[Viewer 2.3 Launches with Display Names]

"After 5 years I'm glad to finally be able to change my avatar's name without creating an alt and giving up on thousands of dollars worth of purchased content.."

But you still can't. That is the feature people WANTED. What you GOT was DisplayNames which is not the same thing at all. Display Names != Avatar Name.

 

You're right.

I would have preferred the option to pay for a one-time name change. Something like games like World of Warcraft & Guild wars have been offering for years. The display name feature is just making things more convoluted than is necessary.

I understand peoples' attachment to their names and how a person's SL name is tied to their reputation/whatever, but I when I first joined Second Life I didn't expect that I would stick around as long as I have, and I'm fairly sure the name choices were more limited than they are today. I would have liked the option to create my own surname instead of choose from a list. And as for my avatar's first name.. Crissy is(WAS) just my RL nickname - and Oh, it might have been cute when I was a teenager (I joined SL when I was 18), but now I'd prefer something slightly more mature sounding.

Creating an alt is OUT OF THE QUESTION because I have likely thousands of dollars on items for this one. However, I would pay good money for a name change.

[Viewer 2.3 Launches with Display Names]

After 5 years I'm glad to finally be able to change my avatar's name without creating an alt and giving up on thousands of dollars worth of purchased content..

[Back to Basics Technology Improvements]

There's nothing LL can do to make SL run on an ATI Radeon 9100. That's an old IGP. If you want to use graphic intensive applications like Second Life or 3D gaming you're going to need a more recent laptop with a dedicated GPU.

[Back to Basics Technology Improvements]

I've been waiting for some of these improvements for 5 years. I'm skeptical about the technical improvements for lag/rezzing but atleast you're putting in an effort..

[Viewer 2.2 Available Today!]

I went back to 2.1

Sort the bugs out before you release the full client.

[Viewer 2.2 Available Today!]

What happened to anti-aliasing? SL looks like crap now.