Second Life Forums Archive - Do you think they'll make it so islands are visible again? - page 2

Welcome to the Second Life Forums Archive

These forums are CLOSED. Please visit the new forums HERE

Second Life Forums Archive > Previous Forums Archive > Land and the Economy

Do you think they'll make it so islands are visible again?
blaze Spinnaker 1/2 Serious Join date: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 5,898	12-12-2005 10:03 Heheheh. Yeah. That is really weird. Sometimes I really wonder who's minding the development team. At least the user experience is amazing. _____________________ Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : "User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
blaze Spinnaker 1/2 Serious Join date: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 5,898	12-12-2005 10:08 From: Chip Midnight Yeah Blaze, I'm sure LL plans their bugs ahead of time so that they're representative of their sinister biases! Chip, this is precisely how software engineers / product managers push their agenda. Microsoft is famous for not fixing bugs which support their business model. Witness the AMD / Microsoft fiasco where there was a bug that crippled NT on AMD chips for the longest time. Service Packs would come and go - but no fix. Why? Because they had a tight relationship with Intel. The simple fact is, in any code base, bugs will happen. Simply by not fixing them, you can focus user experience in a way that is desirable to your intentions. The fact that this 'bug' is so low priority speaks volumes about lls priorities, and I'm afraid, island owners aren't on that list. _____________________ Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds : "User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
Tren Neva Registered User Join date: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 619	12-12-2005 18:52 From: blaze Spinnaker Chip, this is precisely how software engineers / product managers push their agenda. Microsoft is famous for not fixing bugs which support their business model. Witness the AMD / Microsoft fiasco where there was a bug that crippled NT on AMD chips for the longest time. Service Packs would come and go - but no fix. Why? Because they had a tight relationship with Intel. The simple fact is, in any code base, bugs will happen. Simply by not fixing them, you can focus user experience in a way that is desirable to your intentions. The fact that this 'bug' is so low priority speaks volumes about lls priorities, and I'm afraid, island owners aren't on that list. Yeah, I'm sure island owners are really hurting from this. Or rather, I'm sure it doesn't affect them at all.

1 2