Comments on: Residents of 8 Sims Homeless – Is Land Scamming or Illness to Blame?

By: Seola Sassoon

Seola Sassoon — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:28:41 +0000

Just to note: Ironforge was in Everquest before WoW!

So take that WoW!

By: Sioban McMahon

Sioban McMahon — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:31:42 +0000

Tex Arnez was active on line as late as March 9th, when he gladly instructed me on how to pay the tier fees for my new Red Sands property to Cascades Management. Talk about bad timing on purchase dates. Cascades had trouble paying their bills, but not collecting money. Something’s fishy there for sure.

Adam Zaius has been stand up through this and has done a good job communicating with residents of the affected islands.

By: Maria LaVeaux

Maria LaVeaux — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:37:34 +0000

It seems to me if it Were some form of Land Scam, The property owners stood to lose Far more by doing it than they would gain. Thier Rep would go right down the white Porceline swirly thing, and thier profits with it. A Land Management concern of this size couldn’t afford the Bad Press, and from what i’ve seen so far, they have done a Great Deal to make thier tenants whole again. It just doesn’t have the Markings of a scam.

Maria.

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:43:10 +0000

Thanks for the update, Adam.

By: Adam Zaius

Adam Zaius — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:53:56 +0000

We’ve got the sims back online, they arnt quite on the world map properly just yet, but if you teleport to them directly, you should be able to get into them. We expect they will be as they were in all respects probably in a few hours as the world map updates again. We are going to be trying to make contact with everyone individually this week and explain what’s happened precisely.

By: Spankubux

Spankubux — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:02:46 +0000

“Then ask yourself why a game company in the virtual land business which touts Second Life as a real economy never seems to get around to making these sorts of transactions more transparent.”

Is this piece marked as an editorial?

By: whateva

whateva — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:31:05 +0000

I’ve got to agree with profoky, interesting points made in prof’s post, something definately is not right with their claims. If this is indeed a scam, its’ people like this that are going to ruin those who are legit and honest landlords in SL. The biggest shame is on LL for never getting involved in these type of disputes.

By: Adam Zaius

Adam Zaius — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:44:56 +0000

The main reason for waiting so long on the islands is we spent a long time trying to get in contact with Lilly Margetts without much success.

Lilly has been a decent customer which is why she got more than the normal two weeks, It also costs a lot to transfer an island back to us (lots of little fees that add up to a gigantic bill), and frankly, it’s not a fun job to deal with.

As for trademarks, they are a concern – unlike copyrights they are a bit more restrictive on what people can do with them, it’s certainly possible to trademark every day words (see Apple for a good example), but the problem with trademarks is, unlike copyrights, there’s no “safe harbour” provisions for hosts – and damages are usually a good deal more severe.

Since the names are fairly obvious at having come from WoW, there’s no legal footing should blizzard come a-knocking. That’s basically why I’d prefer to rename them than have to worry about it. (even if it does bring us back to the “lots of little fees” point when it comes to doing the actual renaming)

By: Nacon

Nacon — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:14:45 +0000

Or they had hopes up and thought they could do it… really could do it and fly with success of a nut-stack.

The way I see it from this result, it was just an amature estate business that couldn’t pay on time. (whoop de doo)

In fact, 2 months? Wtf were they waiting for?

By: Ben Azure

Ben Azure — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:48:59 +0000

Nothing can ever be simple for some people. I’d love to talk about whats going on, but of course I am bound by my confidentiality clauses. However I can say that we are doing what we can here, and yes, it is most likely that despite our best efforts not everyone will be happy. I’m just going to leave it at that lest I say something that could result in an epic forensic analysis of my words for hidden meanings.