Cannery and Dump Areas to be Deleted

Further to the "void/openspace crisis" and related negative impact we anticipate across the grid, we are reducing our number of areas in Second Life and are actively in the process of consolidating our regions.  As a result of immediate changes, we will be deleting the Cannery and the Dump areas.

We are very concerned that the Second Life economy from  our perspective (not the 67% of growth part that CEO Mark Kingdon sees) is flat and this "void crisis" will have a very negative effect on non-land and non-porno sales inworld. We further, are not convinced, that Linden Lab is doing anything constructive to 1) keep people inworld or 2) market/promote SL to attract new users. Recent announcement from LInden Lab indicate that the company is focusing on enterprise and government markets were it sees better potential.

Linden is scribbling their line in the matrix on the void pricing as per comments released by Mark Kingdon. Meanwhile there is a serious flurry on interest in competitive virtual world platforms.

We therefore are also converting 4 voids into a full sim (Greenies Lawn will become a full sim)  and deleting 2 voids completely.  We think we might use part of the Greenies Lawn sim to host art shows like Viva La Vida. Our Rezzable Visions series is now cancelled.

We are discussing the Plasma City project now, but it seems that there is enough support from builders and participants to keep this rolling along.

More changes will likely follow. We are watching the Second Life economy statistics page closely to see positive changes in:

1. Estimated inworld business owners (over $USD 100 at least which looks flat at about 6,700 avatars per month)
2. Monthly Spending By Amount where Sept shows 413,000 avatars spending money each month
3. Premium accounts which has been slowly decilning.
4. New Islands Added--this one should be most interesting in Nov as the impact of the voids is removed and sims start getting decommissioned.

Probably Linden Labs will get rid of this page of Economic Statistics all together--citing that it will improve our SL experience by our not seeing declining numbers or something...

The Cannery was actually our first sim on the Second LIfe grid and has been used for many art shows especially featuring virtual world photography. We latter created the Dagger Eye Gallery which has been displaying stunning photography from top Flickr photographers including Melodious Source and Laurah Oh in a very unusual space that materializes only when visitors are present.. The Cannery has also been home to Poision Candy and the Tox1c boutique. We will be looking for good places to position some of this merchandise.

The Dump has been a random place for wanderers. We have some casual games there including a gladiator battle ring (find the chalk body outilne with a sword in it on South East Corner), sewer boat racing, dancing with fire gods and of course the tornado that pitches out freebies. There are still tons of freebies there btw, so check it before it gets zapped.

Some photos from Flickr that remind us of the Cannery and Dump from parties, events and general exploring. If you wanna add your favorite photos from these areas it would be great! Please add to our Rezzable SL Flickr group and tag "byebye"

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.