I truly tried to like Second Life, mostly because I was bored the other night and had heard so many great things about it. But that game does a piss poor job in the usuability department. I wish Rockstar Games would give a crack at a game like this.

I mean, first of all, there are absolutely no objectives in this game that I could see. It's just one big ass open chat platform, with property options. It's not even original.

So anyway, could someone explain why this game is such a big deal?

It's not. It's one big giant chatroom for huge nerds. Corporations who invested to get property inside the world are slowly beginning to pull back out, realizing that not only are they not wanted, but they aren't going to make shit for money.

No clue. I've wondered what the big deal has been for years now.

The main problem now currently is Linden Labs and Philip Rosendale being their CEO, theyve rapidly begun screwing over EVERYTHING sucessful in world, everything thatd bring in any good publicity. two years ago, You could join, and get, within their servers. 512sq. m. of land for free, you went premium, youd get additional. And then to sweeten the pot, you had multiple reasons to gain traffic, and have real reasons to focus in world right now.

Now, there is no land owner incentives, no real reason anymore to go in world, expecially with as unstable as the entire grid is. More and more of what people did for fun is rapidly going out of the window as well, and with their latest choice, a MASSIVE amount of the actual player traffic theyd otherwise have, has left.

They are censoring left and right, they are "afraid" of bad publicity by a GERMAN newspaper, a Tabloid no less. And when has anyone in this country been stupid enough to believe somthing that was in GLOBE without any doubt... Wait, better to not answer that.

I just hope their CEO grows some balls and finally takes control.. their main reported problem is not having any singular person making the final decision on in world altering choices. Their latest, would be SL Voice, regardless of it being on a seperate server, they have been working on repairing and preparing the system since 1.9... since before MAY of last year IIRC. And even now, its destabalized their software on both ends, and hardware on their end.

They have cut every corner physically possible. Their multiple asset servers visibly have problems with each other. (And dont tell me none of you heard of those for a game.) Their asset severs undoubtably being more strained due to the massive flux of data always being pushed through, not to mention, a countless amount of garbage data due to players creating transferrably, copyable, and modifiable items. which means, every single item you spawn, duplicates itself, if it returns, its another, itll record everything done.. and providing you keep origionals, and then hand all them out, everyone else gets them.. the wost offender being Textures, since people share those constantly, and before long, there are thousands of one single thing.

Im sorry to say, even with stuff finally picking up in world, even decent gaming. All meters and combat systems mind you, having to be created in world, you came in about a year and a half too late to see what it possibly could be at. Its current state is even worse than the reign of the current dictator of the USA.

I can happily chat more on this, considering im still flogging that dead horse. Heh.