Corporate Stupidity Or What?
You should check Gwyn's writing about future of the metaverse and Intergrid. It deals mostly with the current state of and what big companies wish and plan with our little toy:
Instead of an “unified metaverse”, they’re using the name ambiguously as a more fancy synonym of “virtual world”. The industry players wish to address a different target — games for teens — and are reluctant in accepting an “unified” environment. Each company wishes to have their own virtual universe and aggressively compete with the others.
Some Clarifications
It is about those skins again. Quick reminder:
- I got some full permissions skins (from Another Shop, which I'll learn later).
- I did what anybody would, I packed them and started giving them for free.
- I thought a bit and shared some of my questions and concerns about second life economy.
- I turned out as a bitch who is ranting against free stuff in second life.
I know I am a bitch sometimes and I love a good rant when it is appropriate, but this a clear case of misunderstanding. Read more…
To Free Or Not To Free
This one is about those female skins you can get for free at my place and the crazy economy of second life. Thought provoking situation is very simple: you can get four, well-made, full-permission, female skins for free. I got them, packed them and giving them away just as they came. Everybody I consulted agree that their market value is around 600L$ per makeup. And there are several makeups per box. All for free! That is nice and that is where the problems start.
Putting quality full-permission skins for free on the grid could (and should) undersell lot of creators. Generally, that should be a good thing. Prices drop, quality raises. Residents should be glad. Bullshit! Read more…
Down The CSI’s Hole
As you noticed I missed the CSI:NY in Second Life hype. To be honest I have never seen a single episode of CSI, though I am planning to watch this one… one day… probably. This one is not much about SCI as much about marketing in this strange new world. As NWN writes
dozens of Resident entrepreneurs to add "CSI" to their location description, so that anyone searching for SL areas related to the show see theirs, too. (And presumably, teleport to them, mistakenly thinking they're locales part of the "CSI:NY Virtual Experience".) In fact, there's now so much gaming of CSI as a search term, the official CBS-sponsored sites are not even among the top ten search results.
I guess that exploiting the holes in the second life's search tool is one of the most popular in-world games. Read more…
Wild Market
If the whole second life is crazy how to expect that its market behave differently? For example, can you tell what is expected to pay for a house or a set of textures? No, you can not. Prices ranges from a dozen lindens to couple of thousands. Yes, prices are different in the first life too, but those are based on quality and other reasons. In second life, logic is not rezzed yet. Read more…
Corporations Sux in Second Life
For a month or so now we're hearing how big corporations that came to second life cannot get their way in it. Now the Forbes reports that
avatars enjoy having sex and playing pranks instead of getting warm fuzzy feelings about real life brands.
They are kidding, right? This cannot be. Someone's actually surprised and disappointed that people enjoy sex (even virtual) more than being targets of bad marketing campaigns? And, they are not ashamed to show their stupidity in public?
Buying Land
In Levels of the Game I stopped counting on four. Let's make a step forward. Let's buy some land. Read more…
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