Comments on: Customers or citizens of a benevolent dictatorship?

By: Spacexcape Bridges

Spacexcape Bridges — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:19:07 +0000

The Daily Telegraph reported last week that Second Life has now lost over 64% of its British users. They may not be quite dead but they are seriously diseased!

By: Sura Abismo

Sura Abismo — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:48:39 +0000

mmm my coment will be very short..
from a noob like me in all this things..
from a simple viewer..specialy coz i dont even have a land..
SL is made BY costumers/citizens…and with a managment like this one…they are playing with the ones that really make of LL a big bussiness..
its a shame coz seems the beggening of an uncontroled SL

By: Raul Crimson

Raul Crimson — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:10:55 +0000

@ Spacexcape: Well, thanks a lot for sharing your point of view, but wishing death to then seems to me quite a extreme position.

@ iliveisl: Thanks a lot, i really appreciate the exchange of opinions. I’m not being so lucky as you, my performance is really bad in the last couple of months, and is not a question of my ISP, is just textures need a century to appear correctly and some bugs in the client are difficulting one of my main occupations is Second Life (photography). Anyway my expression of anger is not only related with the peak of “bad performance” of lately, is specially related with what i consider a “a bad work” in LL specially since M came, and i’m not the only one, big companies in SL like Rezzable are in the same state of mind.

By: lots of action at linden labs « iliveisl

lots of action at linden labs « iliveisl — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:40:52 +0000

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By: iliveisl

iliveisl — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:39:53 +0000

while i agree with a lot of your view, i do differ on some. to me (and this is just my opinion) it seems that SL is running better. i never crash, i never lose stuff, i rarely get laggy. to be fair i have a nice pc but also realize that sl is a sharable 3D application. so it’s always going to be balancing how pretty the graphics can be with the reality that a lot of peeps have older machines

as to island contraction and less land to explore – some of the decline is cuz of spaz land owners just dumping their sims (as a multi sim owner, i am part of the group and was shocked at how quickly lots of peeps just said “screw it, I’m outta here”) so lots of OS sims were abandoned. but lots are getting converted, with 4 OS becoming one full sim, it is a reduction from 4 to 1, but the converted one has the resources of four os.

don’t get me wrong, i was miffed with the HUGE price increase and was one of the 30,000 new accounts created on openlifegrid that same week

LL is a private company and they can do what they want. i am thankful for the very easy opportunity to start a business (i mean grow up, i don’t even have to set up any invoicing or bookkeeping, it is really easy and low risk to get started isl)

just my two cents and just my opinion, i certainly may be wrong, but love the opportunities we have to speak our opinions. thanks for the post, i do agree with a lot of what you said and value your perspective

By: Spacexcape Bridges

Spacexcape Bridges — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:18:04 +0000

M Linden has made it perfectly clear through his words and his actions that he is aiming at a commercial market. While Linden nurture their sex industry and hide behind the false impression of supporting education, they are driving good, honest people out of Second Life in a fury at losing their small investments and their time and effort invested in their own community. Its despicable the way that this corporate American truffle hunter sweeps out the good and honest folks along the way.
I hope they die soon.

By: Orion Shamroy

Orion Shamroy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:49:22 +0000

“Do you go boycotting Microsoft for all the horrible things they did to the MS Office UI? Do you bug Firefox about xyz changes they made to their client?”

Troy, I’m sorry but I beg to differ. I am boycotting MS Office because the new UI for 2007 is horrible – thank you OpenOffice. And if I have a problem with a change to Firefox, well – its open source. I can either go in to the code and change it back, or shoot an email to the developer’s list stating my opinions.

By: eiram meads

eiram meads — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:33:06 +0000

Troy,

If you have your own island, and stick to yourself, and not really care about what enyone else is doing…save your money on your own island. You are the perfect candidate for OpenSim. And if your abilities go beyond the general Sl stuff, then become a part of the OpenSim team. it is where the future will be.

TiVo – well I heard that are adding the ability to orde pizaa through the unit. If Howard implements this, I would say he has been successful.

By: Raul Crimson

Raul Crimson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:15:35 +0000

Thanks everybody for sharing your thoughts, but i’d like to comment something in answer to Troy Vogel:
Troy, first of all i have the right to protest about a service i’m paying for and i consider is not right, don’t need permission in the TOS to do it.
In this blogpost i was not considering SL as mine, even as ours, just was expressing what i consider business mistakes of Linden Lab and what i consider failures on their customer service. Is sad they don’t listen their customers and i think is something they should fix, it’s only that. Thanks also for sharing your thoughts about this issue.

By: What the?

What the? — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:17:49 +0000

He recently left Pixar? (you must ask yourself why anyone would leave Pixar to go to Linden Research)
He was part of the Tivo team? (if that UI is indicative of what this guy has in mind – pffft!)
A SGI guy from way way back.
SGI = Failure!

M Linden and his “cheers” is just more of the same BS we’ve come to expect from these clowns. M – want some advice? Fix your organisation, sort out your Goverance Team and whilst your at it – pull your head out of your ass with regard to this commercialism speak you put out on the 2nd Life blog!