Linden Labs is so interested in tweeking the odd stuff, like making the tree leaves show up, that it has completely forgotten the ordinary user. Most people I contacted to survey opinions about SL report that their highest complaint is very slow rez. Enter a region and wait 30 min or more for the av in there to be fully in view is way too slow for the ordinary user.
Linden Labs, you are in deep trouble and you show little awareness of the fact that new residents bail out fast and never come back because (1) it is very difficult to get aclimated, move av around, and manage inventory (2) new folks entering are treated like sh*t by long time Residents, and (3) computer lingo and controls have way surpassed LL by so many other sites so that a savy person entering is turned off by arcane and non-standard commands and controls.
I amassed over 150 "friends" in two months. Only about 20 have ever returned. And it is not just me, ha ha! Second Life, with so much promise now, and so much promise missed from 2000 to 2011, is grossly missing the boat on the Internet. Unless LL has some secret way of making money, I predict SL closing in 2 to 3 years.
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Linden Labs is so interested in tweeking the odd stuff, like making the tree leaves show up, that it has completely forgotten the ordinary user. Most people I contacted to survey opinions about SL report that their highest complaint is very slow rez. Enter a region and wait 30 min or more for the av in there to be fully in view is way too slow for the ordinary user.
Linden Labs, you are in deep trouble and you show little awareness of the fact that new residents bail out fast and never come back because (1) it is very difficult to get aclimated, move av around, and manage inventory (2) new folks entering are treated like sh*t by long time Residents, and (3) computer lingo and controls have way surpassed LL by so many other sites so that a savy person entering is turned off by arcane and non-standard commands and controls.
I amassed over 150 "friends" in two months. Only about 20 have ever returned. And it is not just me, ha ha! Second Life, with so much promise now, and so much promise missed from 2000 to 2011, is grossly missing the boat on the Internet. Unless LL has some secret way of making money, I predict SL closing in 2 to 3 years.