Not everyone that comes to Second-Life is someone who is going to buy an over-expensive, over-rated island to run some e-monopoly under Linden Labs.

No, of course not. And your point is? Having fun without owning land isn’t possible?
I spent almost 4 years in SL as a basic, wasn’t bored a single second, earned some money, spent some money, met awesome and awfull people, went shopping, created social content, had sex, had fights, was always busy …

When the new consumer comes to join, their not worried about building a fake e-business, they want a fun, easy platform in which they can “play”

Consumer? F@ck it, who needs consumers? Why are they anyone’s concern? At least LL is trying to push a dumbed down, consumer friendly, viewer version onto us as we speak.
You expect it to have a super easy to use GUI?
I never played any online games, or any computer games at all before I found SL but also never had any probs moving my avie, using vehicles, using scripts and whatnots. At least in V1 it’s all quite easy for starters. Advanced features are easy to learn as well. V2 is a huge disappointment for anybody who wants to build or do stuff other than just shopping and spending money.

BUT you’ll see how SL will go down rapidly once we have more consumers than creators in SL. Remember the old SL slogan “Your world, your imagination”? That’s SL! A 100% resident-made world. If you can’t contribute to it in any way we don’t need you here. It’s pretty simple.

It’s an over-glorified virtual chat-room that puts a lot of “bang” in the commercials, but when stepping into the actual game, it’s a sheer disappointment and ill-representation.

The “actual game” is resident created, which means the game is made by you and me, and if it’s a disappointment we don’t have anyone to blame but ourselves.

Honestly now, what tf do you expect SL to be? I bet once I hear your definition I wanna leave SL at once.

Not everyone that comes to Second-Life is someone who is going to buy an over-expensive, over-rated island to run some e-monopoly under Linden Labs. Along with the old, out-dated technology and the sheer backwardness of the SL “system” (which I commented on a topic before).

Second Life needs competition, it’s a system that has set too comfortable for too long in it’s blane, boring, and ancient ways in a bias of fan-boys and fan-girls that screech at the moment of “change”. When the new consumer comes to join, their not worried about building a fake e-business, they want a fun, easy platform in which they can “play” (yes, I said “play”) on as a “game”(*GASP*voodoo word!), basically for fun.

As for “griff0rs”, there just about the only thing lively on the entire grid to began with, everything else is pretty much dull or some stagnant “RP” with a billion lame rules to follow. Along with people taking their avatars as the “Real” them and all the oddball/whacky behaviors that can be observed on the adult-grid (and just about anywhere else on SL), the retarded mic-trolls that swarm ahern, and the grid-skitters aka stalkers(oops, sorry, fake “Police Groups”) and the general butt-kissing/foot-rubbing proportions is enough to turn that new-user out the door and onto another service that isn’t so ridden with b.s. (and yes, SL has ALOT of b.s.)

It’s an over-glorified virtual chat-room that puts a lot of “bang” in the commercials, but when stepping into the actual game, it’s a sheer disappointment and ill-representation.

Bye bye, SL !

As if Second lifes physics engine is anything to brag about.

I understand that because of the compatibilities and scripting engines, etc. the comparisons are never going to stop, but seriously – it is up to the user / operator to do whatever they want with Opensim (just run it or make a biz or whatever) Whereas with SL you can create whatever you want within the confines of that system.

As far as stability goes, it just fluctuates from update to update. The last year has been incredibly stable, then the version 7 update came out, which was a huge update to structure and the first week was pretty hairy. Already it is now very stable and working out some bugs.

Physics engines are by choice. HUGE advancements this last year and you can fly, drive, float whatever you like these days… and with megaregions – oh yeah, LOTS more fun with no sim borders

Anyway – it is all personal preference so just stick with whatever floats your boat. I still have an ‘island’ and some mainland in SL that I have a couple of low-key malls and homes and just fun stuffs on, and I also have a VPS with a 10×10 megaregion on that my buds and I race dirtbikes around on.

Later

As for content protection, that’s also a big joke.
Though there are tons of people who would copy there are those who will pay because they think the creator *deserves* the money.

If you spend time looking the source code to copy everything on SL is out there freely available on the web. That doesn’t mean that everyone is going to use it to copy everything and then destroy the creator. Who hasn’t heard of copybot for example? I think the whole DRM idea of SL is overplayed. I’m personally happy to pay higher prices to get templates for clothing or BVHs for animations and with mesh now available it will be much easier to get content into Opensim.

There’s also the fact that rezzable has created a web-based browser that is capable of linking Unity3D to opensim.

I really hope SL continues, but if it doesn’t it’s not relevant, we have a viable upgrade path and escape route.