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5 Million mark: How are you celebrating

Raymond Figtree
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Join date: 17 May 2006
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03-28-2007 11:26
I know the numbers are inflated, but it's still a pretty big leap from the 300,000 population when I joined last May.

So what are you doing to mark the occasion? I went hang-gliding in Huahine, probably the lowest lag sim on the Grid. Didn't see any of the other 4,999,999. They must be camping.
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Joseph Worthington
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Join date: 29 Jul 2006
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03-28-2007 11:51
Gearing up to go on a killing spree. I hope to have the number back down around three million by the end of May.
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Vale Vieria
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Join date: 8 Feb 2007
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03-28-2007 11:53
I'm sharpening my knife, my plan is to start skinning campers while they sleep and selling their skins. Genius! :D

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Tamii Gwynneville
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Join date: 1 Jun 2006
Posts: 72
03-28-2007 11:58
What's to celebrate? Continued degradation of the grid? Unwanted and unneeded "enhancements" foisted upon us instead of bug fixes? Non-existant customer service?

Thanks, but I'll pass on the celebration. I'll celebrate when they do away with unverified accounts.
Annabelle Vandeverre
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Join date: 30 Nov 2006
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03-28-2007 12:24
I'm thinking I'll create some unverified alts and go camping. If everyone else does the same, we'll hit 10 million in no time. ;)

Just kidding. Somewhere I saw that someone did an analysis of the numbers and figured out that between the sign-up numbers and the logged in in the past x days numbers, it appears that a significant portion of the 'residents' being reported have never even logged in to SL at all. Um, shouldn't they just count the people who actually enter the world, not just the ones who sign up on the web page?

Tell you what, I'll celebrate when we have 5 million real residents.
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03-28-2007 12:28
From: Tamii Gwynneville
What's to celebrate? Continued degradation of the grid? Unwanted and unneeded "enhancements" foisted upon us instead of bug fixes? Non-existant customer service?


Some things never change ;)
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Isablan Neva
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03-28-2007 12:42
I rezzed a plywood cube in honor of the occaison.
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Elanthius Flagstaff
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03-28-2007 12:43
I celebrated by turning off AltRegisteringBot.
DJQuad Radio
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Join date: 5 May 2006
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03-28-2007 12:43
My avie is celebrating by spending a quiet night at home not being able to teleport anywhere.
Colette Meiji
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Join date: 25 Mar 2005
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03-28-2007 12:56
From: Annabelle Vandeverre
I'm thinking I'll create some unverified alts and go camping. If everyone else does the same, we'll hit 10 million in no time. ;)

Just kidding. Somewhere I saw that someone did an analysis of the numbers and figured out that between the sign-up numbers and the logged in in the past x days numbers, it appears that a significant portion of the 'residents' being reported have never even logged in to SL at all. Um, shouldn't they just count the people who actually enter the world, not just the ones who sign up on the web page?

Tell you what, I'll celebrate when we have 5 million real residents.



I'll celebate when we have 1 million real residents :cool:
Ann Launay
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Join date: 8 Aug 2006
Posts: 7,893
03-28-2007 13:13
By playing WoW. :p
Atashi Yue
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Join date: 24 Jan 2007
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03-28-2007 13:15
From: Colette Meiji
I'll celebate when we have 1 million real residents :cool:


I'm celebrating by not being able to log in. :D
Joy Iddinja
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Join date: 15 Sep 2006
Posts: 344
03-28-2007 13:22
Celebrating, I'm mourning. Every new resident justifies the Lindens dedication to ignoring the needs of the players and pandering to the corporations instead. Every new player justifies adding new, untested, wiz-bang features in leu of fixing problems. Every new player is just a means to make SL look more popular than it is, so they can hook the big fish and ignore the people that built this place.

PS. They will never get rid of free accounts. Free accounts are eyeballs for the corporate advertising. They might stop free accounts that never come in world, but if you log in once, that is 1 shot to see an ad.
Meade Paravane
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Join date: 21 Nov 2006
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03-28-2007 13:27
From: Raymond Figtree
So what are you doing to mark the occasion?

I'm raising a tasty adult beverage to all the folks at LL. 'Grats!!
Gaybot Foxley
Input Collector
Join date: 15 Nov 2006
Posts: 584
03-28-2007 13:34
From: Annabelle Vandeverre
someone did an analysis of the numbers and figured out that between the sign-up numbers and the logged in in the past x days numbers, it appears that a significant portion of the 'residents' being reported have never even logged in to SL at all



I find that very interesting. My personal opinion is that there are actually 1.5 to 2 million residents who log in regularly and are humans. The rest I suspect to be bots and alts on a mission for camping, collecting land, and miscellaneous purposes. Many of them are probably accounts used for a day to a few months and then abandoned. I thought of 2 possible conspiracies today.

1) The Lindens are creating random accounts to make the population appear to be larger and appeal to people and companies.

2) Disgruntled users are trying to make SL implode by making lots of accounts they never use. I believe fresh accounts start out with around 800 items in the inventory. (This may be the library, and I'm not sure if that counts)
Lord Sullivan
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03-28-2007 13:41
From: Atashi Yue
I'm celebrating by not being able to log in. :D


I think we should have a mass login one day see how many the grid really does hold, that is if we can login that day :)
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Annabelle Vandeverre
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03-28-2007 13:47
From: Gaybot Foxley

I find that very interesting. My personal opinion is that there are actually 1.5 to 2 million residents who log in regularly and are humans. The rest I suspect to be bots and alts on a mission for camping, collecting land, and miscellaneous purposes. Many of them are probably accounts used for a day to a few months and then abandoned. I thought of 2 possible conspiracies today.


Maybe not so much a conspiracy, but people having difficulty with setting up accounts. First of all, it's way too easy to create a new account, and way too hard to cancel one that's no longer being used.

For instance, I've heard of people creating accounts and then not realizing that they actually have to download software to access SL, and not having the technical know-how or the right specs for their computer, they just leave. Or of people creating accounts and then losing their log-in information, and just creating another.

Then, there's what happened to a friend of mine, who tried to create a verified account using PayPal as the payment source, and having it fail on him on the first try, then trying it again by registering a new account. Another friend went through the hassle of chasing down billing to cancel his account outright, but guess what, he still shows up in search.

Actually, I'd be surprised if there were 2 million unique residents, not counting alts and bots.
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RobbyRacoon Olmstead
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Join date: 20 Sep 2006
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03-28-2007 13:59
I see nothing to celebrate in this new milestone. I am already sold on Second Life's potential, and have already seen at the 2 million mark that I am not the only one, so really I am completely unimpressed by 5 million.

The number of concurrent sessions has not gone up proportionately, has it? It doesn't seem so, at any rate. It has gone up enough to really affect my enjoyment of and ability to work in Second Life, but it does not seem to have a linear relationship to the total number of accounts.
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Elanthius Flagstaff
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03-28-2007 14:06
From: RobbyRacoon Olmstead
The number of concurrent sessions has not gone up proportionately, has it?


Not linear but the number of concurrent sessions is obviously massively higher than ever before. I don't remember the figures but was it 10k in November and 40k today? Whatever it is, it's a lot.
Gaybot Foxley
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03-28-2007 14:09
From: Annabelle Vandeverre
For instance, I've heard of people creating accounts and then not realizing that they actually have to download software to access SL, and not having the technical know-how or the right specs for their computer, they just leave. Or of people creating accounts and then losing their log-in information, and just creating another.

Then, there's what happened to a friend of mine, who tried to create a verified account using PayPal as the payment source, and having it fail on him on the first try, then trying it again by registering a new account. Another friend went through the hassle of chasing down billing to cancel his account outright, but guess what, he still shows up in search.


Excellent points. I have noticed a few cases lately where people say "Hey, I signed up; where is my avatar?" or "I just made an account, but my client keeps crashing". They really should terminate accounts that haven't logged in for over a year.
Cocoanut Koala
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Join date: 7 Feb 2005
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03-28-2007 14:10
What a funny, funny question!

(And some even funnier answers! Knives, and whatnot.)

I remember being very excited about hitting 100,000. That was before it became abundantly clear that the more people sign up for SL, the worse SL gets.

I long since stopped celebrating these milestones, and started dreading them.

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Raymond Figtree
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Join date: 17 May 2006
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03-28-2007 14:59
It appears corporations are not celebrating either.

http://adweek.com/aw/national/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003563266
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Warda Kawabata
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03-28-2007 15:42
My personal opinion is that there are maybe between 300-500 thousands real residents (people who log in at least 2 times a week), and maybe that many again tourists (people who log in about 2 times a month on average). the rest are alts, bots, one time visitors, or throwaway accounts.
Isablan Neva
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03-28-2007 15:47
From: Raymond Figtree
It appears corporations are not celebrating either.

http://adweek.com/aw/national/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003563266


To be fair, that has always been the case with SL. If you can't get past a traditional mindset, this platform has not much to offer you. The user base here tends to be fairly technologically advanced and highly creative, a valuable audience, but one with fairly high expectations. When a corporation comes in and does something that equals Svarga, then we'll pay attention. Beyond that, real-world, lowest-common-denominator marketing strategies won't work here.
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Dnali Anabuki
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Join date: 17 Oct 2006
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03-28-2007 20:05
SL has 40,000 paid members! Compared to WoW 7.5 million paid members!

Smoke and mirrors...if LL limited the activities of the free accounts, they and we would be better off...at this point there is really no benefit to being a paid member.

Without us to market to, those companies won't stay.
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