Do you know about this??

Ok so i was lookin around the net and came across a online game called there.com so i thought id give it a go and wow its not bad at all just thought id let other know about it u can buy and rent land also sell goods in world just like second life.

www.there.com

welcome to 2003


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_(internet_service)

There isn't even remotely like Second Life.

LOL


yeah , I tried There...very lame....no creativity...no freedom...no good

While we all know the limitations and weaknesses of There, it has some strengths, too. Great vehicle "feel," avatars which move their lips as they speak, a.i. dogs (but we have Jeffrey Ventrella now), and a few other things. It's nice to me that there are different places for people to go, as not everyone likes the same things. It's nowhere near as good as SL, to me, however someone else is entitled to their own opinion.

I had to download it to have a look on a freebie account as i totally agree all these differnt worlds offer different things, my first port of call was/is the forums and guess what it doesnt matter what world you are in some things never change and i quote from a post there below. It certainly made me have a good smile




PS: There.com allows its freebie accounts to read but not post on the forums that they run please vote on the same proposal for here at: /13/1e/173871/1.html

I joined it about 6mos ago and never logged in after I joined so I uninstalled it off my comp, was too generic for me to be honest. Isn't there another one that is out there that is closer to SL? I saw it somewhere in this forum but I forget where....

There are loads of virtual worlds. We can go to several we like - it's not a case of "pick one and that's it." After all, you may love shopping the downtown core of your town but still go to the mall. No one limits us but ourselves.

Onder has a list of VWs on http://slgames.wordpress.com/

Tried it once…didn’t inhale.

Sheena, are you thinking of Multiverse ? It looks interesting but they don't yet have a Mac client so it's a no-no for me.

So i was cruisin round the net, and I came to thing where there was this gorilla on top of this scafolding....and he was throwin these barrels at my avatar... yall need to check this. Its intense.

They havent got voice for us freebie accounts lol but if u go premium u can use voice tho everyone can read the forums even the freebie unverifieds like me

I'm actually a paying There subscriber for some reason... oh yeah, when the SL grid used to go down all the time I would pop in on There and have fun talking to all the teens. Very few people type complete words, much less sentences There. It's like a 3D phone texting service.

Anyway, about half the people I see in-game are subscribers (they all have little speaker-kinda icons over their heads), and I've only seen people actually voice-chatting ONCE.

I think There went into development first? And I believe several Lindens are from There? Others can confirm or deny.

There had voice* way back when I started in 2003. It isn't trying to copy SL. Some ideas are not exactly revolutionary.

*and about half the people used it

I was put off even trying the demo by their whole "developer" process.

You want to create something? Pay us some money to have it checked, then pay us some more money for each copy. And BTW, clothing must meet our standards, you can't advertise any company who don't pay us money, you can't use the word "there" in a similar font to us (looks like arial bold to me), everything must be PG, etc. etc.

Looks to me as if all they are interested in is a total consumerist reality. Everyone must buy everything from a small group of pre-approved developers. There's no freedom to just knock something up for the fun of it. Part of why I'm on SL is that I can interact with the environment when I've had enough of interacting with the people

That is exactly what turned me off to it, a few years back.

No that isnt it but that one looks pretty interesting also but this one was very similar to SL and seemed to my memory that it started with a K , Real strange name,

not as good as s/l but just into public beta so we will see where it goes

YES TY Damet that is it, so you joined and it isn't as good as SL? What about number of members and grid issues?

Kaneva is just a MySpace knock-off with an additional 3D component. The avatar customization is very limited and I don't even think there is any truly player created content. Just ways to get your shitty videos and music from your MySpace page into 3-space.

I checked out 'There' the other day, and joined just to see what it was like. (Meee, a resident of SL, going into a further virtual 'third life', in essence!).

To me, There looked more cartoony - I couldn't make the avatar look like me although I could probably have changed the hair if I'd paid. There's world was more like a kids picture book. Still clever, mind! However, while I was 'There' it all worked properly and the lag-free movement was refreshing.

What is your question, exactly? My thread which had a valid question about the Police Blotter gets locked by a moderator but this one which is about a competitor has been going at least a day.