And he’s rather assuming that LL will let him stay, when the only link now is SL “companies” or should I say individual avatar accounts, since all the financial side is external to SL…

There was zero regulation or transparency before. At the first whiff of some sort of regulation – abracadabra – the money is hived off.

Of course, now the WIC is automagically 265 times more than it was the day before, it should make the turnover numbers look blingtastic. :-O

What’s the point of any of this?

Yeah right! Folks, spend your Lindens on hair and meditation cushions. Be wary of giving them to players.

Just because you put real money into it doesn’t make it real or important. Look at Hollywood and Disneyland! Or better yet look at the fact pointed out in a post above that the SL “economy” as far as most “businesses” are concerned hasn’t actually been affected by any of this stuff. Not to mention the fact that a crash in SL’s “economy” won’t affect anything IRL except a few boobs that put too much real time and real money into it! Chuck E. Cheese Savings ‘n’ Loan!

Also, anyone paying attention would have known that the only good time to make any money off of WSE was right when it started. I bought a bunch of play stock in HCL when they first started. I figured the best stock is always going to be the company that owns the stock market! I also bought a little in a couple other listings just to see what would happen…but that was like L$1k total.

Then I waited a few months while they ironed out the kinks and all the morons yelled about things over the general group IM (until I just left the group because of this retard spam). Then I came back, cashed out and made a 300% profit. It would have been more if I was paying closer attention and had gone in about 2-3 weeks sooner. After that I kept about L$1k in there to play around with stocks until the gambling ban happened and everyone started freaking out. By then all those little stocks became worthless.

My only regret is that I didn’t put like L$10-15k in…but then again, the first rule of gambling and trading (same thing to me) is that you never put any more in that you’re willing to lose!

They must have given you some of that Kool Aid. You are 100% wrong. I hope that was a joke.

Essentially, the WSE is growing bigger than Second Life and does not want to be dependent on Linden Lab.

However, the value of the companies in this roleplaying game seems dependent on how those same companies perform in Second Life.

Oh, that’s right. Nobody actually borrowed from these banks, we just put our credit cards into the system and bought the Lindens we needed. How silly of me to forget.

Pitiful