*yawns* at Jay. I'm sure you've heard that SL is *not* a game, never was, and never meant to be. Anyway... moving ahead.
Tats, it would be nice if you could compare the "sudden drop" (in both relative and absolute terms) to other of LL's "bad news", e.g. the shutting down of casinos (if I remember correctly, this meant a 30% decrease in financial transactions through the LindeX which took over half a year to recover). Put into other words: how bad was the OpenSpace decision compared to the latest bad decisions?
I don't really believe there is any relation to the alleged financial crisis, either, but I might side with Ciaran and also think that LL is planning a lot more "bad news" for us: getting rid of Premium accounts (what will happen to technical support?), introducing the new Class 6 series servers and dropping once more the setup fees, and the messy transition phase to the "new products" that will replace openspace sims. But there might be even more bad news ahead.
I just expect some good news by the end of 2009, really. By that time, SLim might even be worth installing, and we'll have a new "Lite Viewer" for clueless computer users. Who knows, the Architecture Working Group might even convince Linden Lab to adopt Hypergrid instead of pursuing their efforts on the Open Grid Protocol.
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Posted: Dec 15th 2008 5:25PM (Unverified) said
Tats, it would be nice if you could compare the "sudden drop" (in both relative and absolute terms) to other of LL's "bad news", e.g. the shutting down of casinos (if I remember correctly, this meant a 30% decrease in financial transactions through the LindeX which took over half a year to recover). Put into other words: how bad was the OpenSpace decision compared to the latest bad decisions?
I don't really believe there is any relation to the alleged financial crisis, either, but I might side with Ciaran and also think that LL is planning a lot more "bad news" for us: getting rid of Premium accounts (what will happen to technical support?), introducing the new Class 6 series servers and dropping once more the setup fees, and the messy transition phase to the "new products" that will replace openspace sims. But there might be even more bad news ahead.
I just expect some good news by the end of 2009, really. By that time, SLim might even be worth installing, and we'll have a new "Lite Viewer" for clueless computer users. Who knows, the Architecture Working Group might even convince Linden Lab to adopt Hypergrid instead of pursuing their efforts on the Open Grid Protocol.