I have to admit that I'm not an "everyday" blog reader and it's the first time I read almost all and I found so many interesting and very enlighten posts in a single thread, because some if not all of these issues are bothering me too, for a long time.
First of all allow me to introduce myself in brief and excuse my poor english because I'm from EU and not a native american.
I'm inWorld for about 4 years now, I have my stores in mainland, in this location are for 3 years now (from April 2008), and I'm a payment info resident for almost the same time (3 years). I never considered the Xstreet or MarketPlace or any other site, outside SL, as a proper way to ad or sale anything. I respect my work that I'm doing inWorld and making a site or going to another one, or do any activity outside SL it's false and in a wrong direction, period.
I prefer to advertise my business inWorld with the tools and all those difficulties there are, but that's a way of life and an adoption of a culture, THE SL CULTURE. Something is in lack from LL recently tho.
By the way, I have the ability and I made sites for other activities and for many clients, for several years in the past and I do advertise SL as a destination to my friends, associates and people I met.
I think the new staff that LL hired recently, have a very wrong idea or a different if you prefer, for what's SL is all about and as a result they have wrong/different directions (I'm convinced about that now), mainly they never lived and socialized inWorld as we do in everyday basis (like some oldies Lindens did), so that disrespect to all of us ("inWorld content creators") and to our work it's not surprising me.
They have to understand, their job must be something like consulting and helping, THEY MUST support the inWorld businesses with proper tools, THEY MUST make the inWorld search better and better every day, THEY MUST consider us (the residents) as somehow of partners and friends NOT IDIOTS, ENEMIES or SIMPLE CONSUMERS - CUSTOMERS and they must STOP doing inWorld "Le gendarme".
A Web-based site for a main Market place it's WRONG, it's a shovel in their own hands first of all and the only thing they need to do is to dig with it and buried SL.
A wonderful idea as a first step, (posted above) is a percentage and direct connected, ratio with land ownership and Marketplace ads.
I'm not against the associated webpage’s with and in SL, like SL Events website for example, or like linked video walls that we use to get through videos from YouTube or url content for presentations e.t.c. But that's a different use and it doesn't driven residents outside of SL, but works as an addition to inWorld experience, that's something different, acceptable and nice.
Second Life as the brand name says it's a alternate way of view things online, different lifestyle, it’s a web 3D platform and NOT another application to visit static WWW pages. If they want to go that way, and drop innovation path, they have to tell this openly to us, so we should "get off the bus"
1. The main conclusion from my point of view, on those published figures about SL, is that they are flat or disappointing. If you have a crowded group inWorld, besides sales, you've must already noticed reducing numbers through there, that's a fact also. That's something honestly hurts us as active and working members of this wonderful community and an attempt to make those beautified it's at least a disgrace.
2. SL it's a game? I agree with someone already wrote above, if someone things that RL it's a game then SL it's a game, my opinion it's that, SL has nothing to do with anything close to a game because there isn't any competition, goal or score to measure. You can educate, create, innovate, visit places, meet friends and family that they are far away, find support for any health problem you have (as such a person I have been in many precious, very helpful psychology support sessions for long time and I know from first hand), go shopping with friends like RL, socialize and have fun whatever you feel like. Can you do those things altogether in other way on the web? hell NO!!!
3. Pay-to-Play? My opinion that isn't an option for a 3d platform like SL. I'm also an EVE online player for over 2 years with several accounts (a monthly payment platform), but that's something totally different from my beloving SL. In-World I was not paid resident for over a year but I did rented space to build things, to start my first store and to have a private space for me and my friends. So as a self example (and I agree with someone already mentioned), there are ppl that they don’t like to pay direct in LL a monthly tier, but they have the ability to make extraordinary things and significant inWorld content as I did in the past without paying anything in LL. But if LL start demands a monthly payment I don't have any dought about what they could do, how simple is that. If you like SL just a little (I didn't say loving it like I do), please consider very serious the "only payment info residents" issue.
4. The V.2 Viewer? aw!!! This isn't an application made for users to live and create things in a 3D world that's why we don't like V.2. and I prefer and suggest to friends and groupies the SL1.23/Phoenix/Hippo/Imprudence but definitely not the SL V.2 viewer.
I hope LL to read all those comments and ideas above and make a serious consideration of what have to be the path in the future for our wonderful World.
The competition is out there, it's attractive and growing fast.
Different? simple or complicate? less or more sophisticate? that’s doesn’t matter.
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I have to admit that I'm not an "everyday" blog reader and it's the first time I read almost all and I found so many interesting and very enlighten posts in a single thread, because some if not all of these issues are bothering me too, for a long time.
First of all allow me to introduce myself in brief and excuse my poor english because I'm from EU and not a native american.
I'm inWorld for about 4 years now, I have my stores in mainland, in this location are for 3 years now (from April 2008), and I'm a payment info resident for almost the same time (3 years). I never considered the Xstreet or MarketPlace or any other site, outside SL, as a proper way to ad or sale anything. I respect my work that I'm doing inWorld and making a site or going to another one, or do any activity outside SL it's false and in a wrong direction, period.
I prefer to advertise my business inWorld with the tools and all those difficulties there are, but that's a way of life and an adoption of a culture, THE SL CULTURE. Something is in lack from LL recently tho.
By the way, I have the ability and I made sites for other activities and for many clients, for several years in the past and I do advertise SL as a destination to my friends, associates and people I met.
I think the new staff that LL hired recently, have a very wrong idea or a different if you prefer, for what's SL is all about and as a result they have wrong/different directions (I'm convinced about that now), mainly they never lived and socialized inWorld as we do in everyday basis (like some oldies Lindens did), so that disrespect to all of us ("inWorld content creators") and to our work it's not surprising me.
They have to understand, their job must be something like consulting and helping, THEY MUST support the inWorld businesses with proper tools, THEY MUST make the inWorld search better and better every day, THEY MUST consider us (the residents) as somehow of partners and friends NOT IDIOTS, ENEMIES or SIMPLE CONSUMERS - CUSTOMERS and they must STOP doing inWorld "Le gendarme".
A Web-based site for a main Market place it's WRONG, it's a shovel in their own hands first of all and the only thing they need to do is to dig with it and buried SL.
A wonderful idea as a first step, (posted above) is a percentage and direct connected, ratio with land ownership and Marketplace ads.
I'm not against the associated webpage’s with and in SL, like SL Events website for example, or like linked video walls that we use to get through videos from YouTube or url content for presentations e.t.c. But that's a different use and it doesn't driven residents outside of SL, but works as an addition to inWorld experience, that's something different, acceptable and nice.
Second Life as the brand name says it's a alternate way of view things online, different lifestyle, it’s a web 3D platform and NOT another application to visit static WWW pages. If they want to go that way, and drop innovation path, they have to tell this openly to us, so we should "get off the bus"
1. The main conclusion from my point of view, on those published figures about SL, is that they are flat or disappointing. If you have a crowded group inWorld, besides sales, you've must already noticed reducing numbers through there, that's a fact also. That's something honestly hurts us as active and working members of this wonderful community and an attempt to make those beautified it's at least a disgrace.
2. SL it's a game? I agree with someone already wrote above, if someone things that RL it's a game then SL it's a game, my opinion it's that, SL has nothing to do with anything close to a game because there isn't any competition, goal or score to measure. You can educate, create, innovate, visit places, meet friends and family that they are far away, find support for any health problem you have (as such a person I have been in many precious, very helpful psychology support sessions for long time and I know from first hand), go shopping with friends like RL, socialize and have fun whatever you feel like. Can you do those things altogether in other way on the web? hell NO!!!
3. Pay-to-Play? My opinion that isn't an option for a 3d platform like SL. I'm also an EVE online player for over 2 years with several accounts (a monthly payment platform), but that's something totally different from my beloving SL. In-World I was not paid resident for over a year but I did rented space to build things, to start my first store and to have a private space for me and my friends. So as a self example (and I agree with someone already mentioned), there are ppl that they don’t like to pay direct in LL a monthly tier, but they have the ability to make extraordinary things and significant inWorld content as I did in the past without paying anything in LL. But if LL start demands a monthly payment I don't have any dought about what they could do, how simple is that. If you like SL just a little (I didn't say loving it like I do), please consider very serious the "only payment info residents" issue.
4. The V.2 Viewer? aw!!! This isn't an application made for users to live and create things in a 3D world that's why we don't like V.2. and I prefer and suggest to friends and groupies the SL1.23/Phoenix/Hippo/Imprudence but definitely not the SL V.2 viewer.
I hope LL to read all those comments and ideas above and make a serious consideration of what have to be the path in the future for our wonderful World.
The competition is out there, it's attractive and growing fast.
Different? simple or complicate? less or more sophisticate? that’s doesn’t matter.