Malignant Narcissist @ April 3, 2008 # 3 Comments
Since Linden Lab can’t get the first Second Life right, IBM has been selected to be the lab rats for the Second Second Life. In what is being described as an “enterprise-class virtual world”, Linden Lab wants to try to convince companies that Second Life doesn’t actually suck. The fact is, just because they have […]
Malignant Narcissist @ February 3, 2008 # 2 Comments
While looking through the Economic Statistics for Second Life, this morning, I noticed something that seemed a little odd. In the last graph, titled “L$ Sources and Sinks”, the is a description for “Stipends”. The figure for the sources (or the amount paid to residents by LL for January 2008 was L$165,319,050. Breaking this number […]
Malignant Narcissist @ January 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Hardware upgrades on Second Life seem to be another way that Linden Lab sees to screw their customers over. While upgrading from Class 4 servers to Class 5 servers, it looks like they will be able to save about 17% on the cost of actually “running” the newer hardware. I’m sure that the initial cost […]
Malignant Narcissist @ January 14, 2008 # 2 Comments
As was suspected by many, it seems that Luke Connell of the World Stock Exchange (WSE) knew what Linden Lab was about to do. Luke knew about the banking ban, before it happened! As more information comes out, little by little, a clearer picture is being painted of the motivations behind the closing of the […]
Malignant Narcissist @ November 26, 2007 # 2 Comments
While I’ve played around with virtual banks and stock markets in Second Life, I never deposited enough money in them to go off yelling and screaming if the bank were to go bankrupt or disappear. There’s been quite a bit of “running off” over the past 6 months by various avatars and virtual companies, though. […]
Malignant Narcissist @ October 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet
“Opportunities exist for specialised computer simulations and for advanced multiplayer video games. Virtual worlds, however, make a much wider claim. They want to be entire worlds of numerous activities. They want to be profitable simulations of the entire economy. And that is less likely to be successful. Virtual worlds are mostly consumption economies in which […]
Malignant Narcissist @ September 30, 2007 # 3 Comments
With Linden Labs latest changes that include charging residents of the European Union a Value Added Tax (VAT), it seems that it’s only a matter of time before the dominoes start to fall and they’ll be following up by charging taxes to residents of other countries. With differing percentages and no desire to look it […]
Malignant Narcissist @ September 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Second Life, a world limited only by ones imagination is the target of not only the creative minds, but by the devious con artists rejected by the real life business world. Ive spent my time here, and people know me. The sad part is that people think of me not as a hardworking member of […]
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