What is the REAL issue?

I think there are an awful lot of threads on the same subject.

Well we can avoid that here if you want? damn I replied!

yea, all the other threads on this subject are cluttered with posts. Too much reading. We need a new thread that doesn't have so much stuff in it.

Let's wish for less clutter in this thread then.



Ooops !

Yeah - so let's change this threads topic to something more important.

I here there's free sex going on somewhere in SL. I love it when it's cheap, but free -- I'm there. In RL or SL - don't matter.

Indeed, and I see a couple of thread titles on the first General page that aren't about the whole GOM drama. You people are slacking! Surely someone can come up with an explanation that links Tibetan freedom movement, the collapse of the Linden dollar, and why Pauly Shore is still on TV..

Awww stop posting already, people ! Ruining a perfectly clutter-free thread !

The real issue is that "Your World, Your Imagination" has turned out to be meaningless drivel. Things that would make this our world such as user-maintained money markets (GOM), terraformability, a client API, working vehicles (Havok2), p2p teleportation, hookable scripting (mono), workable group features, and ground texturing, have been talked to death, praised to Heaven, and conveniently left out of release after release after release.

Instead of fully implementing XML/RPC, LL have decided to implement, inhouse, the one service that wholly relied on the technology and was critical to the vision statement. This is not a problem as much as it's a recognizable pattern. It's what we know to expect; take it or leave it.

The font the original post is displaying in is ugly and hard to read on my system.
The default font is ridiculously easy to read even when it is teeny tiny.

Which always leads me to wonder why posters like Juro K. never use the default forum font. Nothing against Century Gothic.. it's pretty, it just when I am reading a thread, then all of a sudden I see someone switch up the font that makes their post stand out, it throws off my train of concentration on the discussion. Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's just another attempt to derail a thread on an already hackeneyed subject.

I agree with Khamon. Despite the fact that Khamon is apparently, according to Lordfly, "one of the more negative members of our community" for expressing this view.

coco

Khamon has been around SL about as long as I have, I understand where he's coming from.

But many many many people on these forums just love declaring the end of SL, or the end of the economy, or the end of trusting LLab, or whatever, without looking at all the issues.

This entire community is prone t jumping the gun on almost any hot-button issue. It gets to me, especially in the morning.

How about we actually WAIT for something to come out for once before hating it immediately?

LF

Because what Khamon said in his analysis has already happened:

"The real issue is that "Your World, Your Imagination" has turned out to be meaningless drivel. Things that would make this our world such as user-maintained money markets (GOM) . . .
Instead of fully implementing XML/RPC, LL have decided to implement, inhouse, the one service that wholly relied on the technology and was critical to the vision statement. This is not a problem as much as it's a recognizable pattern. It's what we know to expect; take it or leave it."

This is an analysis of what has already happened. I don't think we have to wait and see how anything comes out before we can already know this much.

coco

coco? Doh!!

Yeah, Strawbearry is my alt. I had her in here last night because she managed to find and buy First Land next door to my shop! YAYAYAYAYAYAY! I guess somebody - one person - abandoned their land or something. Wanted to make sure it went through.

coco

P.S. She was supposed to be "Strawbeary" with one R, but I messed up making her and quit the process at some point where somehow the name you were working with is now taken forever. They should fix that.

I don't see it implemented yet. As usual, LLab loves making vague proclamations of what's in the works, but whether or not it ever materializes is up for debate.

Seeing as we have little idea as to what the final LL product will be, how about we wait and see before we decry them as evil monopolistic money grubbers?

LF

Somebody's gotta express the negative opinions in the face of all you happy go lucky people. But I'm not being negative here. As Coco points out in a later thread, my analysis reflects things as they are. I even made a point of saying that it wasn't a problem, just something we have to accept.

LL can, and will, do whatever they please with SL. I've learned to voice my ideas and opinions for fun. There's no point in talking to, much less arguing with, them about it all.

For the record, I believe that in six weeks LL will be supporting a service that exactly mimics GOM with the added benefit of being able to credit linden sales proceeds to our LL account against future billing. No doom and gloom here. Just pointing out that the slogan is a crock.

Because by then people will have calmed down and realized that they're overreacting and all the grade A drahma would go to waste

You bought First Land with your alt? I thought that was against the policies of First Land??

Moved to Land and the Economy Forum.

i don't blame LL for this problem. i blame mcdonalds and its fastfood drive through mentality of immediate satisfaction. next time you are wondering where is your havok2, ask yourself where is you mcroastedpigonaspit.


what exactly does this entail? LL setting up an easy to use payment system for all the currency exchanges making percentages on trades, all the while removing risk from the latter? why didn't the currency exchange develop a system for themselves to compete with IGE. why should LL create a a tailor made system to benefit GOM over IGE?