Best Last Line
October 30, 2008Best last line regarding the openspace sim controversy:
From Wagner James Au on Gigaom:
“Still, one thing remains clear: “I’m moving to OpenSim!” has already become the metaverse version of the “I’m moving to Canada!” threat we hear every U.S. Presidential election.”
Does this make the protesters the Alec Baldwins and Susan Sarandons of SL?
A funny story on the protest from Itazura Radio coming up in the next podcast.
is more like leaving Zimbabwe...and being happier in a wooden
rightasrain | October 30, 2008is more like leaving Zimbabwe…and being happier in a wooden boat on the high seas!
I'm curious if you're contemplating moving to another virtual world.
Allan | October 30, 2008I’m curious if you’re contemplating moving to another virtual world.
That was a great line from Mr. Au - it’s comical how people threaten to leave the country. Democrats did it when Bush won twice and Republicans are threatening now that Obama looks like the likely winner.
Me? I won't leave SL. It's the most flexible, most
Radar | October 30, 2008Me? I won’t leave SL. It’s the most flexible, most advanced (in the ways that I want it to be advanced) VW option. Does it have problems? Yes. Are some of the problems LL created? Yes. Do I really believe none of these other up-and-comers like Openlife Grid won’t have massive growth pains and issues of their own? Of course not. The grass is greener syndrome is silly.
I’m sure in time there will be great alternatives to SL, and Openlife Grid may be one of them. Right now, if you think the new user experience is chaotic for new SL residents, don’t even BOTHER with most of these other “competing” VW’s.
I understand there’s a lot of emotion around these issues, but issuing idle threats of leaving and stamping feet like 2 year olds instead of putting down the logical arguments that a few of the people upset at LL have actually done hurts the credibility of people in my eyes.
I still think of Matthias Cordeaux who basically had his business and hobby stripped away with really no notice with the advent of the gambling ban, and I think about how he handled it with grace and with well spoken opinions, thoughts, and facts. I wish a lot of the people just spraying spittle over this openspace sim thing could be a lot more like him.
One more comment, having said I won't leave SL, I
Radar | October 30, 2008One more comment, having said I won’t leave SL, I certainly will and *have since I joined SL* kept an eye on other options and new developments. I’d be silly not to. I’m not SL-centric to the degree that I’m overly emotional about it, but SL is VW with a lot of communities, some of which I enjoy belonging to, and I think I’ll be a part of it for a long time.
If something else comes along that doesn’t have huge entry pain and broken things and has things to offer, sure, I’ll be in there trying it out and seeing what’s what. At some point I fully expect that some future metaversion will eclipse SL and we’ll move on.
the community is more important than the platform...or at least
rightasrain | October 31, 2008the community is more important than the platform…or at least will be in 2009. So there already are suitable green field platforms to plant new communities and grow them. It wasn’t so long ago that SL was worse than some of the opensim offerings now available. Think about the future and think about how distasteful it is to pay Linden Lab real money when they treat customers, visitors like lab rats that they can experiment upon. SL residents are toys in their toybox.
Worse than some of the opensim regions? In what way?
Radar | October 31, 2008Worse than some of the opensim regions? In what way? Please be specific, because you lost me there. You mean having an actual economy? Ease of entry? Amount of user created content? What’s your metric?
By the way, I agree LL is meandering around with their policies, but lab rats are there to purposely test and analyze to see what happens. You’re attributing motive to LL’s methods that I don’t think exists. Never attribute to purposeful malice what incompetence covers nicely.
Yes, there will certainly be alternatives, and I like competition too. The sooner the better. But to say that Openlife Grid or many of the other OpenSim platforms aren’t going to have some really noticeable growing pains and obstacles to overcome is pure horseshit. And they’ll bungle things too, and people will freak out and threaten to move to some other VW, maybe even SL again, who knows?
LL need to make serious improvements in policy making, and internal and external communication. But I think they do better technically and in terms of motive than people give them credit for. What’s going on with VW’s is a huge undertaking, and you’ll see fubars in all of them. The question is what kind of fubars and how they are handled.