Comments on: The Business Case for Second Life

By: Panda

Panda — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:39:15 +0000

Doodad,
You have to remember that out of those 39k people, how many are *trying* to have a positive monthly cashflow? I suspect most of them are simply here for recreation (or procreation, *cough*), and have no trouble spending money without thought on earning money.

If anyone can come up with a statistic showing monthly cashflow for avatars *trying* to make a profit, then I’d pay it any attention.

By: Luth Brodie

Luth Brodie — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:12:00 +0000

That was a new level of horrible.

By: Hamlet Au

Hamlet Au — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:48:54 +0000

This came out last year, actually. Some more background here:

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2006/09/uncanny_valley__6.html

By: Tenshi Vielle

Tenshi Vielle — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:48:56 +0000

zomg are those guys arab? CALL THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION!!!

By: Inigo Chamerberlin

Inigo Chamerberlin — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:11:57 +0000

Woah! That was a wind up, right? PLEASE, someone tell me it was…

By: Obscure Doodad

Obscure Doodad — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:18:23 +0000

The numbers are not in favor of people who expect to make money in SL without dealing directly with off world entities.

If you look at Meta Linden’s monthly economic statistics, you will see that she counts 39,000 total avatars with monthly positive linden flow of any magnitude — and that’s before she extracts tier or monthly premium payments.

Well, the shocking thing about that number . . . 39,000 . . . is that it is less than half of the current 90,000 premium accounts, who are guaranteed a monthly stipend. Fully half the premiums can’t or don’t achieve positive Linden flow in SL and they are guaranteed an income.

Remember, her numbers are pre LL charges. The premiums’ payments to LL are not in that number — and STILL a full half of them are losing money.

Only the hype is making money in SL. The NBA, Playboy . . . whoever . . . never lose sight of the fact that the NBA and Playboy themselves are not in SL. No Playboy magazines are delivered in SL. No NBA games are played in SL. The products themselves don’t happen in SL. Just hype. The companies aren’t in SL. Only their PR firms are.

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:07:20 +0000

The lady with the magic wand in the purple outfit really made it for me, though.

By: marilyn murphy

marilyn murphy — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:33:29 +0000

theres an old army training video, where the old seargeant says, “okay, boys, let’s have a cup a joe and look at the M-14.” (read from a piece of paper in front of him while holding onto a big mug of coffee)
we laughed and laughed and to this day in my family its an inside joke to refer to a cup a joe.
it’s nice to see corporate america following in this fine artistic tradition.

By: Doubledown Tandino

Doubledown Tandino — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:45:55 +0000

I’ve been waiting soooooooo long for “Plan 10 from Outer Space” to come out

By: John Hensley

John Hensley — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:37:31 +0000

TO THE KEEP!