Comments on: Rod Humble: Current SL Players Key to Growth

By: Senban Babii

Senban Babii — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:35:17 +0000

@Furry
“EVE doesn’t have a furry community.”

It’s true that the avatar creation system doesn’t allow for creating non-humans (at least yet, who knows giving the developments along the lines of Incarna) but there are definitely furries in EVE.

Stuff the furries though*, EVE needs neko 8D

* No furries were harmed during the making of this comment.

By: D.F.

D.F. — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:09:41 +0000

“EVE doesn’t have a furry community.”

BS.

By: brinda allen

brinda allen — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:39:49 +0000

Oh noes

@ Oh noes

“I stopped reading when I saw his avatar.

Man in robes and long brown hair + Claims to have the answer to everything = ?

I know how this will end.”

OMG! I will have to return tomorrow and read the rest of the comments. The above just has me laughing to hard to read more.
Tooo funny!

By: Furry

Furry — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:34:09 +0000

@: Ajax Manatiso.

This.

EVE doesn’t have a furry community.

By: Ajax Manatiso

Ajax Manatiso — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:50:56 +0000

If SL (does/doesn’t) ________ in the next 12 months they will be gone. Mark my words!

Making a blank form here for you all — been hearing this for over 3 years and SL is still here. They will never take user input or become a democracy because they are a business. User input and opinions are relatively unimportant because they are not designed to increase the bottom line directly.

M Linden was going to eliminate lag and bring new tools and do wonderful things — but he didn’t.

Philip’s return was the Second Coming and SL would be Nirvana with all the avis singing his praises and dancing in circles — but it didn’t happen.

We will have more of the same and no big deals and lots of complaints, but SL will continue as long as there is no viable alternative. And EVE ain’t it, baby.

By: General Drama

General Drama — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:36:45 +0000

Hey, if you arent a producer, guess what? you are a consumer. Simple law of thermodynamics.

By: Reader

Reader — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:12:39 +0000

“Unless sweeping changes come to SL in the next twelve months, this time next year it will be a tiny niche product, left behind by more successful, engaging and player-rewarding products.”

A smart observation and very likely the prevailing scenario…
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By: Yep

Yep — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:35:03 +0000

“People I talk to don’t want to be content creators but they also don’t seem to want to be cash cow consumers for those who are content creators.”

Or have the items that were purchased with real money deleted by LL without any refund because LL allows stolen items to be sold in SL.

By: Senban Babii

Senban Babii — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:33:47 +0000

Just to add a couple of small points to the table.

Last night I was talking about Second Life to some fellow EVE players. They were under the distinct impression that to get anywhere with SL you have to be a programmer. So if that’s any indication, perhaps LL needs to make more effort during recruitment to point out that programming skills aren’t necessary? People I talk to don’t want to be content creators but they also don’t seem to want to be cash cow consumers for those who are content creators.

And while I know I’m becoming quite vocal about the EVE model and its successes, can I also throw this point onto the table? The Lab has always ruled from on high and never truly listened to what the residents actually want. Well look at this from EVE.

http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=853

Actually recruiting players to positions where they can be spokesmen for the population and have a say in decisions being made. SL could only be improved by the Lab creating a more interactive “government” and development process.

Unless sweeping changes come to SL in the next twelve months, this time next year it will be a tiny niche product, left behind by more successful, engaging and player-rewarding products.

By: marilyn murphy

marilyn murphy — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:04:02 +0000

i miss the sl of 2003 -04. i do. in 2003 there was a meeting of players and linden lab where every player on the grid could go and talk to them. lindens had no monetary value. land was so easy to get at 1 linden a square you could buy land and just abandon it if you found a place u liked better. lol, guys avatars really sucked tho. it had a small town feel to it, most everyone knew everyone else. its like sl went from mayberry to manhattan overnight.
i have always poo pooed the idea that sl was going to close down, as so many predict every year. when i see the trusting crowd fawning over the new ceo like he has come to save sl, it gives me pause.
now i wonder if this new ceo is merely here to get sl ready for sale. the sorry state of the grid is nothing new by any means, and has been at least this bad or worse over the years. i am code challenged and dont understand a lot of what goes into the nuts and bolts of a place like sl, but if he really does fix a lot of the problems that have plagued us over the years, why didnt anyone do it before? why do it now? to lure new customers is the stated reason. well, frankly, after all this time and all the people who have flushed thru sl, dont you think anyone who has a computer and is interested in this site has seen it already? i understand that not all people have seen it, but i am saying a majority of people who want to see it have already, and most left.
therefore, for the first time, i am looking at the possible end of sl, once it gets functioning on a level someone would actually buy it out.