Re:What happened to Second Life?
by anigbrowl on Friday December 04, 2009 @04:29PM
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It got overrun by porn, which this story inexplicably fails to mention. I used to play SL occasionally as I like MMORPGs but it just turned into a bad 3d version of geocities with more naked flesh. I think LL eventually decided to hive off all the adult content to a different 'continent' to recreate the clean social space it originally had, but it was too late. Additionally, the graphics engine has got really long in the tooth now...last time I fired it up it looked...old.
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Also, lousy controls and movement that made you feel like a duck - you were either flying or waddling. Then there were the boxy internal environments that emphasized the early-FPS visuals.
Really, 90% of what I saw in Second Life was more easily and better done in City of Heroes, including character design - and you didn't have to pay extra real cash to get decent clothes.
More fundamentally, though, when people were being social in SL, they were standing around and chatting. It doesn't take all the rest to accomplish that.