I have been in Second Live since 2006. I know all about the Sion Chickens, having purchased and enjoyed every product that has been offered, including the Sion Corn and its group of products. I personally flat-out loved the chickens and thoroughly enjoyed them for more than two years.

I sold some now and then, but mostly I just enjoyed them as wonderful reason to keep me logging in over and over. This whole love-hate thing really amuses me. But then again, I’m a 41 year old with a college education who can tell the difference between the real world and the virtual one. While the virtual world is truly amazing and almost-limitless in its potential, it is best adopted by adults who know better than to sit and argue the positives and negatives of a virtual animal that as a worth in the tiny fractions of a dollar.

That said, yes – I’ve made plenty of money in Second Life. In fact, for several months I made enough money to pay all my real-life bills and it was fantastic! But I didn’t do it by whining about getting a tiny refund for a little fake chicken egg now and again.

Second Life has gone to Virtual Hell and not because of people creating virtual chickens like Sion Zaius. It’s gone to Virtual Hell by end users who are 20, pretend they are 30, but act like they are 10.

Second Life’s “Glory Days” were when the majority of residents were honest-to-goodness adults, and who acted like they were as well. Until that happens again Second Life will never be anything more than a passing fad. And that is terribly, horribly sad considering how unbelievably amazing it can be.

I am thankful I have been able to appreciate Second Life during the height of its existence. I was truly hard-core then – often being logged in for a day or two at a time, regularly. But now I log in maybe once a week and spend my time instead enjoying my own personal 64-region OpenSim island hosted on my own server – where I get to choose exactly who can and cannot be a part of that world. Thankfully, that world contains no whining idiots like Second Life is full of.

Another chicken ended up ‘dead but relivable.’ This was happening almost daily to one or more of my chickens. I went and got another healing kit – at L90 each. (I have had to use over 20 of these so far.)

I changed my tag to the group, rezzed it, opened it and rezzed the ‘medicine.’ Nothing happened. Not one thing. Wait, yes one thing did happen. The ‘healing kit’ was used up and the chicken was still dead.

I talked to Sion’s representative who asked me what the chicken’s last words were. I have no idea what it ‘said’ as I muted that spam a long time ago. So their response was that they would not refund my L 90. I pay 1000′s of Lindens to them for food. They kept my L 90.

I would not ever recommend anyone get involved with Sion, ever.

Simple, and easy to do in LSL.

Here’s a question that I would love to see answered: Are there any competitors to Sion’s chickens in SL? If so then there would be a market for Sion refugees, and also offer a choice instead of a chicken monopoly to Sion.

Well that’s a fair criticism, however the script system doesnt really make implementing such a vending system at all easy. When you pay is there a way to agree to a EULA or receive a refund before getting the goods in your inventory? I’m not aware of one, but such is needed by many merchants.

FWIW, my interactions with Sion Zaius indicate to me that he’s both very interested in improving his product and service, but he is also very very buried in a hole of IM attention from many people and has a commercial tiger by the tail. I don’t believe he is disingenuous, but the normal SL ranting class will still have its way.