Imgormiel
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BBC News - What happened to Second Life?
It's kinda funny reading this as I /ignored it from the off xD
It's kinda funny reading this as I /ignored it from the off xD
Poor ole second life...
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Imgormiel
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Me and a friend tried second life once, we were roleplaying in the start area as a pimp/wife beater and a slut... needless to say it didnt go down very well with the locals
wha? they didn't like you before or after the cans of wifebeater? ;p
old.Tohtori
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And how many second life "lollers" here visit facebook? HmmMMM?
BloodOmen
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Yea
there was a documentary about second life awhile back some people were making 100k+ off it (sadly i'm not kidding) casino and what not in it.
Marc
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Yea
The thing is, shes only online for an hour a night, if that! Not a bad income!
Dukat
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I've had a bit to do with Second Life - I got into it when alot of the hype was about and roamed quite alot of the more popular places.
The hook for me was the programming side of things - you can go into a sandbox and make just about anything you can imagine. I did a bit with texturing too and finished up with a few items worth selling, and in the end made a small "business" selling weapons and camo uniforms.
I've never made any 'real' money though, mainly because the competition is really high when it comes to selling things like weapons, but I made enough to buy a moderate sized island at one point.
The problem with alot of the examples in the BBC report is that they were akin to corner shops opening in a quiet street of a town - no one goes there unless there's something worth going there for. Putting up a shop and expecting people to come doesn't work in SL, you have to advertise and, more importantly, get enough of your product out there that people see it and ask where it came from. That gets your hits up and once you've got enough hits, people see it on the search and go there out of interest. Its not a million miles away from E-commerce in that respect
Thinking about it, I haven't been on there in a good few months Wonder if I've made anything while I've been away!
I think the main stumbling block for alot of people is that its just one of those things you have to put money into to really get anywhere with. All of the freebie stuff is just that - freebie stuff, you get what you pay for. Spending ~£0.5 to get a decent samurai sword and getting involved in that side of SL opens up so many more options its untrue, and its only a tiny part of the SL "universe".
Anyways, I have to say Second life for me has really had its moments - some of the "games" within SL rival the gameplay (if not always the graphics) of just about any online FPS or RPG
The hook for me was the programming side of things - you can go into a sandbox and make just about anything you can imagine. I did a bit with texturing too and finished up with a few items worth selling, and in the end made a small "business" selling weapons and camo uniforms.
I've never made any 'real' money though, mainly because the competition is really high when it comes to selling things like weapons, but I made enough to buy a moderate sized island at one point.
The problem with alot of the examples in the BBC report is that they were akin to corner shops opening in a quiet street of a town - no one goes there unless there's something worth going there for. Putting up a shop and expecting people to come doesn't work in SL, you have to advertise and, more importantly, get enough of your product out there that people see it and ask where it came from. That gets your hits up and once you've got enough hits, people see it on the search and go there out of interest. Its not a million miles away from E-commerce in that respect
Thinking about it, I haven't been on there in a good few months
Wonder if I've made anything while I've been away!I think the main stumbling block for alot of people is that its just one of those things you have to put money into to really get anywhere with. All of the freebie stuff is just that - freebie stuff, you get what you pay for. Spending ~£0.5 to get a decent samurai sword and getting involved in that side of SL opens up so many more options its untrue, and its only a tiny part of the SL "universe".
Anyways, I have to say Second life for me has really had its moments - some of the "games" within SL rival the gameplay (if not always the graphics) of just about any online FPS or RPG
All Hail The Bacon Lion!!!
*ahem*
On topic; I never played it and was never actually at all interested in it, which is weird because one of the main appeals to me for daoc was the social element. One this that really made me laugh was when people would say 'Oh its amazing you can fly!!!' I'm sat there thinking um actually no you can't...you can watch a computer graphical representation of yourself (if you were 3 stone lighter, a foot taller and 10 years younger) fly but it's not like you actually experience the wind in your face and the element of danger that comes with blinking and then finding yourself inserting your head up a slow moving seagull.
If it was virtual reality and you could actually experience the flying, minus the seagull insertion, then hell i'd sell my legs to play it.
*ahem*
On topic; I never played it and was never actually at all interested in it, which is weird because one of the main appeals to me for daoc was the social element. One this that really made me laugh was when people would say 'Oh its amazing you can fly!!!' I'm sat there thinking um actually no you can't...you can watch a computer graphical representation of yourself (if you were 3 stone lighter, a foot taller and 10 years younger) fly but it's not like you actually experience the wind in your face and the element of danger that comes with blinking and then finding yourself inserting your head up a slow moving seagull.
If it was virtual reality and you could actually experience the flying, minus the seagull insertion, then hell i'd sell my legs to play it.
Embattle
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Or perhaps they are focusing on their real lives.
