Comments on: The Cleaning-Up Of Second Life http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/the-cleaning-up-of-second-life Almost two steps ahead of technology Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:01:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luke http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/the-cleaning-up-of-second-life/comment-page-1#comment-5569 Luke Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:43:34 +0000 http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/the-cleaning-up-of-second-life/#comment-5569 I don't care who it is creating your little fantasy world, if they're doing it for money then eventually something like this is going to happen. It might take a while, but in time anything that depends on a lot of little customers instead of a few big spenders is going to have to be cleaned up for the masses, and you know what? The masses will win, because there are a lot more of them than there are of the people who were there at the beginning. On the other hand, the beauty of the internet is that <i>no one is stuck at Second Life</i>. There's always some place else to go. You might not have the infrastructure at another virtual environment that you have at Second Life, but the rules are changing and you can either fight them (not that you're likely to win if you can't pump the thousands and thousands of dollars into the program that the big "family friendly" people can) or pack up and take your business elsewhere. (I probably don't have to spell this out at this point, but yeah, I am a little cynical.) I don’t care who it is creating your little fantasy world, if they’re doing it for money then eventually something like this is going to happen. It might take a while, but in time anything that depends on a lot of little customers instead of a few big spenders is going to have to be cleaned up for the masses, and you know what? The masses will win, because there are a lot more of them than there are of the people who were there at the beginning.

On the other hand, the beauty of the internet is that no one is stuck at Second Life. There’s always some place else to go. You might not have the infrastructure at another virtual environment that you have at Second Life, but the rules are changing and you can either fight them (not that you’re likely to win if you can’t pump the thousands and thousands of dollars into the program that the big “family friendly” people can) or pack up and take your business elsewhere.

(I probably don’t have to spell this out at this point, but yeah, I am a little cynical.)

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