Saturday 18 February 2012

Tit-for-Tat in Sim Count War

Region count in virtual worlds is starting to be used more as measure of success by various bloggers.


Clearly this displeases some. The Politburo has perhaps read some pro Opensim Reports and promptly gone back to their State Run Media to suppress these blights against the State.


Linden mouth piece, New World Notes, has responded to various articles about declining Second Life regions, by sending back a volley about declining Opensim regions.


In an indicative tossing-his-toys-from-his-cot, New World Notes blogger James Wagner Au has scrawled his crayons over the wallpaper:



Maria's graph showing Region Counts




New World Notes crayon defaced equivalent, 
retorting maria's BLASPHEMY!

An Opensim blogger's car the day after 
posting on the huge success of Opensim growth.
The blogger cannot be found. 


This leads this blog to warn Opensim blogger's to reign in their heresy, lest the Regime gets upset.


Noted Opensim loudmouths, who will probably end up with a car like the above and a pair of concrete boots are:  Anti-State Activist Ener Hax, distributor of dissent Maria Korolov, maker of dangerous goods banned from aeroplanes Linda Kellie, Hypergrid Arms Dealer  Gaga Gracious, developer of nuclear technology under the guise its for "Electricity Generation" John Pathfinder Lester



5 comments:

  1. Actually, I believe active user numbers are the big measure of success for social grids.

    Here, the winner is InWorldz, with over 5,000 active monthly users.

    And it's a drop in the bucket compared to hundreds of thousands of active monthly users in Second Life.

    I think the more important data is the growth of the total number of social grids -- I now count over 110 live social grids this month. But you don't have to create 110 different avatars to visit them -- most destinations are hypergrid-enabled, so you can just teleport in and check things out.

    I'm comparing it to the early days of the Web. Second Life is AOL in this metaphor. And you've got a bunch of websites showing up. Each one sucks compared to AOL. AOL has all the users, all the forums, all the action. But as the number of different sites proliferates, each one offering something different, the value of the Web started to grow dramatically.

    I believe we're near to hitting this kind of inflection point with OpenSim. With Vivox voice, stable hypergrid teleports, hypergrid friends and landmarks, secure inventories and all the other improvements in OpenSim that happened lately, I believe the platform is ready for prime time. (I don't believe the viewer is ready for prime time -- but that's a different story!)

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  2. lol, i thought the same of Hamlet's graphic skills! nice one! =D

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  3. Finally I see my car once more! Still hiding, sorry.

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  4. @Maria "I'm comparing it to the early days of the Web. Second Life is AOL in this metaphor."

    Yes, I get what you are saying. The analogy is correct.

    Agreed, the viewer is a problem. The IE 3.0 of interfaces.

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  5. those numbers only reflect the number of accounts, it doesn't reflect the accounts that were generated and trashed because the user did not return to the grid. OSGrid inflates its numbers trying to portray a healthy grid, when it essence its ailing and faltering. No one wants to stay where there are no decent content creators, negativity about others grids ( which by the way bad mouthing other grids just makes you look like a jackass and doesn't make your grid look cool at all ) chaos, abuse, negativity and intolerance prevail on OSGrid. This grid has experienced about all the growth it can expect. It may wax and wan some over time, but all in all, no one really wants to be there except for those that cant afford SL land, or they are banned from SL and have nowhere else to go.They opening store and use stolen content from SL creators shrugging it off with an " oh well " or " this stuff should be free anyway ". They justify theft.

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