Does anyone else hate Second Life?

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Wendy posted on Dec 6th 2006 1:45PM

I love simulation games. I love online communities... But when I tried Second Life during the summer of 2006, I didn't get that.

I just found a game with no direction and it was difficult to understand, too. A game like The Sims 2 is complex but it starts you off with some tutorials and premade characters and situations.

It would also seem that, in order to really have fun in Second Life, you need to spend money. I can have fun for free on Gaia Online and Neopets! Come on now! Sure you can do stuff for free on Second Life, but when it comes down to it, money matters.

And don't you feel irritated instead on inspired when you read about people making a million dollars on Second Life? What about the people
who teach actual college courses through Second Life? Or how about the people that take it sooooo seriously that they make Second Life their First Life? They cut out real social activities so that they can go to their DJ job and work from 8pm until 5am? And now it is becoming a big advertising thing with car companies making their Second Life cars for sale on there. Yes... Some big car companies have put their cars in the game.

It's not completely bad, but it seems like things are getting a little out of hand. That's my big beef about it and beef is fuckin' delicious!

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	Seren Tiratzo says: I create stuff in SL, ppl (at first friends) bought them not for much. But the Linden I made out of that got me to create new products. Joining contests (little and big ones) helped me get more linden to create more. That's a way to earn linden and I never spent a single real cent. And nowadays I have rarely time to login, still when I come back my balance has gone 200 up. Think of me and SL what you will, I couldn't care less. I stay out of the big bussiness and mainstream communities and I'm pretty happy with the friends I made and the places I found. There's your judgment. Seren Tiratzo Posted: 01/18/10 00:20
	doey says: Second Life isn't really a game. It's a lot more like real estate, in the form of disk space and processor resources. People can buy them and use them for whatever purpose they want. Some researchers have used SL to test their AI code. Some have used it to advertise their products and services. Some have used it to analyze the habits of users and attempted to gleam useful information about people. Some use it to show off their models. SL is whatever you want it to be. It's not a top-down product at all. It starts with its users first. Posted: 07/18/11 16:25

Seren Tiratzo says:

I create stuff in SL, ppl (at first friends) bought them not for much. But the Linden I made out of that got me to create new products. Joining contests (little and big ones) helped me get more linden to create more. That's a way to earn linden and I never spent a single real cent.
And nowadays I have rarely time to login, still when I come back my balance has gone 200 up.

Think of me and SL what you will, I couldn't care less.
I stay out of the big bussiness and mainstream communities and I'm pretty happy with the friends I made and the places I found.

There's your judgment.
Seren Tiratzo
Posted: 01/18/10 00:20

doey says:

Second Life isn't really a game. It's a lot more like real estate, in the form of disk space and processor resources. People can buy them and use them for whatever purpose they want. Some researchers have used SL to test their AI code. Some have used it to advertise their products and services. Some have used it to analyze the habits of users and attempted to gleam useful information about people. Some use it to show off their models. SL is whatever you want it to be. It's not a top-down product at all. It starts with its users first.
Posted: 07/18/11 16:25