Comments on: First Night, Second Life

By: Bavarin Fleetfoot

Bavarin Fleetfoot — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 06:58:31 +0000

Sadly, my experiences in Second Life started out pretty amazing, but then came the “griefers”, “drama queens”, MASSIVE bugs leading to a great deal of inventory losses (including more than a few paid for items), unbelievable lag due to entirely too many “content creators” being barely willing to learn the bare minimum of skills before they set off creating a mountain of lag inducing monstrosities, and of course the average Linden staffer could care less about wasting their precious time to help with or solve ANY of these issues because they’re too busy griefing paying customers with random bans and erasure of inventory items which some random copybotter claims were theirs. And that doesn’t even begin to describe where SL went wrong over the years, what with the pervs and gamblers and general sickness run rampant due to a company who’s entirely unwilling to police the actions of troublemakers on their servers. And I know for a fact I’m neither the first nor the last person who had such experiences. Minimal searching will turn up numerous horror stories that drove countless folk off to alternative “grids” or away from virtual worlds entirely.

By: mishka

mishka — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 17:34:21 +0000

)))))))))))))))))))))

By: Chijts

Chijts — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:43:20 +0000

I used SL for a bit but didn’t really have any of these cool experiences that I read about in articles, like this one. The possibilities of SL are pretty awesome… Hope to read more someday!

By: Visitor326

Visitor326 — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:41:57 +0000

I have visited your site 167-times

By: fredson

fredson — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:57:38 +0000

i will

By: emily

emily — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:57:04 +0000

hey wanna fuck on 2nd life i created some great sex moves.

By: Sindre

Sindre — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:48:25 +0000

I was SO close to playing this game.

Then I found out I needed a credit card.

PS: you turned me on with the Life Aquatic teaser. Too bad you let us down in the end. That part was really beautiful, and StaralfÃƒÂºr MADE that scene.

By: Pathfinder Linden

Pathfinder Linden — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:03:05 +0000

Great story! I’ve just added it to http://del.icio.us/secondlife, so you should be getting more traffic. And yes, please write a sequel. :)

By: Venya Salome

Venya Salome — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:08:43 +0000

Great story!

Look me up sometime when you’re on, and I’ll give you the grand “official” tour. :)

By: Torley Torgeson/Torley Wong

Torley Torgeson/Torley Wong — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:45:39 +0000

I’m looking forward to this part, it especially got my attention: “Okay, so ultimately I didnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t get around to the part where that Life Aquatic scene becomes relevant, but I promise you, that snippet of information will serve you well some day.”

Like Walker said. :)

A warm welcome to SL and hope you will have lots of happy memories here!

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 05:13:06 +0000

Yeah, sorry. It was getting dangerously long. Maybe there's room for a sequel?

Thanks everyone. Click the title of the post for a permalink, Walker. And with that, I'm off to Moscow! Back this weekend.

By: Walker Spaight

Walker Spaight — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:06:44 +0000

ok yes, it’s a great story, I completely agree (especially the bit about that guy Mark Wallace), but my only question is WHEN DO WE GET TO READ ABOUT THE SHARK??!!111

Don’t be surprised when I bust you in the Herald either, once I find the permalink to this thing.

By: Hiro Pendragon

Hiro Pendragon — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:04:18 +0000

Great story of exploration! There’s tens of thousands of stories like this waiting to be written. :) Welcome to SL!

By: Shadow_Wolf

Shadow_Wolf — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:22:01 +0000

Inspiring. Definitely worth a shot when I have some free time coming up.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:29:43 +0000

…only, of course, my Uni just HAD to firewall Second Life (along with most games) :(

Am I right in thinking that I don’t have to cancel my basic account? (I’m in fear of getting charged if I leave it for several months)

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:36:37 +0000

Sold!

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:03:29 +0000

Good stuff. If my first experience with Second Life had been as cool as this, I’d probably dip in more often.

By: Mr Dan

Mr Dan — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:42:19 +0000

Great account of SL, i almost feel inspired to play it. If you could really call it playing.

By: roBurky

roBurky — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:26:02 +0000

A fantastic account of wonderment.

By: craigp

craigp — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:02:08 +0000

That was a great read, Tom. I’m sure Lord Donald would stick it in the mag. I was considering getting into Second Life just a couple of weeks ago; fancy showing me around at some point? Hello from Holland, btw. I miss gamers and games and Lea’s laptop is painfully underwhelming. Just went to see the new Wallace and Gromit film. Awesome stuff.