Comments on: Op/Ed: Enough with the Clubs!

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:22:33 +0000

The new economic changes should speed along the end of the club epidemic. What I hadn’t realized until just this week that was that because of the structure of event support in SL, the clubs were being supported by a form of Linden welfare. In effect, the Lindens were subsidizing creativity sink holes and in effect killing their own game/world. Hopefully the new economic changes will reverse the situation. Hopefully, I say.

By: Maria LaVeaux

Maria LaVeaux — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:46:29 +0000

Trends come, and Trends go.
Right now, new people express their creativity in the form of Clubs. (And some are Very creative). But in time, they get Bored with them, and try to stretch themselves else where.
I don’t see the catastrophe here.
As for Money Obsessed. We all want nice things,, some we make ourselves, some we buy. To buy them we need Money. To get money,, well, some form of Business is needed. SL has an Economy. Some think it is out of control, I disagree, because i can still buy a nice outfit for 200L or an unusual prop, or Decoration for 25L It isn’t like TSO, where Rare pets were fetching more than a Quarter Million, and people could almost Conjure money out of thin air. You Have to work for it, and in the Market,, Compete for the Dollars out there.

Maria

By: urizenus

urizenus — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:05:07 +0000

not sure what the problem is. I notice that some of the comments are going into the “moderated” pile — presumably because the spam detector doesn’t like them. Uh, I’ll look into both problems.

By: Tony Walsh

Tony Walsh — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:52:10 +0000

Hey Uri, I tried to trackback this post, but I seem to be blacklisted or something (second time in as many posts my trackback’s been rejected). If you have a sec can you unblock secretlair.com?

Thanks man
-t-

By: urizenus

urizenus — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 23:22:24 +0000

Yes, but I deduct 1 linden for every time you spam me in YIM. Hence you owe me 187K Lindens.

By: Father Callahan

Father Callahan — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:52:38 +0000

Wait a second, we get paid?

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:03:37 +0000

I remember there was a point when ll state the regular events should not be listed on the event list. But from what i’ve seen the same people are listing their regular events all the time. .
personally I would like to see the clubs have their own event list. Separate from all other events. I think it would give new ideas a chance to develop. While allowing the more traditional event to still have their advertising.

By: urizenus

urizenus — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:55:14 +0000

What n00bs *should* do is work for the Herald as stringers. That way they could get out and explore SL *and* get paid 500-1K Linden per story. But noooooo, they would rather watch their avi dance inside a big ugly box.

By: Silarsis

Silarsis — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:02:53 +0000

Personally, as a newcomer, I don’t think it’s the clubs that are the problem – it’s the money. It’s very easy to get hooked into the idea that you can make money, and even without the translation into real world dollars, Linden are justa bout the only obvious thing you can “play for” – the easiest way as a newcomer to go “yeah, I’m getting somewhere”.

Not sure how you fix it, though. Or if it should be fixed. Coders and Designers will build their own niches and populate them, newbies will eventually find them if they’re interested, and the whole thing will scale upward (similar to how the ‘net has – ask any old-timer about what the ‘net was like before it moved out of mainly academia…). Maybe.

By: marilyn murphy

marilyn murphy — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:20:56 +0000

ok, so glad this article is seeing a wider audience. when it was given to me by artemis i was very happy with it. it says what needs to be said. a very good observation well written.