Comments on: Linden Lab has it’s business model ass backwards

By: randomhumanity » Blog Archive » Alpha is the new Beta

randomhumanity » Blog Archive » Alpha is the new Beta — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:02:13 +0000

[…] You’d really have to go out of your way to find a deal as bad as that elsewhere. In fact, I couldn’t. Any hosting deal that approached that monthly price offered significantly more server power (4x at least), total control of the server’s configuration, and no setup fee. If all you really want is a patch of virtual land, $15 will get you a virtual server capable of hosting a single OpenSim region, 65,536m2 for the price of 2,048m2 in an SL mainland region. LL have been able to maintain this illusion of scarcity and charge these outrageous prices until now because they ran the only show in town, a walled garden where they could do as they pleased. […]

By: Escaping the virtual rat race! « cyberloom

Escaping the virtual rat race! « cyberloom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:49:25 +0000

[…] world can start to feel claustrophobic. Second Life with its colossal Openspace confusion (read VintFalken for an explanation), and now this infamous Second Life Divorce case make me want to open a virtual […]

By: Dreaming of Utopian Possibilities « Gany’s take on (any) Life

Dreaming of Utopian Possibilities « Gany’s take on (any) Life — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:54:02 +0000

[…] recent policy changes of The Lab concerning OpenSpace type sims. If not, I’ll refer you to Vint Falken’s blog, who’s always great at collecting facts (and several […]

By: Gary Kohime

Gary Kohime — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:42:02 +0000

I just posted some views I have about all this “Void” sim controversy and what I believe will be things to come. Here is an excerpt:

“I’ve been reading almost all the reactions to the OS tier increase on all the blogs, that I could find. During all this, I’ve ran across things that might be the answer to some unanswered or unsaid directions of SL.”

For the rest of this post go here:
http://www.apoetsblues.com/2008/11/the-future-of-second-life.html

By: Cannery and Dump: a Memorial | VintFalken.com

Cannery and Dump: a Memorial | VintFalken.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:24:31 +0000

[…] Vint Falken: Inary, about the ‘pre fab’, take a look at this article: Is LL gaming us? and scroll down to… […]

By: Vint Falken

Vint Falken — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:54:48 +0000

Inary, about the ‘pre fab’, take a look at this article: Is LL gaming us? and scroll down to the bold part… . :(

By: Vint Falken

Vint Falken — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:45:18 +0000

Errr… will correct that. Sorry!

By: Saffia Widdershins

Saffia Widdershins — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:52:18 +0000

This is Saffia from Prim Perfect (not Pixel Perfect!). I’ve added a case study of a store owner on Open Space prims (Soliel Snook of Snook’s Garden Centre).

I’ve also started a new series to run in parallel to the case studies. This is called Crash and Burn - and it’s featuring stories and pictures of protests and the destruction of Open Space sims that has already started. The first Crash and Burn looks at the destruction of Regent Estates’ Ebbets Field.

By: Dusan Writer’s Metaverse » Immersive or Open Spaces: What Tier Are You In?

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:30:32 +0000

[…] prices of open space sims. Vint Falken is one of the people summarizing the response, and it hasn’t been pretty. She picked up one comment, by Gally Young: ‘I’m surprised that nobody speak about the […]

By: Second Life Users Furious Over Barely Understandable Controversy « Broken Toys

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:49:25 +0000

[…] response, there was rioting, panic in the streets, wailing and rending of garments, and in the true sign of an incipient apocalypse, one of the most reasonable voices on the […]