Something is rotten in the state of SLenmark?
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Introvert Petunia
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09-04-2005 18:05
I'm a reader of these forums but I've noticed a series of unfortunate events of late and I don't know what they all mean: - Something fishy in the partnership between Linden Lab and GamingOpenMarket
- Linden Lab being a censor of and then failing to support their annual celebration of artistic creativity, Burning Life
- A continuous drop in the value of the L$ over most of the year and some desperate moves by Linden Lab to stop it
- Unsecret secret meetings with Linden Lab by some of the game's most monied players concerned with the erosion of their "investment"
- More discord in these forums than I've seen before
- Volunteer Mentors, Instructors, Greeters and Live Helpers calling their own organizational meetings because Linden Lab isn't
- Bugs, crashes, inventory loss, island owners not being able to play and no help forthcoming
- Feature voting system established by Linden Lab and ignored
- Lots and lots of empty land, empty stores, abandoned land
- Linden Lab making promises when of things "coming soon" when I started which are still being "pushed off to a later release"
I was hoping someone had an idea of what's going on.
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Keknehv Psaltery
Hacker
Join date: 11 Apr 2005
Posts: 1,185
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09-04-2005 18:12
And yet, the forum-fu of many dedicate people has kept us together...
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Ardith Mifflin
Mecha Fiend
Join date: 5 Jun 2004
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09-04-2005 18:13
From: Introvert Petunia I'm a reader of these forums but I've noticed a series of unfortunate events of late and I don't know what they all mean: - Something fishy in the partnership between Linden Lab and GamingOpenMarket
- Linden Lab being a censor of and then failing to support their annual celebration of artistic creativity, Burning Life
- A continuous drop in the value of the L$ over most of the year and some desperate moves by Linden Lab to stop it
- Unsecret secret meetings with Linden Lab by some of the game's most monied players concerned with the erosion of their "investment"
- More discord in these forums than I've seen before
- Volunteer Mentors, Instructors, Greeters and Live Helpers calling their own organizational meetings because Linden Lab isn't
- Bugs, crashes, inventory loss, island owners not being able to play and no help forthcoming
- Feature voting system established by Linden Lab and ignored
- Lots and lots of empty land, empty stores, abandoned land
- Linden Lab making promises when of things "coming soon" when I started which are still being "pushed off to a later release"
I was hoping someone had an idea of what's going on. Clever headline. Concerning post. There has been a lot afoot lately. I keep getting this vibe that there's either a major competitor looming just over the horizon, or a potential investor preparing to strike. It's a completely unfounded idea, but it keeps sticking with me no matter how much I dismiss the notion.
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Cristiano Midnight
Evil Snapshot Baron
Join date: 17 May 2003
Posts: 8,616
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09-04-2005 18:17
From: Ardith Mifflin Clever headline. Concerning post. There has been a lot afoot lately. I keep getting this vibe that there's either a major competitor looming just over the horizon, or a potential investor preparing to strike. It's a completely unfounded idea, but it keeps sticking with me no matter how much I dismiss the notion. Things have felt a bit desperate of late. SL development seems to have stagnated (1.7 is taking much longer than I expected, and the preview did not even have the two major features announced for it). IGE seems to be MIA, GOM is on shaky ground, and there is just a malaise over all of SL right now. It's been quite a confluence of a bunch of different things at the same time. I am hoping like all things, this too shall pass. However, it does seem particularly dire right now. Glad we have pictures of everything  I do have faith that we are being steered in the right direction, just experiencing a bit of violent turbulence over Las Vegas.
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
Join date: 15 Sep 2004
Posts: 16,530
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09-04-2005 18:22
I used to worry more about things like this, but worrying rendered me useless. So, I don't. In a way, I'm glad the box is being shaken up, because it gets people critically thinking and reevaluating their perspectives on the whole works. It's kind of like, well, don't want this cereal to go stale, and there's gotta be a prize at the bottom here... ~urgh reaches~ freakin' prize... where is it... DAMN... WHERE IS IT?!?!?!/1/23-2086 We're going to have more of this in the future. I'm glad we have a history here on the SL Forums, so we can clearly point to new Residents that yes, it's happened before, and will happen again. It's never the same as actually living through this jetstream though. I'd be more concerned if there was massapathy.
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Torley Linden
Enlightenment!
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09-04-2005 18:24
From: Cristiano Midnight Glad we have pictures of everything  Something I've noticed is that so many of those pictures on Snapzilla celebrate happy moments, like most family's photo albums. If pictures are worth thousands of words, multiply that by all the snapz, and that's way more than enough to cover the upsides of what's going on.
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Beau Perkins
Second Life Resident.
Join date: 25 Dec 2003
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09-04-2005 20:12
I am with you! It is absurd, also you forgot to mention the latest software release with all the great features.
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Nolan Nash
Frischer Frosch
Join date: 15 May 2003
Posts: 7,141
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09-04-2005 20:45
*...acrid smoke fills the skies, following the appearance of a blinding light in the heavens... a gigantic, spectral hand reaches down through a rift in the continuum, picks up the beautiful little snow globe, and shakes it round and round vigorously. The ghastly appendage, it's cruel pleasure thusly sated, places the globe back in it's place. Haunting, mocking laughter is heard like the sound of ten-thousand war drums throughout the picturesque little village, as the rift slowly seals itself...*
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katykiwi Moonflower
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09-04-2005 20:56
From: Torley Torgeson Something I've noticed is that so many of those pictures on Snapzilla celebrate happy moments, like most family's photo albums. If pictures are worth thousands of words, multiply that by all the snapz, and that's way more than enough to cover the upsides of what's going on. You know Torley, that is an insightful observation. Despite all the discord and dissatisfaction, the pictures people send to snapzilla depict members having harmonic fun, and I think these pictures are a truer representation of how we love the SL experience.
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Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
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09-04-2005 21:27
From: Ardith Mifflin ...getting this vibe that there's either a major competitor looming just over the horizon, or a potential investor preparing to strike. It's a completely unfounded idea, but ... It's possible. I spoke of one such possible competitor before but there's now an NDA with my signature on it. Not that anyone beleives me. I am too a little disturbed by the 'monied players talking with LL' bit. The 'features getting pushed back' is normal, but 1.7 has a few things for us to swoon about for awhile. The inventory issues, island managent issues, etc are REALLY starting to scare me. I've been making backups of my more developed scripts and placing copies of things with my alts. The L$ value decrease is a problem, we need a few 'money sinks' to level things off, some kind of refined method. LL is freaking over the value of L$ because they want to implement paypal and GOM-like infrastructure. These things will come to pass. Just play, enjoy, and don't get a stick in the ass because of people that take things a little too seriously.
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Eggy Lippmann
Wiktator
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09-04-2005 23:10
SL development has stagnated because you people kept complaining about bugs and lag.
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Kim Anubis
The Magician
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09-04-2005 23:39
From: Eggy Lippmann you people *snicker*
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Issarlk Chatnoir
Cross L. apologist.
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09-05-2005 06:18
From: Introvert Petunia
More discord in these forums than I've seen before
Yay! All is good ; if SL hurts it means it's alive.
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Euterpe Roo
The millionth monkey
Join date: 24 Jan 2005
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09-05-2005 06:22
From: Introvert Petunia I'm a reader of these forums but I've noticed a series of unfortunate events of late and I don't know what they all mean: - Something fishy in the partnership between Linden Lab and GamingOpenMarket
- Linden Lab being a censor of and then failing to support their annual celebration of artistic creativity, Burning Life
- A continuous drop in the value of the L$ over most of the year and some desperate moves by Linden Lab to stop it
- Unsecret secret meetings with Linden Lab by some of the game's most monied players concerned with the erosion of their "investment"
- More discord in these forums than I've seen before
- Volunteer Mentors, Instructors, Greeters and Live Helpers calling their own organizational meetings because Linden Lab isn't
- Bugs, crashes, inventory loss, island owners not being able to play and no help forthcoming
- Feature voting system established by Linden Lab and ignored
- Lots and lots of empty land, empty stores, abandoned land
- Linden Lab making promises when of things "coming soon" when I started which are still being "pushed off to a later release"
I was hoping someone had an idea of what's going on. Going out on a very shaky limb then hacking wildly at it behind me. . . If you grant that SL is a platform. . . I imagine all of these very legitimate observations in terms of the pre-Revolutionary War United States (I beg the forgiveness of all indiginous populations around the globe who have withstood the horrors of colonization.) Imagine these observations in an historical context, framing Linden Lab as George III and British governmental systems: they are distant and opaque yet reliant upon this 'new world' as the source of revenue. While we all arrived here as indentured servants ('tourists,' as it were  ), some have managed, through ingenuity and hard work, to 'make' the world and its economy (content creators, club owners, land owners, the media, scripters, educators (mentors, live helpers, greeters, instructors)--all equally important). These individuals, naturally, are of great interest to the 'monarchy.' It is natural that the distant 'monarchy' would like to let go of the hassle of governing such an unruly mob and simply settle in to collect revenue, but with no representational government in place and only the most rudimentary of infrastructures, those who sense a 'sea change' begin to squabble about whose interests are of primary importance (it is called 'get while the getting's good.'). And then, there was a meeting last night. . .
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