This is truly one of the stupides posts you've ever made, RightasRain. Wrong. People like buying their own land, because they like private property. They want to control their land and build on it. They want *freedom*.
They don't want to be railroaded into collectivized public experiences such as the Rezzable sims and forced to consume professional content. At least, they only want this for a fraction of the time they are logged in.
That you claim to understand the economy, and be in a business of sorts in SL and not grasp this basic fact of life in Second Life -- that people like land, they like private property, and they want privacy -- means you cannot expect success for ever. Where are people going to *go* with all that Black Swan lingerie you are hustling?! Back to their nests, of course.
Many new islands are bought by people who are re-renting them out -- huge empires of openspace sims are being formed (they're in danger of collapsing as the market gluts).
Imagine, YOU, trying to hustle 3-D entertainment on your own content, disparaging people who want land by telling them "it isn't real". If it's not real, why should they bother to go to Rezzable then?!
Here you go again with your vicious hatred of "land barons," and wildly inaccurate statements about them. Do they really pose such a threat to you? Isn't there room for a variety of businesses on this grid?!
Your scarey stories of sims abandoned leaving people ripped off are not common in SL. They do occur, but many of the people logging in and continuing to come back are coming to rental homes -- follow the green dots, see where they are, and they are not ripped off, but served.
The rising concurrency is in fact bringing in new customers to rental businesses, as I have found myself. Maybe some are going off to edu sims, but a good chunk are just new socializers and casual visitors, not students.
Seriously, with your cynical attitude about land and people in SL, why do you bother?!
This is truly one of the
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 08:19 — Prokofy Neva (not verified)This is truly one of the stupides posts you've ever made, RightasRain. Wrong. People like buying their own land, because they like private property. They want to control their land and build on it. They want *freedom*.
They don't want to be railroaded into collectivized public experiences such as the Rezzable sims and forced to consume professional content. At least, they only want this for a fraction of the time they are logged in.
That you claim to understand the economy, and be in a business of sorts in SL and not grasp this basic fact of life in Second Life -- that people like land, they like private property, and they want privacy -- means you cannot expect success for ever. Where are people going to *go* with all that Black Swan lingerie you are hustling?! Back to their nests, of course.
Many new islands are bought by people who are re-renting them out -- huge empires of openspace sims are being formed (they're in danger of collapsing as the market gluts).
Imagine, YOU, trying to hustle 3-D entertainment on your own content, disparaging people who want land by telling them "it isn't real". If it's not real, why should they bother to go to Rezzable then?!
Here you go again with your vicious hatred of "land barons," and wildly inaccurate statements about them. Do they really pose such a threat to you? Isn't there room for a variety of businesses on this grid?!
Your scarey stories of sims abandoned leaving people ripped off are not common in SL. They do occur, but many of the people logging in and continuing to come back are coming to rental homes -- follow the green dots, see where they are, and they are not ripped off, but served.
The rising concurrency is in fact bringing in new customers to rental businesses, as I have found myself. Maybe some are going off to edu sims, but a good chunk are just new socializers and casual visitors, not students.
Seriously, with your cynical attitude about land and people in SL, why do you bother?!