In my last post, I stated how bad the technical support was with the ones that run SecondLife (SL), Linden Labs (LL). As of this post, there are about 63,112 inworld. I have seen it much higher. True one count of the number that are inword does not make or break SL, but I am starting to see worlds in SL falling due to they are getting less and less visitors.
I cannot say if SecondLife will fall in the history books, but there are not many that are celebrating this 6th Birthday of SecondLife. As with many businesses, if the customers are not happy for whatever reason, that business will not stand for long. Linden Labs needs to rethink how they do things. How can one make real life (RL) money in SL if it they do not have customers to come to their shops? For many others, SecondLife is an escape from RL.
Either a business or for fun, SecondLife is losing it luster. The problem is more than the frustration of moving around due to lagging and what nots, but due to the ones running and keeping up with how SecondLife is being run. LL is showing they do not care for the ones that are inworld, their customers. Even businesses that are in SL, their worlds are a ghost town. There are hardly no events at these sims. They used to have a few events each month. I know this because I use to go to them.
Go to YouTube. All the videos about SecondLife is at least a year old. There are schools in SL still, but when I go to visit these sims, no one is there. Even the worlds that are in the showcase section of the SL search hardly have anyone there. The Showcase sims are suppose to be where a lot of people visit. SecondLife is turning into one bare 3-D virtual reality.
I can understand with the economy, things are hard all around, but that does not stop people from using the Internet. Social Networking is still a big thing today. I do not believe the reason SecondLife is loosing out is due to the economy. Either in prosperity or an economic downfall, customers will continue to come back to a business if that business treats them as they should be treated. When people shop these days they have learned to shop wiser then before.
The economy downfall, to this date, has not stopped people from buying things, but it has caused them to learn to think better. If they continue to learn and grow in their day-to-day activities, the economy will start to push in the right direction. Life is changing due to the economic problems. Suffering is adding up day by day. Jobs are dropping just as fast, but people are still living onward.
SecondLife as well as any other online business can continue as well. The ones that are running the system must realize they have their online business due to their customers. They know if they loose them, they will lose their business. Linden Labs needs to learn this, or SecondLife will be in the history books, if not forgotten completely.
Let's look at what LL has done about the "cracking down" on adult content within SecondLife. It is still going one now. Sex, drugs, pornography, crime, and all sorts of malcontent will always be there in life. Laws, rules, and other govern control is needed, but they will always be strife in all walks of life. Instead of Linden Labs controlling these problems, they have caused more frustrations with the average individual customer than anything. The same problem is going on before this so called "crack down" from Linden Labs.
Do not get me wrong, rules are needed, but LL could have done a much better job. I have strongly believed they should have done something like that when SecondLife started. Doing it now after 6 years does nothing, but cause problems for the average customer that has never caused any problems whatsoever. Rules and laws done poorly causes lack of freedom from law abiding citizens.
That is why I believe SecondLife is dying, and falling hard. I have many times thought about canceling my accounts from SecondLife. Why I have not done so, I do not know. Where there is life there is hope, I guess. As the weeks and months go by, I am starting to see less and less hope for a future in SecondLife. I keep thinking to myself, there are so much more I can be doing online that has nothing to do with SecondLife.
In the past, I have written great things about SecondLife. Maybe that is why I am still logging inworld. If only things got better, things will start to go right for SL. That is what I hope will happen. It is all up to the ones that run this 3-D virtual reality, Linden Labs. They can turn things around if they really want to do so. If they do start to do right from this point forward, SecondLife could change very quickly. I am sad to say, I do not see LL going to do better anytime soon.
Brandon Bowers
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