Second Life SexBed Industry Thrown Into Chaos
by Pixeleen Mistral on 29/09/11 at 4:22 am
Stroker Serpentine's SexGen 600 animation bed now full permission - and free
the end of an era
This was without question an historic day. If there was any question about Stroker Serpentine leaving Second Life, it was erased Wednesday morning when he made the flagship of his SexGen business available with copy/transfer/modify permissions. The bed that turned a former real life plumber into a millionaire is now available to anyone - and free.
The 600 animation virtual kama sutra is already creating waves of fear and uncertainty among other sex bed merchants. While a crowd gathered to witness history in the making earlier this evening, I spoke with Corsi Mousehold who has used sexbed sales to help pay land tier fees on FurNation - a refuge for furry avatars.
Corsi Mousehold: I am in tears
Pixeleen Mistral: I think the bottom just fell out of the sexbed market
Corsi Mousehold: Yes
Corsi Mousehold: Yes it did
Corsi Mousehold: And FurNation may have to close because of it.
Pixeleen Mistral: that was the first thing I said when I saw this
Corsi Mousehold: I could raise rent prices and stay alive
Pixeleen Mistral: well - do what you need to do
Corsi Mousehold: But .... Fuck Stroker really screwed me here.
Corsi Mousehold: I could DMCA but in SL things can spread like wildfire.
Corsi Mousehold: I would have to DMCA every single person I find that is giving it away
Corsi Mousehold: That's a nightmare
Pixeleen Mistral: good luck with that
Corsi Mousehold: Either way I will have 100+ more animations in mine than in these.
Corsi Mousehold: I'll just add these and call it 1500 L$ anyway
Corsi Mousehold: Take the lessers off the market. They weren't selling really anyway
Corsi Mousehold: FurNation is going to need support here.
Corsi Mousehold: Or it will die.
a crowd gathers
Pixeleen Mistral: FurNation is going to need to suck it up and get another revenue stream
Corsi Mousehold: Truth
Pixeleen Mistral: and SL is going to feel this too I think
Corsi Mousehold: Yes it will
Corsi Mousehold: Not in a month but in about two months everyone's going to feel it
Corsi Mousehold: And we thought the MLP release was bad
Observer
Sep 29th, 2011
Sex bed makers have to get off ass and make better systems now eh? Back to work lol.
Legal Ease
Sep 29th, 2011
Unless Corsi has some stranglehold over Stroker I didn’t know about, you can’t DMCA something that doesn’t belong to you.
James
Sep 29th, 2011
Now that the former state of the art is commodity, maybe consumers will start giving innovative animators some love. RH Sugita’s SugaBeans animation are far superior to the low res, short cycle, vanilla pablum SexGen and Xcite have been selling.
tG
Sep 29th, 2011
@Observer
Amen.
This raises expectations for “pixel boom-boom,” if you can believe that.
Senban Babii
Sep 29th, 2011
It’s always difficult when an established product gets its feet kicked out from underneath it. But no market is forever and any business model that doesn’t take that into accounjt is saving up problems for itself. I predict we’ll see some people folding but I also hope we’ll see new products and markets as people are forced to find new revenue streams. There’s too much creative talent in SL. The only way forward is to create new markets, not milk dying ones.
Meat Merchie
Sep 29th, 2011
Total bullshit.
Its just a bed and the animations in it are totally outdated. It can’t compare to innovative items that use better animations. The market for sex toys wont die because of this.
Jumpman Lane
Sep 29th, 2011
I know Stroker puffed his chest out when I slunk back into Second Life to make his dramatic exit! His final flourish was to turn somebody elses work into a full perm freebie! Pretty weak you ask me.
Corsi Mousehold
Sep 29th, 2011
A good portion of the animations in that base were created by Briggi Bard and myself. It was not just Stroker. We all had a part in it. And with an arrangement we were both selling some of the animations. So yes some of that base does belong to me. I do have a great deal of things Stroker didn’t have. So I will be taking those, adding them to these and moving on from there. The NeoLove brand is on version 6.0 instead of 5.01 that Stroker was using.
I just wish he thought about all of this before he went and did something radical like this.
As for taking the feet out from under the market. Indeed he has. Remember Multi Love Pose beds that were total garbage yet the sales of those freebies forced animators to drop prices like a stone.
Pappy Enoch
Sep 29th, 2011
I could make me a hell of a lot o’ money as a plumber. I’d have to stop drinkin’ so, no dice.
I reckon ol’ Stroker am a-tossin’ in the towel out so he kin make him some real long-green unpluggin’ tawlets and whatnot.
Well, Corsi, y’all fuzzy-wuzz rascals needs them sum’fin new fo’ that-there yiffin’ fun: a Muskrat Luv™ SexBed, with music from that-there l970s band, The Captain an’ Toenail:
http://youtu.be/KgCk3bnvO5Y
That gal got her hair like a helmet, but she gots cha-cha bingo that won’t quit. So git to work, Corsi! It am free enterprise an now it am yo’ turn!
Nelson Jenkins
Sep 29th, 2011
I’ll still stick to smooth animation sets with actual transitions. Sorry, but times have changed, and 2-frame cycled animations are history.
Miss J
Sep 29th, 2011
Stroker seems to do things before he thinks about the consequences first. SL will do better without his bad press and im sure the market will do better now that his oldie prims and sex gen animations are gone.
Yiff You
Sep 29th, 2011
@ Corsi
Briggi gave up any right to the SexGen brand when he refused to pay his half for that silly trademark. As I understand it, at the time Briggi was (and most likley still is) an unemployed transvestite hooker living on welfare cheques from the Dutch Gov’t. If he was all of a sudden to start pulling in thousands of dollars from an online business he would have been forced to start paying V.A.T. and back taxes as well he would have lost his monthly welfare cheques. Both things he did not want to do, so he just went quiet and let you, his loyal sock puppet take over.
As for the SL sexbed industry, I find it ironic that the bed that basicly started the SL Sex industry is now being toted as the bed that is going to end it! When ya stop to think about it, the history of this SL item is really amazing;
-It started the Second Life pixel sex industry
-it turned a plumber into a millionaire
-It got pixel sex in Second Life on Fox, CBS, and BBC news
-It took SL Sex into the real world court room
-It set a Second Life precident with Linden Lab for DMCA and content theft
-Last but not least, “Second Life SexBed Industry Thrown Into Chaos
I doubt any other item on this grid or any other can accomplish that.
Cathiee McMillan
Sep 29th, 2011
All this will do is yes raise the bar for animators to put out higher quality animations for adult products.
I for one can’t wait to see the better quality animations.
paul
Sep 29th, 2011
a couple of points about these two articles:
Senban is right: you lose IQ points reading about Jumpman.
There are FAR better Sex beds these days then Sexgen. This won’t matter at all to the overall SL sex industry. Someone mentioned Sugabeans…another one is Nutz and Boltz.
The fact that sexgen was so obsolete yet we constantly here about the rivalry between strokerz and jumpman is another example of the cloying effect of the oldbies on contemporary SL…who cares about the rivalries of these two? or between Kalel and whoever? or between Prok and whoever? Hint: not 99% of the people in SL. Pre-2006 avatars really should get over themselves.
sergal
Sep 29th, 2011
i told corsi the day he took over furnation that he cannot rely on sexgen beds to keep the sims, i told him he CANNOT get rid of home renters in favour of stores.
shit the first thing he did was kick out long standing admins with good rep and replaced them with a bunch of yes ppl, he then RAISED plot rental fee’s and i slowly watched furnation lose sims lose a lot of ppl, bringing in ppl who were well know copybotters.
for furnation to keep going he has to STOP having furnation survive on sex and porn, stop rebuilding furnation by using god awful designs.
stop increasing rent on stores and houses, reduce the size of your own store and START CHARGING ALL YOUR FRIENDS RENT FOR THERE HUGE STORES.
corsi you killed the REAL furnation and now your fat ass is killing THIS furnation.
also corsi QUITTING a REAL JOB and using money made in secondlife to fund your real life is the biggest cluster fuck of all time.
all sim owners in secondlife WORK in real life so yeah your stupidity and blind ambition has fucked everyone up, you sir are a retard of epic proportions, remember you banned 3 ppl from ALL the furnation sims AFTER they gave you a total of $1200 to PAY for your REAL LIFE RENT and then denied it, yes corsi i have seen the paypal transaction history.
btw WHY did you ask a friend to dress up like a baby and act like a baby in your OWN LIVING ROOM, seriously i know all the SICK details you SICK FUCK
Yemmer
Sep 29th, 2011
Ahhaahhaahahaahahah! (( Please note i have -Nothing- Agenst furries)) but ‘You’ Corsie are an asshole and you SO Deserve this.
Emperor Norton hears a who?
Sep 29th, 2011
Looks like the sex bed makers will have to stop resting on their work
Yuk Yuk Yuk
So Coris whose estate buisness model is based on sex beds? That’s weird.
hobo kelly
Sep 29th, 2011
from the other thread:
“Jumpman Lane: well cheergirl sicced me on corsi mousehold but corsi well corsi sent me gifts and bought my allegience”
and then what? What did Corsi pay Jumpman to do to Stroker? And the Linden Furries were in on it too? Somebody has some ‘splainin’ to do…
Miss J
Sep 29th, 2011
If jumpman is smart he could turn pixelx into a better marketable commidity than sexgen ever could have been
LOL
Sep 29th, 2011
@miss J That a pretty big “IF”
Jumpman Lane
Sep 29th, 2011
Hehehe Them saps on cristiano’s turdy forums kill me heheheh!
“I didn’t know Stroker Serpentine but he was such a wonderful blah blah blah”
Stroker was a phony! Lol he wasn’t a nice guy. He just role player one in Second Life … When he remembered to be in character lol!
If Stroker was such a nice guy, his last act before leaving sl would have been to remove anybody else’s work from his sex gen base… Then again what would anybody do with a scriptless box and a handful of anims lol!
Even in defeat Stroker is a douche! And a sap! Hehehehe and aTard!
I BLAME DRUGS! lol
Chaz Longstaff
Sep 29th, 2011
The animations in that sexgen are, like, 7 years old.
For people with restricted or no pocket money budgets in SL, getting access to it will be a real boon for their SL lives , and good on them.
As for actual customers who actually spend money? Feh. It was all so old they weren’t buying it anyway; they expect far more now from animations, and wouldn’t accept the downgrade to these, even if was free.
lul
Sep 29th, 2011
They’ve been making money off the same old shit for years now, with the price jacked up ridiculously. Its about time someone took them down several notches. I have no sympathy for Corsi either, considering the animations in his product I am pretty sure were not even made by him, really with hardly anything in his product being original to any degree besides the actual builds, which were atrocious to begin with.
As for fur nation, well, people have not really bothered with that place for years after Corsi took over, its about time it goes away, its resulted in nothing but a circle jerk of staffers that suck up to him with social disabilities to begin with. Shame that a lot of decent people will be displaced though.
Lisa
Sep 29th, 2011
This looks like a marketing ploy..
Someone honestly believe that Stroker will come out Second Life?
I’ll leave here a clearer link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcDCtSXfz-8
Frankly I’m not worried about anything, and also do not understand why other traders get scared.
In fact the SexGen animations were already very old stuff little better than the freebies that have always gone out there ..
for those who make their own animations that will not make much difference.
For the ppl wich work with full perm animations its a good news 600 new poses for free!
A Furry
Sep 29th, 2011
@ sergal
this.
I remember Furnation when it had Nexxus Ambassador running it.
Corsi you have run Furnation worlds into the group and evicted renters,got rid of the luxor,got rid of the furnation skymall,and plus made the sandboxes so the lag spiked. I remember back in 2008 when the sandboxes were less laggy. Corsi you fucked up Furnation!
Nexxus leaving furnation was the worst thing ever to happen in furnation.
And get this,Corsi has several members of the Patriotic Nigras working for him,that’s right! On the old woodbury.su website i found Altheron’s name on it.
Qie Niangao
Sep 29th, 2011
Other than elevating (ever so slightly) the quality of crappy old zero-cost animations in standard-issue bed engines, this has no effect. Any business threatened by this non-event wasn’t a going concern anyway.
So now the question is: what happened to Stroker’s good stuff, the mocap anims? Is he just setting up to come back, once the most lost of the losers are finally gone from this market? Or more likely, has he licensed them to one of the newer Adult content creators with a still growing customer base? I guess we’ll see, soon enough.
In any case, it’s Jumpman whose relevance is now in question. With Stroker out of the picture, I’m already forgetting who Jumpy was, and why.
Jumpman Lane
Sep 29th, 2011
Gawd how I hate tardiness and I don’t mean being late lol! Qie this mean u gonna boot me off ur friends list hehehe
Kiddoh
Sep 29th, 2011
@A furry: woodbury.su has been gone for quite a while now.
Also; lol Stroker’s animations were more like 4-6 frame loops.
IntLibber Brautigan
Sep 29th, 2011
And now for the rest of the story:
If anybody thinks Stroker released the bed full perms in some emotional fit, think again, he’s been planning this for a couple years. He told me back in 2009 when he was still working on his Eros3d virtual world platform, that when he made his exit that he would open source his content here to pull the rug out from under all his competitors, especially Corsi Mousehold, who he always felt was a parasite who weaseled her/his way into the Eros business.
The reason Blondin Linden asked Jumpman Lane to attack Stroker and get up in his grill legally was pure anti-competitive industrial sabotage, LL doesn’t want Stroker’s new virtual world to drain their revenues in the sex perv markets…. They dont give a shit if Stroker was ageplaying or not, they just dont want anybody ageplaying anyplace else BUT in Second Life…. LL is Sauron of the One Ring, ridin’ dirty to bind us all in their virtual hell…
Leam Cunningham
Sep 29th, 2011
corsi: you can’t rely on the same revenue streams forever. if fn falls, it will be seen as your fault for poor planning. the release of this raises the bar for anyone making similar products; it’s a win for consumers. stop whining, find a solution, or move on.
FBMcG
Sep 29th, 2011
@Corsi, karma’s a bitch, ain’t?
Lincoln Bookmiter
Sep 29th, 2011
Chris, you’re right, Jump is not stupid and is quite articulate when he wishes.
But do you really think he’s from Arlington? Yeah he claims Roanoke on LinkedIn, but whenever I read his words I picture a tubby 45-year old British guy who looks like an accountant. Calling people pikers, lol! And Laffy Taffy??? Should we revise that up to 55?
(O.o no no typist, musn’t make fun of the Sex God or he’ll revile and destroy you! He says so!)
Jumpy’s all about teh marketing, indefatigable after he introduced Sluts magazine. (Incidently, here’s that thread, he drops into standard english a coupla times: http://forums-archive.secondlife.com/128/e8/187673/1.html ). Highly competitive … was his vendetta against Stroker because he wanted a bigger chunk of the SL Porn industry for himself?
We’ll never really know, but Pixeleen, better look to your own pixel fandom! I see Jumpy’s now claiming to be a “yellow journalist” on his website. I thought that was YOUR gig?
Get out of his way or Jumpy will CRUSH YOU!
Cassonade
Sep 30th, 2011
Oh darn Corsi, now you’ll have to get a real life and stop making shitty cover songs about 69ing gay raccoons.
I cannot tell you how hard I am laughing at you right now. Your tears are delicious manna.
You are getting everything you ever deserved.
Sl User
Sep 30th, 2011
Thank God that worthless piece of garbage is leaving sl. I hope now sl can get a better image now that he is leaving
Prettyboy Fred
Sep 30th, 2011
lol
I hope National Geographic does some follow up shit.
JD
Sep 30th, 2011
So where can I get it?
Shockwaves in Second Life
Sep 30th, 2011
[...] Read the article here: Free Sex Beds [...]
LOL
Sep 30th, 2011
stroker leaving SL will not change the Image of the game…. it is still a Pixel Pervert paradice
Miss J
Sep 30th, 2011
@LOL I agree that is a big if. But most likely this persona jumpman is trying to protray will ultimately get in his way.
Aeonix Aeon
Sep 30th, 2011
IP has the shelf life of a banana. Resting on laurels and relying on a single product or idea to float your business model is a disaster waiting to happen.
In the world of business, it actually takes work and common sense to avoid situations like this ruining you.
I’m sure the intelligent ones of the bunch will flourish while the hacks will be weeded out. I look forward to the fresh batch of innovation after the fire burns the forest down.
Jumper Lanes Wife
Sep 30th, 2011
Dear Asshole Husband,
Now that I am screwing someone else, your cat died a week ago and the government have threatened to put hazardous waste stickers around the property, I thought to tell you I am leaving.
Stop playing the bad boy.You have to get over this image that your father was Al Capone cross Sex Superstar and that your life is that of a masked super hero with a 13inch c*ck. Stop being delusional I know its only 5 inches and your pe*is envy causes you to behave the way you do.I have the doctor looking at your meds again and an increase your psychotic condition is worsening.
A few things I thought to advise you of -
1) Your new keyboard arrived and is outside your door. Your other one was full of dried cum and vaccumming it made the keys a bit odd and could cause your typing to be off a bit.
2) Your blow up doll in the corner I couldn’t help but add a few pins to her and enjoyed totally watching her wizz about the room. Justice for a plastic bit*h with another name that was not mine.
3) If you used that Valesine Jar the last night, yes the really big one beside the keyboard you use nightly, sorry for finally ground glass particles in it, hope it didn’t slice that hand of yours too much, couldn’t resist mixing it in and did see the ambulance arrive through the curtains of the neighbors.
4) Your clothes I burnt. Left you with the penile extension though which I am sure will give you some warmth and comfort dear.
5) If you don’t take those week old skidded undies off, yes the ones with the big ass brown slice of grit crusted in the middle of them and wash em, you the have the dog heaving near the door to your room and you will kill your poodle.
6) You also need to pick the tv dinner trays up and remind yourself of the outside world and the “trash can”. Quite frankly the whole house should be tipped in for the care taken by you since you found second life you a*s hole but thats just my opinion.
7) The neighbors are going to sue if they keep hearing you call out, “yes, yes …yes….. and the turned up volume of that girls voice and not to mention the toilet you had installed in there a week ago to not have to move far, was the push for me to go.
Finally I wish you a life of virtual prosperity in what ever you do. I have slipped this note under the door while you snored and you really should get a new chair. You fell asleep in it loudly snoring and it can’t take that 350pound weight of that body you call some virtual sex god.
Taken my jewellery and passport papers and Serpentine and I are moving country. Been bagging him for a while now dear, at least he knows my name.
No love lost, your wife.
***NOTE*** Get the idea that I am not interested and tired of seeing such drama in SL. All you have done is prove that those in the groove are idiots and there is gaming and there is reality. Give me a touch of both any day. Find the small dose of reality and see…..”WE DON’T CARE”! Ah….settles back to work.
Jumpman Lane
Sep 30th, 2011
ok! im really chawli sheen irl! me and emilio gonna whoop strokers a$$ he bring that sh@t to burbank!
Michael Somerset
Sep 30th, 2011
I was concerned about this whole “Stroker Issue” as I make and sell my own anims. But a friend brought by the item and I must agree with Chaz Longstaff…the anims are crap, but great for the people starting out. The system is slow and clunky….I am happy for the people that dont mind the quality that comes with freebie crap
Jumpman Lane
Sep 30th, 2011
we tuff! >:(
Duke Magneto
Sep 30th, 2011
The animations are like 6 years old with a mix of themes not really designed for anyone.
dagooch
Sep 30th, 2011
listening to that hand-wringing, hyperbolic exchange between corsi and pixeleen provided a side-spliiting fit of laughter for me. thanks! the herald truly is the fox & friends of the internets!
Nelson Jenkins
Sep 30th, 2011
Eros3D will be a load of shit and everyone knows it. Hey Stroker, don’t quit your day j- oh, oops.
Obvious Schism
Sep 30th, 2011
@Corsi
“So yes some of that base does belong to me.”
Surley all your base are belong to us now?
Komm Undercroft
Sep 30th, 2011
Really? I’m not even going to bother replying to all the comments up there, but goddamn. You people bashing Corsi when Corsi’s having issues like this are worse than anything you can make Corsi out to be! You’re not part of the problem, you ARE THE PROBLEM.
I don’t give a damn what sort of reasoning you use here, you’re out of bounds, pathetic little troll douchebags who only get rowdy because you’re ten kinds of anonymous. Pasty little sac-suckers need to get your priorities straight. This article was about SexGen beds going free, NOT ‘Let’s bash the hell out of Corsi, who is a person the same as us with problems of their own, just like us.’ Instead, you’ve proven Corsi to be better than you by trolling in here and jumping on Corsi’s nuts.
Senban Babii
Sep 30th, 2011
Hey, you know how the sex gen bed is now a freebie and everything? Well guess which notorious griefer with a chicken fixation is willingly charging for it? Published on his blog this morning.
“Meanwhile, I’ve sold three copies of Stroker’s bed for $100 a pop — and I upped the price to see how it would do. I’m on my way to covering my long-distance phone bill trying to get the welfare check on him.”
So what he is basically doing is profiting off the hard work of others without adding any substantive value to the product. Oh and you could also add that he’s profiteering on the back of some drama.
What a lovely human being. A true pillock of the community.