Account Creation Petition ****PLEASE READ****

you can not compare wow to sl they are completely different types of games and are run completely different

in wow you do not have thousands of people all making and downloading their own unique items ...in wow you do not have all people on 1 world they are broke into servers and then the different continents are broke up onto different servers also
also on wow you have a limit how many people can be in each "world"

also since there are not unique items its all static and such there is less of everything there so it will be less laggy and will be more stable but they also have 4 to 8 hours of downtime every week for maintenance and more often then not that night everything is a mess anyways

its like comparing apples to grapes it dont work

well if enough people paid fromthe started maybe the quility would be better.......hence don`t expect anything if your not paying for it.

if thats how you are its understandable.

But for use that continue to support the game by paying for it i can live with myself. its been almost 4 years for me and times it wasnt been easy. I continue to support the paying of this game until otherwise LLABS once again changes the concept. I don`t mind paying to me its my form of stress reduction for my rl. The game help me get through my birth of my baby and up until I returned to work in rl....The friends i made and the experiences i had ( the good ones ) are priceless.....

One thing always puzzles me about such claims:

Yes, I fully realise that to many people $10 *is* a lot of money, I don't question that.

But to logon to SL you need

a) a computer with a pretty decent graphics card, lots of memory and a powerful CPU (i.e. something which would be worth at least the $900 mark).
b) electricty to run that computer (logging onto SL every day could easily add $10 to the monthly electricity bill compared to having the computer switched off instead).
c) a decent broadband network connection (again probably costing >$10 a month in subscription)

So an extra, one-off $10 fee to play SL is a minor increase over the PC, electricty and network costs you would be paying.

And that is my puzzlement - I realise that there are people in this world who could not afford $10 to play SL, and I count myself fortunate that I could afford this. But for those to whom $10 genuinely is a serious barrier*, would they really be able to afford the equipment, electricty, and broadband costs to play SL anyway?

Matthew

* I don't wish to belittle those in such unfortunate circumstances - but any attempt to make SL more accessible to people in such circumstances, like similar attempts to make the internet as a whole more accessible need to go far deeper than free sign ups (e.g. ability to run SL on low cost <$100 PCs etc.)

... I can estimate these users to be at 2000 a day at any given time on Second Life.

My proposal: To get rid of ALL free accounts and change the startup policy back to where it was with the 14 day trial. AFTER the 14 day trial if the account user wishes to become a basic account he/she would pay 10$ for for a one time activation fee.
each account with a LIMIT of 5 accounts MAX.

For those who wish to participate in this petition, simply read this and point others to this link. If you agree make a new Notecard named 'Account Policy Petition' state your name in the notecard and youre agreement with the policy. The reasons why will be optional.

The reasoning for this proposal is clear. I am hoping it will be enough deterrance for Second Life to become enjoyable again while remaining open access with a cheap activation fee.

Signed,
Einsman Schlegel

I think alts need to be linked to a master account, so if one does wrong they can all be banned. Otherwise I agree.

I don't understand why people on the forum hate the idea. Do people have such low confidence that people will pay the monthly fee?

I think it was a major mistake and lack of patience, to go to the free accounts. Cheapening SL cheapened SL. I'd rather it cost more and worked better.

But I still maintain if you switch the computer off after you've used it for work purposes rather than playing SL, recreational web browsing, watching movies etc. you'll cut you monthly electricity bill (particularly with today's escalating fuel bills) by more than $10 - possible even enough to buy two packages of diapers!

Matthew

I'd rather it cost more and worked better.

Well, a decent motherboard would be what about $75, dual core CPU about $100, few gigs of RAM about another $100, decent graphics card $100, reasonably fast disk $100, box to put them in and PSU about $75, LCD panel monitor $100, copy of Windows $100.

I'm guessing a little on the US$ prices but in the UK a decent bargain basement PC with monitor would be in the 300-500 UK pound range i.e. $600-$1000. A bespoke system with high end graphics, fast dual core/quad core etc. (i.e. what might be a mainstream gamers machine) 500 uk pounds - 2000 uk pounds ($1000 - $4000)!

So I would peg a machine which would run SL reasonably well (i.e. 20fps+) with most of the windlight shaders enabled and a decent draw distance, at around the $800-$1000 mark (again based on UK prices and converting).

However, my point is that, whilst I can understand someone not being *willing* to pay $10 to play SL, anyone who genuinely could not *afford* to pay $10, is highly unlikely to be able to afford the equipment, electricity and network costs to play SL.

As regards places where they are *unable* to pay (due to not having credit cards, access to paypal etc.), I'm not entirely sure where these places are, and how do other companies do business with such countries? (I would suspect they allow payment via alternatve mechanisms available in such counries rather than making all their products free...)

Matthew

I think alts need to be linked to a master account, so if one does wrong they can all be banned. Otherwise I agree.

I don't understand why people on the forum hate the idea. Do people have such low confidence that people will pay the monthly fee?

I think it was a major mistake and lack of patience, to go to the free accounts. Cheapening SL cheapened SL. I'd rather it cost more and worked better.

Also it has been said that there are Countries with citizens that are unable to pay LL due to currency issues (LL does not accept them) so this allows the world to be in SL. Again, part of Philip's vision for SL.