Comments on: Op/Ed: Virtual Paradise – But Never on Sunday

By: Inigo Chamerberlin

Inigo Chamerberlin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:00:49 +0000

Bah! ANOTHER Friday and…
NO TP!
NO Map!
NO Search!
NO Object Rezing!
NO Inventory!

This is getting beyond a bloody joke. Throw in an update and SL is running (badly) three days a week!

I hereby declare open season on both Lindens and the unverified! Somehow the paying users of SL have to take back their world!

By: Inigo Chamerberlin

Inigo Chamerberlin — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:00:13 +0000

Hmmmmm, well Mrs Dicks, you know something? I didn’t even look.
But if you stop and think about it, would YOU pay up front for an untested service you could use for free with no restriction? Didn’t think so. I certainly wouldn’t. And I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be prepared to pay for SL if my introduction were the current SL either.

As for your second question about my ‘scary thesis’. Firstly Philip Rosedale has publicly stated that LL will do nothing to restrict access to Second Life to any individual or group. Apparently that includes griefers, hackers and criminals?
So there’s NO WAY LL is going to limit signups, OR prioritise logins depending on payment status, land ownership or any other criteria.

As for evidence that they aren’t ‘doing’ anything, I assume you really mean ‘aren’t doing anything positive’?
Well, I’ve been around a pretty long time, and in that time I’ve seen the ‘quality of Second Life’ decline, rather than improve since 2005. Most notably since the preparations for free access, though it was slipping before that (hands up all who remember 1.7, from which SL has really never recovered?).
And since the infamous 06/06/06 things have declined even more so.

Oh yes, LL HAVE been WORKING on ‘it’. That’s much of the problem.

Maybe I should have said ‘Clearly nothing that’s being done is likely to have a positive effect on the daily performance of SL – or something along those lines?

All LL ‘working’ on SL seems to do is make it slower, more unreliable and break more functions.

I’m not going to discuss the whys and wherefores of that. If YOU are happy with SL’s present level of performance and the prospect that things will only get worse as the number of concurrent logins rise, that’s fine by me.
If you are confident that there is a secret LL project underway to rewrite the whole mess and get it working acceptably to the bulk of users – fine.

Er, got any evidence of that belief you’d care to table?

By: Mrs. Chokovy Dicks

Mrs. Chokovy Dicks — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:51:49 +0000

Hi Inigo, thanks for your report. I have a couple of questions.

1. Were those French people on paid accounts? or were they on free accounts?

2. Could you bring some evidence to your scary thesis “clearly nothing is going to be done about it”? I agree that we do not see tangible improvements, but this doesn’t mean Linden Labs are not working on it, as you’re stating.

By: Cinico Chamber Lane

Cinico Chamber Lane — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:38:26 +0000

> First, the newer signups are less the ‘early adopter’
> mentality and more the ‘I want what I’m paying for’
> mentality – consumers not geeks. They want and expect
> standards of service, which they aren’t getting

Since you can try this service for free, if you instead choose to pay for it without giving it a try before, you deserve what you are getting.

By: marilyn murphy

marilyn murphy — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:23:46 +0000

i used to predict sl was just being prepared to be sold. i dreaded that actually when i first thought it. now…. now i wish they would sell it,to some large company that will fix it.

By: Arthur Fermi

Arthur Fermi — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:49:35 +0000

Sending them to a sandbox seems like a good idea, except now the sandboxes are unusable collections of crap and griefers. (I know your thinking there is no difference between crap and griefers, in my mind its prims versus people.) Additonally some of us have private sandboxes open to the public, and the griefers end up there. Since someone one told them to stop griefing where they were and go to a sandbox, they think its OK to cage people in a sandbox. This really sucks when you are trying to help some n00b create a prim and they get orbited.

Arthur Fermi

By: Cocoanut Koala

Cocoanut Koala — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:53:35 +0000

Really, I don’t think it is too much to ask to expect a thing to work.

coco

By: Inigo Chamerberlin

Inigo Chamerberlin — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:57:37 +0000

Ok Igor! Fetch the impaling spikes out!

By: Lorrie Leavitt

Lorrie Leavitt — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:51:23 +0000

Pax vobiscum, Domine vobiscum. Et cum spiritu tuo

“This ceremony stills obtains in LOW MASSES, when the peace is thus given to prelates and PRINCES, not to others except in rare cases established by custom.”

By: Inigo Chamerberlin

Inigo Chamerberlin — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:30:42 +0000

LOL! Well, well, a sense of humour.

No one needs an invitation to Lyonesse. Though I have been known to throw out those who don’t meet my fairly relaxed standards – oh, and of course those lower levels of society that have filled the place and lowered the tone so much of late, well, we just can’t have them cluttering up the place ‘y know?

Oh, and don’t fall through the fishing hole in the ice – it’s NOT a noob trap, and it’s your fault if you fall in!