Saga of Second Life

*** not my video ***

However, it's public domain. :)
(from http://blip.tv/file/3449884)

"The last few years have been incredibly formative for Second Life, one a strong world on an upswing. With the founding members all gone, Now it is reduced to men in suits, distracted by commercialism who care more about $$$ than the community that makes their world work."


I'm merely hosting the video for a discussion @ http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/general-sl-discussion/42880-must-see-video-s... and it doesn't necessarily reflect my own views.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Second Life
• SLU

[brindaallen]

As a nearly 3 year resident of SL I can tell you that turning SL into a giant 3D chat room is not what the majority of us came to SL for. We gave time and treasure to create that world, Linden Lab created the platform...we created the world.

[MalBurns]

A provocative video raising some of the issues that irk parts of SL's residential communities, presented wholly out of any context in what seems to be empty, yet negative, propaganda without purpose. SL has the need to take a more realistic position that accomodates the actual success of a visionary environment. Progress is progress and it is a shame when those on the frontier exhibit the reactionary tendencies many of them went there to escape.

[AngelleSL]

Saddest video I've ever seen. And it continues to ignore the very people who made it Be.

[doceigen]

Just like in the Real World, most people are not creative, and in fact... they are mediocre. So whether they get involved with Second Life, or sitting in some bar, or riding their bikes... they continue to be 'noncreative', what's new there? Second Life is best, for creating. Chatting or any other 'social' usage, is inane.

[nutcase1112]

fucking creeps

[fungus001]

what makes me sad is what a great place and people and content second life provided it would be such a shame to see all the in world creators and investors ignored and the platform to fail and die a slow death and that would just be a waste of many good hour and created content to just fizzle out

Tsk Tsk Philip ( what a mess you have left behind )

[Axelwolf98]

Phillip Linden just replaced M. Linden. Now hopefully things will start getting back to the way they were,and Second Life will be popular again.

[wizzygynoid]

this is nice as far as it goes. frankly, i don't think it's fair to Mark. i think Mark did care. i think he did know SL. he did explore SL. all you have to do is look at his flickr pages to see that. and he was talked into doing the art show, it wasn't his idea. he initially showed some of his doodles on his flickr pages. Mark was just wrong about some things. Mark made some big mistakes. He tried to make Second Life like Facebook and Twitter. And that's not what SL is all about.

[HorridTwine]

I cannot possibly say how well this video reflects exactly how I feel. It is sad to see a world I love so much be destroyed by such an incompetent false leader.

[Nitwacket]

It's no longer on blip - so I can't thank whoever made this - but Cheers! Well said.