"Remember Second Life? It’s Now Taking On Big Tech’s Metaverse | WSJ"

[Coffee Pancake]

3 hours ago, animats said:

Sansar is still turned on. Here are its user stats:

Yes, what's left of Sansar has 11 concurrent users. Will the last one to leave please turn off the server?

Here's Decentraland.

Decentraland has 1860 users right now.

The servers all show the same world, but with different users. It's sharded. They seem to turn on more servers when the load is higher, although not sure about this. Yes, despite all the press coverage and all the NFT hype, Decentraland has a tiny user base.

Here's VRchat:

VRchat has 24,857 users online right now. They've been showing growth for a while. They're getting to be serious competition.

Second Life has 55,612 users online right now. About typical for a Saturday.

Roblox has 1,407,058 users online right now. They were smaller than Second Life before the Sansar mistake. Market cap of US$37 billion right now, but not profitable.

Nobody seems to have public user counts on Facebook/Meta's Horizon World.

If Second Life were on Steamcharts, it would be in 17th place right now, behind "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege". That's pretty good.

All of these are figures as of a few minutes before this post, mostly from third party sites.

So that's a quick overview of the competition.

Second Life should be on Steam

LL should finally admit that this is an entertainment product, anyone doing anything serious here is an aberration, like business meetings in minecraft.

[animats]

48 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:

Second Life should be on Steam

In-Game Purchase Requirements

For any in-game purchases, you'll need to use the microtransaction API so Steam customers can only make purchases from the Steam Wallet.

[Lindal Kidd]

21 hours ago, Arielle Popstar said:

I think they should not have upped the allowable Li per region but I'll bet a lot of region owners were pretty happy with that.

No, it was the renters who were happy. Rent is really based on $L per prim per week, and when LL increased the land impact capacity, it made prims a lot less valuable. Landlords had to either up their prim allowances or cut rent per square meter.