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Massively Speaking Episode 185: Bree-to-play
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Reader Comments (7)
Posted: May 20th 2009 9:58AM (Unverified) said
Think that statistic through.
You have 30 people on the island, all with default voice enabled. You have one minute of somebody not knowing his mic is on. Voice carries over the whole island. So how many "minutes of conversation" is that?
SL does many-to-many voice, where rarely all who can hear actively wish to participate. Most, if not all other VoIP services, are usually one-to-one and on-demand. Comparing "minutes of voice served" is comparing apples to oranges.
And given that LL has not specified exactly how they arrive to that number, I have to take it as yet another example of the marketing department desperately ransacking databases for some statistics that would sound favorable. Remember, last year it was "unprecedented land growth"..
Posted: May 20th 2009 11:45AM (Unverified) said
Posted: May 20th 2009 12:08PM (Unverified) said
Unlike Skype, where everybody has elected to hear you, in SL that is usually not true.
So two people chatting for 5 mins = 5 mins voice traffic for Skype and 50 minutes voice traffic for a SL conversation with 9 other people in the vicinity (say, the same store).
Posted: May 20th 2009 12:14PM (Unverified) said
Posted: May 20th 2009 12:32PM (Unverified) said
Posted: May 20th 2009 12:34PM (Unverified) said
Posted: May 20th 2009 12:42PM (Unverified) said
"But still, SL users are nothing if not chatty - 1B per month is cca 11 hours per active SL users, which I guess is plausible."