No kids in the real SL, EVER!

Who's attacking who here?

Did you all have bad experiences with your kids?

Didn't read through 24 pages of replies just to say this, but ...

Based on prior experience, a prediction: minors in SL are inevitable. That's right: inevitable. In any situation where a decision like this must be made by an MMO company, just look for the decision that will yield the company the greater short-term profit and follow your nose, 'cause that's where it's going to go pretty much no matter what.

This brings to mind the old buffbot issue in Mythic's Dark Age of Camelot. In a nutshell, for those who don't know, a buffbot is a second character on a second account that "buffs" the player's first character with spells, making that character approximately three times as powerful as it would normally be. The bot then sits in a safe, unreachable location while the main character goes out and rips everyone to shreds in PvP (in DAOC, there are special designated areas for PvP). With the way Mythic set up the DAOC buffing system (the buffs last indefinitely), this is incredibly practical and effective.

Honest people who really understood the issue when it first came to light (sadly few in number) would freely admit that the existance of bots unbalanced the game horribly, even if they had started using bots themselves just to be able to compete. People also proposed PLENTY of GOOD suggestions for ways to revise the game's buffing system so as to eliminate the bot problem.

But what do you think Mythic saw when it saw buffbots? It saw the following:

1. Anyone with a buffbot was effectively paying out twice as much per month.

2. As more and more people got buffbots, more and more people had to GET buffbots to remain competitive.

3. For all their threats, most of the people who complained would probably stay on anyway (and maybe even finally get bots as well) because MMOs are addictive like that.

In short (too late for that! ), Mythic went straight for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and actually made buffbotting EASIER to accomplish by making it possible to run two instances of the DAOC client on a single computer (so that people wouldn't need a second computer to buffbot). This isn't a rant about buffbotting, as DAOC is a thing of the past for yours truly. The point is that appealing to the Lindens on the grounds that you don't want to see minors in the game will almost certainly prove ineffective. Rather, more than likely, the one thing that will guide LL's decision is simply this: which decision will yield a greater short-term profit?

Haha, I find all of this funny. Let me tell a quick story to everyone . On a previous account I once owned, many, many months ago, I met someone who was so mature, so "grown up" acting, that when he told me he was underage, I didn't believe him! Whats funny is that (even though its really pathetic), I know many underage teens who are more mature then the 20+ that play SL. I agree, it's not a place for kids, but I think that there should be a seperate SL, ones especially for the underage, everyone deserves a chance to play SL! Even without the sex, vaginas, etc.. . SL can be a creative game for kids, somehow.. but not with the sex, it will just give many teens ideas... rofl.

All these arguements are pointless because you are all forgetting one important thing:

Minors are already in the game.

Do you think that all 13-17 year olds are so lacking in intelligence that they would tell Linden Labs their age? And it's odd that so many of the adults here have such a lack of respect for teenagers, basically treating them like a different species rather than human beings. Did you all have bad experiences with your kids?

In the for what it's worth department, we are not planning to allow teens into the main Second Life grid.

The Teen Grid is separate, you can't see it, you can't go there, they can't see you, and they can't join you.

We all know that kids have been in Second Life -- we escort them out on a regular basis, and we'll continue to do so.

We all know that kids have been in Second Life -- we escort them out on a regular basis, and we'll continue to do so.

I tend to respect someone until something about them causes me to lose the respect.

Your posts tend not to show you have any respect for someone elses views.

I respect your views but stating that others should respect teens who illegally join SL, that's a bit much.

We don't want minors in SL cause we like SL and we don't want LL to go out of business cause some kids mom caught him whacking it in "Club Sexxorx" and sues the hell out of LL for her precious baby being exposed to naughty bits.

In the spirit of my gender verification test: (http://www.dragonscoveherald.com/blog/index.php?p=746)

I will now administer the "age verification test" to daniel. daniel please answer the following questions in a timely maner so I know you aren't looking them up online:

How much do you think it costs to rent a 2 bedroom apartment in the suburbs?

Name 3 Michael J Fox movies.

Who was President before Ronald Reagan?

Who is famed for the expression "Yaaaaa That's the ticket"

What is a 401k?


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