipice of Dewm!" due to this, that, or another thing. Of course with a US corporation almost anybody could buy almost anybody... happens all the time. For one beeeellion dollars? Sure maybe they would. Who's got that much and wants to buy SL? Prolly nobody. People in that league make their own sandboxes and invite their closest million friends to play. But US noncompete laws are so weak, we'd see Rosedale-land in six months even if a buyout ever came to pass. Just a guess, but I'd put a buyout in the 'unfounded rumour' category. Unless my 150 USD offer including a case of Guinness and a two week surfing excursion to Baja in my 1993 4WD was accepted... _____________________
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Nika Talaj
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04-14-2008 15:54
Hi Isabella, welcome to the forums!
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Ceka Cianci
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04-14-2008 15:56
i heard a gaming company was looking at them but i didn't hear if they were serious or not..
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Ordinal Malaprop
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04-14-2008 15:57
I heard a rumour that people could steal your soul with a script and sell it on eBay.
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Ceka Cianci
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04-14-2008 16:00
ya that one is true..i know a friend of a friend of a friend who has this aunt that knows someone that uses ebay and met this other girl online and her friend said she knew someone it happend to ..so there ya go..proof is in the puddin..
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2k Suisei
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04-14-2008 16:02
I heard a rumour that people could steal your soul with a script and sell it on eBay. Nigerians I bet!! |
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Ordinal Malaprop
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04-14-2008 16:06
The Lindens really shouldn't have put in llDetectedSoul though. I mean, that was just _asking_ for trouble.
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Nika Talaj
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04-14-2008 16:09
The Lindens really shouldn't have put in llDetectedSoul though. I mean, that was just _asking_ for trouble. <silence> . |
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Raymond Figtree
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04-14-2008 16:11
I hope this doesn't mean the end of SL banks, ageplay and casinos.
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Ceka Cianci
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04-14-2008 16:20
i think i'm gonna make them an offer and see just how far off i am on my bid
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Desmond Shang
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04-14-2008 16:29
I heard a rumour that people could steal your soul with a script and sell it on eBay. Worse than that, the souls there have just been suddenly discounted by 675 USD. Had something to do with newer, cheaper, more compact models being produced in great number. Impossible to hold any kind of value on a soul any more... terrible investments. grin _____________________
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2k Suisei
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04-14-2008 16:29
i think i'm gonna make them an offer and see just how far off i am on my bid Just be careful, they may say yes. |
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Derbor Torok
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04-14-2008 16:36
I heard a rumour that people could steal your soul with a script and sell it on eBay. Only if you let someone take your picture.. but you might need a special camera with just the right script. .d _____________________
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Ceka Cianci
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04-14-2008 16:38
Just be careful, they may say yes. that is what the word Syyyyyyyyke!! is for _____________________
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Nyoko Salome
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04-14-2008 16:40
Worse than that, the souls there have just been suddenly discounted by 675 USD. Had something to do with newer, cheaper, more compact models being produced in great number. Impossible to hold any kind of value on a soul any more... terrible investments. grin one (1) us soul = $300 'tax stimulus' check (and a hazardous trailer in the still storm-strewn bayou) _____________________
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Dekka Raymaker
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04-14-2008 17:18
The Company is always either: - secretly in league with the Feds This isn't a secret, I recently read a interview were Phil Linden says he gives the FBI 100% cooperation |
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Argos Hawks
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04-14-2008 17:21
Worse than that, the souls there have just been suddenly discounted by 675 USD. Had something to do with newer, cheaper, more compact models being produced in great number. Impossible to hold any kind of value on a soul any more... terrible investments. grin I had no plans to sell my soul anyway. What I'm going to do is use Copybot and OpenSoul to make clones of myself. Every night I'll host a high stakes slingo game among my clones. The loser has to go to bed early and go to work the next day. The rest of us will conspire to take over the Metaverse. _____________________
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Wildefire Walcott
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04-14-2008 17:29
LOL, no one's going to buy SL so long as they're publishing warnings like this every day:
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-14-2008 18:30
Sigh, at the moment I can't get the blog announcement about interruption of services to load.
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Rebecca Proudhon
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04-14-2008 18:30
The Company is always either: - about to be sold - about to buy somebody - about to IPO - about to not IPO - about to be closed down by the Feds - secretly in league with the Feds - about to be shut down by the US Govt - about to shut down the US Govt and take over (eerie space music plays!) ... I think Desmond left out, the most obvious one: The Lindens just vanish overnight, never to be heard of again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSQMdtAyTNA&feature=related |
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Phoenix Psaltery
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04-14-2008 18:33
Nobody wants your souls anyway. There's no resale value.
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Yummy Freelunch
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04-14-2008 18:35
I heard a rumour that people could steal your soul with a script and sell it on eBay. I actually sold my soul on ebay. _____________________
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Usagi Musashi
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04-14-2008 19:41
Its that time of year? No highly doubtful anyone would buy Linden Research, Inc.
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