Two new limited edition last names

[Ceka Cianci]

For the life of me, I thought this was for sure an April fools joke.. hehehe

I had been on the lookout for them the whole night at work and any after..

This just had all the makings ..

Any other day and I wouldn't have thought twice about it being real names, but that day. I was on the lookout.. hehehe

[RangiUtu]

1 hour ago, Alwin Alcott said:

that's not what the facts say... there are quite some people with new names

Are you a linden alt? 

[Solar Legion]

People have indeed bought a Name Change - to see this you just have to, you know, pay attention.

[animats]

It irks me that Linden Lab is generating fake rare items to raise revenue. Historically, Linden Lab hasn't done that. Users could make no-copy items, but, other than Linden Bears and some items from new user quests, LL rarely did.

It's kind of sleazy. It's the sort of thing the "non-fungible token" scammers do.

[Ardy Lay]

This is how you catch Second Life account scalpers.

[Lucia Nightfire]

15 hours ago, animats said:

It's kind of sleazy. It's the sort of thing the "non-fungible token" scammers do.

Wait until parcels in-world can be bought with Lindencoin™.

[Marianne Little]

This is a must have for those who changed to UwU??

This weekend sale.

[bigmoe Whitfield]

On 4/6/2021 at 11:38 AM, Ardy Lay said:

This is how you catch Second Life account scalpers.

Found out the name I wanted for many years,  guy wants to now sell it to me,  I figured I had registered it, but nope and he's wanting 500 bucks real money for it.   he's now getting ignored.

[AdminGirl]

Aren't all last names technically limited edition? What a marketing stunt..

[Ardy Lay]

4 hours ago, AdminGirl said:

Aren't all last names technically limited edition? What a marketing stunt..

Once upon a time, Second Life systems used the Resident's "last name" in a load balancing scheme.  The load balancing had to be reworked when a last name became wildly popular.  Since this change would take some time, the popular names were closed for enrollment and different names were rotated in.  This put some granularity into the load balancing scheme again.

I don't know that there is currently a technical reason for having time or quantity limits to enrolment into a last name, so, yes, it seems to be marketing driven now.

[RangiUtu]

The point of all this is that it's a crude attempt and correcting a stoopid mistake by the LIndens getting rid of legacy names to begin with!!!!! It dehumanised - so to speak - SL. Just plain dumb. And now they're trying to make money on their mistake. More poor decisions - that's the history of Linden Lab. 

Edited April 13, 2021 by RangiUtu