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Old 02-04-2008, 11:46 AM   #51 (permalink)
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Totally disagree. The first time I ever heard there was a virtual environment called "Second Life" I instantly knew what it meant. Just from the name I assumed it probably wasn't a traditional game but a 3D space where you could do things that you couldn't in your real life. I even assumed there would be some form of player housing just from the name.

It would be a huge mistake to change it.
Yeah, the name never bothered me either.

And it would be a HUGE mistake to change it. It's easy to remember, says more or less what it is, and now whole BUNCHES of people know what it is.

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Old 02-04-2008, 11:47 AM   #53 (permalink)
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Totally disagree. The first time I ever heard there was a virtual environment called "Second Life" I instantly knew what it meant. Just from the name I assumed it probably wasn't a traditional game but a 3D space where you could do things that you couldn't in your real life. I even assumed there would be some form of player housing just from the name.

It would be a huge mistake to change it.


When I mention SL to people, and I get the "he just told me he has three heads" look, the next words out of my mouth are "It really is a Second Life". For me, it describes it perfectly.

Does that make me a loser without a First Life? Nah...that makes me a loser that thinks he's cool enough to juggle two at a time
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Old 02-04-2008, 11:53 AM   #54 (permalink)
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Does that make me a loser without a First Life? Nah...that makes me a loser that thinks he's cool enough to juggle two at a time
I make it very clear that I consider SL to be an extension or supplement to real life, rather than a substitute. But I think "Supplemental Life" was already taken.
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Can I say something else?

"Why yes, of course, Cindy," you say.

If you insist...

When I count the friends I've made in SL who matter to me, I count my SLU friends. Don't y'all get the big head, now - my friends' list has imploded since I sold the old club last fall, but I'm not sure how much I'd even care at all if it weren't for the posters here.

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Totally disagree. The first time I ever heard there was a virtual environment called "Second Life" I instantly knew what it meant...It would be a huge mistake to change it.
They already have renamed Second Life to, well, nothing. "Second Life" now refers to a gridded resource offering tools and support for 3D content creation in these areas:

* Business
* Development
* Education & Nonprofit
* Open Source

The world, home, sense of community doesn't even register on the Linden Lab radar well enough to have a name.
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I kind of thought SL was fun, and shit. No?
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Old 02-04-2008, 12:18 PM   #58 (permalink)
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Read the Second Life Herald if you want to be embarassed about SL. The stories are bad enough, but the comments underneath let you see some of the people who share SL with you. Imagine if someone saw you reading it at work! The shame.
I don't tell anyone about SL, but then again it realy hasn't come up. But if it were, I've learned a long time ago not to give a crap about other peoples opinions of how I spend my leisure time.

SL is an amazing "thing" *I call it a game, but that's just how I see it* I think LL should be applauded for the conception and initial implementation of it.They are talented designers for sure. As business people, they should be lined up against the wall and shot.

The forum not withstanding, the entire Website is afflicted with this 503 nonsense. Checking account info, buying Lindens, i would imagine just signing up is a problem. SL being a Webbased product, t would seem to me that the website is the primary portal, the face to that product. there has been almost total silence from LL on this. If they don't care about the site, how can I believe they care about the product, or those of us who pay to use it, as well as those who are , take some extra time and make sure those fixes work, and don't break other things.looking at the Blog, it seems The Support services are down more than it's up. The most apathetic public utility isn't as clueless on Customer Service if you ask me *I don't have to deal with Comcast.*

Performance has never been much of a complaint until recently for me, the past month or so has seen it degrade.
I still enjoy my SL playtime, despite spending less time inworld due to RL, and I don't plan on leaving. But I am considering cancelling my premium, selling my land and just renting a little place somewhere until I see things improve.
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Old 02-04-2008, 12:22 PM   #60 (permalink)
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The number one, chief problem of SL is the pride, arrogance and downright hubris of LL.

Their own stupidity and managerial incompetence WILL be the death of them if they don't change.

Competition IS comming folks. All its going to take is a stable platform with content creation and better customer service.

Don't think it will happen? I don't see how it cannot happen.

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Old 02-04-2008, 12:30 PM   #61 (permalink)
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there was this popular forum software called 'ubb'. much like ll, they ignored customer wants, promised and never delivered, and felt very smug as the most popular, in fact the de facto, forum software on the web. one of the things customers had been pining for was a mysql backend for ubb. the ubb guys would say 'we are looking at it' for over two years.
in the meantime a customer began writing a php/msq hack for ubb and offered it to ubb. ubb wasnt interested.
he released it as a standalone product called vBulletin. when was the last time you saw a ubb?
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The number one, chief problem of SL is the pride, arrogance and downright hubris of LL.

Their own stupidity and managerial incompetence WILL be the death of them if they don't change.

Competition IS comming folks. All its going to take is a stable platform with content creation and better customer service.

Don't think it will happen? I don't see how it cannot happen.

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Old 02-04-2008, 12:31 PM   #62 (permalink)
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The number one, chief problem of SL is the pride, arrogance and downright hubris of LL.

Their own stupidity and managerial incompetence WILL be the death of them if they don't change.

Competition IS comming folks. All its going to take is a stable platform with content creation and better customer service.

Don't think it will happen? I don't see how it cannot happen.

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Depressingly right, Sooz. But I'm not sure about the competition bit -- for all its flakiness, SL has a huge jump on anyone who wants to imitate it, just in terms of features (yes, i know, half the time the features don't work).

If something better did come along, well, yes I'd be there like a shot. Which I suppose is the answer to those who are asking why we are still here -- we are here because there is (as yet) nowhere else like it.
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Old 02-04-2008, 12:35 PM   #64 (permalink)
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Can I say something else?

"Why yes, of course, Cindy," you say.

If you insist...

When I count the friends I've made in SL who matter to me, I count my SLU friends. Don't y'all get the big head, now - my friends' list has imploded since I sold the old club last fall, but I'm not sure how much I'd even care at all if it weren't for the posters here.

Yes, Beebo, I'm looking at you, too
Funny you bring that up. Almost all the people on my friends list who I really consider friends are people I first met in the LL forum, and now a few from here. It's not a big list to beging with but the rest are more acquaintances or RP contacts. I mentioned to someone that I could easily see myself leaving Sl , but continuing on the forums for a while. They thought it was sad that I could prefer a forum over the "metaverse" and I agreed. That the Metaverse could be a place so devoid of enjoyment that one would prefer a forum to it. I'm not hard to please, I'm no Virtual World idealist, I'm just looking for a couple of hours of fun every day.
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Old 02-04-2008, 12:38 PM   #65 (permalink)
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I love SL because of what it stands for and because of its potential.

I hate SL because of its management and how that potential is so utterly wasted.

The only thing keeping me in SL is the friends I've made. Well, OK, the cheap shopping too.
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Old 02-04-2008, 12:43 PM   #66 (permalink)
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The number one, chief problem of SL is the pride, arrogance and downright hubris of LL.

Their own stupidity and managerial incompetence WILL be the death of them if they don't change.

Competition IS comming folks. All its going to take is a stable platform with content creation and better customer service.

Don't think it will happen? I don't see how it cannot happen.

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It may not even take a competitor. While any SL may be better than none for creators and such, for me it's just about the entertainment value I get for my money. If that declines far enough, I won't necessarily need another Vitual world to go to, I'll just spend more time playing Civ IV, or watching my new TV, or getting my nails done.
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The forum not withstanding, the entire Website is afflicted with this 503 nonsense. Checking account info, buying Lindens, i would imagine just signing up is a problem. SL being a Webbased product, t would seem to me that the website is the primary portal, the face to that product. there has been almost total silence from LL on this.
Oh Lord, I didn't even think of that! I mean, buying Lindens, signing up, etc.

I was only thinking about it regarding checking my transactions page.

And I never can decide - do they not fix it because they CAN'T, or because no one has much bothered to try yet?

I mean, you know how LL is. Somebody has to want to do it first; no one is allowed to give another person orders.

(Maybe if they HAD been allowed to give orders, we would never have come to this pass regarding the forums in the first place - they would have been updated and kept abreast of the technology all along.)

But if you have been in SL for long, you know perfectly well that embarrassing situations that you expect them to fix - like the USB code, or whatever that's called - actually never will, and they actually have no intention of fixing it. (They finally said as much, I believe.)

Now surely, something like this - especially if it affecting people's ability to buy Lindens! - WILL have some people working to fix it, and pronto.

On the other hand, this is LL we're talking about . . .

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And from what Ben said - which is what we all always think, "Well, until something better comes along" - well, I have had a thought about that.

It is quite possible that nothing better ever WILL come along. (And certainly possiblethat nothing will come along that allows us to make what we want and sell it.)

Or will be quite some TIME before coming along.

But - that doesn't mean SL can't fail, ANYWAY.

Not that I expect it to.

But I mean, think of this: SL could just lose members, fail, and become about as meaningful as TSO is today, or go away entirely.

Without ANY real competition coming along.

Just on its own.

So:

(1) If something similar and better came along, yes, people would leave SL by the droves.

(2) But people could still leave SL by the droves even if nothing better EVER came along.

Again, I don't think that will happen; I'm just pointing out that it is possible to simply fade away on its own, competition or not.

EDIT: I see Brenda just touched on this idea.

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