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  1. Finite
    I see that for sure. I'd guess MP brings in more transactions overall but I'd certainly like to see how it compares to events head to head. That would be interesting I think. I've just grown to have a few issues with MP and find the experience of inworld shopping overall better.
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    Ones an 11Billion dollar company the other is private company. Did they say how much it sold for? Likely a over a billion I'd guess. Trump is barely a billionaire and he can afford lawyers all day. I don't think it's as david vs goliath as you make it out in terms of who can afford better lawyers. They both can afford equally as good lawyers.
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    So you were saying that's part of the reason it's popular. Got it. 👍
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    It's easy to come to that conclusion when you only hear from people who are having problems. Since the people who aren't having any issues have no reason to comment.
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    Lol. no I probably wouldn't. But she quoted me a sentence in which I said the word popular. Which would mean, in a sense, a majority. While I can accept that there are people with lesser computers and/or slower internet speeds. I can't accept that they are in a majority. The question was: Is the marketplace popular? Answer: Yes because a lot of people have slow computers. Sorry I disagree that that is the reason MP is popular.
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    That's a pretty big assumption yourself. You don't need technical knowledge to lower a bar (that was simplified for the purpose of the average person being able to figure it out). Computers have been apart of everyday life now for so long and are to the point that even old people can figure their way around them. So I wouldn't assume people do not have basic technical knowledge.
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    I think some look at the entire picture when deciding where to shop. I myself am probably one of the biggest snobs when it comes to this. A lot of outside things tell me in advance how a product might be on the inside. IE how do they display their products? How much effort did they put into their displays and signage? How skillfully were they made? And also, how do they promote themselves? This is before I've even bothered to look at what they are selling.
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    I would agree except you can lower your settings to pre-2010 graphics and get the same image quality from pictures in game as the ones you see on the MP (72ppi). I don't think the reason people use MP has much to do with their computers (with bitcoin increasing the value and technology of video cards, even basic computers are far more advanced for gaming than they ever were before. Before video cards had a hard time keeping up with games, now games have a hard time of keeping up with what video cards can produce). I think it's more of a convenience thing and general lack of knowing where to look than anything else.
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    I think that's just the natural flow of things. A lot of things changed in SL that would cause that unrelated to the MP. Like failing to make the conversion from prim to mesh for instance. The oldest store I can think of that's still around is Bare Rose.
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    Hehe I have a picture somewhere of my previous main avy hugging SLexchange Bigwig.
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    Yes I understand. I just get annoyed with certain aspects. Like how the ad banner is full stuff I purchased 4 or 5 years ago. Though I do get a laugh when I read a review on said products of someone upset that their 2015 product doesn't fit their 2021 body. I also feel that MP tunnels you into only seeing things you are looking specifically for and really not much else. I quit the game (took a break really) back in 2017. I came back about this time last year. I was playing on this sim where we could shoot eachother, but they had guns that reminded me of old ones from like 2010. They didn't shoot bullets or anything. Just these really long yellow sticks. A friend of mine recommended a store so we went to visit it. I bought a gun then looked outside of the store. The sim it was in was literally the most realistic sim I've ever seen in SL. I explored the sim and found one of the builders AFK wearing this pretty hot outfit. I inspected her and found that the store the outfit was from was on another part of the same sim region. I go to that store and find out the outfit is at an event. I got to the event, get the outfit and browse and find 2 more vendors that I like. This got me interested in events so I started going to more events which ultimately created this olive branch of things and places that I like. If I had initially went to the MP to buy the gun, I would have missed out on all of that.
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    I think that makes perfect sense for what you sell. I think if i were looking for a skybox or a home I'd look at marketplace. But for like 80% of other things in SL I would look there only after running through the mental wikipedia of stores I have gathered throughout the years.
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    Is marketplace really that popular? I feel the longer I have played the game the less I find myself shopping at marketplace. I feel there's a dependency on MP for new players that older players gradually gravitate away from.
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    LOL! i was in this cyberpunk sim where one threatened me with a knife if I kept trying to talk to it xD.
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    Some do. Check out Black Ness. Has a fatpack of the entire set for around 2500L I believe. I generally spend far less than that just playing the game to complete a set. Also, you do not NEED anything in an SL gacha (or SL in general) to progress in any way, shape or form. You may WANT it but there's a big difference (literally and legally) between needing and wanting something. And people who play gacha to complete a set spend far less than people do on fatpacks (really 3k? for a 3piece with only a color changer and low resolution textures w/o materials? and I have a problem?)
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    So just doing a little research I found that the type of gacha that's being considered for regulation isn't even the same type of gacha in secondlife. The focal point is toward the gacha's that are required to progress in a game (AKA Pay to win). Usually played by children. Secondlife nor SL gacha's are either of those. Secondlife Gacha align closer to box gacha than the type that's being considered for regulation. Literally took me 5 minutes to find this stuff. Where are you guys getting your information? lol
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    That would be true if gacha was somehow tied to gambling or skilled gaming. That's a very hard knot to tie together. If gacha is gambling then gum ball machines and carnival games would have to be considered gambling too.
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    Any laws like that would get stiff resistance in the US where SL is located since it would cast a very wide net. Even on previously said gum ball machines lol. Even carnival games would fall under such a wide umbrella. So I doubt much if anything will come of it in relation to Gacha's in Secondlife. Gacha and Pay-to-Win aren't even in the same ballpark. They're not even in the same universe.
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    Any state, country or regulation would have a very difficult time of relating gacha to loot boxes as they are defined. Gacha relates more to a gum ball machine than to a loot box. You put a quarter into the machine, you may not get the color you wanted, but you still got a gum ball.
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    I think the whole idea of generating traffic to promote your business in SL is highly flawed. Unless the business is a club or something like that or maybe a new themed RP sim. And even still, the majority of the traffic you're attracting is very narrow and might not even be the target audience you are looking for. Honestly, I find events and promoting said events as the best way to get your brand out. I know a lot of people on the forums hate and like to diminish these events but they're laggy and full for days for a reason. It's because most people who buy things in this game like them. Assuming you are trying to sell something, I'd guess you'd want to target an audience of people who actually buy things and are looking to buy things. Last year alone I saw a handful of relatively unknown, yet talented, creators gain clout through promotion and just by generally being associated with some of the best creators in the game. I think if you were to invest in promoting your product or business, associating yourself with one or more of these groups who do it professionally would be much more beneficial than say putting a game on your land would.
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    Odd I pay half the price you do whenever I complete a set of a fatpack and end up having leftover to sell if anyone else was trying to complete a set. What a bad habit to have....
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    A lot of the gacha vendors are very good creators in the game. Some of the best actually. And generally charge nearly half as much for things than other people charge with half their talent. I would hardly consider them dirty. It's a fun thing they provide to a specific group of people (myself included) who like this sort of thing.
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    LoL. Sorry this wasn't a passive reference to you. Possibly someone else? Or nobody particular. I just liked you're reference to word of mouth.
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    I am a huge proponent of word of mouth in Secondlife. It's imo the best form of advertisement since you're not going to be browsing Google or watching Youtube (or whatever your preferred medium is) and see an ad of a product from Secondlife. So ya, be cordial. Even if you're just pretending xD. Word of mouth also has a flip side. For instance: Someone: "Hey I heard of this business". Me: "ya but the owner acts entitled and like an asshat on the forums."
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