| I originally opened my account to explore the possibility of using this virtual world environment to support our eLearning students and instructors. It didn't take long to figure out that LL were pushing the pioneering limits of gridded simulator development and would not stop until they had first settled on a viable business model for themselves and, second, set the standards for Internet-based VWs. That order seems to flip every six months or so.
In other words, Linden Lab employ the term "Lab" literally and extremely. It has broken my heart for years to see people sign up, get excited, build an avatar, buy land, join groups, and establish a home in a petri dish that guarantees no stability, none, not even a little. I've been aghast for years that LL have advertised supporting a virtual life when their primary goal has been development and testing.
I can empathize with Cocoanut's feelings of frustration and betrayal. The only solution I can offer is to back up, look over the past few years, and accept that LL are going to forge ahead with their experimentation and laboratory mindset until the bitter end. Honestly, the only way I know to be happy on the Second Life grid is to accept that LL tinker with it as a means to an end, a mere tool being tinkered from the user end by their hacker customers. It's a project with no clear termination date, and no clear funding model, hobbling along on the backs of those of us determined to make it work.
__________________ But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while still they endure for eyes to see, are their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song. - Quenta Silmarillion
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