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State of the Economy
Lowest profit per capita growth ever in Q1 2008 by Jessica Holyoke Zee Linden recently posted graphs reflecting the strength of the SL Economy here – and Zee is very happy to report that the SL Economy grew by 15%. However, the story is not that simple. By several other measures, the economy growing slowly [...]
Full StorySecond Life Economy is in a Recession
Residents with a positive monthly L$ cash flow declines for second consecutive quarter by Jessica Holyoke After the banking ban, there are commentators who state that the Second Life Economy is in a recession and then there are the opposing commentators that say that the Second Life Economy is not in a recession. According to [...]
Full StorySecond Life Economic Statistics Analyzed
by Curious Rousselot, metaverse numerologist As many of us are no doubt aware; Linden Lab publishes statistics about Second Life. Conveniently they also make the historical data available in Excell and OpenOffice, and Google Docs format. This gives us here at the Herald a chance to see how the economy of Second Life is doing [...]
Full StoryIntersexed Avatar Children Hard to Find
Daddy/little girl, mom/daughter are most popular ageplay groups by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk For those who’s Second Life might not be complete without acting out fantasies with hermaphrodite child avatars – the odds do not look good. But an exclusive Herald study suggests that daddy/little girl ageplay is popular among 44% of those who [...]
Full StorySL Overtakes TSO in “Subscribers”
As the Second Life homepage map reveals, the population of SL now exceeds 40K, which, according to the most recent figures, means it has probably passed the ever plunging TSO. Of course people don’t actually *pay* for their monthly accounts on SL, so it is not clear what this statistic really means — the only [...]
Full StoryThe Cory Details
Looks like today is gonna be hype Cory day. There are notes from Cory’s talk at the Serious Games Summit, up on the Wonderland blog, and some of the statistics are interesting (if they are widely known, well, I didn’t know them): Examples: Last month: 20,000 people used SL. 50,000distinct items were sold. There were [...]
Full StoryOctober Census: Alphaville is officially dead
Following up on our February and May Census, here are the results for Alphaville in October (taken Oct. 10) and it isn’t pretty. Following are the logged hours for the top 100 properties in every catgory rounded to the nearest hour. Category
Full StoryMay Census: Activity in Alpha Down 15% Since February
Back in February, we published some stats from CherryBomb, who counted up the number of hours logged in the top 100 properties in each category. While it is difficult to extract conclusions from these surveys, they do provide some interesting discussion points. (For example, residence is up 8%, but romance and welcome are both down [...]
Full StoryFebruary Census of Activity in TSO
Raw stats thanks to Cherry Bomb (who is not responsible for the explanation or the formatting!) We are told by EA that TSO has 80,000 subscribers, but did you ever wonder how many actually play TSO or how many hours are logged? Perhaps we can extrapolate. Following is a census of recorded visitor hours listed [...]
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