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I'm not convinced that LL is ready to embark on this journey into a new era that they're touting through M's little presentation. We can talk all day about cute new avatars and their potential uses in adding new kink to the stale virtual sex lives of the masses.

LL's done a rather poor job of protecting the interests of its pioneering citizens. People who pay thousands in tier but wait, you know, 90 days to have an issue addressed that is costing them additional money unless they're willing to pay 25,000$USD annually for the privilege of proper customer service.

I thought Philip stepped down because 'people didn't want a creative visionary' but someone more business minded. So hokey contests meant to address the creative future is any different?

Right now LL is positioning itself to be the pioneering virtual world that future worlds learn from in terms of what NOT to do.

LL capitalizes off of people that want to capitalize. And I expect when those people get tired of taking that freebie penis in the ass month after month, they'll start looking to the other virtual worlds with exceptions readers of my posts will know, but that I won't mention to stave off the obligatory response that would follow.

Perhaps my post won't be popular. And maybe many people are very excited by M's presentation and all the pretty new distractions it provides. But to me, the stupid newbie that just banters on endlessly about exchanges all day? It's further proof that LLs approach involves more distractions, little follow-through, and a wholly pathetic appreciation of the current issues being faced by the current userbase of SecondLife. Trying to attract newcomers isn't the end all and be all here. Someone needs to grab one of those Lindens during these trite little office hours and make this point painfully clear to them. I wish them luck with that.

I once went to somebody for advice about making the most of the opportunities in Second Life. Their rather useless suggestion was "look to the future." Useless then because it was something of a brush off. I must admit, it did force me to consider the future where SL is concerned. And I'm not fully convinced that the future is in SL anyway. Not if everything is going to begin and end with "let's throw a new feature in and pay out some L$ and vaguely report the number of residents we have to the companies we're pandering to." It's just not cute anymore.

Ah and Ciaran, sorry if this hijacks your thread.