Second Life Users: Fix the Damn World!
At MilitantGeek we’ve made much of Second Life’s foibles. It’s not so much because the idea of a rich, user created virtual world worthy of comparisons to Neal Stephenson’s metaverse is a bad one. Rather, its because Second Life is not that world.
It would seem that Second Life’s own users are beginning to agree. In the past week they’ve banded together to demand that the world be fixed so that its… um… usable. The online petition includes such audacious things as:
- Inventory loss
- Outages of friend lists (similar to your IM contact list)
- Build tools that don’t work
- Commercial transaction failures
Ouch. Second Life advocates like to champion the user-built features of the virtual world. However these glaring problems demonstrate just how dependent on Linden Lab the users really are. Until Linden Lab can deliver on its gigantic economic and cultural promises we’ll continue to point out the platform for what it is: a lousy 3D Myspace wannabe masquerading as the future.
