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Sitearm Madonna
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Join date: 6 Oct 2005
Posts: 535
12-22-2005 07:56
hm.. <-- wantsta' jump in

what's all this I hear about the new world economy and the end of "di" as we know it

can't a player I mean a resident play I mean work in peace here?

lordy the rules keep changing every month NOT to mention the client... pesky system upgrades...

and my gawd I am hearin' "ll" is gonna' go outta' biz NO "ll" is the new world trend NO "ll" is this "ll" is that blah blah

dammit I just wanna' have fun-uh-un... and ma-ke a little dough too-oo-oo...

kay? so...

izzit true ll's gonna' sell out to __ (fill in the blank) hm.. who would buy 'em 'cept to shut 'em down?

izzit true ll's a house of nerds couldn't service a customer if they rekkanized one?.. needza' nanny ta' mind 'em ta' take CARE of us payer I mean player I mean payer types?

izzit true sl's best value is cos itza inespensive entertainment?

izzit true sl's gonna' make me rl rich ifn' I can just find the right rl corp to fund me?

hm.. "inquiring minds want to know.."
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Jesrad Seraph
Nonsense
Join date: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 1,463
12-22-2005 09:03
Oh dear, drinking and posting are mutually incompatible, Sitie ;)

Stop asking pointless questions and come join the fun, I invite you to a dragon duel in my land :)
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Sitearm Madonna
Registered User
Join date: 6 Oct 2005
Posts: 535
12-23-2005 02:50
omg Jes! THIS is where the dragon invite is.. cool! heh.. will do! :)

From: Jesrad Seraph
Oh dear, drinking and posting are mutually incompatible, Sitie ;)

Stop asking pointless questions and come join the fun, I invite you to a dragon duel in my land :)
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... software packages, acting in society... life creating, and accepted, and widely... spread throughout the world... freeing, liberating... allow... each person individual control and decision making... to create living structure... wherever they are. / Christopher Alexander, 1996
Sean Martin
Yesnomaybe.
Join date: 13 Sep 2005
Posts: 584
12-23-2005 05:54
If LL sold to another company. That might not be a bad thing. Not like the staff would all loose their jobs really. It's just bad business to buy a company and run it into the ground unless something like Microsoft felt threatened by LL and what they have created here. It would be easier for them to just make and fund their own department for something similar and then buy off LL's if it takes well.
Which I see none of that going on. I mean there are pay-to-play games out there like Ultima Online and what have you. But they fear the idea of people making real money from an online game. Or they just don't understand it.

Honestly I don't know what their problem is on that subject, but apparently they see it is a sin of some sort to sell the "work" we do on ebay.
But they are willing to spend money to stop it. Which I see no way of changing toward their favor.
In any case most people are drawn to SL for the very fact that its all intergraded into a system that is fun also.
Hmm so I guess that could be a threat on the fact that LL takes their player base away.
But until SL becomes a stable platform with decent graphics and programing. It is hardly a threat.
SL is nowhere near a sub for a good multiplayer fantasy RPG. At least not yet.
They just now got pixle shading for that matter. And only on water. Hurray for lag. :rolleyes: Because we don't have enough of that yet? :p

Anyway in my opinion, which matters little, If LL is sold then the company taking over must have some ideas to improve it. And are actually trying to keep it going.
Then maybe it might be a real threat to other games. And thus giving reason for some other company to come along later and buy it out. Just to run it into the ground.
By then this concept of this online economy and making real life profit will be more popular I would guess.
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Sitearm Madonna
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12-24-2005 10:31
@Sean: heh.. good one!.. "this concept of.. online economy.. making real life profit.. will be more popular.." gotta' love it.. :)

From: Sean Martin
If LL sold to another company. That might not be a bad thing. Not like the staff would all loose their jobs really. It's just bad business to buy a company and run it into the ground unless something like Microsoft felt threatened by LL and what they have created here. It would be easier for them to just make and fund their own department for something similar and then buy off LL's if it takes well.

Which I see none of that going on. I mean there are pay-to-play games out there like Ultima Online and what have you. But they fear the idea of people making real money from an online game. Or they just don't understand it.

Honestly I don't know what their problem is on that subject, but apparently they see it is a sin of some sort to sell the "work" we do on ebay.
But they are willing to spend money to stop it. Which I see no way of changing toward their favor.
In any case most people are drawn to SL for the very fact that its all intergraded into a system that is fun also.
Hmm so I guess that could be a threat on the fact that LL takes their player base away.
But until SL becomes a stable platform with decent graphics and programing. It is hardly a threat.
SL is nowhere near a sub for a good multiplayer fantasy RPG. At least not yet.
They just now got pixle shading for that matter. And only on water. Hurray for lag. :rolleyes: Because we don't have enough of that yet? :p

Anyway in my opinion, which matters little, If LL is sold then the company taking over must have some ideas to improve it. And are actually trying to keep it going.
Then maybe it might be a real threat to other games. And thus giving reason for some other company to come along later and buy it out. Just to run it into the ground.
By then this concept of this online economy and making real life profit will be more popular I would guess.
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... software packages, acting in society... life creating, and accepted, and widely... spread throughout the world... freeing, liberating... allow... each person individual control and decision making... to create living structure... wherever they are. / Christopher Alexander, 1996