Think Login Issues will Make ppl not want to play SL?

You can't quit something that you can't log in to.

Everyone here has "quit".

The brief times I've managed to log in before crashing, noone was online.

It's sad to realize that even if I manage to log in ... there's nothing to log in to.

Keman Dingo

I can remember when I first, or actually twice, came into Second Life. Land was limited and the cost was very high. There was no lag and no crashes. You could teleport to where ever you wish and there were lots of fun activites to participate in. Changing clothes meant dragging a folder onto yourself.

Then whoever the powers in this game are got a wee bit on the greedy side. They started expanding, not upgrading the server as they went. Now the prices of land had been dumped into the sewer never to recover. What about the nice people who spent hard earned money buying it, unstable as it was. Who cares - they do.

New things appeared. Lag, login problems, loss of inventory, and the inability to teleport.

Then came all the new rules. Now for activities we have Tringo and Slingo - boring, very boring!!! Go and gamble and lose what small pitance of money you are given each week. No one and no place can afford to have unsponsored events that used to make this so much fun. Heard the saying, "all work and no play....". This is what the new rules are trying to force people to do and a lot of the joy of the game is gone along with a lot of talented people who were a real addition to the game because they could not afford to exist. We are all poorer because their absence.

Failure to upgrade equipment while accepting more and more members has brought us to the sad stage in which we now find ourselves. Unable to log in and unable to enjoy. If it were not for the good friends I have made in here, especially at The Shelter, I would dump this game into the trash.

To allow the servers to become so pitifully incapble of handling the load is unacceptable. It is time to let someone in to handle these problems that know what they are doing and spend the money from the huge grant so that the servers are capable of handling what the owner themselves have allowed. No more excuses - it is not the members of SL who have caused this problem. It is the unknown owners who have and we are the ones who are suffering from their lack of foresight.

SU

I'd be willing to give up all the "new features" made in the last 6 months if this place was really put back to the way it was.

Honestly, I think we're looking at the death rattles of SL.

Noone can dispute that this place has become less and less stable.

At what point is it so unstable that you can't use it at all? Right now.

Keman Dingo

Thin the heard

Trouble logging on for three days. Instead of acknowledging responsibility and going down for repair, Linden suggested the logon problem might be my (isolated) fault and asked me to go to the trouble of contacting their technical support with my log files.

*sigh*

It's such a shame.
I find that happens alot.

Everyone has the same problems but when I report it... it's my fault or my pc's or something and I should try such and such.

I don't even bother reporting problems anymore, I don't get anywhere...

That helped.... a real explanation was all I wanted, and now things make more sense.

I've always had questions about the unlimited inventory we're allowed to carry around with us. (I get this visual image of a small girl carrying around a purse containing the entire Pacific Fleet plus the Queen Mary.)

I would have no problem at all with limits on inventory. I don't know much about scripts so I cannot comment on that.

I'm actually considering leaving for good...even though I just recently tiered up myself and my alt...and bought land...it's just no fun paying for something I've not been able to play but once in 2 weeks, when I could log in it was after spending hours of trying, and then having to log because it was now time to do something Real life.

Another thing to think about, those poor new folks signing up for the 7 day trial...and then spending 6.5 of those days trying to log in

Yes, all the people who dont know why they are in SL will move, bye bye.
All the others will stay, sweet.
And u always have big mouthes full of marmelade trying to do much more noise than they can really do, who promiss they will leave this time and finally dont, heck.

Stupid question isnt it ?

ROFL

My feelings exactly.

That post was informative, Random...thanks.

Same here re: not leaving...and I agree with Yadni, further down. If people are going to drop everything that SL has to offer because of a few lost days and some nasty lag from time to time--which, in my experience, ANY MMOG is going to experience at one point or another, for one reason or another--then I'm glad to see 'em go. I enjoy my time in SL (which, for the record, does not include attaching obscene amounts of overscripted bling, zoning out at dance clubs, or gambling my hard-earned Lindens at *ingo), but when there are problems such as we had this weekend, it only serves to remind me that I've got a First Life, too, that needs some attention every once in a while.

And anyone who came here from TSO like myself can remember the battle cry "Custom Content!" Yeah, there are bugs in SL, and there always will be bugs of varying severity...it's the nature of an online atmosphere where the game creators don't have complete control of the objects' designs. (And hell, even when they do, things go wonky. It just happens.) But personally I'm almost considering tiering UP just to take advantage of all this land that's apparently about to be dumped so people can run away to...what, World of Warcraft? Heh. Enjoy.

I think they may have stopped the free trial... I know some people that tried to sign up lately, but they couldn't. Got some message about not being able to sign up.

Not leaving, as this is most likely just a temporary issue. I have confidence that the Lindens are working their butts off to fix this bug.

Well said.

I only hope that the people working on the issues haven't gotten too browbeaten...and I hope the moderators are passing on the fact that there are a *few* of us out there who aren't screaming and ranting and raving and demanding some type of reimbursement. The rest who gave up after a few tries probably wandered off to...oh, I dunno, read a book, play with the dog, make a dinner that didn't involve a microwave oven or mini-bagels.

*hands ya a red lollipop from somewhere in the fields...*

No question about it... also it's gonna be intrresting seeing gom rate when (read if) ppl manage to get in.

wow the moved this thread.. LOL they did not even mentioned... LOL

This is far beyond frustrating. I am on my fifth attempt to log in after waiting for and downloading the update. Something needs to be done to improve service very soon.

) oh well when something bad comes, somethinng good comes from that, everyone learns from the past mistakes meaning sl will become even better because of all this trouble because if any when it happens again if it ever does LL will know how to fix it in future

Lum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well as soon as my land sells I will leave or rather no longer be a land holder or some one that regularly logs in...this is the 3rd try for me in SL. I just don't feel in tune with it anymore...and it is a personal choice, the login troubles I've had over the last couple of weeks just gave me time to think about the whys and whyfors of my presence in SL. To be honest when I first joined I thought SL was the greatest thing since sliced bread - innovative - unique and a world of possiblities as time went by I became as jaded about SL as I am about real life...my only reason for staying was my partner, he's left the game and moved on to another, so my visits became more about the forums, where quite frankly I enjoy socializing more. I bought land to build things - I like the way SL allows me to do 3d modelling with no real training..just align some basic geometric shapes and poof! I have a carrot the size of Texas. What the Login Issues and the teleport issues have done, is it's given me time to think about my purpose here in SL and it's given me time to join the real world again. My frustrations with the technical issues made me not want to play, but I'm smart enough to know that these will pass, albeit they will be replaced with others, but these will pass. So! I've written this to alleviate my earlier statment about leaving because of these issues. I'm actually "leaving" SL the game voluntarily because of personal choice and not because of some temporary techinical issues...my first post was a frustration post and this is my printed retraction. My second post was completely un-informed if the 7 day trial is no more.

Re-cap REAL reasons for tiering back down and selling land (SOMEONE PLEASE BUY IT):

No longer getting the enjoyment out of the game I once did
Technical issues and Login issues gave me time to get involved with Real life again
Partner no longer in world (he and I are now real world)
Tired of building HUGE Carrots
really tired of paying tier for both myself and my alt