The Incredible Shrinking Land
Second Life Map, originally uploaded by Nexeus Fatale.
Today was taking a look at the Economic Statistics in the Second Life Web and saw the negative tendency in Resident Owned Islands (or Private Islands) keep going.
| Islands Added | ||
| Month | Islands Owned (End of Month) |
Islands Added (During Month) |
| December 2008 – MTD | 23104 | -1458 |
| November 2008 | 24562 | -1977 |
This means around 12% of the private islands disappeared in the last 50 days.
But the fun think is the note Linden Lab linked to that statistics:
Please be aware that the Islands Added figures are not currently an accurate reflection of short term change and are therefore misleading. This is because of the way in which they are calculated and will tend to cause the figures to look significantly worse than they actually are (either by overcounting in some cases or under counting in others). In addition, the many Openspace conversions will significantly drop the total island count exaggerating the change in numbers. We are looking at changing this page to provide more accurate data soon.
I’m terrible at “diplomatic” language, but it seems to mean something like “Oh, don’t worry, actually is not that bad as it seems!!! Is just a small adjustment, we are strong and stuff, blah, blah, blah… Anyway we will adjust the system so it will look like things are not so bad. Kthxbai”, right?
Anyway, I still think Linden Lab made a terribly wrong marketing decision with the question about Openspaces and their change on products and prices, and we are all paying the consequences. I wonder what Linden Lab is doing with all that empty servers right now, don’t think they are improving performance.
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Interesting statistic, Raul. Seems economic earthquakes CAN affect the geography of SL, even caused by LL. I noticed Chung’s dreamland has shrunk substantially, leaving sims isolated, as has the “New Gay Continent” where Mission Beach is located. I used to think it would be nice to have open sims be nothing but water between land masses, perhaps LL should turn them all on and give us an ocean.
Yeah… I saw comments about this on SLU. It makes it sound like they don’t like the negative numbers, so they are going to fudge them with imaginary numbers to make things look better, by “adjusting counting methods”. Kind of like the government continually does with unemployment.
What i’d really like is to hear Linden Lab® say:
“Was a mistake to offer a product like Openspaces in the way we did it.” instead of “YOU, the residents are BAD and overusing the servers we are renting you!”
All this problems are caused by Linden Lab, first, with a wrong product, then with a terrible PR work.
Just checked the SL Economic Statistics page to see now, instead of the numbers you can find up it says:
Nice…