In fact I am starting to wonder if they aren’t still so intoxicated by their “success” (after opening registration to every griefer and his uncle), that they (the upper Lindens) are just really are that out of touch.

It’s just one bad decision after another, and it will catch up to them eventually, especially when big biz comes to the realization that Philly Dawg is running this operation like a hippie love-in.

Then they will be left with Ghost Grid, bots, and their pets. Personally, after nearly 5 years in SL, loving it and now hating it, I hope it fails. They don’t deserve success any more, because they’ve shown that they are totally unwilling to listen to the very people who gave them that success by steadfastly supporting them.

Like the poster above (Inigo I think?) I’m pissed at Rosedale too, and not for any one blunder. It’s the overall impression that this platform/game/widget isn’t for “us” anymore and that the Lindens now view it as a cash cow because beig media and big biz have noticed.

Short version – they don’t think they need our input anymore, because instead of being humble about their success and giving credit where credit is due for that, they just keep steamrolling us with unwanted CRAP, while sticking their fingers in their ears.

I get SO sick of formulaic responses from Phil, Robin, Cory, etc., that I could just puke. They treat us like ignorant children for chrissakes. This has me seriously considering walking away and never looking back.

Yes, SL can be much more than a game, but a game is intricately ingrained within its concept. In other words, you have to be in the mood to “play” in order to indulge in the service.

If you are serious about communicating with a prospective client(s), or you have important presentations and meetings to attend with your company/organization, the last thing youre going to tell them is to download SL and log into your monkey avatar.

The Second Life Herald has a very interesting, but also opiniated, piece about the last town hall meetingearlier this week with Cory Linden. To put it simple: the writer was not impressed at all and thinks that the Lindens are working on the wrong prior

Well that’s it really, end of Second Life, and with it the 3D internet. They didn’t address the core issues in the Open Letter, in fact they waited a whole day before announcing Voice AND sculpties are in the next release, a week after they get this bug fix hurriedly out the door, 16 whole days before a double whammy of new bugs hits us “because they work in Beta but fail under load on the main grid”…

So in addition, you’re gonna have to give out your passport or other critical personal data leaving you open to identity theft to get validated? It’s already virtually impossible for a European like me to get validated without a credit card (not so ubiquitous in Europe, we don’t live on credit), but this 3rd Pary is bound to be US, only taking US cards, so now, instead of a few places, I’ll be banned out of a lot of mainland, and virtually every private estate. One gaming machine or SexGen bed will make the entire sim out of bounds.

I work in an adult club (most are, they have escort panels and gaming machines), so I’ll lose my job which supports my establishing businesses. A horde of people will leave, making business more difficult than it already is. I’ll lose my rented house, and probably will have to find a cheap 32m to put a couple of servers on and just sell through slx and slb. That will hurt my landlords, and in turn other businesses. In fact there won’t be a lot of point coming into SL, and I might as well quit after 7 months’ hard work.

SL will implode with this measure….

Personally, I think it means they aren’t fixing the current server code because those 69% are working on redesigning the server code so that other companies can run SL servers, not just LL.

Nice one lindens, thanks for listening.

The Reply – ’69′…

That’s the CTO’s answer to the core point of the Open Letter. Not ‘yes’. Not ‘no’. Not even ‘maybe’.

Just the new standard ’69′ ‘response.

I mean, why even bother PRETENDING to answer? Why not simply ignore the question?
I actually find it somewhat insulting. A large number of customers are clearly unhappy with the current situation and are sufficiently so to get together and make a public demonstration of their unhappiness and make a request.

And LL’s response? ’69′ wrapped in some irrelevant nonsense.

Frankly I’d have preferred ‘If you don’t like it, don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out’. That would at least have been honest.

Oh! Wait – that’s what Cory DID say, isn’t it?

I scrolled down, and what do you know? I was right.

Where does your obsession come from, Prok?