Have you thought about quitting SL? What makes you think that?

Have you thought about quitting SL? Why? What caused you to have such thoughts? What would be your reason? Or what would cause you to quit?

broken heart

Yes. Because they seem to be totally clueless about what I as a resident want out of SL.

They don't fix the things I want fixed. They say "tell us what you think" then ignore us. They have no interest in interacting with residents. They throw out the stuff they don't like without having a replacement or they throw out the old when the replacement sucks. The list goes on and on and on. They continue to fumble thier monopoly in this space rather than seeing what made it great and working to preserve that.

'Course, "they" is NOT individual worker Lindens.

I've thought about it a few times, but I still spend a lot of time here. My interest is currently waning but it has before and could well pick up again.

I'm not sure there's anything LL could do to put me off, short of suddenly halving my prim allowance or drastically raising the subscriptions. Even on bad days I brave the lag and failing TPs.

The worst thing would be losing a lot of friends here. Early on a good friend left and that seriously cut into my enjoyment. If too many people I know left, or I fell out with them, that might see me off for good.

I quit once before, mainly from disguist with LL's management of it, but also in part because I needed to break away from it for awhile due to a number of reasons. If I were ever t quit again it would again be because of LL, or if/when SL becomes a Corporate 3D AOL world where the corps are marketing to us us at every turn. Also, there is the possibility of losing interest. I go through periods where I log on sparingly, sometimes going several weeks without logging in. One of those periods could go on longer if RL dictated it. Right now, I and at my highest usage since I came back, logging in for several hours almost every day.

Yes.

Boredom, disappointment, frustration (not with LL - with my broadband connection and time zone dislocation) . . .

Pep (Threats from the wife come way down the list. )

The expense often makes me feel i should at the least be cutting back. SLcan become a very expensive habit... I'm amazed there isn't more campaigning for price cuts or increases in the amounts of land per tier charge...

Ya, a time or two. Mostly with changes with my inworld family an stuff, but also in dealing with the anti-kid folks an all, which gets awful tiresome. I usually spring back from it all, though.

If my SL Partner left SL, odds are pretty good that I would leave too. There's only a handful of people that are that "critical" to me here. But my Partner in SL is my main reason for being here.

The restrictions on Adult Activities in what is supposed to be an Adults-only world are troubling me enough to make me consider leaving. If they ever cut out the explicit activities completely, I would go back to ICQ and other text-based systems. I have no desire to live the virtual life of a celibate Nun, in a PG-only virtual world.

The declining economy, in SL as well as in RL, might eventually force me to leave. Or if it became impossible to cash out the L$ that I earn in-world and use them to pay for my land and my in-world purchases. I can't afford to pay out of pocket for what I spend here each month. Without a way to use my SL income to support what I do here, I would leave. Or at least I would drastically reduce what I do here.

The complete lack of understanding by Linden Lab Management of what constitutes good customer service and ethical business practices would be quite sufficient to get me to leave, if only there was another Virtual World that my Partner and I could move to that offered even half as much as SL does. Their monopoly on this sort of virtual entertainment is the only thing keeping me on their grid.

Unfortunately, none of the "Alternative grids" can come close. Comparing them to SL is like comparing a cardboard shack in the wilderness to a nice apartment in the big city. Sure, the landlord in the city might be a sleazeball, and the crime rate may be rather troubling, but the roof is sound; whereas the cardboard shack has no utilities, no stores, none of the amenities that make it worth being there, except for what you bring with you or make on-site. I have no wish to be a Wilderness Pioneer on someone's wanna-be grid.

I stay because my closest friends can only be found here, and they haven't yet decided to move elsewhere, and because there is nowhere else that we *could* move that would be an improvement.

Not because of Linden Labs, but sometimes because of other residents.

When I run out of money from a land sale I plan to pack it up. Unless my next product does really well. But I'm not working on my next product. Haven't done much in months.

Ditto.
except... I would not leave if my partner left... I am here for me, he is a big plus and I love him and whatnot but he is not THE reason I am here.

I don't know if it is summer that has me feeling bored in SL or if it is SL itself..
fall and winter seem to be more my months in world..i may log in a couple hours a week now on my days off..

Really there is so much change going on and the appeal gets less each year..
I never thought it could get repetitive but it is..For me anyways..

It used to be filled with all kinds of things and you just never knew what all you would run into..Right now it just seems like there is more of the same things everywhere and less variety or mystery..

I guess a better way to compare what it feels like is this..
When i first played WoW it was like..omg look at this place..oh neat i can do this or that..Oh look at all the other elves OMG how cute these gnomes are..Oh look at this place..omg the view is stunning!!oh it's so magical here!

then i leveled and it was all about stats and calculating gear and gaining DKP's and grinding end game bosses and listening to people fight over drops..the fantasy was over..

I hope something happens in sl that will grab me and have me wanting to log in for hours and hours this fall..Right now it''s just a messenger with music and a lot of the end game figured out already..

I did quit once, almost 2 years ago, after spending almost a year camping and making friendships which were pretty superficial - just scratching the surface really.

Also my rl partner left so it seemed logical to follow. Now that I've discovered there's more to sl than camping and collecting freebies (mostly thanks to you folks here), I'm hoping he'll join me in sl again ... but if he doesn't, I've found plenty enough to interest me all on my ownsome for the time being.

If it ever became a hindrance to RL relationships or SL became one big Zindra. There are some of us who don't see sex as a spectator sport, virtual or not.

I once thought about it- it was millenia ago. No- I wouldn't leave short of online access suddenly becoming impossible- you know due to Global Apocalypse or such.

Aching back and arms from too much SL-ing.

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In all honesty, 4 incidents.
1. When my "protected" ocean view was sold to a particularly distasteful land baron.
2. Broken heart -slash- disgusted with my own bad behavior in SL relationship.
3. Another one of #2 with a little less bad behavior on my part.
4. LL setting a precedent for further arbitrary content restriction* and capitulation to threats from lobbyists. Also on a personal level, I am still PO'd because I am unclear about whether a girl can call me Daddy while I spank her-- and having to examine and draw any lines in my fantasies in the first place makes me want to run naked through Ahern.


*Things which have no bearing on the real world but that consenting adults do together as a fantasy

Since I'm a freebie basic account, pushing 3 years in-world, I can't complain about the LL too much. As a basic, they don't give a rat's azz about me, the technical problems I may have, etc. Fortunately, it seems they don't give a rat's azz about the paid accounts either.

I've considered leaving before. The drama can get absolutely insane at times. But, I've learned to deal with the drama queens and can always just hit CTL-SHIFT-H and disappear for a while.

I wasn't looking for a SL relationship, but eventually one found me. When that went sour, I almost left SL. But, I forced myself to push through the anger and began enjoying SL again.

If they eliminate or severely restrict free basic accounts, I'll disappear. Otherwise, my pixels shall continue to grace the grid for a while longer.

The first 6 months or so, I considered quitting several times. But then I found the forums and ultimately met some really great people (one in particular ). Haven't thought of it since then.

I don't know if I'll ever quit of my own accord but I have thought about winding everything down, Linden Lab's absurd policies are always the reason for this, everything works better when they keep their noses out and get on with what they're good at, developing the platform.

I've thought about quitting SL a couple of times and I'm relatively new. The cause is some of the people I've met here: insincerity in some; others are way too intense, telling their very sad life stories 15 minutes after our first hello and expecting me to always be available to listen to their problems; and what comes across to me as way too much sexual desperation. I'm all for making friends and having fun. If you want to fall in love (or if it happens to you), great. If you're here for sex, well, enjoy. But I've met too many people who seem downright desperate for sex and/or love and I find it really depressing. So what keeps me here? Actually I stopped trying to make friends and as a result I've found some people and some hangouts that are just so great, so genuine and fun, they keep me coming back and enjoying myself. And oh yeah, the forums keep me coming back too!

If I leave, it will be from LL pissing me off one too many times...

My first account actually did "quit" in early 2007 simply because SL sucked so royally that it wasn't worth a passing glance at the time. From my experience in that account, SL was a VERY ugly game with no goal and far too much hardware demand for the computer I had at the time to create a sub-par visual experience. I really HATED that blue/orange gradient sky. (>_<

Then I bought a real computer, made this account, got the Windlight FL client, and started taking the social aspect seriously. (^_^)

Some emo-drama I caused with friends had me seriously considering dropping out again. I gave all my money away, wiped my friends list, and started looking for other things to do. (T_T)

What I found was that SL filled a void in my life and any of my fallback activities were even more miserable than the crud I was going through inworld. I found one thing in SL that I never had in RL... People who would offer me their attention and help pull me back out of my rut. After that event, I still haven't been free from emo-drama, but I have had loving friends to turn to when I do. (^_^)y

I would have to say for the same reasons I would quit doing anything. If I no longer enjoyed being here, didn't find it fulfilling or stimulating, and/or simply was no longer relevant to my interests.

Or in short, because I simply didn't want to do it anymore. The usual reasons I think.