http://valleywag.gawker.com/5158190/the-end-of-second-life
From the article:
"The very things that most appeal to Second Life's hardcore enthusiasts are either boring or creepy for most people: Spending hundreds of hours of effort to make insignificant amounts of money selling virtual clothes, experimenting with changing your gender or species, getting into random conversations with strangers from around the world, or having pseudo-nonymous sex (and let's not kid ourselves, sex is a huge draw into Second Life). As part of walking my 'beat,' I'd get invited by sources to virtual nightclubs, where I'd right-click the dancefloor to send my avatar gyrating as I sat at home at my computer. It was about as fun as watching paint dry."
That's what I could never put my finger on about second life but now it suddenly hits me; the truly dedicated second lifers are precisely the same species as LARPers, except infinitely more lazy.
Anyhow, I was right. Second life is dying and it's all due to horrific management from the very start. The "Tao of Linden" is an absolute failure. Even Wired has abandoned Second Life at this point.
Schadenfreude. Dozens of us offered free consulting from the start to help you pinheads figure out how to do the technical side correctly. I think I recall even offering you (at a time when I could) a special license for the Unreal engine to see what you could do with a few persistence libraries that had been worked on from time to time by people far smarter than me.
But nope, you had to bank your 19 million on the idea that people who are too lazy to be LARPers would willingly hang around the tech support platform of Geek Squad Island when they weren't off pretending to be lesbians with giant breasts.
Man, you were way, way wrong on that one.
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Millicent Frog
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02-23-2009 07:43
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Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
Join date: 17 Nov 2007
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02-23-2009 07:46
/me flails around in a 'sky is falling' fashion... Then logs back in to SL. =^-^=
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Millicent Frog
Registered User
Join date: 15 Nov 2008
Posts: 28
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02-23-2009 07:49
/me flails around in a 'sky is falling' fashion... Then logs back in to SL. =^-^= "loli-mentor". Yup, that's creepy. |
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Viktoria Dovgal
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Join date: 29 Jul 2007
Posts: 3,593
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02-23-2009 07:50
Sorry about that, the sky went off world and somehow landed in my lost and found. I'll go put it back.
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Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
Join date: 17 Nov 2007
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02-23-2009 08:03
"loli-mentor". Yup, that's creepy. _____________________
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Sindy Tsure
Will script for shoes
Join date: 18 Sep 2006
Posts: 4,103
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02-23-2009 09:33
If SL is dying, I call dibs on all its stuff.
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Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
Join date: 17 Nov 2007
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02-23-2009 10:09
Really, at the moment... I think SL is more successful then it's prepared to handle. (^_^)
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Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
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02-23-2009 10:32
Sorry about that, the sky went off world and somehow landed in my lost and found. I'll go put it back. _____________________
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Brenda Connolly
Un United Avatar
Join date: 10 Jan 2007
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02-23-2009 11:06
What's a LARP?
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Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
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02-23-2009 11:21
Live Action Role Playing
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Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
Join date: 17 Nov 2007
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02-23-2009 11:37
What's a LARP? _____________________
Somewhere in this world; there is someone having some good clean fun doing the one thing you hate the most. (^_^)y
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Kokoro Fasching
Pixie Dust and Sugar
Join date: 23 Dec 2005
Posts: 949
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02-23-2009 11:45
*gasp* So if SL is dead, and all us are still enjoying it, must be we all are into necrophilia! Wow! *checks that off list* I almost have my kink bingo card filled up!
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Alyx Sands
Mental Mentor Linguist
Join date: 17 Feb 2007
Posts: 2,432
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02-23-2009 15:47
I just found this coalesced object in my lost and found that says "sky"-shall I rez it in my backyard?
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Nyoko Salome
kittytailmeowmeow
Join date: 18 Jul 2005
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02-23-2009 16:08
/me always listenz 2 da wagz b4 maykG NY DCSNS!! ;0
omg, let them try to take away this 'bubble' after it already burst like a year-and-a-half-ago. ;0 lol  _____________________
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Nyoko Salome
kittytailmeowmeow
Join date: 18 Jul 2005
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02-23-2009 16:11
What's a LARP? similar to HARP prolly ;0 _____________________
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Wildefire Walcott
Heartbreaking
Join date: 8 Nov 2005
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02-23-2009 16:21
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Tegg Bode
FrootLoop Roo Overlord
Join date: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,707
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02-24-2009 01:55
Obviously hasn't been in SL much, didn't even mention the bot cancer we have...................
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Opensource Obscure
Hide UI
Join date: 5 Jun 2008
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03-01-2009 06:42
1. click forum member name link
2. click "Add forum-member-name to Your Ignore List" 3. enjoy |
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Burnman Bedlam
Business Person
Join date: 28 Jan 2006
Posts: 1,080
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03-20-2009 14:31
Having been around for a while, I can't say that things are better now than they were in '06. SL has become less interesting with each passing year. I still log in from time to time to see if things have improved much, but I find it harder and harder to stay interested.
I can't say many of the new changes are inspiring me to stick around either. _____________________
Burnman Bedlam
http://theburnman.com Not happy about Linden Labs purchase of XStreet (formerly SLX) and OnRez. Will this mean LL will ban resident run online shoping outlets in favor of their own? |